room." "i will see you tomorrow. >> happening now, former president trump's risk of bridge prosecution may be rising right now after a former white house aide explosive public testimony about his eratic belative i ha behavior january 6th. a senior republican is now predicting indictment. also tonight, nato moves to expand its forces in europe. president biden says the alliance is doing exactly what vladimir putin did not want. this, as new video of a deadly attack drives home putin's brutality, while he keeps making new gains against his war in ukraine. we want cowelcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room."

[ music playing ] we begin with fallout from the damming and most alarming testimony yet in the january 6th investigation. we have new reaction to what cassidy hutchinson said under oath and the possible criminal consequences for former president trump. we got a new statement a little while ago from cassidy hutchinson's lawyer. >> reporter: that's right, wolf, this comes as she is receiving criticism from her fellow republicans and those closely aligned with the former president donald trump, hutchinson is not backing down. she stands by all of the testimony that she provided yesterday under oath. and that testimony she provided, washington, it was very damming for donald trump and those close to his orbit. one day after a bombshell hearing featuring former white

house aide cassidy hutchinson, tonight one senior how republican telling cnn this testimony will lead to indictment. pointing to white house chief of staff mark meadows and possibly even trump. the january 6th select committee signaling their investigation and what they have to reveal is far from done. >> we have serious concerns if you go up to the capitol that day. >> reporter: hutchinson delivered close to two hours of conduct by the former president and his closest advisers that could be damaging politically and open the door to legal liability. >> mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure you don't go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we will get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that happen. >> reporter: they are zeroing in on pat cipollone, at the center of much of hutchinson's

testimony. vice chair, liz cheney, tweeting, it's time for mr. cipollone to testify on the record. leading experts saying there could be arests and opportunity for the committee. >> if i was counsel, there is no way he can testify. he has enormous exposure. on the other hand, he has leverage. with congress and even possible immunity. >> reporter: as more evidence is revealed, the pressure is increasing on the department of justice to act. members of the committee openly saying they believe trump committed a crime. >> there is no doubt in my mind that he was involved in criminal activity. >> reporter: the committee also accusing trump loyalists of putting pressure on potential witnesses, bordering on witness tampering. >> i think that is something that should be looked at by our committee and potentially by the department of justice. >> reporter: meanwhile, some republicans are pushing back, questioning hutchinson's credibility, trump, himself,

clearly watching the hearing, claiming, quoted, i lardlhardly who this person is. mick mulvane saying, quote, i know her. i don't think she is lying and the continue continues to sigh they are asking for many people to come forward and provide new information that they think would be important and those interviews are continuing, wolf. in the just the last hour, cnn has learned the campaign, the committee deposed today for several hours, sean bowman, the former cfo of the trump campaign. this is someone that would have a lot of insight into the fund raising tactics of the campaign after the 2020 election and how that.is spent. that, of course, a key focus of the january 6th committee. >> it's very significant, indeed. ryan nobles, thanks very much. let's bring in our legal and political law experts, jamie

gangel, do trump allies realize how damming this testimony was. >> i don't think you have to go behind the scenes. we just heard mick mulvane there. also the new york post, a traditional aloo i with trump headline, tyrant trump. the washington examiner, also conservative, unfit for power again. i spoke last night, today, to many republican sources. they all said to me that the testimony was devon stating and they felt that cassidy hutchinson from the person they dealt with when she was in legislative affairs had been someone who was very loyal to trump, a true believer. that said, they also said that they're concerned that this may not be getting through to the trump base. we'll see that in the polls. >> you know, it's interesting, mick mulvane, the former acting white house chief of staff, he

was just down with jake tapper. i want to play this club. listen to this. >> if you take what cassidy hutchinson said at face value, then donald trump knew that the protesters had weapons and encouraged them to go to the capitol anyway. that was stunning to me. i have been defending the president over the course of the last year. even though i quit my job over the way he conducted himself during the riot. i never thought until yesterday that he was even capable of inciting the riot. >> i'm sure he's not the only trump associate that feels like this. >> no, there are lots. as jamie is talking about. the question is, when are people going to start talking publicly about this. you see mulvane doing it. you see editorial pages doing it. the testimony yesterday was devastating. we learned na the president was directly told by his secret service that, yes, there is going to be violence, the potential for violence, that his staff was told about 15 times

