a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i'm max foster in london. just ahead -- >> committee is now getting serious. why mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure that we don't go up to the capitol, keep in touch with me, we're going to get charged with everything imaginable. >> if he is remaining silent, he is encouraging and enabling that conspiracy. >> to argue that the threat posed by donald trump can be ignored is to cast aside the

responsibility that every citizen, every one of us bears to perpetuate the republic. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster. >> it is thursday, june 30th, and the aftershocks of the bombshell testimony by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson on tuesday are still being felt in washington. the house select committee investigating the january 6 attack is now seeking more information about donald trump's actions leading up to the insurrection. this time a subpoena for former white house counsel pat cipollone. he is considered a key witness who repeatedly resisted trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his name has to do up multiple times at prior hearings. >> mr. cipollone.

mr. cipollone. mr. scipollone. he was barreling down the hallway. >> pat cipollone said it was a murder-suicide pakt. . >> former white house counsel pat cipollone. >> a source says that cipollone might agree to a limited interview but avoid some topics. but committee members say they could easily work out a solution. >> if you look at ms. hutchinson's testimony yesterday, there were quite a few things that he could tell the committee that would not be subject to privilege. >> he has a huge volume of relevant evidence and he was there at every level of each of these assaults on democracy and the rule of law. >> cnn's ryan nobles explains why cipollone's testimony is crucial to the january 6th investigation. >> reporter: after spending the last few weeks publicly calling

on the former white house counsel pat cipollone to appear before the january 6 select committee, the committee is now getting serious taking the dramatic step of issuing a subpoena that would require him to cooperate with their investigation. now, cipollone is a former white house counsel, that means that he had unique access to the former president of the united states donald trump. and he represented the interests of not just the president but the office of the presidency. and that could mean that much of what he knows could be protected under executive privilege. but the committee says in their letter to cipollone that they understand that and they want to work with him to allow him to come and testify about these important matters that they believe are a part of their investigation that won't necessarily run up against these executive privilege claims. now, there also could be a role for the biden white house to play here. they are the holders of privilege, they are the ones that could decide whether or not cipollone's information is protected under those privilege

claims. cipollone has had very informal conversations with the committee already. he's thought of as being more someone as a background witness that is supported or lent insight to some of the information that the committee has already learned, but they want to know more specifics from him, particularly some of the information revealed by cassidy hutchinson in her dramatic testimony on tuesday, questions about the advice that he was giving the former president and his top aides as it relates to their challenges of the election certification and what was happening on january 6. for instance hutchinson testified that cipollone strongly warned the president not to go to the capitol because it could be dangerous and could put him in legal jeopardy. to this point cipollone has not responded to the subpoena request. he is someone who is a layer with an extensive knowledge of how this process works. it is likely that this will just trigger a negotiation between the two sides so that they can

find an area where he is comfortable to testify about what he knows. ryan nobles, cnn, capitol hill. meanwhile there trump allies have tried to discredit cassidy hutchinson as a reliable witness and kevin mccarthy is calling her testimony hearsay, focusing on her secondhand account of how trump lunged at the steering wheel of his limo when he was told that he couldn't go to the capitol. the secret service is refuting this claim but hutchinson stands by her testimony. >> she went under oath and stands by her testimony, which by the way wasn't what happened but what she was told. and we can -- if there is a dispute, we can put other people under oath. but the main point is this, no one is disputing that the then president wanted to go to the capitol to be with the rioters. that is a pretty disturbing fact. >> and liz cheney, a republican,

is also praising hutchinson for her bravery. >> her superiors, men many years older, a number of them, are hiding behind executive privile privilege, anonymity and intimidation. at this moment we're confronting a domestic threat that we've never faced before and that is a former president who is attempting to unravel the foundations of our constitutional republic. and he is aided by republican leaders and elected officials who made themselves willing hostages to this dangerous and irrational man. to argue that the threat posed by donald trump can be ignored is to cast aside the responsibility that every citizen, every one of us, bears to perpetuate the republic. republicans cannot both be loyal to donald trump and loyal to the constitution.

