We just want everybody to remember our brother. Our strong, handsome, beautiful person that he is. A man who died trying to save his fiance. Just one of the heartbreaking stories emerging. Then a frightening new warning about medical devices that you might be using right now and why hackers could easily target them. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Breaking news in the politics lead. Moments ago, brandnew subpoenas were issued for former president trumps inner circle. The House Select Committee investigating the deadly January 6th Insurrection is shifting into high gear, preparing to do battle with some pretty big names in the trump world. The panel says fueled the big lie and perhaps incited the violent insurrection. Stephen miller, Kayleigh Mcenany and former white house president ial Personnel Office director john mcentee are three of the new names added to the long list of trump allies the panel wants to hear from. Lets get right to brian nobles live from capitol hill. These are some really close allies of trumps. No doubt about it, jake. This is a group with very close tyce to the former president donald trump. Ten subpoenas in all issued today by the january 6th select committee. But what remains to be seen is whether or not this committee will have the power to force this group of individuals to comply with their request. New targets to help uncover who was behind the insurrection, narrowing in on those closest to the former president , donald trump. The committee dropping more subpoenas today. Ten new ones, including key players in the trump orbit and the time between the november election and january 6th. The biggest names, longtime loyal adviser stephen miller, body man turned white house personnel chief Johnny Mcentee and former press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany. Mcenany, one of the loudest voices in trumps inner circle peddling the big lie about the Election Results both in and outside the white house. The integrity of our election matters. The constitution of the United States matters. What we have seen across the country is Democrat Officials systematically trying to do an end run around the constitution to tip the scales of the election in their favor. Reporter the committees request tuesday come one day after they issued a batch of subpoenas to other highranking Trump Officials like bill stepien and jason miller. The Committee Also wants to hear from john eastman. The conservative lawyer who authored the Memo Outlining Fringe Legal Theorys About Former Vice President mike pences authority to overturn Election Results as part of a pressure campaign. We know there was fraud, traditional fraud that occurred. We know that dead people voted. Reporter and former new York City Police commissioner bernard kerik, all four of them, stepien, miller, eastman and kerik among those gathered at a d. C. Hotel for what is described as a war room to overturn the election. Kerik already warning that he does not plan to comply. I will not be threatened, intimidated, forced into bankruptcy or silenced at the hands of this committee who are not looking for truth but targeting patriots and members of the president s legal team that wanted nothing more to investigate and expose those irregularities. Kerik said in a statement. His confrontational tone an example of the difficult time the committee is having getting trump allies to cooperate. Their ability to get witnesses to cooperate hinging in part on a decision by the Department Of Justice which has yet to weigh in on a Crimical Contempt Referral of steve bannon who has openly defied a subpoena. Merrick garland refusing to shed any light on how the doj plans to respond. We evaluate these in the normal way we do. Facts and the law. And applying the principles of prosecution. Reporter just a little more on the other subpoena targets that may not be as public names as some of the names just mentioned. Nicholas luna, someone who served as the former president s body man. Ben williamson, close with the former chief of staff. Mark meadows. And keith kellogg. This name is interesting. The former National Security adviser to the Vice President , mike pence. This is one of the first individuals that weve seen with specific ties to the former Vice President that the committee has issued a subpoena for. Jake . Ryan nobles on capitol hill with the breaking news. Thanks. Lets discuss this with Gloria Borger and kim. Its been about two weeks since a majority of the house of representatives, a bipartisan vote, voted to refer criminal contempt of Congress Charges against bannon to the Department Of Justice. Attorney general Merrick Garland has not yet weighed in. How long do you think its going to take before he makes a decision one way or the other . Gloria and i were talking off air. Theres a new u. S. Attorney and thats the person that would make this decision. And so it could be a matter of days. Could be a matter of weeks but this has to happen really soon or we are going to see a break down of congress itself. And its ability to do these kinds of investigations which frankly the problem traces back to the first impeachment and acquittal on obstruction of congress. Congress said its okay if you ignore all requests, white house, and here were paying the price. The American People are paying the price. Thats the point. Until they make a decision, right, until these other individuals, stephen miller, mcenany and others, until they see whether or not bannon is forced to