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
a confusing world. welcome to your world. i m neil cavuto. happy to have you with us. let s go to jacqui heinrich on what we re likely to hear from the president. hi, neil. we re getting a closer picture of the strategy here at the white house. we ve heard from the president before and seeing more of now telling voters that things will get worse with the economy if republicans take back control of congress. we got an unusual e-mail in the white house press core from andrew bates telling us to watch an interview that house minority leader kevin mccarthy is going to be doing with punch bowl next week. bates writes to us in an e-mail, kevin mccarthy continues to show cause how eager maga republicans are to make inflation worse if it minds a wind fall for rich special interests at the expense of the middle class families. nobody gives more compelling proof for the fact that republicans in congress would exacerbate inflation and sell hard working families out to special intere
we ve got a lot to cover tonight, so let s get smarter. there are several competing headlines on this friday night, involving the january six investigation and 100 days of war in ukraine. but this nation is also still reeling from a string of devastating massacres carried out with guns. and on this national gun violence awareness day, many of us are wearing orange, including the white house, to honor gun victims and survivors. over the last few weeks, mask shootings have taken dozens of lives, and injured so many others. the demand for new legislation grew even louder this week. do something! do something! do something! do something! we will. we will. don t have all of these on locked back doors. let s have an assault weapons ban. mental illness mitch mcconnell, it s time for you to use the word, gun. they won t make schools safer. that is a lie. that is not true. it will save lives. your ideas have been shown to get people killed. do not tell me that th
accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl and a new york city park. the nypd says they have ecuadorian man in custody and they say he entered the united states illegally. with that hello i am john roberts in washington. sandra it s happening again and again and again. sandra: it s tough great to be with you, john this is america reports investigator saved a cross the border in 2021 which is a reoccurring trend as more instances of migrant crime pop up across this country. i don t want other parents who have lived this murder when kayla s murderer was found crossing the southwest border. he stole her life. he was in this country and in the state illegally. john: all of this comes as president biden will take to the podium next hour to roll out an executive action that will ultimately shield half a million illegal migrants from deportation. we will get senator josh hawley s thoughts on that. sandra: fox coverage starts now with new details on biden s new bat
ports. the final report will be sealed, but one thing probation folks ask convicts is about their employment. okay. okay, mr. trump. it says here you got fired from your last job for being terrible at it. and for [ applause ] is this correct here? and for trying to kill a mr. mike pence? oh, i see down here you are actually currently applying for a new job which is the same job. okay. have you thought about learning to code? good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, june 11th. good to have you all with us this morning. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and sam stein will be joining us in just a moment. so we have a lot to talk about this morning. we thought we d take a stepback and take a look big picture, starting out with a column in the washington post by eugene robinson, which asks the question, is donald trump okay? gene focuses on what we heard from trump in hi