If called upon to testify. Overnight bannons attorney sent a letter informing the committee he will not provide testimony as hes been subpoenaed to do or documents as of now. The lawyer saying, quote, we will comply with the directions of the courts when and if they rule on these claims of both executive and Attorney Client privileges. The committee is not buying that legal argument. The reason why some of these witnesses, people like steve bannon, who have been public about their contempt for congress, feel they can get away with it is for four years they did. Steve would never be held in contempt, never prosecuted by the trump Justice Department. But those days are over. Lawmakers are also pressing forward with new subpoenas. The latest is for jeffrey clark, a former donald trump doj official who was integral to helping efforts to helping then President Trump overturn the 2020 election. Whitney wild is with us in washington. Whitney, patel is not appearing. He said hes engaging with the committee. What does that mean if a witness is refusing a subpoena to testify . Reporter thats the question weve been asking ourselves since we saw these responses theyve been engaging with the comm committee. Theyre having conversations through counsel to the committee. However, it does not mean they are appearing for depositions, and it does not mean they are handing over documents necessarily. These are the outstanding questions at this point. We know there is apparently a growing reluck tans for these close trump allies to go through whats being asked of them through this subpoena without a lot of pushback. Its very clear theyre going to make this as difficult as possible for the House Select Committee. However, as you point out, the House Select Committee is prepared to move forward with an aggressive way and that includes criminal contempt. Well be watching for that. Whitney, you have new information about some early warnings ahead of the attack on the capitol, ahead of the insurrection on january 6th. What were those warnings, and where did they go . Reporter specifically, it was an email sent from the Field Division of the fbi to a member of the secret service. It was a brief summary of another briefings given by the metropolitan police department. Mpd, the local police department, told its Law Enforcement partners this is the intelligence were working with. The hotels are booked. People on social media are encouraging others to come to washington, d. C. , armed. Further, as a reminder, Law Enforcement partners mpd recovered eight firearms at protrump rally related to a rally i should say in november of 2020. There were five arrests surrounding that event. They also note that was not the case in december, that it was much quieter, no firearms recovered then. The point here is that there was this briefing with Law Enforcement partners, so everybody was supposed to be on the same page. Then a member of the Fbis Washington Field Office passed that information to another Law Enforcement partner. The overall conclusion here based on this email we have is that they still with all this evidence did not identify a specific and credible threat. Now we know that that was a severe misread of the situation, and it is one more piece of evidence to show that while Law Enforcement was on the same page in terms of the information they were sharing, they were very much not reading carefully. To follow that metaphor as far as it can go, the reality is they had this information and didnt take it seriously enough. Hope they do more so next time. Whitney wild, thank you. Joining us to discuss, elliott williams, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General and political anchor for spectrum news, host of you decide podcast. Elliott, i want to start with where were at and what we just heard from adam schiff, where he said, you know, in terms of steve bannon, he could drag this on. He would never be held in contempt, never with prosecuted by the trump Justice Department, but those days are over. Thats a clear message from the congressman, but i wonder, elliott, do you see signs that things are different under a Biden Justice department that you will see different action from Attorney General Merrick Garland . Quite possibly. You would normally give the witness an opportunity to at least show up. Common sense dictates, and every indication we have is that steve bannon is not going to, but it benefits congress when they go too court eventually to say they called this witness in, he chose not to comply and he is acting in violation of the subpoena. They have a few options. Two big ones are, one, they can go to the Justice Department and seek a criminal penalty. That doesnt get you the testimony. That just punishes him for breaking the law. Thats leverage they could have. They could sue him to enforce the validity of the subpoena. Theyre free to take those steps. You punish him in one sense but compel him to testify in another sense. Well have to see what happens as this plays out. Im curious about where this ultimately leads, right, because beyond those support players, the question is what did the former president attempt to do and can congress prove it, right . They had eight hours of testimony from the former acting a. G. Jeffrey rosen yesterday. Thats key because hes one of the officials, the rare ones here, who stood up and said im not going to be a part of this. Jeffrey clark was willing to play ball, right . And theyre trying to go after him now. But does the committee have the tools to establish via testimony and documents exactly what the president tried to do here . I think they can get closer, jim. I dont know if theyre ever going to get precisely what happened because this president is long experienced at delaying process so that he doesnt have to give up information until its no longer relevant. This could be a year or two from now. On the other hand, politically, that works against Donald Trumps interests, because if we wants to