at this moment -- >> and the committee continues to hear from other trump officials behind closed downs. the chief financial office of the 2020 campaign testified on wednesday. the trump campaign's post-election fund raising is under scrutiny after the former president peddled false claims of the campaign funds. breaking news out of israel, the nation's parliament has just voted to dissolve itself which means that naftali bennett will be out as prime minister and israelis will be heading to the foul polls for the fifth time in less than four years. isn't that right, hadas? a tough time there for new governments. >> it has been political chaos definitely the past few days. but the past few years for israelis who have been going back to the polls over and over again.

but finally just in the last 30 minutes or so, the israeli parliament voted to dissolve itself. it was a pretty clear vote, but it was after a long drawn out process that took several days and after several weeks of the slow motion collapse of the coalition government. what it means now, naftali bennett will no longer be prime minister as of 12:01 tonight. the foreign minister will officially take over as caretaker interim prime minister. and because of that, there will be no sort of formal swearing in process. this also will trigger elections, as you noted the fifth in less than four years. those will take place on november 1 meaning that he will have several months in power to try to convince israelis that he should keep the job. of course the elections and political chaos also presents a really big opening to former prime minister benjamin netanyahu to have a path back to

power. and he spoke on the parliament floor in the last few hours vowing to the israelis that he will return the honor to the people of israel. i should note although the poll shows that his party will have the most number of seats out of all the other parties, it didn't mean that his bloc of right wing parties or any sort of ally will necessarily have the number needed for majority to turn netanyahu back into prime minister. but especially in the next couple of weeks, all eyes will be on lapid because president biden is still scheduled to arrive in the next couple weeks for his first visit as president to the region. and it will be lapid who will welcome him on the red carpet and lapid who will be meeting with him. and i'm sure of course yair lapid supporters are hoping that images of this former actor, former anchor and now turned prime minister that those images will be enough to convince israelis that layair lapid shou keep the job. >> hadas gold keeping busy in

jerusalem. thank you. president zelenskyy is pleading for the west to ramp up pressure on moscow saying current measures are doing little to deter putin. civilian targets he says were hit by ten russian missiles on wednesday in mykolaiv. at least five people were killed. meanwhile ukrainians are celebrating the return of 144 troops in a prisoner swap, nearly 100 of those were defending the azovstal steel plant in mariupol. the defense ministry says many of the returning soldiers are badly wounded. nada bashir is standing by for us in london, but let's begin with scott mcclain live in kyiv. interesting to hear what these returning ukrainians have to say about their time in detention. >> reporter: yeah, it is pretty remarkable for a couple reasons here.

first off, more than 40 of those 144 prisoners that ukraine managed to get back in exchange for 144 russian troops, more than 40 of them were from that azovstal plant where they held out for three months before finally surrendering who many including the leadership told me that we won't leave here without a gun in our hand. and so that mines that we'll fight to the death. obviously that didn't happen. 2500 laid down their guns, 1,000 of them according to russians were taken to russia for investigative purposes they said. now, the azoff regimen is what russia has tried to use as a propaganda tool. the russians have used this part of the military to make their point that ukraine needs to be de-

de- de-nazif ied in their words. so interesting to see them being turned over in this prisoner exchange. but perhaps not surprising because as president zelenskyy points out, these are public prisoners, the world is keeping tabs on them because there has been so much focus on the situation in mariupol for so long. i want to mention a couple other things as well. the other is that mall missile strike in cell shook oig, they saw no evidence that there was any ammunition, any munition stored on the site. remember this is how the russians are justifying this strike by saying that they were aiming at foreign ammunition depot that was near to that mall and the subsequent explosion caught the mall on fire. ukrainians say there is no evidence of that. salma abdelaziz was there yesterday with the prosecutor for that region who said that if

