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?
elite. a club he said he did not want to join. it is really all about economic growth opportunities to invest free and fair trade. kind of we re looking forward to it. and good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell back in washington where there are major vel lts on the russia probe. we now know from multiple sources that robert mueller is zeroing in on the president s firing of james comey and pressure on attorney general jeff sessions. raising questions about possible obstruction of justice. nbc news confirmed that mueller and trump s lawyers are now discussing how and when the president himself might be questioned. mueller already questioned a growing list of insiders including comey and the entire intelligence and law enforcement leadership around mr. trump in early days of his presidency. kristin welker pressed the president on all of this in the oval office. thank you all very much. thank you. no, i m not at all. not at all. did you talk to him about it? no, bu
Happening. allen, if you were on this committee, what questions would you ask pat cipollone? i would certainly ask him what communications he had with the president and see what pat cipollone felt he was able to answer. it s notable that he appears to be cooperating with the committee. and that opens up some space for the committee to ask some questions. i would also ask him questions about what his own judgment was regarding the legality of the various things that were going on on january 6, and who he told those things to. i think it s right. it goes to the question of intent. the committee brought up witness tampering or the possibility of witness entimation at the end of its last hearing. and now we have new reporting today that hutchinson told the january 6th committee that she was contacted by somebody in trump world attempting to influence her testimony. now, we already knew that she changed lawyers right before this hearing on tuesday. what do you make of this? this to
i am frustrated that, frints, mark meadows and dan scavino have refused to come in and talk to congress. we have the power of subpoena similar to a court, and the justice department has failed to indict them for that. it sends a message, you have to resist the select committee and you may be able to resist all penalties. that s a frustration. he says he s frustrated with doj, meantime we ve been covering the doj is frustrated with the committee for not being more forthcoming and sharing testimony and documentation they ve gathered. there s a report the doj was surprised by what hutchinson s testimony revealed, for example. allen, are you surprised that would be surprising to the doj, that they aren t five steps ahead of the committee in their own investigation? i will say i am a little surprised and i think the question for me is is doj s lack of knowledge with respect to some of the things that the committee knows, is that limited, for example, to the testimony or are there othe
Hostages to this dangerous and e rational man. cnn learned former president donald trump s white house counsel pat cipollone will probably agree to a trance crimed interview with the january 6th committee. a lawyer familiar with his thinking said he could sit for an interview limited to specific topics to avoid executive privilege issues. let s discuss it with elie honig and allen rosenstein. gentlemen, always great to have both of you here. welcome, allen. i haven t spoken with you in person before. ellie, let me start with you. when we talk about what is on the table or off potentially in the committee interview in pat cipollone, what would be covered as privilege? yeah. i think the most obvious example of privilege is pat cipollone s conversations one on one with donald trump. i think he might argue or be