and so this will kind of seep in and you will have to see what it does to people who are running for president. whether it becomes an issue in a presidential campaign. whether republican candidates start talking about donald trump as unfit for office. i think the beg picture here is this question. when voters work with donald trump now, hearing all of what they heard yesterday and before, will they now say to themselves, yeah, i'd like to see that guy back in the oval office, the guy who flung the plate against the wall, that's who i would like to see in the oval office. i think that's the question voters will ask themselves, yes, the base they say nay say never mind. the base may always be there. but will other republicans say, it's time to move on? >> right. >> it's donald trump without the crazy. >> jeffrey toobin our senior legal analyst. how much more likely are

criminal charges after hutchinson's testimony yesterday? >> definitely more likely. not guaranteed by an means, definitely more likely, given the you know the connection between the president, the former president's statements and the violence that took place on the capitol. the nexus between the two just got a lot closer. i have a question about these republican critics of trump. do any of them actually have names? mulvane, mick mulvane, he's out of politics. i haven't heard one elected official who is still running, except for liz cheney. >> i agree. >> who is critical on the record. i think they're a bunch of cords. cowards, i think they're terrified of trump and the idea they're willing to talk to journalists, so what. i think donald trump still runs that party and everyone in it who has to face the voters. >> let's see what happens in a

republican primary, though, jeffrey. let's see what chris christie starts saying or lauren desantis, starts saying publicly. that will bring it out i think. >> they haven't said it yet. >> no, they have not. i totally agree with you. >> jonathan is with us, a former secret service agent. there is a dispute as you know about cassidy hutchinson's testimony, about what happened in trump's car in that suv when he wanted to be taken to the u.s. capitol january 6th. you are a former secret service agent. does this put the secret service in a tough spot to clarify what happened? we heard what cassidy hutchinson had to say? >> this puts the secret service in a very uncomfortable spot right now. they don't like to be in the media in part of the story. they want to focus on protection. what they did do is they came out and said they will make those agents who were available

in the vehicle available for, you know, testimony under oath. so again we'll get first-hand account of what did happen, whether or not there was a lunge or assault against a secret service agent. but what the testimony yesterday did confirm was that the secret service went through a process to assess the risk of actually going up to the capitol. and i think that's a very critical point to key in on right now. is that well before the group from the ellipse moved to the capitol, they were already assessed as being an elevated threat. so the special agent in charge is thinking of two things, likelihood and consequence. what is the likelihood that violence would escalate at the capitol? he made a determination, a very high likelihood? what were the consequences be? knowing there were armed individuals, understanding the makeup and composure of that crowd moving up there, the

consequences would be very high. so the determination was made basically on a risk assessment, not to bring the president up there. now this leads to, why wasn't that type of inteljeps relayed to the capitol police, because of the threatened environment, we're not bringing the president. >> it's to protect the president of the united states, even when that president may not necessarily fully appreciate the dangers that exist at that particular time. everybody stand by. just ahead, vladimir putin's bloody invasion backfires as they formally invite both finland and sweden to join the nato alliance. stay with us. you are in "the situation room." e exam and x-rays free to new patients without insurance - eveveryda. plus, patientsts get 20% off their treatment plan. we're on your corner r and in your corner every step of the way. because your anything is our everything. aspen dental. anything to make you smile.

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hours have given an unbelievable window into a dramatically scaled, very different manner security landscape that has existed perhaps the last decade, where at times it seems adrift. that is very much not the case now. in the last day leadingp to this nato summit on the u.s. side, the security posture has dramatically expanded a surge in air, land and sea, resources in troop deployment that hasn't existed since the cold war. you have also seen perhaps the most important element of all, that is a formal invitation to two new members of nato who long had resisted the idea because their populations weren't formed, because their leaders didn't think it was worthwhile or would necessitate a response from putin no longer. they are on the pathway to membership, it's along 800 miles with new border with russia, that would soon be occupied by a part of the nato alliance,

