>> this was the scene on the tarmac where passengers were forced to deplane. one person onboard the flight said as soon as the plane came to a halt the flight attendants began shottinuting for everyone evacuate. what have you learned? >> reporter: the key tell here is that all passengers and the crew onthality flight are okay at this hour as this investigation gets started. in terms of the flight itself it touched down in la guardia strange enough about the time it was scheduled to land after its service from indianapolis. again service from indianapolis. port authority investigators telling us that towards the end of that flight there were some passengers aboard that plane that reported to the crew there was one of their fellow passengers that was behaving strangely, erratic was the way they described it, at one point even suddenly reached for his luggage. they reached to the ground crew here where emergency responders quickly deployed here. a huge presence we saw a few hours ago which cleared out. that plane landed safely and according to the airline the pilots then move from that active runway onto that taxi way which is when that flight crew called for that immediate investigation. as we see these pretty dramatic pictures, pamela, it's important to remember at this point there's no ind kaegz at least we don't have any information that would lead us to believe that the person appears to be detained in that video is in fact the passenger in question. of course we could learn that down the road but too soon to tell. also too soon to tell if actually any criminal charges have been filed in connection with this. >> oh, we just lost paolo there. he froze there mid-sentence. for now i want to bring in a former inspector general for the u.s. transportation department. mary, nice to see you. first of all, what is your reaction to what played out there? >> well, it's so familiar looking because i was at the detroit airport on christmas day in 2009 when the plane with the under wear bomber land at detroit and the response was very much the same. the plane taxied into the far end of the runway, met with emergency vehicles, fire and police and passengers an emergency deplaning. and of course in that case and on that plane they did identify that there was a threat. and before that, of course, was the shoe bomber where the response was somewhat the same. so it does look from the way the response was there was some sort of a threat vector, a bomb threat, some kind of a threat made. and whether or not there's a device remains to be seen. >> so what does it say to you that the passengers were evacuated on the tarmac rather than the gate? is that standard operating procedure if there is a potential threat? >> no, pamela, and you're exactly right. that's a huge clue. if someone's just misbehaving on the plane what happens is the officers will come on the aircraft and remove that person first. here because the passengers were ordered off first that tells us there was some sort of a perceived threat to the safety of the passengers or maybe even the safety and integrity of the aircraft because it did not go to the gate. if it went to the gate and of course the plane had some sort of device on it, then the plane becomes a sort of tactical weapon. it was clues some threat was perceived on that plane and also we did not want the aircraft next to the terminal. >> the passenger was apparently causing concern with erratic behavior. the passenger we're seeing in this video from a phone on the ground there with the authorities, and it was fellow pae pa passengers who alerted the crew. how essential is it that passengers speak up when they see something suspicious? >> it is very important. and, you know, september 11, 2001 was a turning point. and the passengers on all the flights -- we hear about flight 93 but the other three flights as well had plots under way to try to take back the aircraft from the hijackers, and that really sent a message to all airline passengers to, you know, help, fight back, take matters into your own hands if you can. and by the way, there's a federal law if you as a passenger act on that aircraft to help save the aircraft, the flight, the flight attendants, the crew, you can't be prosecuted or sued. so you have every incentive to help and save yours and other lives and save the plane. >> we're awaiting to learn some more details about all of this. but of course this comes after a series of events on airplanes where passengers exhibited erratic behavior in recent months. what do you think is going on on that front? >> well, you know, and it's not just on-air craft. i mean there is so much anger, you know, across the country, around the world. but on-air craft it's especially dangerous because after september 11, 2001 the threat vectors changed. since then we've had as i already mentioned the under wear bomber and the shoe bomber. we had attempts made with cellphones where cellphones were disguised weapons or cellphones could setoff bombs. we had a plane not not in the united states but in europe with a bomb believed to be in a pop can. and we had a plan in the middle east to put explosives in ink cartridges and precipitators. and that was, fortunately, only foiled because of some tips the united states got, intelligence information on that. so the threat vectors changed. and so when you do -- when you don't comply with the orders of the flight attendants, for example, take your phone out when they've said, you know, put them away or whatever, those have posed threats. and those are now considered potenti potentially items of danger because they have been used in other attempted plots. >> thank you so much for giving us perspective on this. well, there is more legal whiplash in texas over the state's controversial abortion ban. a federal appeals court panel has temporary reinstated the law that bans abortions as early as six weeks, no exceptions for rape or insist. natasha chen following the latest twist in this battle