vice president harris doorstep right here in washington. and a cnn exclusive. the former white house chief of staff mark meadows has complied with a subpoena in the u.s. justice department s january 6th investigation, potentially escalating the legal danger for former president trump. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in t the situation room. president biden is touting the agreement that prevented a crippling national railroad strike, even though it s not a done deal yet. tonight we re learning more about his role in the talks. let s go to cnn s white house correspondent mj lee. i am very pleased to announce a tentative labor has been reached between the railway workers and the railway companies. reporter: tonight a major national economic crisis averted. this agreement is a big win for america. reporter: representatives for freight rail companies and unions for thousands of rail workers reaching an 11t
china claims taiwan as part of its territory, despite having never controlled it and repeatedly warned against pelosi visiting the island, vowing to take resolute and forceful measures if the visit goes forward. john kirby addressed the trip on cnn last hour. there s no reason for the chinese rhetoric, there s no reason for any actions to be taken. it is not uncommon for congressional leaders to travel to taiwan. it is very much in keeping with our policy and consistent with our support to taiwan under the taiwan relations act. we shouldn t be as a country, we shouldn t be intimidated by that rhetoric or those potential actions. this is an important trip for the speaker to be on. we re going to do whatever we can to support her. cnn is on capitol hill, but we begin with will ripley in taipei, taiwan. will, what can you tell us the latest about this announcement of the speaker s trip? reporter: well, for one thing, this is not going to be, you know, a fueling brief stop
declining to answer more than 440 questions during a civil deposition in new york on wednesday. i will be joined by former national security advisor and u.n. ambassador john bolton to talk about the iranian plots to kill him and four other top trump national security officials and to get his reaction to the new legal troubles surrounding his former boss. and i will speak to chef and global humanitarian jose andres from ukraine to update the work by his non-profit to keep communities fed after more than five months of war. he met with president zelenskyy today. let s talk about the internal deliberations within the justice department. barbara, we understand that there are concerns inside the fbi and others that the fbi chief chris wray was so careful about the justice department guidance that he did not push back when he was in nebraska yesterday against the false claims by the president and others the fbi could have planted information there. yeah. that is a baseless piece
department of homeland security wanted to try to recover those deleted secret service messages from around the time of the january 6th attack on the capitol. but then the trump-appointed agency, watchdog step in. mika, did someone gel on that. that doesn t make sense on any level for any department in government. i don t, something is definitely wrong and perhaps. steve kornacki is standing by to help break down leaks which feature a number of candidates who deny the 2020 election results. what is the anger meter, the rage meter this morning. well, the rage will join us. the rage will be on. he s going to be here? we re very lucky, joe. i thought he only did rodeos in august. we re very, very lucky, the rage is back. one of the reasons we re going to be hearing from rusty. there he is. wow, just got a chill down my spine. we ll hear from rusty bowers. the arizona speaker who may pay the price for the 2020 election and testifying before it before the janu
may have we may lose the ability to leave. the agents text each other afterwards about what they went through? were they texting before the fact about their concerns about what happened that day or what the president was saying or doing? we still don t know. however, tonight we do know more about when the agency s top watchdog knew the messages were missing. tonight, multiple sources familiar with the matter, tell cnn that the inspector general first learned of the missing messages back in may of 2021. now, that s significant because that s not what secret service officials told congress. they told congress that the inspector general, joseph ka far ri, knew in december of 2021. and if he knew in may of 2021, that means it was more than a year before he told the house select committee that potentially crucial information might have been erased. the secret service, as you know, says the messages were lost during a scheduled data migration that began on january 27th, three w