leading the long effort to stay neutral all because of what transpired over the course of the last 12 months. president biden came to office trying to bring the alliance back together, trying to make the claim that america was back and would lead the european and trans-atlantic alliances to a place they won't with hills predecessors, nobody has forced that, it is clear president putin wanted it, he got the opposite, wolf. >> obviously, very, very clear, a major blunder on the part of putin to be sure the nato leadership deserves credit for the willingness they are going ahead and doing what they are doing. let's get some more from our chief international cornered clarissa ward. she is joining us from the summit in madrid. we heard, i understand, from putin, himself, he is denying the shocking missile attack on that ukrainian shopping mall that killed a lot of people, showing our viewers the

devastating video from that attack. what you can tell us? what is putin saying? >> so this was president putin meeting in turkmenistan with a group of caspian leaders and addressing for the first time this horrendous attack of 18 people killed in this shopping mall. many others still unaccounted for. cnn's own thelma abdul assist was at the site and saw it with her own eyes and yet president putin is maintaining russia had nothing to do with it and russia does not kill civilians. take a listen to what he said. >> our army does not attack any infrastructure sight. there is no need. we have every capability of knowing what is situated where. >> well, of course, that raises the question they know what is situated where? why is it they have consistently hit targets?

we know about the hospital in the city of mariupol, the maternity hospital. there have been blood lines and many other civilian targets that have been hit. we also addressed during that press conference the issue of finland and sweden now being on a fast track to joining nato. he says that russia does not have a problem with this. although, he did attack nato's quote imperial ambitions, saying that the west is trying to impose plenty and saying that the west does not have a real vested interest in ukraine's well-being, but is only engaged with this issue as a conflict in ukraine because it's seeking to further its own interests. he did, however, add one caveat on the subject of not caring about finland and sweden joining nato. he said that if nato moves any weaponry or military installations to either of those countries and they have a war 800 mile long with finland, that

that would require some symmetrical response from russia. >> we'll see what happens with that. clarissa ward in madrid. coming up, will a former president trump white house counsel pat cipollone finally testify before the january 6th select committee? i'll ask the white house committee at the center of the scandal john dean what it would mean for this incredible investigation? lve together, anand find the answer that was right under their nose. or... his nose. - common percy! - yeah let's go! on a trip. book with priceline. you save more, so you can “woo” more. - wooo. - wooo. woohooooo!!!! - wooo. w-o-o-o-o-o... ah, feel the savings. priceline. every trip is a big deal.

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pat cipollone. the testimony by exwhite house aide cassidy hutchinson revealed new information about cipollone's actions and fears on january 6th. brian todd is looking at all of this for us. as we seen in the past, the top legal adviser can play a pivotal role. >> one expert we interviewed said the white house counsel is at the heart of almost every major initiative the president engages in. the role is to regard on legal strategy. we learned of pat cipollone and another famous case, they can get drawn into so much more. former white house counsel john dean appears before the committee and gifts explosive testimony for the planning of the break-in, coverup and criminal activity undertaken by his former boss president richard nixon and his aides. >> i began telling the president, there was a cancer growing on the presidency. >> reporter: dean was

implicateing nixon and other officials and himself in the watergate scandal, a crucial moment in the demise of the presidency. dean later pled guilty to obstruction of justice charges and served prison time. >> he's a hero for gone and saved the democracy that was under threat during the watergate. >> reporter: contrast john dean with pat cipollone, cassidy hutchinson, a former aide to mark meadows testified that cipollone was in close touch with her january 6th and desperately trying to keep the then president from going up to capitol hill with the rioters. >> mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure he doesn't go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in trump with me. we will get charged with every crime imaginable if you make that move happened. >> reporter: she said cipollone was concerned he could be accused of obstructing justice.

huffenso hutchinson said cipollone added other dire warnings. >> pat said something clearly said, this to mark, something to the effect of, mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and blood is going to be on your f'ing hands. >> reporter: reportedly, cipollone pushed back on plans by trump to use the power of the presidency to overturn the 2020 election results. unlike john dean, we have not heard from pat cipollone. he is appeared with a closed door and not agreed to testify publicly, drawing criticism from the panel's vice chair. >> we think the american people deserve to hear from mr. cipollone, personally. >> reporter: the analysts say cipollone, so far, hasn't gone out on a limb like dean did. they believe he should have contacted other cabinet members

