turning up the pressure on pat cipollone to testify after hutchinson revealed that cipollone was worried that he and trump s entire team would face a litany of criminal charges if trump went to the capitol on january 6th. hutchinson said the president knew his supporters were armed and trying to join them. there are also new questions, though, about the former white house aide s claims that trump lunged for the steering wheel of his presidential suv when secret service agents told him he couldn t go to the capitol. now the secret service tells the committee that agents are willing to dispute that story under oath. cnn s ryan nobles is on capitol hill. ryan, big day for the committee. do we know what s next? reporter: well, there s no doubt, victor, and alson that the committee seems to be razor focused on pat cipollone the former white house counsel and his role in all of this. to this point he s only had very base level conversations with the committee. he has not had an
possible floor vote on final passage by the end of the week. we ll tell you exactly what is in it. plus the war of words escalating tonight between president biden and the oil industry as the president seemingly mocks the ceo of chevron as sensitive as the blame game for record high gas prices continues. first, it s primary night in some states across the country. our election coverage begins with alexandria hoff live on the ground with a crucial g.o.p. senate runoff in alabama. alex, good evening. everyone is watching this one. good evening. we re here at katie s quarters clearly about to close up for the night but this was a really, really exciting evening. there was a lot of talk about how the last-minute endorsement by former president trump might have helped katie get to this moment it can t be forgotten how well she performed in the primary last month that ended up going into a runoff. she still came up 16 percentage points over her opponent. when she took the stage,
an ongoing threat to our democracy today. washington post is out with new reporting that an election official in a rural georgia county threw open the doors to a stop the steal activist who was looking to probe election results there, looking for fraud, fraud that we all know now simply does not exist. that activist later claimed to have arranged for investigators to fly down to that georgia county to copy data from voting equipment. from the post reporting, quote, trump had carried the conservative county by 40 points but election supervisor misty hampton said she remained suspicious of joe biden s win in georgia. hampton made a video that went viral soon after the election, claim to go show that dom i don t know voting systems machines, the ones used in her county, could be manipulated. she said in interviews that she hoped the georgia businessman who visited later, scott hall and others who accompanied him could help identify vulnerabilities and prove, quote, that this e
Critics are likening the bill to legislation in neighbouring russia, used to stifle dissent and silence criticism of the kremlin. They say it will make it harder if not impossible for georgia tojoin the european union. Georgians have been assembling for the past month, trying to sway the Governing Coalition against passing the legislation ultimately to no avail. Lets hear now from two protesters on why they decided to take a stand. I feel like this law is going to destroy the European Future that my country has been fighting for and the values that our ancestors have been fighting for for ages, Fighting Forfor ages, basically. If you look at georgian and literature, as depicted everywhere. Translation depicted everywhere. Tuna mom depicted everywhere. Translation . , translation our government is t in to translation our government is trying to pass translation our government is trying to pass a translation our government is trying to pass a Law Translation our government is trying to p
Known as the foreign agents law, described by protesters as of the russian law. For weeks they have been coming out to protest, and here you see banks of the Security Forces in different stages in the last hour also, they have been trying to disperse the crowds. And now we see that this bill has become law, there is the prospect of the president overruling that but that in itself will eventually be overruled itself. Let s bring rayhan back in, she is On The Streets amongst the protesters. Tremendous reporting over the last hour or so, give me a sense of the sorts of conversations you have been having, why there is so much anger where you are . We ust soke to so much anger where you are . We ust spoke to anotherfi so much anger where you are . We ust spoke to another 18yearold so much anger where you are . We ust spoke to another 18yearold and h so much anger where you are . We just spoke to another 18yearold and i spoke to another 18 year old and i was mentioning that these protests