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
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
great thanksgiving. we ve got a couple of great hours on tape for you of some of our recent, top interviews and great discussions. we begin with the new inside account of working in the trump white house from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, whose testimony before the january 6th committee last year revealed what went on within trump s inner circle leading up to and during the attack on the capitol. as the president had gotten into the vehicle with bobby, he thought they were going up to the capitol. when bobby had relayed to him, we re not, you don t have the assets to do it, it s not secure, we re going back to the west wing, the president had very strong, very angry response to that. tony described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect of, i m the f-ing president. take me up to the capitol now. to which bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at
take a look. senator tommy tuberville of america, faced backlash after his own party, who angrily challenge his months-long blockade. they unanimously improved 61 military promotions by voice note for four hours. he rejected each nomination as his colleagues frustrations grew. we have done the best that we can to honor the request a fellow senator. that these nominations be bought to the floor and voted on, initially. and i really respect men of their word. i do not respect, and do not honor men who do not honor their word. no matter what you think, tuberville, this is doing damage to our military. i do not say that lightly. if this is the norm, who the hell wants to serve in the military when you have a promotion that can be canned based on something that you had nothing to do with? simply a, in my opinion, of abuse of the powers that we have as senators. to say if there is something that we vehemently disagree with, that we are going to use that power to hold up the
against the virus here. basically bringing in other experts to see exactly how they would approach this, but nonetheless, when you begin to see these numbers, that is a big area of concern. good news though, hospitalizations and deaths, those remain steady or potentially continue to remain low. just a quick reminder, that not everything is part of the country is out of the woods. covid-19 is still out there. thank you so much. so, president biden signed an executive order aimed at protecting access to reproductive health services in the wake of the supreme court s overturning of roe v wade. in his speech yesterday, he made clear that the best way to protect the right to abortion, is to codify roe v wade into law, by voting. biden s executive order attempts to soften the impact of the supreme court s ruling. jasmine is joining us now, and jasmine, tell us what some of the steps that the administration laid out in this executive order. what do they got here? reporter: they laid o