there was ammunition on that site, you'd have bullet heels ever holes everywhere because it would have exploded. ukrainians say this is part of the pattern of the russians deliberately aiming for civilian infrastructure and he says that more clearly needs to be done. listen. >> translator: i called on nato countries to speed up the supply of missile defense systems to ukraine and significantly increase the pressure on the terrorist state. the russian strike alone at the city of mykolaiv, ten missiles at once and all aimed at civilian targets proved for absolutely everyone in the world that the pressure on russia is not enough. >> reporter: now, president putin said yesterday that russia doesn't have to hit civilian infrastructure because they have plenty of information to know exactly what they are aiming at. but to zelenskyy's point, there was a five story apartment building hit in mykolaiv, at least five people were killed.

and here is a pretty sobering statistic on mykolaiv, that southern city in ukraine, the mayor there says that since the war began, remember it has been going for more than four months, there has only been 18 days when the city has not been struck. before it was more cluster bombs and more shelling. now missiles seem to be the weapon of choice. yesterday president putin said that the goals of this special military operation as he called it remain the same as they were before, what is changing is the tactics and of course missiles seem to be a popular tack tic these days. >> scott, thank you. nada, this is in the context of nato meetings currently happening in madrid. very strong words from nato. looks like a united front. even turkey signing up to having sweden and finland as members. what is the context here, how would you describe the tension between the two sides?

>> reporter: they are certainly stepping up their actions. you heard there that president putin and kremlin claiming that russia was striking foreign weapons, european supplied weapons allegedly according to the defense ministry, and that is in contrast it to what we've heard from ukraine. but this really comes in the context of what we've seen from the kremlin in terms of really voicing their opposition to nato's presence to that foreign presence and support to ukraine. as you mentioned there, sweden and finland said to bring an end to decades of neutrality, significant to one of president putin's primary objectives throughout this invasion in ukraine to really stem the extension of nato along its borders. and yesterday we heard from

president putin speaking after a meeting with the caspian 5 leaders and he issued a fresh warning to nato that if russia is to see military con continue against and infrastructure deployed to both finland and sweden in future, then russia would be forced to respond in kind. and also that this would in his words increase tensions in the region. and we have the last week or so seen russia stepping up its regional military capabilities. russia and president putin announcing plans to send nuclear capable missiles to belarus. sergey lavrov is currently holding talks with his counterparts there. the russian defense ministry also said that it is stepping up its defenses and strengthening its western border in view of this nato expansion. >> nada and scott, thank you both. now still to come, a visit from the chinese leader as hong kong is set to mark the 25th

anniversary of its handover to china. blake essig is there. >> reporter: president xi jinping has arrived in hong kong, his first time back in five years and first time leaving mainland china since the pandemic began. we'll tell you what he has planned.

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stormy skies forecast across much of the u.s. over the upcoming july 4th holiday and that could mean trouble for airline passengers. the federal aviation administration is working with airlines to plan for potential weather delays and increase passenger numbers this weekend. staffing shortages have plagued the airlines for some time now. delta predicts customer volume not seen since before the pandemic. tropical rains may be bringing heavy downpours along the gulf coast. much of the region is in a drought, so the rain could bring much needed relief. and meteorologist pedram javaheri has the forecast for you. >> good morning, max. a lot of wet weather to tell you about. southwest monsoons are cranking

across the four corners region. and a frontal boundary has represent the region unsettled and a tropical disturbance trying to develop as well. but parts of georgia, as much as 5 1/2 inches of rainfall have come down and anyone here will tell you temps have been a little more bearable here as the wet weather has kept the temperatures at bay. i off talk about the evaporative cooling. every one of those raindrops takes energy out of the atmosphere and allow the temps to cool off a little bit. but there is a threat for severe weather across the northern tier of the united states, slight risk for damaging winds, large hail. green bay, marquette, some could see storms thursday afternoon with some of those qualities. but the gulf of mexico is somewhat quiet, but off the coast of texas, there is an area of disturbed weather, 40% chance it forms in to a tropical feature. but i don't think that it will play out. conditions across the gulf are

