watching in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, former president trump now facing a subpoena from the january 6 committee. we ll break it down. and plus we re live in london with a look at the top contenders for the next prime minister and whether boris johnson could attempt a comeback. and ukraine warns russia is setting its sights on a critical dam. we ll have a live report from kyiv ahead . the select committee has made good on its promise to subpoena former president donald trump. that subpoena was formally served on friday. compelling the former president to testify under oath is extremely rare and it could test the limits of the law as it applies to trump in this circumstance, but the committee says it need to say hear from him to bring its long investigation to a close. the panel writes, quote, we have assembled overwhelming evidence that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multipart effort to overturn
kinds of claims before. it is not likely that any lawyer representing donald trump will allow him to testify because they know that he has a propensity to lie. and if you lie before congress, that would be considered perjury and he could get himself in even more legal jeopardy. so i don t think that we re going to see him testify. i think that he will run out the clock and if the republicans are successful during these midterm elections and they become the majority in the congress, we already know that they said that they will disband the january 6 committee and it is likely that they will withdraw the subpoena issued for donald trump s test testimony. so unlikely that we ll ever get his testimony before take committee. but he won t outright stone wall which is what steve bannon did, so which led to his
watching in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, former president trump now facing a subpoena from the january 6 committee. we ll break it down. and plus we re live in london with a look at the top contenders for the next prime minister and whether boris johnson could attempt a comeback. and ukraine warns russia is setting its sights on a critical dam. we ll have a live report from kyiv ahead . the select committee has made good on its promise to subpoena former president donald trump. that subpoena was formally served on friday. compelling the former president to testify under oath is