over a woman's right to choose. two courts, two very different rulings this week leaving texas women completely unsure about their options. >> pamela, right now the law is in effect in texas and that is because of the actions last night of the fifth circuit court of appeals. they're based in new orleans. they put a temporary hold on the lower court's order that was issued just two days before that. so on wednesday the u.s. district court had blocked the abortion ban at the request of the u.s. department of justice, so this most ruling actually asked the doj to respond to the fifth circuit by 5:00 p.m. central time next tuesday. so we're going to see what happens then. the it's likely that court will then come up with a final ruling, and then there could be some more back and forth in this situation, further legal wrangling, and poshably could end up before the supreme court which had already rejected a claim brought earlier by abortion clinics requesting the supreme court to block the law. in the meantime you can imagine the confusion. and we're hearing from abortion clinics outside of texas that they have recently seen a lot more women coming from texas for services, pamela. >> and the first ruling earlier this week meant texas abortion clinics could reopen. do we know if any of them did? >> between wednesday and friday, right, there was a short window where that u.s. district court, a ruling was in effect. so on thursday an organization that has several clinics in texas said that its staff had resumed providing abortions for women who were more than six weeks pregnant, but they did do that with some legal risk. because this texas law actually allows enforcement actions for abortions that are done during a court ordered block if that order is later reversed. so you can see how the people behind this law likely knew that a lot of legal back and forth was likely to come. so even doing so that thursday was like i said with some legal risk, pamela. >> natasha chen, thanks for bringing us the latest on that front. and up next on this saturday evening investigators now saying a broken pipeline may have been leaking oil for as much as a year before it was finally discovered. what they now think caused the crack. also ahead tonight, former trump aid dan scavino final gets served his subpoena and the january 6th committee now pursuing criminal charges if trump insiders refuse to cooperate. and we talk to the creators of "squid game." have you seen it? 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that's a lot, so let's try to understand this a little more with a constitutional law attorney. thanks for being here. all right, so help us understand this. you have the former president trying to invoke executive privilege or insinuating that he believes it's covered here. you have the current president saying that he won't assert executive privilege for this first group of documents. who has the most say here? who has the upper hand on this fight? >> well, pamela, i think that's going to be a question that we're going to find the answer out in realtime. it is, i think, relatively clear based on an old supreme court decision that a former president does have some right to claim executive privilege. it does not just belong to the current person who's in that office. but i do believe in a situation like this where you have a disagreement, the incumbent president says i don't think executive privilege applies, the former president says i think it does. i think in that case you have to give the benefit of the doubt to the incumbent president because executive privilege protects the office of the president, not the individual who may be holding it. >> so can trump stop witnesses from speaking to investigators? >> not if the witness wants to speak to the investigator regardless. trump can say, look, i want to assert executive privilege here, i don't want you to talk to the investigator, but ultimately the vej who's been subpoenaed has to make that decision for themselves. and what i think will happen here if congress is going to be aggressive about it, if they mean what they say when they issue these subpoenas is they will refer these individuals for criminal prosecution to the department of justice. and that's, i think, the first time we'll actually see these witnesses facing real serious consequences for refusing to testify. >> but that is a process if they do that could take a long time. i mean democrats could run out the clock, right? i mean if this goes to court, this could take a long time. >> well, it could. but there's a way to do it faster. see, in the past especially when trump was in the white house and the doj more or less answered to him, what congress would do when they were trying to enforce the subpoena is first go to court, try to get a court order and then require the person to appear. and then if they didn't appear try to get the court to hold them in contempt. there's a way to bypass that. congress can go directly to the department of justice and say, look, this person was lawfully served with a subpoena. they either didn't show up or they showed up and didn't answer questions, so you need to consider criminal prosecution. now, those witnesses will have a defense. they can say, look, we didn't have to testify, executive privilege applies, but that would be played out in court and i think that would be a lot faster and a way to really move the investigation forward other than taking that longer step through the court process. >> so hypothetically these aides could wind up sitting in jail. if they refuse to testify, if the committee goes that route and if they're found guilty, that could be the outcome here. >> that's right. it is a misdemeanor offense so we're not talking about years in jail, but it does carry at least 30 days in jail. now, again, there's still going to be a criminal process. just because they refer it to doj doesn't mean the department of justice is going to automatically take these people to