for sure by comments like that and anybody else s, they went from initially saying that this committee was nothing but a sideshow, something nobody was interested in, to all of a sudden, oh, yeah, i want to testify publicly in front of it. kinzinger also confirmed another major piece of the investigation saying that former white house counsel pat cipollone did not contradict testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson who provided explosive details from the final days of the trump administration. the house investigation is not the only one zeroing in on trump and his inner circle. sarah murray has the latest. reporter: in battleground states across the country gop activists, republican party chairs and even a state senate president i am the senate president of arizona, and it is our job to make sure we have fair and accurate elections. reporter: are getting hit with subpoenas. as early as this week some republicans tied to the plan to put forward fake
than the faction. he had a tremendous amount of power to shape the direction the k kishida government might go. it was definitely going to be a factor after this upper house election. you wrote in an op-ed for the new york times you had as a journalist you were always looking for the perfect lead quote to capture what you re writing about and your lead quote, which was a quote from the prime minister in his first term as prime minister was my mission is none other than to draw a new vision of a nation that can withstand the raging waves for the next 50 to 100 years, which i don t think anything encapsulates more what he did, particularly his eight years the second time around. what did he do to prepare japan for those waves that he is referencing there? well, i think you look at the whole arc of his career, going back early 1990s as a young diet member, trying to figure out what he was going to do, and he had an idea japan had to have a
considered carrying out the crime a day earlier at a separate campaign event but decided against it because he was looking for a space that was less guarded. in the end abe was shot twice from several yards away while delivering a speech in the city of nara in support of ruling party candidates ahead of yesterday s upper house election. nhk reports the suspect targeted abe because he held a grudge against a group he believed abe had ties to and was linked to his mother. cnn has contacted local police but they would not name or provide information on this group. it s important to note that the man suspected of murdering former prime minister shinzo abe hasn t yet been formally charged. tv cameras did catch a glimpse of him when he was moved from a police station in nara, a city 230 miles west of tokyo where the assassination took place, to the district prosecutor s office. as you mentioned, phil, the suspect told police he originally planned to kill abe with explosives before using a
election landed and more about how the party itself is still very much pushing forward on i think what abe s legacy was or his primary issues when he was prime minister. obviously still a prominent member of the party. is that your sense of things, the party itself, even if abe is gone, is very much an image of what abe brought to the table? i think that s exactly how to think about it. shinzo abe certainly at the moment of his death was probably still the most powerful figure in the party even two years after resigning, was the head of the party s latest faction. the ldp was dominated by its factions. he, of course, boeieing a statesman, domestic and international media, so he had an ability to indicate what japan s policy should be and basically indicate what he wanted the government to do and force the government to listen to him. and of course he also, i think, was the head of what you might say the largest ideological block in the party different
region s security and to the region s economic development as well. it was something he was interested in pursuing. every one of his successors will follow that playbook. no one, i think, wants to conjure the alternative, japan trying to defend itself alone or step into the united states shoes. they recognize you need a democratic superpower. also india. the united states brings so much to the table. respected, is an economic power. abe knew there was no alternative to making sure the u.s. was present in the region. so many of the issues he was raising his hand on, this will be a problem, have come to fruition. the u.s. now uses the free and open indo-pacific, the driving force behind that. internationally he was a very major player. tobias harris, thank you.