about trump's behavior or should have resigned. >> you are the white house counsel, have you quite a solemn duty to not only advise the president but to protect the office of the presidency. >> analysts say one thing that adds to the enormous pressure in a big scandal is many don't have the background for it, a former prosecutor said white house counsel don't come in the job with experience in cell cases, often they're trained for policy issues. they may have to act as a whistleblower in a cell matter, wolf, that is a different game entirely. >> certainly is. brian todd reporting. thank you have been, very much. let's discuss what we just heard john dean is joining us. he is a cnn contributor. you know, cipollone warned back on january 6th that people are going to die if trump didn't act to try to quell the suburbance there. does cipollone have an

obligation now to share what he knows publicly under oat with the committee? >> i think he does. if the committee wants to do it publicly. that's the committee's choice. he doesn't have an option to say i'll do it privately. if the committee thinks it educates the public. i think also, washington, what happened post-watergate is the rules of the game for lawyers changed. they had been required to take an oath to the constitution even before watergate. but post-watergate, the ethical rules changed. this is a situation where cipollone is playing dangerously close to being in ethical violation for his silence. he needs to get out and protect democracy. that's one of the post-watergate requirements. so, i hope he will come forward voluntarily. if not, they should put a subpoena on him and make him go to court and give some excuse

why he shouldn't. because it's necessary at this point. >> on that point, this morning, the committee, the select committee vice chair liz cheney tweeted this, let me put it up on the screen, any concerns he has about his prior office are outweighed by the need for his testimony. john dean, do you agree? >> absolutely, i agree, he can clarify a lot of things that are not clear right now. he can shed light as it will help educate the public. you know, he has had advised that there was criminal behavior going on. what is to say that that criminal behavior ever stopped or he withdrew from it? i think for his own safety he should clarify that, how he stayed out of the two conspiracies that appear to be very much involved, actually, two or three conspiracies that he should address and fill in the committee and explain to the

public. >> you were among the younger staffers that testified during watergate, what does it say to you that it's another young staff, cassidy hutchinson, who had the courage to come forward and tell the truth while so many trump insiders are refusing to cooperate? >> you know, it seems the older you are, the more vested you become in your career and where you are grand jury to go from the white house. i think cipollone's got that problem. piece got a large family to support. he looks towards republican clients probably and his influence in washington and he's worried about the energy and all that. but i'll tell you, if we don't address the problems that this issue raises with trump and january 6th, we're not going to have much of a democracy he needs to worry about. so i think he ought to get forward and testify about this and help put it to rest. >> if cipollone is watching us right now, what would be your

additional message to him? >> i would tell him, pat, the truth is your friend and the truth is something we all need to hear. >> yeah, well, let's see if he accepts that advice. john dean, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. just ahead, u.s. supreme court justice stephen breyer confirms tomorrow, tomorrow will be his final day on the bench. with judge ketanji brown jackson waiting in the wings to tatake e oath. we'll be right back. yoyou sell investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must e earn commissios on trades. (fisher investments) never at fisher investstments. (other money manager) ok, then you probably sneak in some hidden and layered fees. (fisher investments) no. we structure our fees so we do better when clients do better. that might be why most of our clients come from other money managers. at fisher investments, we're clearly different. at bath fitter, every quality bath starts with quality people.

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legal battles over abortion are mounting tonight, nearly sa

week after the u.s. supreme court struck down roe versus wade. cnn national correspondent erica hill is following all the ramifications of the decision. >> we're taking this fight back to the courts. >> reporter: wisconsin is the latest state to sue over pre abortion laws, asking the court to strike an 1849 ban which outlaws all abortions with no exception for rape or incest. it contradicts more recent state law. >> those statutes are directly inconsistent with wisconsin 19th century abortion ban. it can't be both legal and illegal to provide an abortion to protect the health of a mother. >> reporter: all abortion services in wisconsin stopped last friday when roe was overturned. in texas, a temporary reprieve after a restraining order allow some to continue abortions until

the six-week mark of pregnancy. in north dakota announcing its abortion ban will go into effect july 28th. a judge ruled tennessee can ban a procedure after six weeks starting right now. well before the state's more restrictive trigger law takes effect in mid-august with no exceptions for rape or incest. >> this is a critical moment in our history. how we respond will speak to how we see for every everywhere. >> reporter: xavier becerra pledging his department will do everything he can, including access to abortion. in reality, federal options are limited n. states where abortion is still legal, officials are sending a clear message. the governor stating there will be no warrants related to reproductive healthcare law.

