just ahead here on cnn newsroom. republican and nikki haley begins her run for for confidene the tests, politicians over 75 years old. could she be targeting president biden? or donald trump? our political analyst weighs in. plus, anger in eastern ohio as residents wonder if this small town is safe after a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed. and, later, survivors still being found under the rubble more than a week after a powerful earthquake left parts of turkey and syria devastated. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. but first, we begin with new developments in the investigation into former president donald trump s role in seeking to overturn a 2020 election. cnn has now learned a special counsel has subpoenaed trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, who was witness to trump s actions during the insurrection at the u.s. capitol. cnn s evan perez has more details now from washington. donald trump s former chief of staff
being taken into custody earlier today. a law enforcement source familiar with the arrest confirms to nbc navarro did not surrender himself. the committee subpoenaed him back in september then, remember, he got another subpoena from the fbi to comply with their investigation just last week. you saw that live shot of the courthouse. those microphones set up. we are watching to see if he makes comments outside that building and will bring it to you. we know the january 6th select committee will hear its public hearing in prime time just six days from now on june 9th as today we re also learning new and important details about another big hearing set for next week. this one on gun violence. survivors and parents of victims of the uvalde and buffalo shootings set to testify in front of the house oversight committee. it s a very busy friday afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington and i want to bring in justice correspondent pete williams. capitol hill correspondent ali vitaly
counsel, that is done. the supreme court had an opportunity to grant executive privilege on the documents that the january six committee wanted, and they did, not and those are the same kinds of arguments. privileged to include mark meadows correspondents, and that is a dead there s no way there will jackson with will not succeed on that one. the republican field for presidential hopefuls could be expanding soon. so far only donald trump and nikki haley have declared their candidacy, but more than a delaying runs for the white house. including iowa mike pence who had this to say about haley. i wish her well, investigator nikki haley did a good job in our investigation, she may have more companies soon, and i promise folks in
president trump has invoked executive privilege accordingly, my hands are tied and then the next day he said the privilege is not mine to waive. it would be incumbent on the committee to directly negotiate with president trump about this. the problem i think for peter navarro here, hallie, is that six days before he said the president has executive privilege, the supreme court rejected that claim from the president and a matter involving the documents that were in the possession of national archives that the committee wanted, president trump waived executive privilege. president biden rather, president trump went to court to say, hey, i ve still got some residual executive privilege but the lower courts rejected that. they said you may have some, but it s outweighed by the need for this material. so in essence the legal argument he s making here has been a nonstarter in the courts here in washington and that may be one of the reasons why the justice department decided to go ahead and f
fbi official chuck rosenberg, also an msnbc contributor. so, pete, let me start with you. it s our understanding this court hearing related to these charges against peter navarro are happening as we speak taken into custody. what else do we know? taken into custody i think is interesting because he didn t turn himself in, normally in these sorts of cases these white collar cases, there s a negotiation of when they turn themselves in but apparently there wasn t. he s not been very cooperative with the authorities here on that count. so he s got an arraignment under way and will enter a plea because this is an indictment. it s two counts, both relating to his refusal to cooperate with the january 6 committee. one count is for failing to turn over documents the committee wanted, the second count is for failing to show up and answer questions in person. from the committee. according to the indictment he basically said to the committee, this is out of my hands. on february 27th he sent an