situation is fluid. we ll be listening to what nancy pelosi has to say. and it gets to a larger question, is momentum building for some big wins, a bill that helps us compete with china now heads to the president s desk for signature. and democrats have senator manchin on board for a bill they are calling the inflation reduction act that addresses everything from climate change to health care. couldn t come at a better time with the midterms fast approaching and democrats fighting to hold on to control of congress. and there are policy challenges from the war in ukraine to securing the release of brittney griner. there is iran and russia and china whose leader the president spoke with yesterday amid rising tensions of pelosi s trip to the region and potentially taiwan. let s dig into all of this. wehave mike memoli and also ali vitali. and we have our mcrib contributors. ali, what more can you tell us about the situation of the bills? reporter: at this point it is really fl
trump administration officials. details of that new reporting ahead as well. and later on, we don t have the manpower as the doj s january 6th probe expands, sources telling our team resources are at a breaking point. what we re learning about the most wide-ranging investigation in justice department history coming up as well. i m in for hallie jackson. want to get to ali vitali on capitol hill. what i am hearing as we wrap up this incredibly surprising week to say the least is that there is a procedural vote happening in the next couple minutes. walk us through what you know. reporter: yeah. certainly a week with a lot of twists and turns here between the senate and the house. the house leaving town now, at least for the next week or so, and doing it with a flurry of activity before they get there, setting up this vote, this procedural motion in just a few minutes that s going to be a vote on the rule to get onto the actual vote on an assault weapons ban. in talking to
cooperate. we ve had discussions with him about potentially appearing before them, trying to make sure we understand what it is they re asking for. as i always did when i was in service to america, i m happy to cooperate with things that are fair and transparent and deliver good outcomes to the american people. we ve learned the committee has already spoken to treasury secretary steve mnuchin. both pompeo and mnuchin discussed using the 25th amendment to remove trump from office. and trump s former chief of staff, mick mulvaney, testified before the committee just yesterday after he offered to come in voluntarily. suffice it to say the list is growing fast. here s how committee member jamie raskin puts it. it s like a waterfall of truth at this point. when you have more than 1,000 witnesses coming in and telling you what had happened, it s the tiny handful of people who are either lying or refusing to participate who begin to feel very nervous about the situation. acc
excessive climate change. good afternoon, i m jim sciutto in for erin burnett, and outfront tonight, preparing for battle. cnn has learned that investigators want to force former trump officials to testify in court, and will use the court to do so. they want to know the actions of former president trump around january 6th, and this is the clearest sign yet that they are zeroing in on trump s actions as he tried to cling to power. this development is coming as the january 6th select committee is speaking to former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and former secretary state steve mnuchin, and a key witness, mnuchin had conversations with trump cabinet members hours after the cabinet, and he had a conversation about trying to remove trump by evoking the 25th amendment, and a number of people that he spoke to included secretary of state pompeo, and tonight, pompeo also appears closer to sitting down with the committee. we have had discussions with them about potential a
very good week for president biden with some major victories in congress while republicans were doing the usual, like voting against veterans and american technology. plus, the republican embrace of christian nationalism proves they do not know their history. we ve seen this story before and it doesn t end well. and trump is playing host to the big saudi golf tournament this weekend insulting 9/11 families in the process. trump actually defended the saudis saying, quote, nobody s gotten to the bottom of 9/11. seriously. we begin tonight with a major development in the duelling january 6th investigations. the house select committee has agreed to a formal path to share evidence and witness transcripts with the justice department as it escalates its own investigation. first reported by politico chairman bennie thompson confirmed the agreement on a template for evidence and witness transcript sharing. it is a major step at the extent of the justice department s investigation