that follows a similar order in california. >> governors clearly have the authority to dictate what their state executive branches do. ultimately, however, it's really hard for anybody in the state that allows abortion to protect their citizens against prosecution. >> reporter: wolf, a short time ago, the hhs office of civil rights issued new guidance in this post-war dealing with privacy and health information. it does not protect all that information. so if disclosure is required because of another law and that request comes via court order or warrant, your personal information can be turned over without sthauthorization. they have concern of data stored on a period tracking app. hhs says they heard a lot of concern about that. what they say is, that information generally is not protected by hippa. if you are concerned about it,

they have tips and guidance at hhs.gov. >> erica, thank you very much. this all happening on the eve of a historic moment, u.s. justice stephen breyer will retire at noon eastern tomorrow and judge ketanji jackson will be sworn in as the 116th justice, the first african-woman to stitt on the highest court in the land. let's get analysis from legal analysts watching all of this unfold. so we know this will be justice breyer's last day. tomorrow he leaves. >> right. today on his last full day, he pulled out a win, on a 5-4 case, he was in a majority. that was rare these days as we heard from the bad decision. people have a majority in a case involving a military dad trying to sue the state of texas, trying to get his better job back after a return from

service. so that was a good thing that happened to stephen breyer today. after that, he met in private for the last time in a conference room to vote on cases finishing up business on this term and looking ahead to next term. wolf, he'll till have an office. he'll have to take down all these, i think he's been in this chamber. he's got all these great antiques lining the shelves. he inherited from his uncle to a smaller office. but he will no longer be one of nine. >> we'll finally see this new justice sworn in tomorrow, judge ketanji brown jackson. >> that's right. it will be live so if people want to watch it. justice john roberts is going to administer the constitutional

oath and steve brier who once was her boss. she was a law clerk to justice breyer, he will administer the judicial oath. the judicial oath is nice. it has very provocative phrases, language about a new justice and doing equal rights to which and for, it will be much different from steven briener terms of demographics. she will be the only african-american woman. she is 51. he is 83. she will bring a whole new temperament to the bench and if she stays as long as he serves, it will be like another generation-and-a-half. >> it could be 30 or 40 years, a lifetime appointment. it certainly does end, though, with brier leaving. the clinton imprint on the highest court. i was a white house correspondent when we broke the news it was stephen breyer. he was the nominee. >> i was a supreme court assigned to the post then.

>> every time i see stephen breyer, he reminds me. >> good for you. now he is leaving. it does show a lot has happened in the last 28 years. stephen breyer was a part of a less polarized era. he always wants to compromise, that's what he was all about. he comes from a time when he thought both sides could work together and that was his style and his colleagues are going to miss that. he's a real partner to john roberts. but this will be a whole new dynamic. we will see what unfolds in the next 28 years. >> we like to have that front row seat. thank you very much for that excellent analysis. coming up, a federal judge just manned down a very lengthy sentence to singer r. kelly, convicted of sex trafficking charges. we have details. we'll share them with you after the break.

singer r. kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in prison knowledge his conviction of racketeering and sex trafficking charges. he was found guilty of nine counts. he used his celebrity status to target girls, boys and young women. his attorney says hess devastated by the sentence but is prepared to appeal the conviction. grim new details tonight of what's being called the worst human smuggling event in history. the san antonio police chief saying the floor of a tractor-trailer abandoned in the blazing sun was quote completely

covered in bodies. omar is working the story. i understand at least 53 people are now confirmed dead. are you there at the scene. what is the latest? >> reporter: yeah, wolf, well, when bliss first got to the scene where dozens and dozens of people were found dead, the san antonio police chief described it not only as tragic but borderline indescribable. they not only had to push through the gruesomeness up front. but they had to do so to find people that had potentially survived this. take a listen to the police chief. >> the floor of the trailer, it was, it was completely covered in bodies. i mean covered in bodies. there were at least ten-plus bodies outside the trailer.