environmentally favorable, but upper atmosphere not as much. we do expect what is left of the system to produce quite a bit of rainfall in a drought-stricken landscape where about 80% of texas is under drought conditions. about 50% of louisiana experiencing the same. so beneficial rainfall in store far eastern texas, western louisiana. 6 to 8 inches friday into saturday, and some wet weather that could to localized flooding as well. a little farther toward the south, another tropical system trying to form, another one that will struggle to so. it is a little too close to the equator, so that rotation that is necessary with these systems not going to play out, it will also interact with land. but we do think the transopical storm will prevail and make lawful f landfall friday into saturday. and a wildfire, the rises

fire, has burned through more than 900 acres in nevada county, five firefighters have suffered heat-related injuries. the blaze is only about 10% contained. crews heap to have it fully contained by sunday. what caused the fire is under investigation. desperate need for aid in bangladesh after what has been called the worst floods in living memory. more than 7 million people need shelter and emergency relief. torrential rain caused rivers to overflow leaving hundreds of thousands of homes under war wa water. entire neighborhoods are submerged, more than 200 have died since the had tos began back in april. a short while ago president xi jinping arrived in hong kong one day ahead of the 25th anniversary of the city's handover from britain to china. crowds greeted the leader as he arrived. this is his first trip outside mainland china since the start

of the pandemic. correspondents are covering all the developments for you. ivan watson and blake essig are live for aus in hong kong and steven jiang is this beijing. ivan, 25 years on, doesn't seem that long, does it, but so much has changed there in that short period. >> reporter: yeah, i think that you wouldn't recognize the waterfront and the city scape of hong kong comparing 25 years ago to today. in fact a lot of coastline here is land reclamation. so there have been physical transformations. xi jinping has not been to this city in five years and there have been other very serious changes that have taken place even in that short period of time, changes that he alluded to in his opening remarks shortly after he got off this train from the mainland. take a listen.

>> translator: over the past few years hong kong has withstood one severe test after another and overcome one risk and challenge after another. after weathering the storms, hong kong has emerged with vigorous vitality. >> reporter: he is talking about a rebirth for the city. what has it been through? in 2019, there was a year of increasingly violent anti-government protests here which culminated with the beijing-appointed government here imposing a national security law and a massive crackdown on organized political opposition and dissent in the city whereby the on pposition lawmakers who were in the legislature when xi jinping was last year five years ago, most are either in prison or they have been forced to flee for their own safety. and much of hong kong's lively civil society has really been

crushed, everything from student unions to labor unions as well as the independent press. on top of that, you have the challenges of the covid pandemic which hong kong handled pretty well in the first year certainly compared to western countries with low case numbers and deaths due to the infection, but with time, beijing's zero covid policy have made this one of the most isolated places in the world where travel from foreign countries was almost completely blocked and you faced some of the world's strictest guarantees coming here and cross-boundary travel between hong kong and mainland travel is also to this day largely blocked. all of that has had an impact on demographics here and on the economy. back to you. >> blake, a buzzing atmosphere i'm sure on the groundmomentous

mainland china. what is the atmosphere like? >> reporter: so far on the streets today we've seen a lot of empty streets. you know, it has been raining, but also a really large police presence doing everything they possibly can to keep people away from president xi jinping. and the details surrounding the chinese president's visit to hong kong have been shrouded in secrecy. but we know that xi arrived about an hour ago and was greeted by both the incoming and outgoing chief executives as well as people waving flags and chanting welcome. xi is now heading here to the science park and we expect him to arrive really any moment now. the purpose of his visit to this particular location which already serves as a tech hub and innovation hub has to do with the economic master plan that beijing has been developing in southern china. that plan is to take advantage of economic potential and drive growth by creating a tech center

