6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. we ll have much more on her testimony in just a moment. back here in madrid, multiple developments this morning on the first day of the nato summit. president biden, he s participating in several meetings with nato allies including a highly anticipated sit-down with the turkish president next hour. so far, the alliance has announced a significant strengthening of forces along the eastern flank. formally invited finland and sweden to become members after overcoming turkey s opposition and naming china in the strategic concept, as it s known, their mission statement. confronting russia as the brutal invasion of ukraine drags on. poppy? we ll take you back to jim in madrid in just a moment. let s begin this hour though with more on yesterday s damning january 6th testimony. our capitol hill reporter melanie zanona with me. you have reporting, significant developments. walk us
coming weeks. we don t know when. we don t know who they re going to call, or do we? we do know there s going to be two more hearings. the committee is continuing to push for another witness and that s pat cipollone, the white house counsel. he continues to be sort of a white whale for the committee and easy to see why. that s because hutchinson testified he had maejor concern about the potential legal implications if he went to the capitol on june 6th, saying they would be charge with, quote, every crime imaginable if they did. take a listen to what else cassidy hutchinson had to say about pat cipollone. i remember pat saying to him something to the effect of the rioters have gone to the capitol mark, we need to go now. mark said he doesn t want to do anything, pat, and pat said something to the effect of, and very clearly said this to mark,
soon because that s a sign of fear and administration got burned on that. some comparing zelenski s message last week, nothing to fear here. we ve been through this for eight years now similar to the message prior to the taliban taking over last summer as well. nic robertson, kylie atwood, thank you as always. we ve seen a major selloff in the russian stock market. u.s. investors also paying close attention. russia is a major supplier of natural gas and in the event of an invasion, multiple officials are telling cnn that the biden administration is putting together a global strategy to increase natural gas production. cnn business reporter matt egan is covering this. biden last week noted if there s an energy war with europe, russia loses too. 45% of the national income comes from these sales but biden knows if that s applied to, maejor
god bless new york. god bless the new york city police department. god bless america. maejor eric adams there eulogizing jason rivera. 22 years old. praising him for putting his life at risk in the line of duty to protect his fellow officers and others and also notably, biana, speaking to the many officers there attending the funeral and saying, we re going to be giving you resources. in other words, saying the city is going to back the police to prevent something like this from happening again. a powerful speech there from mayor adams and what you saw was not a novice politician but a veteran police officer speaking from the heart, not only to fellow nypd but also to jason s family and his brother.