comply, theyll just follow his lead, i would think. What do you make of some of these subpoenas against mcenany, mcentee and others . These were people in the white house who had direct conversations with the prrkts sat in the oval office, overheard the president , were in the room with the president and they kind of outline it here. Made public statements about the socalled rigged election, the big lie. They tell you. They give you the road map about why they are they need to hear from them because they know what went on in the room when they were there. Right. And so theyve already interviewed other people, clearly, who are telling them a story and now theyre going to them and saying, okay, we know this happened. Tell me about it. And so, you know, these are people who they could claim privilege because they worked in the white house. The batch we had yesterday, i believe it was yesterday, didnt work in the white house. Steve bannon did not work in the white house. Yet he is claiming privilege. These people will certainly try and claim that which is why they are sort of waiting on what Merrick Garland decides to do at doj. In that clip we saw Kayleigh Mcenany lying to the American People. Its not a crime to lie to the American People. If it were she would have been charged on the first day as press secretary. What do you think the committee is looking for here. What do they want to know . Its not just did the president tell you to go out there and lie to the American People because, of course he did. Well, they are looking to see what steps were taken within government that led to the January 6th Insurrection. Of course over 500 of the insurrectionists have been paying the price one way or the other. The criminal justice system, but no one has been charged with who funded it. How well organized was it and who was in on it. These could lead to charges of conspiracy, rico charges, obstruction of congress and also questions on whether donald trump incited an insurrection, which gets to the first amendment. But i put a pin in this whole thing with the contempt. This is an attempt to run out the clock. One year from today, one year from Today Is The Day for midterm elections in the United States congress. Right. And if that, as the tea leaves appear to be reading, goes to the republicans, the entire thing will be shut down. And these claims are bogus. These executive privilege claims. But it takes awhile to get them through the court. One more thing about Kayleigh Mcenany. The Committee Says that ms. Mcenany was reportedly present at times with the former president as he watched the january 6th attack. Weve heard reports he was pleased with it. That, look at all these people. They are for me. They believe the election was rigged. Well, Kayleigh Mcenany, if she were to testify and not try to stonewall and run out the clock, if she were to testify, truthfully, she might be able to shed some light on exactly what the president was saying during the attack, what he was thinking. Maybe he was saying, oh, look at this. This is great. And this bears on criminal intent. It does. And isnt the idea here whether or not, look, we did a whole documentary about this. This was a monthslong campaign to try to subvert democracy. It didnt just happen january 6th. He tried every legal mean and then tried extra legal means and here we have a question, did donald trump, steve bannon and others actually intend for january 6th to be an attempt to either intimidate or threaten or force the electors to go to him instead tof joe biden . And one of the things we reported in the documentary is there were members of the biden team for about an hour that day, january 6th, who thought that trump had succeeded. Who thought that the electors counting had stopped and donald trump had figured out a way to cling to power. Listen, this is not so much looking in the past. Its looking in the future. This is what is going to probably happen to american democracy if this continues. That is, if this republican new wave republican takeover of the law of the rule of law, the notion of government by we the people, you know, if you look at the eastman memo, its a stunning sort of outmaneuvering of the constitution itself. Completely unconstitutional. This is what well see. Completely unconstitutional. Oh, absolutely. The idea is, just to be clear, this isnt about who gets to cast votes. This is about whose votes count. That was about stealing votes from the Electoral College and the people in seven states who voted for joe biden. And these are people, like keith kellogg, who was apparently there when donald trump was saying to mike pence, you got to decertify this election. So these are people who were eyewitnesses to a president trying to have a coup. Two key dates. Theres a white house meeting in december and then theres a january 5th at the willard hotel. Thanks to both of you. One of the most highprofile trump allies they are subpoenaing is Michael Flynn, the retired general. You might know flynn as the shortlived National Security adviser, forced out just weeks for lying to mike pence. Flynn before that was a an Army Lieutenant general, respected, admired. He served several president s from both parties. He served in iraq and afghanistan. At one point during president obamas term he led the Defense Intelligence agency. Somewhere along the way, people who know flynn, Say Something changed with Michael Flynn. Now cnns Jessica Schneider reports the committee wants flynn to testify about two meetings he