focusing on the elaborate effort by then president trump to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. plus the latest on the bipartisan group of senators negotiating new gun legislation in a moment we ll speak with chris coons of delaware on just how close senators are on a final bill. also ahead, we re keeping an eye on wall street as stock futures soared overnight following a brutal week. we ll get a live report from cnbc. and it is primary day for several states across the country which means kornacki is camped out at the big board. he s angry. and i ll tell you what, jonathan lemire, we have a big race today in alabama. you have donald trump who of course always had a prerogative of changing his mind when it looks like his first election is on the way to losing. he chose mo brooks who was there on january 6 trying to whip up the masses to attack the capitol or so some people believe. on the other side, one of richard shelby s staff members.
of duty in 2020. his widow sounds off on the nationwide crime surge on america reports coming up. we begin america reports with an exclusive report on a new warning of a potential invasion of taiwan. i am john roberts in washington. great to see you. i am anita. will china flex its military muscle? conducting the largest 5 fire drills in the taiwan strait. it comes after house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to the island. beijing moving from words of warning to military action in the aftermath. surrounding taiwan and launching missiles into nearby waters. and a fox news exclusive. china sees a window of opportunity to invade taiwan before the next u.s. presidential election in 2024. texas senator john cornyn will join us on that. first fox news teams coverage. following christopher wray s hearing on the hill. peter, what do china watchers think taiwan is thinking here? a take over of taiwan before the 2024 presidential election. this person says we have always bee
closed captioning, brought to you by mesobook.com. this is just in to cnn. the source come from the federal grand jury investigating january 6th has subpoenaed the former white house counsel, pallone. abc news was first to report that. cnn has now confirmed that, as well. abby phillip, david axelrod, all back with me here. thanks so much for joining. this is big news. what say you, david? i think we have seen, over the last couple of weeks, this escalation in this grand jury process. that is separate and apart from all of the doj investigations and prosecutions into those that actually stormed the capitol and broke into the capitol. this is now has been and we have seen as aids were called in, what have you, the inter-sanctum. we don t get more inner sanctum than the white house counsel. right. we know, through testimony given to the january 6th committee, running down the hall to the oval office to try and stop meetings from progressing, who was trying to get the
privilege, i think as we talk about what these conversations could be between pat cipollone s attorneys and the doj, that grand jury, i should say, what is covered by executive privilege? just remind us here. what conversations could potentially be covered. what we know is that pat cipollone and others have claimed executive privilege to allow them basically to avoid answering questions about conver conversations, private conversations they claim they had with donald trump leading up to and including on january 6. we know with respect to the january 6 committee that pat cipollone, although he appeared before that committee, that he used executive privilege oftentimes to avoid answering specific questions. and this is going to test, quite frankly, whether that privilege holds now that we know that there is a grand jury, a criminal investigation taking place with respect to donald trump. these conversations that pat cipollone s attorneys are having with the doj presumably des
night in america where democracy was on the ballot. first a stunning rejection by voters in conservative kansas. voters defeating an amendment aimed at restricting abortion rights and the result wasn t close. kansas is the first state to vote on the issue since the supreme court decision to overturn roe v. wade. perhaps even more significant was the voter turnout here because nearly 700,000 votes were cast in tuesday s primary and that dwarfs the voter turnout in the state s 2020 presidential primary election. five states in all held primaries on tuesday, one other big take away here was a slue of election deniers backed by former president trump, they were winners. and here to break down the numbers is cnn s senior data analyst harry enten. hey, john. good morning. what we got? let s start in kansas which brianna was just talking b my goodness gracious, sometimes i get surprised by results and this is one of them. i did expect that no would win, that is that they w