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the news continues. let's hand it over to sara sidner and "cnn tonight." >> all right, thank you, anderson. i'm sara sidner. and this is "cnn tonight". a major development tonight following the bombshell testimony from the trump former white house aide. the january 6th committee has subpoenaed pat cipollone to compel him to testify. he's long been considered a key witness by the committee, but he's resisted speaking further with the panel after sitting for a closed door interview back in april. the committee claims its investigation has revealed evidence cipollone repeatedly raised...

>> plus the justice department marks a new phase of its investigation into donald trump. a federal grand jury subpoena now demands testimony from a key west wing insider. the trump white house counsel pat cipollone. and china's response to nancy pelosi's defiance by dispatching 27 war planes into taiwan's airspace. the house speaker says her taiwan visit a clear marker now in the battle between democracy and dictatorship. >> today the world faces a choice between democracy and autocracy. america's determination to preserve democracy here in taiwan and around the world remains iron ...

Testimony, they invoked executive privilege and also attorney-client privilege. and what the federal prosecutors are hoping is that they can pierce through those privilege arguments to get a little bit more out of these men about some of those private conversations with donald trump. you will recall pat cipollone's testimony before the january 6th committee, which was played at some of the hearings, and there were sometimes when they would get right up to the line, where he was about to tell them something which seemed like it would be revelatory about donald trump, and he said he couldn't bec...

Appeals knocked that down. and lastly we have the most recent suggesting in the civil context there's already a preponderance of evidence there may have been a crime committed. so there's the crime fraud exception. so i think all those things weigh against the privilege arguments, but it certainly can be a blame tactic. and overall i'd say one bright piece of news for cipollone in this is that doj does not subpoena targets. that's something they won't do. they don't just bring you in front of the grand jury. so it sounds like he has through his testimony made himself that target. up next for...

Administrations i'm trying to take this beyond donaldd trump and even pat cipollone to what's happening in the future to this idea of a candid back and forth between b a president and his white houset counsel. how damaging a could this be? well, this is the very core of executive privilege. you just cannot get more concentrated privilege arguments than the white house counsel himself. it is absolutely essential for the president to be able to turn to an attorney in the white house and ask for his frank advice. that conversation is going to be somewhat chilled, obviously,c if the president beli...