continue to control the Republican Party and prepare to run for president again, when we finally do inch our way toward the truth, it could really come out at an inopportune moment for him. One way or another, the truth is going to come out or as close as we can get to it. Obviously, without the help of donald trump and with the sycophants who are going to put their own careers and legal status in jeopardy in trying to defend him. Weve seen this play out over and over again. In the end, we found out what happened with a lot of the other misdeeds of that administration. Jim mentioned the subpoena for jeffrey clark, former Justice Department official, who was willing to play ball with the president , even went so far to draft this letter with evidence of Voting Irregularities in georgia. What does that open him up to potentially in terms of criminal charges . Theres a few different areas of exposure for him. One, potential criminal charges, electionrelated crimes, fraudrelated crimes, dishonest statements to other feld ral officials crimes, but also potential bar sanctions. Even if you dont rise to level of charging him with a crime, the Senate Judiciary committee put out a report suggesting the district of columbia investigate his bar license because as a lawyer you cant make false representations for another body. They would not be frivolous charges. Well have to wait and see. Errol louis, forgive my skeptical eye here, weve been in Investigation Land here with trump for half a decade now, right . And many dont go anywhere. Hes expert, as you say, stretching out the process and the people who work from him are following his lead on that. Of the many investigations, you have gymnastics but you also have georgia, for instance, looking into possible criminal activity regarding interference in the election count there. What do you see as having the most legs as any . Dont forget, the investigation of the trump organization. Yeah. And the fact one of the top aides to donald trump was brought into court in handcuffs not that long ago. The former president is not named in that investigation. Well, yeah, but, i mean, listen, certainly if we want to simply figure out whether or not donald trump personally as opposed to his administration, his presidency, his Business Interests and so forth, is being i guess targeted for accountability, yeah, it may end up any old place. He certainly is expert at throwing his aides and associates under the bus in the pursuit of escaping his own personal liability or culpability. Here again, to the extent were talking about politics, if he wants to run for president as somebody who had a whole bunch of his aides to go prison, a lot of his aides sort of clearly lying to congress, drawing out process, playing with the rule of law itself, frankly, in the free transfer of power during our elections, if he wants to take that to the people as a candkacandidate in future wed see that if he took that to the people as a candidate because he would say its all a lie anyway. Thanks for joining us. This morning, familiar headline negotiations ongoing on capitol hill over two major pieces of legislation still ongoing. Jayapal he says progressives are holding firm in their demands to not cut policies from that proposal. Melanie zanona joins us. Weve asked the question so many times. Are we going anywhere . Is the October 31st Deadline getting wobbly . To answer the first question, no. There have been no signs of progress or breakthroughs. They havent agreed on a topline number yet, yet alone the policy differences. The October 31st Deadline, its looking increasingly likely theyll blow by it. Even some demirs are starting to say that. Look at what Camilla Jayapal said about that. Were waiting on two people to tell us what they would agree on. Would we like to get it done by october 31st . Of course. We want to get it done past both bills and get them to the president s desk. Democrats are working with a sense of urgency but also not trying to rush critical decisions about how and where to cut. They know this is a circular firing squad. Politically, is there panic within the party about the delay . Absolutely, especially along the frontline democrats who are vulnerable next election. They want that bipartisan Infrastructure Bill to pass, which is sort of being held in limbo. But its looking like theyre talking past each other and not to each other, and i think thats where the issue is. Melanie zanona, thanks very much. 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Always been a physician that believes that we need to keep protecting those that are vaccinated. We know for a fact that with time the Vaccine Immunity wanes. Thats a given. Thats not surprising. And with a lot of people in this country that are overweight, obesity is a pandemic as well, on epidemic in this country, we need to protect them, also the immuno compromise. I think the fdas ruling, giving that opening for people with comorbid conditions, people 65 and older, Health Care Workers like myself, it give us a chance to have that opportunity to discuss with our physicians about Booster Shots. While those shots are key, the most important thing is to get the 60 million, 70 Million People who have not been vaccinated, we need to get them in for a shot as well. You touched on this in the past, but in terms of the unvaccinated, when there is so much focus on the boosters, which is an important part of the conversation, but when that is dominating the conversation, whats the impact on folks who are still vaccine hesitant that that youve found . Yeah. Good morning, erica. I do worry about that quite a bit because its almost like the unvaccinated, they want to hide behind the cover of these conversations about vaccinating the already vaccinated, boosting them, and i think what ends up happening is sometimes we lose focus on the fact that until we get the 60 Million People vaccinated, were not going to crush this virus. I give this analogy all the time at