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
calls patriots. plus the secret service called out by the committee to answer for its actions on the 6th. why did they leave congress to fend for itself? this cannot be just waiting for so and so. we need them there now, whatever you got. finally, stunned and heart broken explains the emotions for the families of the parkland shooting victims after the gunman gets life in prison instead of the death penalty. one family member saying he has one question for the jury. what were you thinking? we ll talk to the wife of one of those who died confronting the gunman later. we start with donald trump. rehashing debunked claims about election fraud instead of asking the question put to him by the january 6th committee, will you testify or not? i want to bring in a former federal prosecutor in new york, michael schmidt the washington correspondent for the new york times and frank feglusi. in terms of the subpoena and the committee s work, what happens next? reporter: next s
and not the one i want. take 20 so i don t eat them, yes. okay. well, go to jake tapper s house, not laura coates. you get one piece of candy and probably black licorice. you probably give apples. i ve given toothbrushes from time to time. i have. not just kidding i give full cans of sodas, too. the parents hate me. nice. this is cnn tonight. i m laura coates. as i mentioned allison is on assignment. we re going to have a panelists from across the spectrum and they re on the screen right now. here is a really provocative question that we re going to tackle tonight. here it is. so what if the 2020 midterms are a repeat of 2020? i know it sounds like a very interesting proposition, maybe a scary one for a lot of people. but what if election deniers are refusing to accept results? i m not saying january 6th happens again but what might be the consequences of that? i ll talk to the master pollster who is scared to death what will happen and plus, the january 6th com