headquarters in new york city on this presidents day. there are high stakes today. joe biden, the first president in modern history to travel to a war zone without u.s. troops already on the ground. the message his visit is sending to ukraine, america s allies and the american people as he gears up for another run at the white house. how is vladimir putin responding to the president s diplomatic slap in the face as the kremlin tries to spin something positive out of a war marked by frustration and failure? we ll have a live report from moscow coming up. and ron desantis welcoming political attacks from his fellow republicans saying this morning if, quote, people aren t firing at me, then i m not doing my job. but how long until he starts firing back? a lot to get to. let s start with president biden already on the move, heading to poland following the unannounced and unprecedented visit to ukraine taking the opportunity to literally stand with president volodymyr zelenskyy
hearings. and there are big developments tonight on that front. you ll also hear from former trump white house press secretary stephanie grisham. she, like mulvaney, resigned from her administration post on the day our capitol came under attacked. stay tuned for both of them. the select committee, meanwhile, apparently just finalized plans for what could be its most critical testimony yet. our sources say the committee struck a deal for a closed door, recorded interview with former white house counsel pat cipollone set to happen on friday. he met with members in april for an informal interview. but since his name came up numerous times during last week s explosive testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson, the committee subpoenaed him for formal testimony under oath. white house counsel pat cipollone mr. cipollone. pat cipollone. white house counsel pat cipollone. mr. trump s former white house counsel pat cipollone. there you go. there will, o
deal with the committee for a transcribed interview behind closed doors but it s happening this friday. oh, and it s going to be on video. a lawyer is telling cnn the interview will be limited to specific topics to avoid privilege issues. he was of course the white house counsel. the committee has called him, quote, uniquely positioned to testify. i mean, the understatement of the year. think of what he knows. think about how many times you out there even heard his name from other witnesses during these hearings. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capital, cassidy, keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. you still sitting on his phone and i remember passing to him, something to the effect of, the writers have gotten to the capitol, mark, we need to go to the president now. mark looked up and said, he doesn t want to do anything, pat. and pat said some
this law of the land. it says, no person in the united states shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in being denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. again, in honor of this anniversary, we unveiled a portrait which will hang in the halls. it s about our first. the first she s actually the first woman of color to serve in the congress. so she s honored for her first burt also for what she accomplished. we already have good friday morning. i m garrett haake in washington listening to house speaker nancy pelosi reacting to what is the most seismic supreme court ruling in a generation. continuing breaking news coverage. granting abortion rights nationwide. this is the most highly anticipated decision in this supreme court session. probably the most highly anticipated decision in at least a decade. this decision centered on the case dobbs versus jackson inv
good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world it is tuesday, july 26th. i m brianna keilar alongside john berman this morning. we re beginning this hour with new cnn reporting that takes us behind the scenes revealing just how close the supreme court came to saving roe v. wade. according to multiple sources chief justice john roberts fought to the bitter end trying to convince his former conservative justices to preserve the constitutional right to abortion. but it was the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion reversing roe that may have have doomed roberts efforts. and the abortion rights drama that testified in april that the draft opinion would soon be published. tensions over the fate of roe were heightened over the course of the leak that diminished whatever chance roberts had to disloch the five votes to overturn the rule. joining us, joan biscupic. joan, tell us how hard he was fighting to bring some folks over to his time. good morning, brianna