attended which may have laid the foundation for trumps attempted coup. Reporter retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn may have been fired from the white house just weeks after donald trump became president in 2017, but he was back inside the oval office weeks after the 2020 election, suggesting to trump that he declare martial law to help overturn the 2020 results. He said as much on tv the day before. Detailing what he viewed as the next step, including seizing Voting Machines. If he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and place them in those states and basically rerun an election in each of those states. Reporter just three weeks earlier, trump pardoned flynn from a charge of lying to the fbi, a charge flynn had pleaded guilty to. His lawyer in that case, sidney powell, joined Flynn To Push Trump in that december Oval Office Meeting to take drastic measures like declaring a national emergency. All this now of keen interest to the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Insurrection as they see documents and a deposition from the man who once led the Defense Intelligence agency and who served as trumps first National Security adviser. Over the past year, flynn continued to stir controversy. Last may, flynn faced backlash after he seemed to promote a coup. I want to know why what happened in myanmar cant happen here. No reason. It should happen here. No reason. Reporter the comments came during a conference in dallas attended by Prominent Qanon conspiracy theorists. Flynn later claimed he was not calling for a coup. Extremism experts say flynn has become a hero to qanon followers who believe the government is controlled by satanworshiping pedophiles who run a sex trafficking operation. Michael flynn reporter but flynn was clear he believed the big lie, like when he insisted trump won the election at this rally the night before the insurrection. We did not have a free, fair and transparent vote on the 3rd of november. And the entire world knows. Everybody in this country knows who won the election on the 3rd. Who won the election on the third . Donald trump. Reporter now the House Select Committee wants to know more about flynns efforts to spread those false Election Fraud claims. And will zero in on the December 18th Oval Office Meeting where the Committee Says flynn and others in attendance, quote, discussed seizing Voting Machines jessica, something is wrong with your audio. Im going to interrupt. I know its important to note that we did reach out to Michael Flynn and we did not get a response. Thank you. As the questions pile up, were learning more about the victims of the astroworld concert crush, including a 9yearold boy who is in a coma fighting fors in life. Plus aaa, Predicting Travel will bounce back to Prepandemic Levels as gas prices of surging. 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Investigators in houston, texas, are now looking into whether a batch of Counterfeit Drugs laced with fentanyl played a role in some of the deaths or injuries in the horrific Concert Tragedy over the weekend. Thats according to the Wall Street Journal which treats many people were treat forward possible overdoses as they tried to piece together what happened. Were learning more about the eight victims, including 27yearold danish baig who died trying to save his fiance from the crowd surge. Were doing this for our brothers honor and to spread the word. We dont want anything like this to ever happen to anyone else. We just want everybody to remember our brother. Our strong, handsome, beautiful person that he is. Anything that he did, he put everyone before himself, and thats what he did until he died. Until his last breath. And i want the world to know that. I want everyone to know that were confident in my brothers life. And he did not deserve to die. Lets bring in Josh Campbell live in houston, texas. What did the houston fire chief say this afternoon about these reports of Illegal Drugs possibly having played a role . Jake, the fire chief at this point is urging caution. He spoke with our colleague Victor Blackwell and was asked about this Wall Street Journal reporting which cnn has not been able to independently confirm, but which indicates that some of the victims there at that concert may have been suffering from the effects of laced pills. Laced drugs. Now that was based on the idea that First Responders were administering narcan, an opioid antagonist. A medicine to treat those who may be in distress from opioid overdose. He was asked about that. The chief. He said just because narcan was used, thats not necessarily something that allows them to draw a conclusion right now. Take a listen. There is evidence there was drugs involved, but i dont know what they were. We administer lots of narcan, and narcan is used to counter an opioid overdose. I want to be clear that just because we administered lots of narcan doesnt mean that overdoses were prevalent. So the fire chief saying drugs were a factor there, but that remains under investigation. Also worth pointing out that we are hearing almost nothing from the houston police. Weve asked them multiple questions, even such as process. How theyre going about doing their business. Were told this remains an active investigation. They are not fielding our questions. Theyre telling us to check their twitter feed to keep refreshing that in order to get updates. Their current posture is essentially dont call us. Well call you. Also an update today on the 9yearold