that would rival cities like san francisco and tokyo. the greater bay area as it is known essentially combines hong kong, macao with nine other cities in mainland china. and local media are reporting that the chinese leader will be spending the night in a city just across the border to the north of hong kong, it is worth noting that xi traveled to hong kong using the high speed rail which has been closed to the public since the start of the pandemic. the likely reason he is deciding to commute is in part because of the covid situation here in honk do you t hong kong where 1,000 cases are reported every day. and throughout xi's visit to hong kong, he will attend the inauguration and a new administration -- of a new administration, excuse me, a

number of officials here to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the handover. and although hong kong police say there will be a designated area for people to gather, the assistant police commissioner recently said that they won't tolerate any acts of violence or public disorder. and so it is unlikely that we'll see any pro democracy protests while president xi jinping is here in town. >> thanks, blake. steven, very important that this is seen to go off smoothly. we saw all the cameras, he very much sees this as part of his legacy. and these images going down in chinese history. >> reporter: that's right. his first trip outside mainland in almost 900 days. hong kong choice not surprising but very symbolic for all the reasons blake and eivan just lad out. but remember this -- a lot of these negative changes, a lot of these things that people are warning, the lack of liberties

and freedoms, are viewed dhiftly here in beijing. they are considered positive changes and long overdue. that is why you hear state media hail about the so-called second return of hong kong. in their narrative in 1977, china regained sovereignty but not the power to govern because of the pesky oppositions and quote/unquote all the hostile and subversive forces. but now all those forces have been wiped out, finally hong kong is a truly chinese territory back on track to a path of a prosperity and stability. and only made possible because of xi jinping's iron fist. and that is why this is something that xi jinping very much needed and as we know in the fall he is often certain to assume a precedent-breaking third term. and the gentleman legitimacy is based on the ideology that he wants to reassert control over every corner of china and over

every aspect of society. and that has now very much extended to hong kong and that is of course in their mind a very good thing, that is why you will be seeing all the huge celebrations in 48 hours at least from the perspective that they say it is very much warranted. >> steven, blake, ivan, thank you very much. it will be a momentous day and we'll follow it. coming up on "cnn newsroom," deeply divided an contentious supreme court is just hours away from adding a new liberal justice to the bench. the change will be historic. put it in check with rinvoq, a once-daily pill. when uc got unpredictable,... i got rapid sysymptom relief with rinvoq. check. when uc held me back... i got lasting,g, steroid-free remission with rinvoq. check. and when uc got the upper hand... rinvoq helped visibly repair the colon lining. check. rapid symptom relief.

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welcome back. if you are just joining us, let me bring you up-to-date with the top stories. house select committee has subpoenaed former trump white house counsel pat cipollone. a source tells cnn that cipollone might agree to a limited interview avoiding some topics citing executive privilege. and nato leaders are meeting after joe biden says that he is expanding troop presence across several nato countries in response to russia's war on ukraine. u.s. president biden has just arrived for the final day of the nato summit, he is scheduled to hold a news conference in about four hours. wednesday nato officially invited finland and sweden to join directly undercutting president putin's goal of keeping the alliance in check. he says that he is not bothered by the expansion but would still respond to any threats from those territories.

natasha bertran and kevin liptak are covering the nato summit. kevin, what can we expect from joe biden at that press conference? >> reporter: i think that the president will use the buzz word which is unity, really trying to reinforce that nato has adopted this new posture toward russia. they identified russia as the biggest threat to allied security. and they have made nato more muscular with the reinforced force posture along the eastern flank. president biden announcing that he is sending plains to the united kingdom, ships to spain and establishing the permanent army headquarters in poland. so there is really a sense of renewed purpose for nato as leaders return to their home countries, but questions really remain about how they will keep their pubs committed to this purpose of defending ukraine, of holding ukraine's sovereignty as

the war grinds on and as momentum on the ground now appears to be favoring russia as it continues to make small gains in the east. and yesterday the top american intelligence official avril haines, director of national intelligence, really painted quite a grim portrait of the situation on the ground in ukraine. she said that american intelligence assessment is that it will last a long time. and that putin believes that he can go on for quite a long time as he thinks that the west's resolve to continue the fight will wane. so these leaders do have a lot of questions as they had back home. one of them is what is the next phase of this war going to look like. and there are some differences among the leaders here in madrid about how to go about ending this conflict. some would like to see more decisive victory on the battlefield. but some are nudging the other leaders towards a more negotiated settlement, trying to