work, erica, which is youre not going to go into a war zone without wearing a vest. The vest protects your heart and lungs, even if there are gunshot wounds, i may get one to my leg, but if i can protect my heart and lungs, i will survive. That is how a vaccine works. A lot of people who are antivaxxers or vaccine hesitant say dr. Matthew, you can still get an infection if youre vaccinated. True, but these Breakthrough Infections are mild. We still need to focus on the unvaccinated. The trouble is that vest, as you describe it, has been politicized to the point where politicians say this is an issue of freedom. You dont have to wear that vest walking into the firefight, you dont have to get the vaccine in the midst of a pandemic. Folks have been trying for months to convince those people. If that rock doesnt move, what do you do . Where are we left . Are we left with living with this Going Forward . With weve lost the chance to crush it . Right. Good point, jim. Im not giving up. I know people will listen to me on tv, dr. Matthew, arent you tired of talking about the unvaccinated . Im not because its the unvaccinated that is going to keep pulling us behind. Were the only country in the world, jim, that has free, safe, and effective vaccines and the fda is talking right now, as we have this conversation, about mixing and matching, chbwhich w also make it much easier for people to get vaccinated. We need to use this opportunity to crush this Virus Heading into winter, where the virus tends to misbehave, and with the holidays around the corner, im not going to get tired of convincing the unvaccinated that they must get vaccinated. And all of that starts with a conversation, right . Our own dr. Sanjay gupta sat down for a threehour conversation with podcast host joe rogan, and they tackled a number of these issues of the many that stood out to us. I want you to listen to this moment, because i think its important to get an answer on this. Take a listen. I think you should get vaccinated and then get sick. This is why. The vaccine protects you from a bad infection and then you get covid so then you get the robust immunity thats imparted from having the actual disease itself, which is far more complex and comprehensive than youre getting from the vaccine that targets one specific protein, right . You can make that argument. Yeah. Get vaccinated, let it wane and hang around with a bunch of dirty people. For you. Yes. You had it. One shot of the vaccine. No. Why not . Because i have better immunity than i would if i was vaccinated. Can you clear that up, dr. Matthew . Does someone who has had and recovered from coronavirus have better immunity than a person whos had one shot of the vaccine . Yeah, so let me try to clarify that. Kudos to dr. Gupta for showing up in the lions den. That was very brave of him. We must approach and talk to people that dont necessarily agree with us. When it comes to natural immunity, erica, this is the deal. Theres no doubt that you have some protection. But the problem is we dont know how long that protection lasts. Studies show that the vaccine actually jumpstarts the ant bodies so you get a robust response, you get a much higher antibody level, and the vaccine also protects you from a wide variety of variants. So while, you know, he is right that a natural infection will give you some natural immunity, you dont want to get this virus. Even after youre vaccinated, you want to be safe because getting covid has more consequences than just dying and being hospitalized. We talk about onethird of people who have covid that have long covid, you know, and i see them at work. Their heart rate goes up, they have brain fog, so were always focusing on death, dying, and hospitalization, but theres a completely different side of patients who are suffering, who are going to be handicapped and disabled from long covid. Dr. Saju matthew, thank you. Thank you. 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Ports, retailers and freight movers, The Port Of Los Angeles and walmart, ups, and fedex, will be operating around the clock to clear out that backlog. John harwood joins us now. John, the president using this as an opportunity, this announcement, to push his infrastructure and spending bills, which are currently stalled in congress. But, look, we need some action now with the supply chain. Reporter thats right. The president also needs action now on his legislative jen. Agenda. White house leaders trying to push legislators on capitol hill to get a deal by the end of this week, at least a framework for a deal, no sign thats going to happen. But thats his longterm answer to the economic stresses that americans face. It includes some investment in ports, a significant investment in ports in that Infrastructure Bill, but of course thats not going to help in the short term. In the intermediate term, what the president is trying to do is smooth out kinks in the supply chain by getting ports operating 24 7, by getting Truck Transmission of those goods to market and to factories accelerated, expanding the number of trucker and drivers licenses, maybe dropping the age of ability from truckers from 21 to 18 if they can resolve Safety Concerns across the government, semiconductors, as well, trying to ease those kinks because those are fueling inflation, which is an increasing problem for americans, a problem for the president s political standing. One fascinating thing that is moving in the background, guys, is that more significant and immediate than anything the president can do on the supply chain front, that can have a marginal impact, would be if he lifts those tariffs on chinese goods that President Trump imposed. The challenge, though, is that those tariffs were instituted by President Trump as a punishment against china. President biden has said standing up to china is a major line of his foreign policy. How do you weigh those two things, trying to cut costs to American Consumers and american manufacturers by