who was injured at the concert. What do we know about his condition . Yeah, just truly tragic. Were hearing this 9yearold who we are only identifying by his initials e. B. Is currently in a medically induced coma at the hospital. Now his grandfather spoke to cnn and said that the young boy was on his fathers shoulders at that concert as this crowd began to crush against each other. The father lost consciousness. The kid went to the ground. Once the father regained consciousness, his son was nowhere to be found. They found him at texas Childrens Hospital nearby where he had been admitted under the name john doe because authorities didnt know who this kid belonged to, who he was. We now know his identity. Hes in a medically induced coma in Critical Condition suffering from possible brain damage. Josh campbell, thank you. This afternoon the prosecution rested and the defense called its first witnesses in the case of the Armed Illinois Teenager who killed two people and wounded another during the protests in kenosha, wisconsin, last summer. The evidence included Graphic Photos of the victims shot by the defendant Kyle Rittenhouse. Cnns omar jimenez is covering the trial for us in kenosha. What was the reaction in the courtroom to these photographs . Yeah, jake, first off, Kyle Rittenhouse was averting his eyes at points. Appeared to be visibly shaken as the incredibly graphic images were shown, as did many of the jurors averting their eyes at points. This was part of the prosecutions final witness testimony. And it really focused on the killing of rosenbaum, the first two of killed by rittenhouse back in august of 2020. And rosenbaum was shot four times. Once in the left thigh. Once in the hand, once in a bullet wound that grazed his head and another time in the back. The witness believed those final two shots came from the one in the back and the one that grazed his head and they really focused on when rittenhouse fired and from what position. Take a listen. Is it your opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that the back to front shots to the head and then the kill shot to the back would have been while he was falling or perpendicular to the ground . The only way that the trajectories of the Gunshot Wounds to the right side of the head and the back make sense is if hes more horizontal to the ground and that is occurring at the time that the last two Gunshot Wounds are heard on the video. The doctor also said the possibility of a gunshot to the hit area could have caused him to buckle and fall forward. The defense underscored all four of those shots happened in under a second. And that it could also have been rosenbaum charging like a bull, how the defense described it, that could have led to the downward bullet trajectory. Theyve begun their case at this point. Weve heard from multiple witnesses, including those who Saw Rittenhouse immediately after these killings and heard what he was reflecting on in the moments saying specifically that he had to do it and that his life might be over. After the defense is done, at some point, this, of course, will be headed to a jury to make a final decision. Some of the first decisions weve seen, the judge did dismiss a Curfew Citation Charge against Kyle Rittenhouse earlier today. Omar jimenez, thanks so much. A Republican Senate candidate in court denying allegations from his wife that he choked her and injured his children. Needless to say, this is the candidate donald trump is backing. Stay with us. To see my ancestors photos was just breathtaking. Wow, look at all those whatd you find . Lorraine banks, look, county of macomb, michigan . Oh my goodness. This whole journey has been such a huge gift for our family. Unconventional thinking means we see things differently, so you can focus on what matters most. Thats how weve become the leader in 5g and a partner who delivers exceptional customer support, and 5g included in every plan, so you get it all. You get more with aarp Medicare Advantage plans from unitedhealthcare. Like 0 copays on tier 1 and tier 2 prescription drugs. Wow uhhuh. 0 copays on primary care visits. Wow uhhuh. 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Reporter sean parnell staking the stand in a Butler County courthouse as his turbulent personal life takes a toll on his senate campaign. I am officially declaring my candidacy for United States senate here in pennsylvania. Reporter the Pennsylvania Republican appearing for a contentious Custody Trial with his estranged wife laurie snell. We had a tumultuous relationship. We fought a lot. His wife is accused him of choking her and injuring two of their children, claims he denies. Parnells messy personal life already an issue in his senate campaign. After a superpac supporting bartos, one of his gop opponents, ran this ad. 911 calls. Protection from abuse orders. And now a gag order. The real record of sean parnell. Reporter since then more details of allegedly violent behavior have emerged in the trial and court documents. He tried to choke me out and i actually had to bite his arm to get away from it. He also tried to restrain me in rooms. He would hold me down, barricade himself in front of our door so i couldnt leave the house, snell testified in a 2018 hearing. These were pretty typical for sean. This happened at least a dozen times during our relationship. In that same hearing snell said parnell called her a stripper within hearing of the kids and took video of her dressing. Parnell denied ever being physically