restart these talks with russia to try to bring an end to this conflict that is causing economic pain at home, that is causing these leaders political headaches. and so a lot was accomplished here certainly but there are a lot of questions as the summit concludes. max. >> thanks, concern. i kevin. natasha, obviously a huge future investment in that eastern flank. but not enough according to some members baltic states for example, they want much more, they feel this might put them in a position on-to-respond to russian threats. but only initially. >> reporter: that's right. baltic states of course want a permanent u.s. presence in those countries. something that they have not gotten to date. but the reality here is that the united states contribution to this force posture are pretty significant overall. and of course these baltic countries are a member of nato and the nato alliance has reiterated repeatedly that

should anything occur on nato territory, then the fall alliance will react. but the baltic countries feel that they are under direct threat by the russian president and of course many share a border with russia. so they fear that it if there is no permanent presence, that that gives russia the green light to move into those territories. but many officials don't believe that russia would attack nato territory. what they are more concerned about is the possibility that for example something accidental occurs given how close russia in the past has gotten to nato territory for example poland, there is a concern that maybe a stray missile could land into nato territory, russia could accidentally enter nato air space and that there could be some kind of miscalculation that spirals out of control. so that is why the nato posture here has really been enhanced up to 300,000 forces are now on

high alert across all of the territories. there are of course additional reinforcements being sent to the united states. all the allies really agree here that being prepared is the most important aspect of this because russia at this point is so unpredun ree unpr unpredictable. it was feared that vladimir putin would be provoked by the reality that sweden and finland will be joining the nato alliance. he actually brushed that off last night and he said that he really is not that concerned by sweden and finland joining. >> translator: we don't have problems with sweden and finland like we do with ukraine. we don't have territorial differences. there is nothing that could bother us about sweden and finland joining nato. if they wish to, they can join. is t s that up to them. >> reporter: in the past the russian president said the red line would be if nato infrastructure was permanently

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she joins the high court after one of the most tumultuous terms in recent memory with the overturning of roe v. wade in the most recent rulings. meanwhile john car any hoig has signed a bill expanding access to abortion care in delaware. and district attorneys in some states are vowing not to prosecute abortion cases. but arizona's attorney general wants the state to honor a 1901 law that bans most abortions. a court injunction has kept it from being enforced for decades. more details are emerging about how police found dozens of deceased migrants in southern texas. san antonio police chief says responding to the scene and finding the bodies was beyond tragic. >> the floor of the trailer, it was completely covered in

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they found on scene hiding in the brush after having run when authorities first got to the scene. again, according to the department of justice. another man was charged after having allegedly communicated with the driver regarding this smuggling. and then two other men were charged with illegal possession of a weapon by someone who is illegally in the united states. they were found after authorities traced the license plate of this truck to addresses in the near by texas area, of the dozens found dead, the justice department says 22 of them were mexican nationals, seven from guatemala, two from honduras, and 17 of them at least nonu.s. citizens as part of what has been a long and at times difficult identification process coordinating across multiple countries. au all of it of course what the department of homeland security has described as the deadliest

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girls. 30 years did he do this and 30 years is what he got. >> last year the sirnger was convicted of multiple charges including violating sexual trafficking laws and more. and jean casarez breaks down what happened at the sentencing. >> reporter: r. kelly was emotionless in the courtroom right before the judge announced the sentence. survivors actually held hands at that moment before it was announced. the judge said that what r. kelly had gone through during his childhood, she had taken that into consideration, but she said that it is not an excuse for what he did. she sentenced him then to 30 years. and she said this is about violence, cruelty and control. now, r. kelly could have addressed the court, but he didn't. and his attorney said because we have other litigations in federal court, he is not going to be saying anything. and the judge said finally, you

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