ii hero who showed us the meaning of courage. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone she captured the nation s attention with her recounting of what she said she saw and heard from within president trump s inner circle on january 6th. tonight some of the accounts of former white house staffer cassidy hutchinson are being disputed including what happened inside the presidential suv when then-president trump angrily demanded to be taken to the capitol where crowds were gathering. tonight her attorneys writing on her behalf, ms. hutchinson stands by all the testimony she provided yesterday. and this evening hutchinson s testimony about senior trump staffers expressing fears that they might end in violence has the january 6th committee looking to speak to a new potential key witness. the then white house counsel who according to hutchinson warned, we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen pete
years. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, june 30th. i m jonathan lemire. live from madrid, where the nato summit is under way. we ll have more on what is happening here in just a moment, but we begin with news from washington. the january 6th committee has issued a subpoena for the testimony of trump white house counsel pat cipollone. investigators are compelling him to appear for a deposition next wednesday, july 6th. it comes after the committee s repeated request for him to testify and one day after he was featured prominently in bombshell testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. cipollone sat for an informal interview back in april but in a letter to the former white house counsel, the committee rights in part, you have declined to cooperate with us further, including by providing on the record testimony. we are left with no choice but to issue you this subpoena. the committee states, it has obtained evidence about which
Grady. reporter: the faa reauthorization comes up every five years in congress, but there s an extra sense of urgency from lawmakers this time around because of those mass flight delays and cancellations that have been plaguing the airline industry for the better part of a year and a half to two years now. the the derepublicans and republicans and democrats in the house worked together this week to pass a bipartisan bill. it includes provisions to better provide refunds to passengers caught up in flight problems, high more air traffic controllers and raise the pilot retirement age from 65 to 67. republicans say the bill tackles problems the transportation secretary should have done more to fix. we believe our faa bill will be able to solve some of these things that he has refused to solve as we look forward and look to the pooch to make a air travel safer. reporter: transportation secretary pete buttigieg is defending his track record. fliers are better off now
Of continuously flying over time, months after months after months just adds up and pilots are making that tough safety call to say i m not going to do it reporter: delta says its goal is to provide pilots with the best compensation based on pay, retirement, work rules and profit sharing united, american and several regional carriers have already raised pilot pay, even tripling it. but transportation secretary buttigieg tells lester raising the mandatory pilot retirement age beyond 65 is not likely right now we have these kind of requirements based on safety judgments, and i haven t seen any change in the safety rationale for that reporter: the hope is that th airlines will be able to right size their schedules for the staffing levels they have in time for thanksgiving and christmas. lester tom costello, thank you. it was a frightening scene today at a maryland summer camp where fire engulfed a dining hall about 100 firefighters responded. thankfully all the campers and couns