the suspicious powder found over the weekend. also tonight the philadelphia mass shooting suspect appears in court as we re learning about his disturbing social media posts. bill asking philadelphia s district attorney what they might reveal about a motive. and president zelenskyy warns that russia is ready for a potential attack on a ukrainian nuclear power plant under the control of russian forces. speaking exclusively to cnn about the threat to the plant amid new global fears of a nuclear disaster. welcome to our viewers. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt and you re in the situation room. starting tonight at the white house, confirmation that a small bag of white powder was found in the west wing and was in fact cocaine. the question now, who s responsible for bringing an illegal substance into the inner sanctum of the white house? the latest on the investigation, jeremy, how is the white house handling this in. reporter: we heard from white house press
wanted to happen that day, that it was the pre-planned and desired result of a wide-ranging coup attempt by donald trump and orchestrated by him and his close allies and just like they did in other hearings, the committee will use team trump s own words to describe what happened on january 6th with video of trump s own advisors and trump s own allies and trump s own lawyers and trump s appointees, a sneak peek was posted by committee member adam kinzinger who will be co-leading alongside his colleague congresswoman elaine luria shows trump officials in effect corroborating one another, each of them testifying to the fact that as vice president mike pence and lawmakers fled from a mob of trump supporters filled with white supremacists and domestic violent extremists, donald trump was in the dining room watching tv. watch. was the president in that private dining room the whole time that the attack on the capitol was going on or did he ever go to the oval office or the white
trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russia s efforts. it would later be revealed that trump had demanded loyalty from comey, and repeatedly pressed him to end the investigation into trump s first national security adviser, michael flynn. after he refused to do so, trump fired comey in shocking fashion. in a remarkable oval office meeting the following day, the day after he fired him. trump told russian diplomats that by firing comey, the previous day, quote, i faced a great pressure, because of russia. that is taken off. around the same time, he all but admitted to lester holt that he had fired comey because of the, quote, made-up russia investigation. with comey gone, andy mccabe became the acting fbi writer director. in one of his first actions, the very next day, was to open up a counter intelligence investigation into the president, in his ties to russia out of fears that he too would be fired. and
we have an entirely different show planned for tonight, but the business the former fbi director, james comey and his former deputy, andrew mccabe. both of whom president trump saw as enemies. both of them faced rare, supposedly random, but highly intensive irs audits. you may remember back when then fbi director james comey oversaw the early stages of the investigation into ties between the trump campaign and russia. in the summer of 2016. with questions swirling about those ties, as trump took office, comey dropped a public bombshell in the early days of the trump presidency. i ve been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi, as part of our counter intelligence mission, is investigating the russian government s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the trump campaign, and the russian government. and whether there was any coordination between
that hearing will take place after the committee has videotaped the testimony of pat cipollone. cipollone, think, is the trump white house s top lawyer. he s a man who, at least as far as we know, appears to have pushed back on some of the most dangerous and brazen ideas conceived of by the ex-president and his closest allies as they worked to overturn the results of the 2020 election. cipollone also held the same job as john dean whose legendary 1973 testimony was a turningpoint in the watergate investigation. here is what january 6 investigator john wood had to say right here on msnbc about the tremendous significance of the committee getting an interview with cipollone. it was really important that he would eventually end up testifying before the committee and on the record and videotaped so the american people can see it. i m glad that is coming together this friday so hopefully the committee will show some of the key clips of that interview during a hearing next week.