get people there as you make the plan. the question from house republicans asked and answered. but wait a second. i m so confused. yeah. you know, i m just a dumb country lawyer, michael steele, but they asked the question. they sure did. after steve scalise had known the answer. he was there. so he said that s a great question, why won t they answer whether nancy pelosi called the national this is so terrible and they won t answer. he was in the room. he was in the room where it happened. the room where it happened. i mean, come on. so low. willie, just bad faith. outrageous that steve scalise is going, are we going to get out of this alive or not, and scalise is in there. and then scalise holds a press conference and this committee is we can t be on this committee because, you know, they won t even ask the question did nancy ever call the national guard. scalise was there when she was saying, hey, pretend like this was the pentagon. pretend like
wait a minute. someone in the white house was calling one of the rioters? absolutely. and you know both ends of that call? one end. i don t know the white house end, which i believe is more important. so that call that denver writes about reportedly lasted just nine seconds. made at 4:24 p.m. after trump made a video message telling supporters to go home, you re very special. on meet the press yesterday, congressman raskin confirms that the committee knows about this call. watch. i can t say anything specific about that particular call, but we are aware of it. and we are aware of lots of context between people in the white house and different people involved obviously in the coup attempt and the insurrection. in a statement, the committee adds that quote, in his roll on the select committee, mr. riggleman had limited knowledge. the committee has run down all the leads and digested and analyzed all the information that arose from his work. we will be presenting
forces working against him and his allies. concerns are mounting that we could see more than mere spikes of violence as we near the midterm elections. a motley crop of trump acolytes are running on the ticket in states across the country. it includes, and this is by no means a comprehensive list, election deniers, covid vaccine skeptics, a celebrity doctor pedaling quack medical cures and a former football star under fire for allegedly paying for a girlfriend s abortion while advocating for a near total ban on abortion. this is one of the great tricks that i think the sexual revolution pulled on the american populous, this idea, okay, these marriages were fundamental, you know, they were maybe even violent but certainly they were unhappy. and so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that s going to make people happy in the long term. 250,000 illegals cross this boarder every month. this is an invasion. i p
world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this hour, donald j. trump faces a congressional subpoena as the january 6th select committee closes a very significant phase of its investigation and weighs its next moves. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has details on today s very dramatic hearing. we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. reporter: an extraordinary move from the january 6th select committee. those in favor will say aye. aye. reporter: unanimously voting to subpoena former president trump for testimony and documents after the hearing and continuing to make their case that trump is a clear and present danger to democracy. the central cause of january 6th was one man, donald trump, who many others followed. none of this would have happened without him. reporter: the committee unfailed never-before-seen footage of house speaker nancy pelosi scrambling to safety as protesters breached t
not just democrats like speaker nancy pelosi and steny hoyer, but republicans like vice president pence, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, majority whip john thune and countless other appointees across the administration. all of them did what president trump was not doing, what he simply refused to do. take a listen. they re taking the north front, staff only. we re not going to be able to hold. the door has been breached. people are gaining access into the capitol. senator schumer is at a secure location. they re locked down in the senate. there has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have, that there s some security, some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the president of the united states. did we go back into session? did go back into session. but now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on gas masks to prepare for a breach. they re putting on tear gas masks? we need an area for the house members. the