somewhere enjoying himself in the sun somewhere. happening now, in the newsroom, former white house counsel, pat cipollone spending seven hours with a january 6 committee, what we are learning about his testimony and how it could shape future hearings. the biden administration is celebrating a better than expected jobs report that economists say that could spell bad news for the effort to tamp down inflation. plus, deal or no deal. you on my skier to walk away from his bid to buy twitter, the company s board has to say about that. newsroom starts right now. a very good morning to you, it is saturday, july 9, and we are so happy to be with you this morning. up first, a key witness testifying before the january 6 committee, for more than seven hours. three different sources familiar with pat cipollone s testimony, describing it as very important, and extremely helpful. pat cipollone remember was among the handful of people who spent time with then-president trump as the
member. for more understanding new allegations let s bring in marshall koehn. marshall, good to see you. what more can you tell us about this new court filing? frederika, this is from the most important criminal cases stemming from january 6th. the dishes conspiracy case against several members of the old keepers and people at the tip of the spear of that attack making their way into the capitol. you laid out the crazy horrifying allegations from the justice department that are trying to bolster this very challenging charge. seditious conspiracy. it is important here for the prosecutors to prove these people did not want to just disrupt what was going on in january 6 that they wanted to use force and violence to stop the transfer of power to president joe biden. in two bolster those claims about violence, these filings mentioned how there were training sessions in the weeks after the 2020 election for what they called unconventional warfare and ambushes. the prosecutors her
times, this is a relatively new development that was triggered by cassidy hutchinson s testimony last month. the times says a number of hutchinson s key assertion, including the idea that trump knew his supporters were armed and wanted to lead them to the capital, were new to investigators. quote, in conversations at the department the day after ms. hutchinson s appearance, some of which included deputy attorney general lisa monaco, officials talked about the pressure that the testimony created to scrutinize mr. trump s potential criminal liability and whether he intended to break the law. ms. hutchinson s disclosure seemed to have opened a path to broaching the most sensitive topic of all, mr. trump s own actions ahead of the attack. exploring the link between the former president and the extremists who traveled to d.c. on the 6th. axios has learned the committee has evidence that some pro trump groups were planning to come closer to the date of the inauguration but chang
hell of a lot more bills. we ll sort through the republican s successful removal of a proposed $35 cap on insulin in the private market. and president biden and the first lady are in eastern kentucky surveying the damage from last week s floods. we ll have live coverage. and there are renewed concerns either potential nuclear catastrophe for ukraine and europe after weekend shelling near europe s largest nuclear plant in ukraine with the international atomic energy agency sounding the alarm of the very real risk of a nuclear disaster. we begin with ali vitale and jillian tet. 11:29 p.m. saturday night they finished after 4:00 sunday afternoon. reporter: this whole process from the time they started with the motion to proceed vote on saturday until the moment they passed it on sunday was about 22 hours continuously of work in the senate. this is a building that s rarely working on the weekends and certainly not stretching for 22 hours at a time. but that s what it to
act, sweden and finland s asession to nato, gun control and reconciliation were all passed over the last two months, many with big bipartisan majorities. if it gets to his desks, the president will have pushed through a $3.7 trillion agenda. how is this all going to play in the mid terms? that is the big question. there are a lot of variables, including record inflation and abortion and that stubborn political precedent that the party in the white house almost always loses in the mid terms. joining me is senior white house correspondent kelly o donnell, jake sherman, co-founder of punch bowl news, susan page, washington bureau chief and peter baker, author of the divider. jake, i want to start with you because you re on capitol hill. there was a vote-a-rama over the weekend. it s in the house now. what are the big headlines? the big headlines is that they got it through after 18 months of tortured negotiations over this package and the will he or won t he of joe manchin a