[ gunshots ] police tackled the gunman. now described by police as a 41-year-old unemployed man. police say this man has admitted to the shooting. state broadcaster nhk is quoting police who said that he used a homemade gun. we ll take you live to tokyo for updates in a moment. what a shock for that country, for the world. right now here at home, former white house counsel pat cipollone is on capitol hill for closed door testimony today, speaking to the january 6th select committee. we are watching that closely. first, our top story japan s former prime minister shinzo abe, the longest serving prime minister, assassinated during a campaign speech. cnn senior correspondent will ripley joins us now from taipei, taiwan. the circumstances of this particularly in a country with so few instances of gun violence just shocking. what more do we know about the shooter and the circumstances? reporter: yeah. you re talking about a country with half the population of the unite
police tackled the gunman, you can see there, described as a man in his 40s, state broadcaster nhk quotes police who say he used a homemade gun. we will be live in tokyo in just a moment. we are also keeping a close watch this hour on what s happening in washington. former white house counsel pat cipollone expected on capitol hill for closed door testimony today. he ll speak with the january 6th select committee. again, watching that closely as well as the latest jobs report, just out a short time ago, which shows the economy added 327,000 jobs in the month of june. the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.6%. a lot going on this morning as you can see. but we do want to begin with this breaking news out of japan, the assassination of former prime minister shinzo abe. blake essig is in tokyo this morning. what more do we know about this suspect and also what is the reaction throughout the country. reporter: hey, you know, jim, erica, i apologize, i cannot hear you righ
activities on january 6, 2021, and in the days that preceded and needs to hear from him on the record as they note other former white house counsels have done in other congressional investigations. there are, of course, privilege arguments about him coming forward and testifying about exchanges with a then-sitting president of the united states, who was his client, so it s unclear whether he will comply with the subpoena. but tonight a lawyer familiar with cipollone s thinking tells cnn he will probably agree to a tr transcribed interview limited to specific topics to avoid attorney/client issue. what we do know is there was tuesday s stunning testimony from cassidy hutchinson, a former aide to then-chief of staff mark meadows. she alleged cipollone had very serious concerns about donald trump s actions on january 6th. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged wit
to answer more questions after previously sitting for an interview behind closed doors. that was this april. the committee saying it s continued to obtain evidence that he s uniquely positioned to testify but he has declined to cooperate. further leaving the panel with no choice but to issue the sub subpoena. we have heard some of what the evidence was for ourselves . sglb i remember pat saying to him something to the effect of, the rye ioters have gotten to t capitol. mark looked up and said he doesn t want to do anything pat. pat said something to the effect of and very clearly, said this to mark, something to the effect of, mark something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood will be on your eff ing hands. this is getting out of control. i m going down there. i remember saying that letter this guy wants to send that letter is a murder/suicide pact. it will damage every one that touches it. we should have nothing to do with that letter. pat said he i
but at this point, don, it s a negotiation, and i think the committee will do whatever they can to get that testimony out of cipollone. john, you ve been saying on this program and to anyone who will listen that you think it s critical cipollone testifies publicly like you did. are there legitimate privilege issues that would justify him testifying in a transcribed interview limited to specific topics? or should he appear in a more public manner? i think he s got to appear in a more public manner, and i don t think there s any privileges in that area they re focusing on. we ve already had courts look at the issue. there s no attorney-client privilege for crime or fraud. cipollone i think has a larger problem. he advised the president against doing these things because there were conspiracies involved, several of them. what s to say that he s ever declared he s not part of that conspiracy? if he s remaining silent he is certainly encouraging and enabling that done conspira