lifting tariffs, or is that a favor to china . Thats a Balancing Test thats been so far been resolved in favor of being tough with china. Good change if the pressure keeps mounting on inflation. Folks cant get christmas trees. John harwood, thanks very much. That worsening Supply Chain Crisis means American Consumers are paying p ho ing more for a bunch of things ranging from used cars to childrens shoes. Perhaps most noticeably, every day at the gas pump. On average americans are paying 16 more every time they fill up the tank. Thats 16 more than what they were paying last year at this time. Cnn business and politics correspondent vanessa takes a closer look at how long this could last. Reporter from coast to coast theres a consensus. What do you think of the price youre seeing at the pump . Its getting pretty high. The gas is bad. Prices are really high. Reporter the price of Gasper Gallon the highest in seven years, topping 4 in some states. The price of crude oil, the largest driver of gas prices, wentz negative last year and now over 80 a barrel this week and could only get worse. We havent peaked this year yet. Were seeing the highest price of the year right now. Were not at the peak. What does that mean for you . Well, that means i might travel closer to home. Reporter Gary Christianson stopping for gas in new jersey while on a road trip to maine. This is another 50 cents higher than what i paid for in virginia. Reporter he says its only gotten more expensive as he makes his way north. Do you remember a time in history when gas prices were this high . I remember jimmy carter. Jimmy carter, you were waiting even odd days trying to gets gas. Reporter that was in the 1970s when an Arab Oil Embargo and conflict in iran led to a shortage in oil, doubling the price of gas from under 50 cents a gallon to over 1 in a few short years. In 2008, Global Demand for gas and Supply Chain Concerns sent prices to a record. In 2014, more global unrest in the middle east sparked another gas shortage, sending prices skyhigh. Were in a very different pl place. Theres plenty of gasoline, plenty of product. We just cant get to it. Reporter thats because opec, the biggest oilproducing nations, arent increasing the amount of oil they release into the global economy, so as demand rebounds in the u. S. , americans are paying about 16 more to fill up their tanks than a year ago. Getting kind of ridiculous because people are trying to get back to work and now all of a sudden i have to pay more for gas just to get to work. Reporter california leads the way with the highest gas in the country. With rates in washington, d. C. , kentucky, and indiana up as high as 17 cents a gallon in just the last week. The pain at the pump is very real. Its like do you want to eat steak or fill up your tank . Reporter and that simple decision for buying food or spending more money on gas is what has prompted President Biden to make addressing these higher gas prices a priority. But the president doesnt have much power. He can only release more from our nations oil reserves, but the Administration Says theyre not going to be doing that. And jim and erica, really now, were at the mercy of the market, so americans are just going to have to ride this wave out until prices drop again. Jim, erica . Vanessa your kev itch, thank you oop oom. Democrats bring out the big guns for two Upcoming Campaign rallies. Why democrats are calling in for barack obama to step in and help. And a lot happening today. Heres what to watch. Tech when you get a chip in your windshield. Trust safelite. This couple was headed to the farmers market. 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Look, theres a lotz being made of the fact that it is former president obama who is being heralded and being put out there to help drum up the vote. It is not President Joe Biden. Well, its still possible that President Joe Biden will return to virginia. The white house has indicated thats still possible. And Terry Mcauliffe expects joe biden to come back. But it is significant that former president obama will be heading to both of these states. There is a close race in virginia, about three points in the latest polling. In new jersey, however, the much wider spread the last time we saw, polling nearly in the double digits ahead for the democrats. How much of this is about bidens low Approval Ratings as opposed to about democratic Strategy Targeting in particular voters of color . Earlier this year, for instance, Vice President Kamala Harris was in virginia to campaign for mcauliffe as part of a democratic strategy to target areas where black and hispanic voters were concentrated. Reporter and thats still expected to be case if the Vice President goes back. And you look at the areas where president obama will be campaigning. Hes going to richmond. Thats an area where democrats believe they need to turn out black voters in order to be victorious in this election. Another area you were mentioning before, Vice President harris went, was the Hampton Roads area near the norfolk area in virginia. Thats another area they see as important. They also need to turn out democrats in northern virginia, washington, d. C. , and that would be an easy place for either the Vice President or President Joe Biden to head back to. Theres going to be a lot of focus on what happens in these races, but specifically on what happens in virginia and what it could say about 2022 and beyond. How well placed is that laser focus . Reporter its a Testing Ground for the message that the white house could use in 2022 for some of these close races that they expect to see how that messaging works out in virginia. You mentioned before, President Joe Bidens polling numbers, thats absolutely something on the mind of democrats considering that in addition to democratic voters of course they would want independents to turn out, but, again, they see this is a Turnout Election and need the core base of democrats to turn out to win. Bill bellwether for democrats. Thanks so much. Thanks. Still ahead, there are some netflix employees planning a walkout, this in the wake of Dave Chappelles new Comedy Special that criticized the Trans Community. Hear how the ceo of netflix is defending him. Is now a good time for a flareup . 