economists are telling a different tale, a much different tale. and remember when vice president harris told meet the press the border is secure? well, there are new warnings tonight of not just one but multiple migrant caravans heading to the so-called secure border trying to get into the u.s. before republicans potentially take back congress. and crime victims here in california are furious after one of the state s biggest counties just dismissed hundreds of criminal cases, many of them for violent offenses all because of a judge shortage. l.a. county sheriff alex villanueva is here on set with us to talk about rising crime and confronting the deadly fentanyl crisis. plus, breaking tonight, elon musk appears to have completed his takeover of twitter ousting two top executives in the process. but twitter s leading advertisers are warning mr. musk his plans to promote free speech might drive users away. but we begin with president biden trying to paint republicans as the ones
bell and air conditioning and modern hospitals. it is not another world. so given that given how closely related the united states is to europe and has always been, you would imagine our leaders would notice when europe began to fall apart, especially when the signs were not subtle at all and they weren t. this summer, germans begin clearcutting ancient forests to heat their homes. in poland, families queued up for hours to buy coal just did one hundred and fifty years ago in the uk, the government projected that more than ten thousand britons will freeze to death, will die this winter for lack of heating fuel. freeze to death in england. that is not supposed to happen in a first world country. so europe is moving backward at high speed and it s not clear where it will end. so the question is why is this happening? and the answer for once is a very simple one to warm ukraine. that s why it s happening. a huge percentage of europe s energy came from russia. those imports h
p.m. the cnn newsroom continues the cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new today, a member of the january 6th committee weighing in on what would happen if former president donald trump ignores their promised subpoena. here s congressman adam kens ger. do you believe that the justice department, if the president refuses, should hold him in criminal contempt? look, that s a bridge we cross if we have to get there. you know, look, we well-recognize the fact that because of the committee only being able to exist until the end of this congressional year because that was the mandate, we re in a bit of a time limit here. and as we re wrapping up the investigation, we re also pursuing new leads and facts. and we want to speak to the president. look, he s made it clear he has nothing to hide is what he says. so, he should come in on the day we ask him to come
showing the threats congressional leaders faced as they fled the capitol during the january 6th riots. the exclusive video is from filmmaker alexandra pelosi. she is the daughter of house speaker nancy pelosi and was shooting a documentary on the day of the insurrection. the video shows speaker pelosi and other congressional leaders as they sheltered at ft. mcnair, a military base in the washington, d.c., area after being rushed away from the capitol mob. they are still trying to penetrate the building and it s not a safe thing because we are trying to figure out how to get this job done today. we talked to mitch about it earlier. he is not in the room right now, but he was with us earlier. and he said we want to expedite this and, hopefully, confine to just one complaint and then we can vote and that would be, you know, then just move forward the rest of the state. while that was happening at the same time vice president pence was holed up at an underground loading dock
puttingclaiming several lives ig a police officer, and that happened in an apparent ambush in bristol, connecticut. plus, bad news of economic administration for the biden administration. the take away is things could be worse if the so-called maga republicans takeover. and others saying that the president has nothing to show for his fist bump in the middle east. plus, this democrat doubling down on his view that god is a s a choice when it comes to abortion. joe has more with answers and we begin tonight with what we are hearing from police organizations and why they are saying the defund the police message is a deadly message. that s right, since monday, a dozen police officers were shot nationwide, tweeted spewing of anti-police rhetoric by some media figures, as well as the failed policies of rogue prosecutors and judges are placing officers in greater danger. this culture of lawlessness must talk. and that includes an off-duty officer killed in north carolina last nigh