watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, former u.s. president trump responds to the subpoena sent by the january 6 select committee and says that he will appear before the lawmakers but there is a catch. and a key issue that joe biden has been touting as a win could impact the midterm elections. and hospitals across the u.s. are filled with sick children. cases of a respiratory virus are surging. efforts to stem the covid pandemic could be one reason why. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. donald trump has now been officially served with a subpoena to testify before the january 6 committee. in a series of high profile hearings this year, the committee documented trump s failed quest to overturn his 2020 election defeat culminating in the violent and deadly attack on the u.s. capitol. the committee has set a november 4th deadline to receive the documents it has request
unpredictable, consequential events and passionate issues that caused the political football to bounce, the one big question remains. who s going to win? history would suggest that the incumbent president and his party will lose their majority in the house, especially with president biden s overall job approval number among likely voters at just 39%. when you look at strong approval and strong disapproval, signs of passion, you see the real trouble for democrats. 18% strongly approve of the job joe biden is doing. two and a half times that number, 45% strongly disapprove. yet the numbers are still too close to say it s a done deal. cnn s latest projection map of the house races has 18 labeled toss-up, which means it s still possible for democrats to control the house of representatives. the conventional wisdom is that republicans will take control. and in the senate, according to cnn, it s 49 republican, 48 democrat with three toss-up. according to real clear politics, the mo
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. high stakes political drama unfolding today. in two of the closest senate races in the country with two embattled candidates trying to keep their shot at victory from slipping away. this georgia republican nominee herschel walker is tripling down, maybe quadrupling down on his denials about an ex-girlfriend s abortion. flat out denial a lie. and democrat john fetterman giving his first in-person interview since suffering a stroke to nbc. he claims he s good to go, but he won t release his medical records to prove it. we ll have live reports from both states, show you that interview and ask pennsylvania democrat whether she thinks voters deserve more. plus will there be a smoking gun at the investigation on capitol hill the answer just 24 horse away. and finally it turns out intentionally slamming a $330 million spacecraft into the side of an asteroid is a good thing. how nasa s grand experiment tha
division that you have what i call the mega maga republicans who think it s all right to threaten violence, think that s not inappropriate. and msnbc exclusive, president joe biden sits for an exclusive interview with jonathan capehart. also breaking news on several front involving trump and his cronies. including the january 6th committee issuing a subpoena ordering trump to testify under oath and turn over documents within weeks. steve bannon knows what it means to defy the committee s subpoenas. today he was sentenced to four month in prison. plus the bombshell reporting on what was in those highly classified documents that trump stole and stashed at mar-a-lago. we begin with president joe biden and what he faces in the closing weeks to election day. it s a critical time for any first-term president, but an especially weird one for biden who inherited a pandemic his predecessor worsened along with a nation in shambles only to now face the persistent yet false narrati