because when we arrived, when ems arrived, we were trying to find people who were still alive so we had to move bodies out >> reporter: that was to try and find survivors, which ultimately there --. a few of them died later on at the hospital, bringing the death total up to 53. as of right now, there are ten or so people still recovering in local hospitals. of those killed, according to the medical examiner, 40 men, 13 were women and that is likely going to be a prolonged identification process, even though they have preliminary ones on 37 of them. they are trying to coordinate with mexico, guatemala, honduras, trying to get i.d.s on these people. as far as who potentially was involved in there, what was the driver of this truck seen fleeing the scene by police that day. and dispatch audio says he was

running alongside the railroad tracks, and that person was detained. separately, two people were arrested on charges of illegal weapons possession by someone illegally in the united states. but that was because they traced the license plate of this truck to addresses here in san antonio. no word on authorities of any connection. >> omar, thank you very much. we're also following the dramatic new political up heaval going on in israel where the outgoing prime minister says he will not run for re-election in the fall. the israeli parliament, the knesset, is preparing a series of votes to dissolve itself. we're joined now from jerusalem right now. israel is on the verge of it's what, fifth election in less than four years. give us the latest. >> reporter: it's been a night of political chaos in israel. the israeli parliament was supposed to vote on this

dissolutionment before midnight. at one point, members were rushed back to the floor late in the evening, only to have that last-minute effort fall apart almost as quickly as it began. now the parliament is expected to reconvene tomorrow morning to try again and start the process to dissolve itself all of again. once parliament is disbanded, there will be a new prime minister. and then new election also be triggered in the fall. all of this chaos and the new elections presenting a huge opportunity for former prime minister benjamin netanyahu to return to power, even though he faces an ongoing corruption trial. and the polls don't necessarily show his bloc of party also have enough votes to secure a

majority. but netanyahu will have one less competitor. prime minister bennett announcing he will not run in the fall elections and is leaving politics for now, saying now is my time to step back a little and look at things from the outside. wolf? >> we'll see what happens. the president of the united states planning a trip in a couple of weeks to jerusalem. we'll see what happens there, as well. thank you very much. just ahead, new concerns over tens of thousands of potentially dangerous train crossings all over the united states, after a deadly amtrak crash. to drive you happy. we'll drive you u happy at carvana. trelegy for copd. [coughghing] ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze driftin' on by... if you've been pying down your copd,...

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right now, breaking news on the january 6th select committee deciding to go ahead and do something very, very potentially significant. cnn's ryan nobles has the news for us. tell our viewers what you're learning. >> reporter: this information just coming out in the last few sects. the january 6th select committee

taking the dramatic step of issuing a sa ubpoena to the forr white house counsel pat cippalone. his name popped up repeatedly yesterday. cassidy hutchison repeatedly discussed his concerns about the former president trump's conduct in and around the events of january 6th, the warnings he gave the former president not only 57b89 the way they conducted themselves on january 6th, but their attempts to overturn the election results leading up to january 6th. this is the statement just issued by the committee chairman bennie thompson, saying the select committee has evidence that they raised legal concerns about president trump's activities on january 6th and they talk about why they want to ask him specific questions about what he knew during that time frame under oath. and they also say this, wolf, which is very important at the end of their statement.

any concerns he has about the institutional prerogatives of the office he previously held are clearly outweighed by the need for his testimony. and this is a key issue, he is the former white house counsel. there are privilege concerns about him coming forward and testifying about any interactions he had with a sitting president of the united states. and in his role as someone that was serving as counsel to the president himself. we have seen the committee not have success in trying to come pet the former white house chief of staff to cooperate. the justice department resisting a criminal contempt referral to compel meadows to participate. in this case, they are acknowledging that cipollone me have those concerns but are willing to work those concerns out so he can testify. the biden white house will have a say. they decide what is executive privilege and what is not, as the office of the presidency and the person in that office at the

time. the former president has no role in this. that will still be a sticky part of the situation. wolf, what this will likely lead to is a negotiating posture between cipollone and the committee. he's had informal conversations with them. we'll see if this compels him to come forward and cooperate. >> much more on the breaking news. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. this is cnn breaking news. >> thanks to wolf. good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news, a major move by the january 6th select committee, the committee having a subpoena for trump's former top attorney. this is an important and significant move because cipillone was there, with the president in the white house, the days leading up to and o