p.m. the cnn newsroom continues the cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new today, a member of the january 6th committee weighing in on what would happen if former president donald trump ignores their promised subpoena. here s congressman adam kens ger. do you believe that the justice department, if the president refuses, should hold him in criminal contempt? look, that s a bridge we cross if we have to get there. you know, look, we well-recognize the fact that because of the committee only being able to exist until the end of this congressional year because that was the mandate, we re in a bit of a time limit here. and as we re wrapping up the investigation, we re also pursuing new leads and facts. and we want to speak to the president. look, he s made it clear he has nothing to hide is what he says. so, he should come in on the day we ask him to come
by this time tomorrow, we expect to know a whole lot more about what happened behind closed doors at the white house on january 6th. and we know that because we have a couple people speaking to us. the committee has out takes of the president s message to supporters the day after the riot at the capitol showing him having trouble getting through the message, refusing to say the election was settled and attempting to call the rioters patriots. tonight, my colleague anderson cooper, anderson got congressman jamie raskin to tell him more about what out takes the committee has. in just 340moments, committee member adam schiff says you ll hear people urging the ex president to say things to try to get the attackers to go home, things that he can t be prevailed upon to do or say. now, that as one day after the secret service turned over precisely one text exchange to a government watchdog who had requested a month s worth of records for 24 secret service personnel. the january 6th
that. make no mistake, tonight s so-called hearing is not in good faith, it is not an honest probe into the security breakdown on that fateful day, and we will prove that to you tonight. instead, it is a made-for-tv smear campaign against president trump, featuring sliced and diced video that fits their predetermined political narrative from the very beginning, accompanied by the biggest trump haters on capitol hill. every single person on this committee is on record hating president trump, and they all voted to impeach him. now, people who support donald trump were not allowed to participate on this illegitimate, hyperpartisan committee, and sadly, those running the circus are not interested in what went wrong. they are not interested in what actually happened. they are purposely omitting what is critical information. we will tell you about tonight, and we will show you tonight, that will reveal where massive security failures did occur, and beyond that, show you the people
A lot of people just say, well, you know, that was the noughties and maybe it wasnt as bad as the 70s or 80s. Theres been a sense of progress in a sense. Do you buy that or do you think these challenges are still there for female comedians every day even now . I would say first of all its not just for female comedians. There have been male comics who have named male predators in our circles. I think, if anything, with social media its kind of being perpetuated. What people forget about comedians is we are not only talents that make people laugh. We are also colleagues. Meryl orourke. A quick look ahead to next week. Weve been filming in ukraine for a series of special reports. Heres a taste. The raw emotion of this war and its consequences could not be more stark. Thats all from us tonight. Kirsty s here on monday. Till then, have a great weekend. Breaking news from Around The World 24 Breaking News from Around The World 2a hours a day. This is bbc news. Thats in addition to a 25 mil