president biden is expected to slam election deniers into a surprise speech tonight. the lead starts right now, six days from the midterms president biden has something to say, adding a prime time speech to his calendar taking on the heightened political climate. as the election rolls in candidates are rolling out their closing message. plus, the plan to rope supreme court clarence thomas into the 2020 election. why a trump lawyer called thomas the only chance to delay the process. and north korea is firing off its longest short-range missiles in one day as cnn also learned the rogue nation is secretly supplying russia with weapons. hello and welcome to the lead. i m brianna keilar in for jake tapper. the countdown is on in our politics lead. just six days left until the votes are counted in the congressional balance of power decided. a brand-new cnn poll suggests republican candidates have the momentum. 51% of likely voters say they ll vote for the republican can
. cnn has this exclusive never before seen footage that shows how congressional leadership was scrambling to save the capitol as rioters were running wild, here s moment speaker of the house nancy pelosi was talking to then acting attorney general jeffery rosen about the risk to human life. concern we have about personal. safety. personal safety is just transcend everything but the fact is on any given day, theory break the will you in many different ways. . i mean, that s a part we think about how this will have lasting consequences that was kind of the meat of the matter for so many people watching it real time the idea of what s the doj going to do about this this question lingered. i appreciate it in terms of being able to see the true feelings in that moment, not that i agree with violence but the idea here when you heard speaker pelosi in this never before seen footage, you see her talking about in this raw state of emotions what that he planned to do if the
congressional subpoena to appear and testify under oath before the january 6th committee. that revelation, the crescendo to a day filled with stunning developments. the committee sharing new evidence from the secret service illustrating the knowledge and the threat that existed going into january 6th, as well as the advanced planning from the trump orbit to declare victory on election day. and this morning, in a cnn exclusive, new never before seen footage of a rare moment of bipartisan effort to push forward on january 6th. we ll hear the pivotal phone calls between speaker of the house nancy pelosi and then vice president mike pence on that day. our team is following all of the latest developments surrounding this investigation. the overnight subpoena to donald trump just one of the major advances that the committee put forward. so let s begin with cnn political correspondent sara murray. walk us through the big takeaways from the hearing yesterday because there were quit
good morning, everyone. i m bianna golodryga. our top story this hour, former president trump unleashing a angry response this morning after the january 6 committee voted to subpoena him for documents and testimony under oath in connection with the capitol riot. we are on bligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. and every american is entitled to those answers. so we could act now to protect our republic. in his response, posted on truth social, trump reiterated many of the very same lies we ve heard for years now. once again falsely claiming that the election was stolen. but it is still unclear if he will comply. also we re now seeing new footage obtained by cnn never before seen video of congressional leaders responding in the moment of chaos. why don t you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol, mr. attorney general in your law enforcement responsibility. a public statement they should all leave. so, you might get we re
i m ana cabrera in new york. repeating it doesn t make it true. one day after the house committee investigating the january 6th attack voted to subpoena the former president and its sweeping probe, donald trump is unleashing calling the panel names and once again falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen. saying nothing about whether he will actually comply with that subpoena. what we do know, the committee has reviewed thousands of documents, videos conducted hundreds of interviews and an investigation now laid out for all of america, explosive revelations leading up to and on the day of the insurrection. more about that in a moment. first cnn exclusion sievely obtained more video of the day of attack. never before seen footage taken by nancy pelosi s daughter. a documentary filmmaker on january 6th. here is speaker pelosi before the siege. we re going to walk down and i ll be there with you. we re going to walk down to the capitol. if he comes here they told him