responsibility that every citizen, every one of us bears to perpetuate the republic. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, june 30th, and the aftershocks of the bombshell testimony by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson on tuesday are still being felt in washington. the house select committee investigating the january 6 attack is now seeking more information about donald trump s actions leading up to the insurrection. this time a subpoena for former white house counsel pat cipollone. he is considered a key witness who repeatedly resisted trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his name has to do up multiple times at prior hearings. mr. cipollone. mr. cipollone. mr. scipollone. he was barreling down the hallway. pat cipollone said it was a murder-suicide pakt. . former white house counsel pat cipollone. a source says that cipollone might agree to a limited interview but avoid some topics. but committee members sa
swore to support and defend the constitution and, quote, administer justice. all the members of the court, i m pleased to welcome justice jackson to the court and to our common calling. cnn supreme court reporter ariane devogue is with us now. good to see you. before the swearing in, we saw two big decisions from the court. now, let s start on the decision, curbing the epa s powers to fight climate change. what s the impact? right. this was a significant opinion. basically saying, curbing the epa s authority here when it comes to power plants. it was broken down along ideological lines. chief justice john roberts delivering this big blow to president biden, and it comes, of course, as scientists are raising alarms about global warming. what chief justice roberts did is he reversed a lower court that had given the epa broad authority to regulate in this area, so to regulate the entire grid instead of specific improvements at specific power plants, but roberts said, look,
abortion rights still enact a decades old ban? what happens with abortion pills? where can they and can t they be mailed? what about the politics, can a republican congress with a republican president now move to restrict all abortions across the can country? what can democrats do to reverse this, if anything? at least ten states quickly moved to implement laws effectively banning abortions since friday, some happened with trigger laws, another five states expected to enact further laws limiting abortion and all 26 states have laws that indicate they could outlaw or set extreme limits on the procedure. there were some protests across the country over the weekend, they were largely peaceful. and as some states move to restrict abortion rights others are taking steps to protect access and funding. some major companies are pledging to provide support not just for employees, in some cases they re saying they re going to provide support for dependents in states where abortions a
in a country that has no universal health care, no universal child care and no guaranteed paid or family medical leave. this relates to a whole host of supreme court decisions coming through and still to come. this is an america that has seen more mass shootings than the number of days so far this year. according to data from the gun violence archive, year-over-year mass shootings in the u.s. all on the rise. yet the court ruled cities and states across the country can no longer enact their own gun regulations, within the limitations defined by thursday s decision. by the end of the week the high court could strip the environmental protection agency, founded under republican president nixon, from enacting regulations that protect against pollution and climate change. this is a changing america. this weekend, many americans took to the streets in protest. some in favor, others opposed to the court s ruling. while most protests were peaceful, there were some arrests followi
growing chaos, confusion, and consequences for women and for health care providers. and russia unleashes a deadly strike on a crowded mall in ukraine. president zelenskyy is now condemning it as a reckless act of terror. this as president biden and g-7 allies are reaffirming their unity with ukraine and against vladimir putin s aggression. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, let s get straight to the capitol hill and melanie zanona. the january 6th select committee says newly obtained evidence is prompting tomorrow s hearing on very, very short notice. so what do we know? well, wolf, it is still a bit of a mystery here. the select committee has only promised new evidence and new witness testimony. but if we re reading between the lines, it is clear that the select committee feels like it s uncovered new evidence that is so urgent and so important that they decided to thro