canceled. can travelers expect more of this as we enter peak travel this summer? also new questions on whether the former vice president, mike pence, will be the next witness the january 6th committee subpoenas to testify. ahead of tomorrow s fourth public hearing in an exclusive interview with cnn, committee member adam schiff said trying to speak to pence for the investigation remains on the table. we re not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified. we would still, i think, like to have several high-profile people come before our committee. so mike expense a possibility still? you know, certainly a possibility. we re not excluding anyone at this point. central to the investigation certainly. new cnn reporting. homeland security and national security officials fear that russia could significantly exploit u.s. political divisions during the upcoming midterm elections. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first, let s br
a chilling warning about the cost of trump s nonstop election lies. there is violence in the future. i m going to tell you. and as soon as tomorrow, kids as young as six months old will be able to get their first dose of the covid-19 vaccine. roughly 17 million children under five in the u.s. are finally eligible for the shot. we ll detail the administration s rollout. first, the travel nightmare. let s go to pete outside washington for us. what s the scene there and what is causing such a travel mess? well, so many people still trying to get home after traveling this weekend. you know, these new cancellation numbers are huge, but the cause for this really is not new. we ve been reporting about how airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic. it s led to major shortages of flight crews, and a deck of cards comes tumbling down when summer weather comes into the next. this dates back to thursday with massive storms in the east coast. look at the cancellation numbers acco
brand-new hour here on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. good to have you on. we re on the eve of another hearing on the capitol insurrection this time tomorrow, the committee investigating january 6th plans to focus on former president trump s efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. georgia elections officials brad raffensperger and gabe sterling are expected to testify about that pressure campaign. along with arizona house speaker rusty bowers. the committee is also promising to reveal new evidence that shows trump s involvement in the scheme to overturn biden s win in battleground states. we ll show evidence of the president s involvement in this scheme. we ll also show evidence about what his own lawyers came to think about this scheme. and we ll show courageous state officials who stood up and said they wouldn t go along with this plan to either call legislators back into session or decertify the results for joe biden. cnn
travel situation? will it interrupt your summer plans? and pride month targeted. notorious extremist groups getting violent as they take aim at the lgbtq community. are some politicians providing cover and even incitement? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our politics lead. the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection is preparing its fourth hearing and they say they will show evidence donald trump was involved in a specific scheme, this one to submit fraudulent slates of electors, presumably in hopes any confusion would throw the matter from congress back to the states. tomorrow s hearing will feature georgia election officials brad raffensperger and gabe sterling. raffensperger is the georgia secretary of state who trump reportedly pressured to find some 11,000 votes so trump could falsely climb he won the state. we re also hear from the arizona house speaker rusty bowers who rudy giuliani allegedly pressured to let the stat
region. we ll get a live report from kyiv. this afternoon the house january 6th committee will hold its fifth public hearing on what it has learned so far about the attack on the u.s. capitol. today s hearing will focus on how former president trump tried to use the justice department to help him overturn the results of the 2020 election but failed because of pushback and resignation threats, like this one from former acting deputy attorney general, richard donahue. the president said, suppose i do this, suppose i replace him, jeff rossen, with him, jeff clark. what do you do? i said, sir, i would resign immediately. there is no way i m serving one minute under this guy, jeff clark. donaghue will testify today as well as steve engel. adam kinzinger, one of two republicans on the panel, will lead today s questioning. committee chairman, bennie thompson, says the panel will wait until later next month to hold more hearings because it needs to look through new evidence it