trial. they'll have to go through the indictment process, but that process in a criminal case is usually much faster than in a civil case when you're trying to get a court to uphold a subpoena issued by a congressional committee like this. >> so we have the january 6th select committee. we have this damning report from the senate judiciary committee. it was a preliminary report. among other findings it says trump asked the doj to undermine the election result nine times. what can be done to prevent a future attempt to overturn an election? what can be done legally to prevent those efforts in the future, to protect future elections? >> well, pamela, i think that's really the ultimate question here. what can we do to make sure this doesn't happen again? it's not going to be issuing another report. that's not going to ensure it doesn't happen again. if you look to what people do in criminal cases, what prosecutors do. we look for deterrents. what is going to deter someone from acting on behalf of a president who wants to stay in office when those actions are unlawful? it's prosecution. so i think if congress goes ahead and is very aggressive as they've said they're going to be in enforcing these subpoenas, that's a good first step. let's send a message that we mean what we say, we're taking this seriously and people are going to beheld accountable. >> so i see your point but do you think that the committee waited too long to get going given the mid-terms and the possibility that this whole probe gets shutdown depending on how the mid-terms go? what do you think? >> i mean that's possible. i know that they have gathered some documents. they've talked to some individuals. they're gathering some evidence. the process is by its nature a slow, deliberative process. there's really no way around that. but i think if trump and the people who are listening to him are really going to force the issue, we could see some of these legal questions playing out in court very soon well before the mid-term elections. >> great to have you on. thanks so much. >> thank you, pamela. one week later and the oil spill off the southern california coast near huntington beach is still spreading. investigators now say that a small crack in the pipeline that caused as much as 130,000 gallons to spill into the ocean may have happened up to a year ago. balls of tar have also started washing up on beaches in san diego nearly 100 miles south of the original spill. well, congress may have avoided crashing through the debt ceiling to default but only until december. and senator mitch mcconnell is telling the president, hey, don't look at him for the help on the debt ceiling again. we're going to have more on that just ahead. offer in seconds... great (all cheering) it feels too good to be true. it's kicking back and relaxing as we pick up your car. and when you get paid on the spot, it feels like scoring big. you know the feeling. you just never imagined you could get it from selling your car. well, with carvana, you can. experience the new way to sell a car. ♪ ♪ i know the best coffee spot in town. i can make a rustic cabin feel modern. i am a guidebook for guests. i can make an indoorsy person, outdoorsy. i give families a home, not just a place to stay. i am a vrbo host. ♪ ♪ nyquil severe gives you powerful relief for your worst cold and flu symptoms, on sunday night and every night. nyquil severe. the nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, stuffy head, best sleep with a cold, medicine. introducing the new citi custom ℠ card. it adapts to you. earn 5% cash back that automatically adjusts to your top eligible spend category, up to $500 spent each billing cycle. and $200 cash back after qualifying purchases. apply now. visit citi.com/customcash ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ working at recology is more than a job for jesus. it's a family tradition. jesus took over his dad's roue when he retired after 47 year. now he's showing a new generation what recology is all about. as an employee-owned company, recology provides good-paying local jobs for san franciscans. we're proud to have built the city's recycling system from the ground up, helping to make san francisco the greenest big city in america. let's keep making a differene together. just days after the senate narrowly averted the u.s. government defaulting on its bill, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is now telling democrats not to ask for his party's help to raise the debt ceiling next time around. on thursday congress reached a bipartisan agreement to cover the government's expenses through december. setting the stage for another debt ceiling showdown right in the middle of the holiday shopping season. doesn't that sound like fun? i'm kidding. cnn's suzan malvo is following the story for us. i mean, really, really? the claws are being sharpened going into this weekend on all sides. we've got senate leader mitch mcconnell for offering a lifeline to the democrats for temporarily raising the debt ceiling while he's now lashing out in a scathing public letter to president biden. he writes, i'll not provide such assistance again if your old democratic government drifts into another avoidable crisis. here lieutenants on capitol hill now have the time they claimed they lack to address the debt ceiling on standard reconciliation and all the tools to do it. 11 republicans including mcconnell it joined democrats in a second vote to overcome the filibuster, the 60-vote threshold needed to stop debate. it's now put raising the debt ceilin ceiling squarely on the democrats. tuesday the house is set to vote for an extension sending to biden's desk to avoid an economic calamity. without this extension it would be expected the u.s. markets could tank, the u.s. dollar could lose value, interest rates could rise, the credit rating could be downgraded and there would be a big ripple effect on consumers, small businesses, military and small workers and benefit