dominated his final moments in madrid as he and other nato leaders wrapped up a historic and consequential summit. the president blamed high gas prices on russia s war in ukraine. and he blasted the u.s. supreme court for, quote, outrageous behavior as we give you live images outside the courthouse right now. there are still demonstrators there protesting. perhaps the biggest headline today, president biden says he now supports bypassing the fill bser rule and the 60 vote threshold in the senate to protect boabortion rights. i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law, and the way to do that is to make sure the congress votes to do that. if the filibuster gets in the way, we should provide an exception for this. the required exception to the filibuster for this action to deal with this supreme court decision. let s begin with cnn s phil mattingly in madrid. the white house has been carefully sidestepping questions about the filibuster. not anymore. what changed?
years. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, june 30th. i m jonathan lemire. live from madrid, where the nato summit is under way. we ll have more on what is happening here in just a moment, but we begin with news from washington. the january 6th committee has issued a subpoena for the testimony of trump white house counsel pat cipollone. investigators are compelling him to appear for a deposition next wednesday, july 6th. it comes after the committee s repeated request for him to testify and one day after he was featured prominently in bombshell testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. cipollone sat for an informal interview back in april but in a letter to the former white house counsel, the committee rights in part, you have declined to cooperate with us further, including by providing on the record testimony. we are left with no choice but to issue you this subpoena. the committee states, it has obtained evidence about which
of the bravery of 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson, who spoke truth to power, who spoke the truth, who spoke, despite the fact that many much older, much more experienced men, were too weak and too shrivelled to be able to speak out about what happened behind closed doors in the trump white house leading up to did she say that? is willie here? let me tell you something willie i don t know that she mentioned there s more than one woman who spoke out and was able to do that. right. compared to these pathetic men. it s okay. i don t think she used the word shrivelled. they re in the corner, shrivelled in the corner. it was cold. kind of chilly. i don t know. i get what mika is saying here. you better. it was quite an image, willie, is it not? liz cheney getting rapturous applause at the reagan library, the epicenter of what once was a movement called conservatism, and talking about just how corrupt the republican party has gotten, but how one young
ago ketanji brown jackson was sworn in as the newest justice and first black woman in the court s history. but while she brings new diversity to the court, she won t change the ideological makeup and that s a big issue for those concerned with a string of decisions are just the start of a broader push, reshaping the cultural face of america. and it was roe today that pushed president biden to reverse his long held position. now calling on congress to carve out an exception to the 60-vote filibuster and pass new laws that would protect abortion rights. i believe we have to codify roe v. wade in the law and the way to do that is to make sure the congress votes to do that. and if the filibuster gets in the way, it s like voting rights, it should be, we provide an exception for this, require an exception to the filibuster for this action. his speech came just hours before two new decisions. the first actual delivering a win for the biden administration ruling that it acted pr
policies. a former top new york prosecutor says has led to quote insanity. critics have been slamming bragg s decision to offer plea bargains in some cases, and his original decision in an infamous memo not to even prosecute some crimes. meantime, in los angeles, progressive d.a. is defending his record on crime in a new interview as he faces a recall effort. that comes just weeks after san francisco voters ousted its progressive district attorney in a recall there. christina coleman is following these fast-breaking developments on the criminal justice front. she s in los angeles. hey, eric. hundreds of prosecutors are throwing in the towel due to these controversial criminal justice reforms or they are supporting the ramped-up recall effort against the liberal d.a. this is happening in two democrat-run states, here in california and new york. new york post is reporting that this year 65 district attorneys which is about 12% of the staff in manhattan s d.a. s office have le