flank, including new troop movements, equipment, shipments, and military installations. some of them permanent. all of this as russia s relentless war on ukraine grinds on. so many significant developments to get to there. back here in the united states, groundbreaking testimony from a former top aide in the trump white house, cassidy hutchinson, describing in great detail the former president s state of mind that on and around january 6th, and his actions, also testifying that trump was personally aware of the potential for violence that day. listen. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president saying to the effect of, i don t effing care they have weapons, they re not here to hurt me, take the effing mags away, let my people in, they can march to the capitol from here. she also testified that former white house counsel pat cipollone warned that trump and others could be criminally liable if they had gone to the capitol that day. as she testi
6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. we ll have much more on her testimony in just a moment. back here in madrid, multiple developments this morning on the first day of the nato summit. president biden, he s participating in several meetings with nato allies including a highly anticipated sit-down with the turkish president next hour. so far, the alliance has announced a significant strengthening of forces along the eastern flank. formally invited finland and sweden to become members after overcoming turkey s opposition and naming china in the strategic concept, as it s known, their mission statement. confronting russia as the brutal invasion of ukraine drags on. poppy? we ll take you back to jim in madrid in just a moment. let s begin this hour though with more on yesterday s damning january 6th testimony. our capitol hill reporter melanie zanona with me. you have reporting, significant developments. walk us
Hopefully they get a day game for you. I might buy a Jason Kelce Jersey to make the guy feel better. Right . Thank you, andy. Thank you for joining us. Im kasie hunt. Dont go anywhere. Cnn this morning starts right now. Good morning, everyone. So glad you are with us. Theres a lot of news to get to this morning. Lets start with five things to know for this tuesday, september 26th. President biden hits the autoworkers picket line today an historic first for a sitting president. Also trump will be there tomorrow as he skips a Republican Debate to also speak with Union Autoworkers in the motor city. Breaking overnight the debate stage is now set for the second gop primary debate the one trump will not attend. Desantis, scott, haley, rama ramaswamy, burgum. Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson painting a chaotic picture of the last days of the trump presidency. This all in her new book where she says trump told his Chief Of Staff, quote, i dont want people to know we lost. This
i m jim sciutto reporting from the nato summit in madrid in spain. and i m poppy harlow in new york. right now, we are closely monitoring the supreme court where the justices are set to release new opinions this morning. we ll bring you those as soon as we get them. we are also following stunning testimony from the hearing yesterday. cassidy hutchinson painting a picture of a furious donald trump on the day of the insurrection. she testified the president wanted to join those who marched armed to the capitol. this despite warnings from white house counsel pat cipollone. 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 with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. do you remember which crimes mr. cipollone was concerned with? in the days leading up to the