payments would stop. but weather to raise the debt ceiling is not resolved. it's only kicked down the road as we're going to see in the weeks ahead. republicans are trying to force democrats to own this issue, pay politically and tie it to the $3.5 trillion spending bill. the only way they can achieve it is by forcing democrats to vote for it solely on their own by 51 votes, the process known as budget reconciliation. so while chuck schumer says no way, it's too risky, time consuming to use that strategy not to mention unfair for democrats to take responsibility for republicans contributions to the debt, but democrats did use reconciliation to pass the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan, and they're aiming to use it again to get their build back better spending bill into law. so it's not like it hasn't been done before, but they're crumbling about it now. it is politically dicy. we're going to see how this plays out in the next couple of weeks. >> just after that you had that fiery chuck schumer, that partisan speech and this letter from mitch mcconnell. tensions clearly running high. >> go through it again. >> again. ube right back here talking about it. we laugh, but, man, that's not something any of us are looking forward to given the stakes you laid out there. thank you so much. and meanwhile former president donald trump is just moments away from a rally in the first presidential caucus state of iowa. as a new poll shows iowans like him now more than ever. joining me now is former republican congresswoman barbara comstock and bob begalla. you were a vocal proponent of forming a commission to investigate the events of january 6th. but the reality is at this point with the subpoenas issued and trump and the letter he sent, he could run out the clock in a court battle over these documents. how aggressive do you think the committee will be to get what they are looking for? >> i'm very hopeful they will be aggressive and i highly recommend they become more aggressive. as paul knows, you know, back in the '90s during the clinton administration i did contend against the clinton administration when i was chief council in the committee and we happen we were aggressive on this. and i think this case is far stronger than what we did in the '90s. and so there's a lot of investigations the january 6th committee people can do even if they won't cooperate. you can get their phone records, their text records, their bank records and business records. and then if they don't cooperate and you, you know, pass these contempt proceedings which just require a majority in the house, they can go over and they can start prosecuting it. and if they are convicted in a d.c. court, which i expect they could be, then they could be fined up to $100,000 as well as the legal bills and/or go to jail for a year. so i hope they're very tough on this process because it's important. and as we'll probably see tonight in donald trump's speech, he is still an ongoing threat to the country. >> and so you do believe that they will involve doj if it comes to that, if these advisers to trump don't talk to them. because we know steve bannon for one is saying he is not going to comply. >> well, there's no executive privilege for a podcaster who talked to the president. at that time he was an indicted podcaster. the president pardoned him. there's no executive privilege for that, and they'll be rightfully laughed out of court by what i hope will be conservative judges and justices will once again kick donald trump's lame legal arguments to the curb. >> you know, paul, we have seen the democrats try to engage in these investigations before with russia, with ukraine. and in some cases they were played by the trump white house and people who worked for trump because they just ran out the clock in court. what do you think democrats need to do differently this time around? do you think they are being aggressive enough? should they be more aggressive? what is your view of it as a democrat? >> it begins with what barbara is saying. she did give me a flashback. she used to fire subpoenas over at me. i was from the white house, she say over on the hill. i think she probably didn't like the democrats who ran the white house, i didn't like the republicans who ran congress. every time the subpoenas came, i honored, i complied. it was constitutional. it was legal. so i do hope they punish any law breakers. there's no insurrectionist privilege as barbara points out. mr. bannon had been out of the white house three years when the insurrection happened. here's the big difference between those other investigations. when democrats were looking into the ukraine scandal or even the 1/6 scandal trump was largely in control of the executive branch so he could hold back a lot of information. even if he keeps mr. bannon or three and four others from testifying illegally there's a lot of information democrats have access to. there's social media. god bless them, these adorable little rioters, they filmed everything and they posted everything. and there's a lot of records you can get from phone companies and social media. we'll know or the committee will know who trump called or who called trump. it's much more partisan than the impeachments were because god bless liz cheney, i don't agree with her on any policy but she reveres the constitution and she's going to go after this any bit as hard. that lends an enormous ability of credibility. >> i know there are claims this is just what the democrats are trying to do for political reasons, but really what is at stake here is future elections and preventing something like the insurrection or efforts to interfere with the peaceful, transferly order of power. and last night bill marr on hbo had this bleak prediction on the 2020 election. i want to play the clip and get your reaction on the other end. >> even if they win, trump won't accept it. but this time his claims of illegal voting by immigrants or mail-in ballots coming in