counting down the three weeks left until midterm elections. early voting is currently underway in several states. candidates are squaring off in debates going this weekend, and as the clock runs out, democrats are calling on their biggest guns, president joe biden is in oregon today stumping for the democrats in that state gubernatorial race, which has become surprisingly close in a reliably blue state. vice president, kamala harris, is in michigan pushing early voting and raising money for democratic governor, gretchen whitmer s reelection campaign. and then there s the news this morning that former president, barack obama, will kick off his own midterm campaign travel with stops in at least three swing states later this month. michigan, wisconsin, and, of course, georgia. where democratic senator, raphael warnock, and his republican challenger, herschel walker, face off in their sole debate last night. walker, if nothing else, seemed to be working from the playbook populari
not knowing if you re going to have enough water from one day to another. we re in for another hot day across california. 40 million, 155 plus records expected. it s pretty stifling. even our ac at home can do so much. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean in washington. pamela brown has the night off and you are in the cnn newsroom. a pilot threatens a mississippi community for hours and lands in jail. the bizarre drama playing out in the skies over tupelo. police saying before dawn, the pilot of the stolen plane called 911 and threatened to crash into a local walmart. pete monoteen followed the five-hour drama. reporter: jessica, this is the best possible outcome after a man who worked at a local airport in tupelo, mississippi stole a plane, threatened to crash it into a local walmart and then ultimately crash landed in a nearby soybean field. his name, cory wayne patterson. an employee of tupelo aviation. the operator of the tupelo regional airport, where he fueled ai
many are still missing good morning, welcome to way too early, speculation is swirling after the abrupt announcement from the january 6th committee that it plans to hold its sixth public hearing today. the only thing the committee has revealed is the hearing will quote present senior committee staff have been kept out of the loop. three people tell the post that the secrecy is due in part to a credible threat against the witness. the committee announced last week that it was taking a break until the middle of july and yesterday gave just 24 hours notice about the hearing that is scheduled for 1:00 this afternoon. and to add to the fact that congress is in the midst of a two-week recess. key water gls gate figure john dean tweeted, quote, better be a big deal. there was only one surprise witness during the senate watergate committee hearings on july 16, 1973, an announced witness appeared, alex butterfield, who testified to nixon s secret taping system, forever changing hi
following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has not chan
televised hearings next week. ryan noble at the capitol with us for the very latest. what are two contempt charges he is facing . reporter: so these are reled to the defiance of the subpoena sent to him via the january 6th committee, one has to do with his refusal to hand over documents the committee is interested in as part of their investigation, the other is his refusal to sit in deposition for interview with the committee, both could result in serious jail time and a hefty fine, so far he has been defiant as he was pri was prior to the subpoena issued, he claimed he had executive privilege protection extended to him by the former president donald trump, obviously the committee felt different as did the department of justice. so what happened in court next. reporter: there were some the theatrics, complained about the way the fbi knocked down on his door, complained about the way they arrested him at the airport in washington as opposed to asking him to come in and s