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New overnight, the ceo of netflix is holding firm in his defense of Dave Chappelles Comedy Special the closer, this despite jokes about the Trans Community that have caused a major backlash, variety reporting that ted sarandos sent staff a letter monday saying, while some employees disagree, we have a strong belief that content onskeen doesnt directly translate to realworld harm. Adults can watch violence, abuse, or enjoy shocking standup comedy without it causing harm to others. Brian seltzer joins us. What does netflix say . Well, nothing publicly, and thats striking. Netflix is trying to defend the special internally, trying to tell employees it stands by the content, it wants a diversity of content on the platform. Netflix is not saying anything publicly. This new email from ted sarandos was sent out internally on monday but didnt leak to the press until overnight, so were learning about it this morning. But netflix is trying to i think in some ways have it both ways here, trying to stand up for Free Expression and say were going to provide lots of content and some people arent going to like it and thats the deal with netflix, however, they are not issuing statements and expressing this in public view. Theyre trying to tamp down employee uproar, Blooper Say Thg the biggest uproar of employees in the companys history. As you mentioned, a walkout is planned for next week. Go ahead, jim. Sorry. Im curious how extensive it is with employees within net politics. Thats unknown. The company has tens of thousands people, one of the biggest Entertainment Companies in the world. One employee groups that supp supporters trans employees, tara field saying, you cant by carbon jauch sets for bigotry. You cannot trash our Community One moment and then claim when we dont say thank you for the scraps you give us. Tara field was suspended on monday because she allegedly attended tried to crash a virtual leadership meeting, but then her suspension was turned around back and forth, and it seems like things are back to normal. What you see here is at least hundreds of staffers speaking out and complaining to Company Management, and Company Management essentially saying we want to provide lots of different kinds of programming to lots of different kinds of people. What ted sarandos is doing is making a statement that will matter in the future even if hes only saying it to employees. Its that the kind of standup comedy that might offend lots of people but might be enjoyed by lots of others is something which will continue to be included. It will be interesting to see moving forward, just the response from, you know, employees. Brian, thank you. Still ahead this hour, how prosecutors say a Million Dollars from a russian tycoon made its way into u. S. Election campaigns. 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Parnas has been charged with six counts, a straw donor scheme, false statements to the federal Election Commission about the donation, then the foreign donor scheme about 1 million that prosecutors say theyve gotten from a russian tycoon. The way that the prosecutor said this to the jury, this is assistant u. S. Attorney aileen foedar, she said these crimes were blatant, these Mens Shoveled Thousands Of thousands of dollars to politicians, latching about how they were breaking the law along the way. That is what secret foreign Money Infiltrating In American elections looks like. They were hitting hard this notion of russian money coming into the u. S. Elections. Parnass codefendant has denied these were foreign donations. Hes alleged that parnas and his Business Partner stole this money outright and used it to pay credit card debt. We are in the second day of this trial, five witnesses have testified, and right now an fbi agent is on the stand telling jurors about different Text Messages theyd exchanged, including the forwarding of a photo with parnas Business Partner alongside former president donald trump. Yesterday also heard testimony from a nevada politician, wes duncan. He testified he had met parnas at a rally in nevada where he was running for Attorney General, he solicited donations from parnas, but when they learned there was something questionable about a 10,000 donation, he returned the money. He said foreign donations are illegal. We are expecting to hear from another nevada politician, a republican candidate for the u. S. Senate, adam blacksal. He is expected to take the stand later today. Jim, erica . Well be watching. Its day two. How long is this expected to last . This is moving at a pretty quick clip. Were already they did four witnesses yesterday. The crossexamination on a lot of these witnesses has been very brief. Prosecutors expect to get through four or five Witnesses Today including possibly parnas personal assistant. This woman had helped parnas fill out some of these forms and communications, which is another serious charge in this case. Prosecutors say they may rest by the end of next week. Moving quickly. Kara scannell, thank you. Thanks for joining us today. Tomorrow we promise its friday. Im jim sciutto. Im erica hill. At this hour with kate bolduan starts right now. Im kate bolduan. Here is what were watching at this hour. Booster recommendations. Fda advisers meeting now to consider Booster Shots for million who is got moderna and Johnson Johnson covid vaccines. Deadline day. House Panel Investigating the insurrection prepares for criminal charges if former trump aides dont comply with subpoenas. Will any of them show up . And on strike, thousands of john deere workers walk off the job after Contract Talks fail. 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