campaign trial today. plus, in pennsylvania s senate race, dasha burns sat down exclusively with democrat john fetterman. what he is telling our team in his first in-person tv interview since his stroke. plus, in ukraine, president zelenskyy is asking for help from ukraine s allies in the west. military aid to be specific. better air defense systems and those massive russian strikes on ukraine s major cities continued today. and later on this hour, we re going to ask the national security council s john kirby if the white house is ready to give mr. zelenskyy what he wants. i am katy tur in for hallie jackson. we re going to start this hour with ali in carrollton, georgia, and atlanta journal constitution holly mitchell. what have you been hearing on the trail about walker and the folks who came out to support him? reporter: after i left you guys last hour, he spoke here at the podium with senator rick scott and senator tom cotton. they spoke for about 15 minutes. abor
unanimous. he is the one person, they say, at the center of all that happened on january 6th. trump does say that he ll respond here in about an hour to the committee s demand that he answer their questions. the committee also unveiling never before seen video of house speaker nancy pelosi rushing to safety as the mob closed in. leading the charge as lawmakers scrambled to save the capitol. cnn obtained about an hour of additional material that was not presented by the panel. here s part of that material. the 45th president of the united states of america. we re going to walk down to the capitol. if he comes here we re going to the white house. they re marching up. you can see them marching up. our country has had enough. we will not take it anymore. and that s what this is all about. i hope he comes. i want to punch him out. i would pay to see that. waiting for this for trespassing on the capitol grounds. i m going to punch him out, i m going to go to jail,
overturn the election results. that man is donald trump s top white house lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down for a transcribed interview under oath with investigators this morning. as far as we can tell, that interview or that meeting is ongoing at this hour. punch bowl news reports this about the parameters of today s testimony from cipollone, quote, sources tell us that the select committee does not have an agreement about what investigators can or cannot ask him. prior to hutchinson s testimony the panel had discussed an arrangement with cipollone for an on the record interview, but cipollone backed away from it, sources tell us. cipollone is expected to claim executive privilege over conversations he had with trump, but there is plenty that the committee is interested in outside of that category. for example, we expect cipollone will be asked about conversations with former white house chief of staff mark meadows. the possibility that cipollone could provide gamechanging i
we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. the panel has not yet revealed who that potential witness is or what they may testify to but it does signal the panel is acutely aware of what donald trump and his allies might do to try to stifle their investigation, which has shown the lengths to that donald trump went to to stay in power. yesterday we learned of a late-meeting at the white house, four days after states certified their election results, which should have been the end of the line according to attorney general bill barr s testimony. inside the oval office was a group of outside advisers. liz cheney called them the, quote, crazies, including rudy giuliani, michael flynn and sydney powell and patrick burn. they were there to pitch donald trump on executive order to seize voting machines and appoint sydney special counsel. the group was alone for ten to 15 minutes before white house officials like pat cipollone intervenes. what followed wha
nicolle. welcome to the beat. i m jason johnson and for ari melber. we start with a january 6th investigation. a major witness will testify . the baloney will go under oath. a transcribed interview but his testimony will be on camera. cipollone was witness to talks on fake electors and was in the west wing on january 6th. he has spoken to the committee before in an informal setting. this is stemming from a subpoena coming after the bombshell testimony on the a violent coup from cassidy hutchins. on january 3rd, mr. cipollone approached me. we had a brief and private conversation where he said to me , we need to make sure this doesn t happen. this would be legally a terrible idea for us. cipollone was barely down the hallway. i sought mr. cipollone that morning and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure we don t approach the capitol , kathy. keep in touch with me. we will get charged with every crime imaginable. obstructing justice for the ele