shannon. i had no idea she went through that tragedy as a kid. and just the sense of guilt. oh, my god, so profound. her mother and baby sister and cousin were killed in a car crash when she was just four years old. it s amazing. i appreciate you listening. it s great. everyone should check it out. it s obviously a subject you know a lot about and you really bring out these important threads from people like stephen colbert and lauren anderson. thanks. i appreciate it. have a great weekend. thanks anderson. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper in washington. today donald trump was issued a subpoena from the january 6 committee, which wrote to trump, quote, we have a semiabled overwhelming evidence that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multipart effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transition of power, unquote. at the same time, in the same investigation, trump s former chief strategist steve bannon was senten
it s helpful. all there is is available on apple podcasts or whenever you get your podcasts. the news continues. cnn tonight with jake tapper starts right now. jake? hey, anderson. i listened to the one with molly shannon. i had no idea she went through that tragedy as a kid. and just the sense of guilt. oh, my god, so profound. her mother and baby sister and cousin were killed in a car crash when she was just four years old. her life, it s amazing. i appreciate you listening. yeah, no, it s great. everyone should check it out. it s obviously a subject you know a lot about and you really bring out these important threads from people like stephen colbert and lauren anderson. thanks. i appreciate it. have a great weekend. thanks anderson. welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper in washington. today donald trump was issued a subpoena from the january 6 committee, which wrote to trump, quote, we have assembled overwhelming evidence that you personally orchestr
count act. the first official legislative response to donald trump s attempt to overturn the legal and legitimate win. reporter: this is the law that governs how that happens on the day of congressional certification when donald trump tried to pressure mike pence to disregard state certified electoral results. something that constitutional experts would be illegal but there s am big ewety in the law and senators are saying they re close to change how the law actually governs that process on that day. one of the issues they agreed on is to make it crystal clear the vice president s role is ceremonial. he cannot disregard the state s election results but there are other issues in discussion, including making it harder to make it senators and house members to object and force votes how to disregard the results come out, all of which there s fresh optimism after the discussions that s have gone on for months that the deal could happen and announced in the senate next week. ther
to the violence that occurred here that day. we ve already seen this committee detail how donald trump pressured all aspects of the government to try to overturn the electoral results, the justice department, state officials, vice president mike pence. for tomorrow at the hearing they plan to show the oath keepers, and proud boys to take action and lead to the violence we saw in this building on january 6th. we will hear live testimony from one former member of the oath keepers, a former spokesperson, jason van patenhove someone he said had a lot of inside information, according to what he told a colorado tv station, said he had inside access to the oath keepers. we ll learn about that, and we ll also learn about a meeting that occurred mid-december, december 18th. jamie raskin, the congressman from maryland plans to lead the questioning tomorrow, says it will be a key focus of the hearing tomorrow. one of the things that people are going to learn is the fundamental importa
teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrow s hearing to draw direct links between the extremist groups who stormed the u.s. capitol and have been charged with seditious conspiracy and people inside donald trump s orbit. we are going to be connecting the dots during these hearings between these groups and those who were trying in government circles to overturn the election. what we heard cassidy hutchinson testify along the lines of trump telling mark meadows, the chief of staff, to talk to roger stone and others, mike flynn, and stone and flynn ha