after the deadline or the system was hacked by venezuela or whatever giuliani comes up with on the fly, they will be fully embraced by the stooges he's installing right now. what happens when two presidential candidates show up on inauguration day both expecting to be sworn in like a bad sitcom pilot? the ding-dongs who sacked the capitol last year, that was like when al-qaeda tried to take down the world trade center for the first time with a van. it was a joke. but the next time they came back with planes. i hope the scared the [ bleep ] out of you. >> it is scary, right? i mean, you know, you see that and it's sort of like you can see potentially what could happen in the future. but, congresswoman, you tweeted that republicans see trump as a sore loser, that people should stop fearing this disillusioned man. but in the contexas of that and what we just saw, do you think you're underselling the threat he poses with some of this behavior? >> listen, i certainly think he's posing a threat but he is weakened and delusional. i think many of these things they try to push into law and these clowns he's endorsing, "a," they won't win, and "b," many of their legal -- the bills they put in are so ridiculous they'll get thrown out. so i do think a lot of this is going to backfire. as a republican i wish he wouldn't run, but i am confident that herschel walker will never be a senator from arizona. carrie lake who's not in arizona he endorsed she'll not be a senator. she's one of the conspiracy theorists he's endorsed. so i do think this is going to backfire on republicans and it's going to weaken them. now, the biggest problem democrats have is they have a president thinking fast also and not doing well. so that is -- that's the problem the democrats have on their side. but i do think the fact that a lot of these bills will not be found, again, by conservative justices because they will not be found as constitutional because the people who are putting this together are not thoughtful, legal scholars. they are just trump acolytes and sycophants who rudy giuliani has already gotten disbarred. i think you're going to see more trump lawyers who are involved in the insurrection be disbarred. he doesn't even have lawyers right now. i don't think he has real lawyers. maybe he has somebody, but most people aren't going to want to sign, you know, his legal claims because if you go into court and make these frivolous, ridiculous claims, your bar license is threatened. that's why people like bill bar and pat cipollone who i expect will testify in congress to talk about those clowns and what they suggested, but they'll not have good lawyers to be able to pull off -- i trust in the american people i think probably more than bill marr does. >> real quick, you think pat cipollone and bill barr will be talking to the january 6th committee? >> they'll be subpoenaed to talk. >> you think they will. >> and they'll tell the truth and it will not be flattering for donald trump. >> okay. i want to ask you, paul, i'm going to bring you in on this conversation. there's question about whether democrats should be doing more to sound the alarm. i want to ask you about this new quinnipiac poll showing biden with his lowest job approval rating so far including a 12-point drop among independents since the end of august. what do you attribute that to? >> to the fact we're in the middle of the sausage making and it's ugly and vicious. how mcconnell is gumming things up, he gums things up and joe gets blamed, the president gets blamed. and that's just politics. the democrats had by god better pass the president's plans both for infrastructure and the build back better social safety net agenda. they had better do that. the reason it's down right now is quite rightly we're all focused on the sausage and process making. if it's ugly and petty. if it gets passed we'll be able to focus on the fact your child care costs will go down, your mom and dad will be able to get hearing help and dental help and vision help through medicare. people will be healthier and wealthier and their cost of living will go down. then democrats will come back and biden will come back. but right now i don't doubt that poll. i think it's very serious, and by gosh democrats had better pass this stuff and stop worrying about preserving the racist filibuster. they need to worry about preserving the democracy. >> thank you as always. and we'll be right back. there's a different way to treat hiv. it's once-monthly injectable cabenuva. cabenuva is the only once-a-month, complete hiv treatment for adults who are undetectable. cabenuva helps keep me undetectable. it's two injections, given by a healthcare provider once a month. hiv pills aren't on my mind. i love being able to pick up and go. don't receive cabenuva if you're allergic to its ingredients or taking certain medicines, which may interact with cabenuva. serious side effects include allergic reactions post-injection reactions, liver problems,...and depression. if you have a rash and other allergic reaction symptoms, stop cabenuva and get medical help right away. tell your doctor if you have liver problems or mental health concerns, and if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or considering pregnancy. some of the most common side effects include injection site reactions, fever, and tiredness. if you switch to cabenuva, attend all treatment appointments. with once-a-month cabenuva, i'm good to go. ask your doctor about once-monthly cabenuva. the last day of vacation is still vacation. with guaranteed 4pm checkout at fine hotels + resorts properties. one of the many reasons you're with amex platinum. spray, lift, skip, step. swipe, lift, spin, dry. slam, pan, still...fresh move, move, move, move aaaaand still fresh. degree. ultimate freshness activated when you move. ♪ ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ why choose proven quality sleep from sleep number? 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