president biden, democratic senate candidate john fetterman is getting an assist from former president barack obama. will it make a difference in the high-stakes pennsylvania race? and we ll also go inside children s hospitals overwhelmed right now by the surge in respiratory illness as more and more kids are getting sick and beds are running out. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the new response from the former president, former president trump s lawyer to the most aggressive move yet by the january 6th select committee. cnn political correspondent sara murray is joining us with details. so, what is the trump team saying about this new subpoena from the select committee delivered to trump today? well, it s now up to his legal team to grapple with how they want to respond. in a statement from one of these law firms, they slammed the select committee for making
ahead this hour on cnn newsroom. in its most aggressive move yet, the house january 6th committee officially serves former u.s. president donald trump with a subpoena for documents and testimony about the insurrection. russia s alleged use of iranian-made drones to attack ukraine has some western nations calling for an investigation on the suppliers. we ll tell you all about moscow s cooperation with tehran. also in iran, a teachers union is calling for a nationwide strike over the recent deaths and detention of students around the country, adding to what has been more than a month of women-led protests against iran s violent crackdown. former u.s. president donald trump has now been officially served with a subpoena to testify before the january 6th committee. in a series of high-profile hearings this year, the committee documented mr. trump s failed quest to overturn his election defeat, culminating in the violent and deadly attack on the u.s. capitol. the committee
rival, reasserted communist party control over every aspect of chinese city. what we know is tomorrow when we see his top advisers revealed, is that he s going to be stacking it with his closest advisers and loyalists. so in this next term, expect xi jinping to double down on his ironclad rule, so a more authoritarian china at home and a more aggressive china abroad. fredricka? possibly more surprises. selina wang, thank you so much. all right. hello again, everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. with just over two weeks until midterm election decides who controls congress, voters are turning out in big numbers across the country to cast their ballots early. so far nearly 6 million people have already voted in the midterm elections. in georgia, more than 660,000 voter have already cast their ballots. that number is not far off the early voting turnout for the 2020 presidential election, and it s a quarter of a million more than the early voting turnout f
cast with 17 days to go until election day. at stake, control of both champ pwers of congress. the democrats have control now, but whether they can hold onto power is still in question. president biden says he s not going anywhere. at least he doesn t intend to. the reason i m not making a judgment about formally running or not running, as soon as i make that announcement, a whole series of regulations kick in and i have to treat myself as a candidate from that point on. i have not made that my formal decision, but it is my intention to run again. and we have time to make that decision. before that, his party needs to weather the midterms while acknowledging many are on shaky political ground. here s what i think. it s been back and forth with them ahead, us ahead, them ahead. pwaorlgt. and the polls have been all over the place. i think that we re going to see one more shift back to our side the closing days. part of his carefully crafted midterm strategy, tactically
i, wolf blitzer in the situation room. thanks very much for watching the news strategist, is heading to prison in his own call for trump s supporters to quote savage or enemies. plus remembering a time 80 years ago today when americans defeated the enemies of freedom and humanity on the beaches of normandy, then help rebuild a continent we begin tonight. keep them honest with the ongoing question of whether the former president, if reelected, would use the criminal justice system against his political opponents ongoing because he keeps hinting at it, speaking this evening in phoenix at an event put on by the conservative activist charlie kirk he can find the bulk of his remarks, immigration and the economy, but also railed against his criminal prosecutions and finished with this i m telling you we are in more danger from the enemy from within with these learner texas fascist, these communists. and we re going to stop that also now, these are words he s using the past