abusive to his wife or choking her. He said he never struck the kids in anger. Snell acknowledged that soon after she alleged parnell struck one of their children the family went on vacation together. Snell said parnell was a good dad when hes not angry and hes a great father in public. At various points in her testimony, snell hoped parnell would get help and previously held out hopes of coparents with him. A retired army ranger and combat veteran i was in afghanistan for 485 days. Reporter parnell already banked an endorsement from donald trump. Hes a real hero. A real tough guy. Hell never let you down, sean parnell. Reporter but the allegations are weighing on his campaign. Parnell abruptly canceled two Fundraising Events and some members of parnells team are considering resigning from the campaign. In perhaps another political headache for parnell, snell also accused him this week of engaging in a ninemonth affair with his now girlfriend will still married. Snell added shes been frightened away from even dating anyone at this point and parnell had previously tracked the cars parked at her home. Enjoy your little f buddy he said in one message. In one he called her erratic and evil. Now parnell and his estranged wife are still in the courtroom. Thats just over my shoulder. Parnell said this is a difficult week for his family. Its been a difficult week for his campaign as well. Despite all of these woes, he is still getting backing from one big supporter, donald trump. Donald trump is slated to hold a fundraiser for parnell at maralago in january. 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So its a series of vulnerabilities that researchers are addressing along with the federal government. Do we know which precise devices are in danger . We know Patient Monitors, certain type of Patient Monitor is vulnerable. And the researchers were able to say that they probably think that an stheesia machines, ultrasound machines, xray machines may also be included in that list of vulnerable devices. And is there anything that can be done . I dont know how you do a Software Update on Something Like this, but yeah, theres a lot that can be done. This is a good news bad news story. This was a coordinated effort by the fda, the dhs and these researchers from fourscout and medi gt gate to address the vulnerabilities. Work with siemens, the vendor that owns the software to put out a fix for it and alert the public. There hasnt been any evidence this these vulnerabilities were exploited but theyre trying to say update your software in the event there would be. So thats the positive story. The fda has done a lot of work on this in terms of in some cases recalling devices that may be vulnerable. This hasnt gone that far but we got a statement from the fda saying they really want vendors, companies that are running the software to make sure that they have a process in place to check if theyre vulnerable. And thats part of this report. The idea that they want this awareness. Theyve decided this awareness is more important than the fear of people finding out about it because were reporting on it . Exactly. The more you know in this case, the more secure you are. Thanks, sean. Lets talk with dr. Sanjay gupta. Whats your reaction to the story sean just brought us, the troubling vulnerability of thousands of critical medical devices. Yeah, this has sort of been on the radar for some time looking at things like Ransomware Attacks and health, medical records. But there has been concern for some time not just the diagnostic equipment that sean was talking about, but even, you know, equipment like defi defibr defibrillators, insulin pumps. Mostly theoretical risks but increasingly becoming possible given these Software Vulnerabilities and the increased capability of hackers. You know dr. Jonathan reiner. I interviewed him a few years ago along with Vice President cheney. Dr. Reiner was Vice President cheneys cardiologist and we talked about this issue for a piece for 60 minutes. Lets take a listen. Seemed to me to be a bad idea for the Vice President of the United States to have a device that maybe somebody on a rope line, somebody in the next hotel room or downstairs might be able to get into, hack into and i worried that someone could kill you. Even at that time, jake, ill tell you, they basically had to change the software and basically protect the Vice President s implanted Defibrillator Device because of this sort of concern. So, you know, its been discussed for some time now, but, obviously, again, of larger concern over the past couple of years. This last year and a half has been really difficult on everyone in the world but a new report finds that the pandemic has hit the Mental Health of people in the health care world. Doctors, nurses, Frontline Health care workers. Especially hard. What do you make of that . Well, you look at this data. Weve been following, tracking this for some time, going back to february, march of this year when some of these surveys first came out or some of the ones that showed the magnitude of this problem. And its striking. If you look at the numbers, they basically are saying, you know, 3 in 5 of these Health Care Workers have significant enough selfreported stress its interfering with their physical health. And affecting their Mental Health. So, you know, the idea of the demand, the need for better Mental Health services, for Health Care Providers, its been a message weve been talking about for some time but this pandemic has really put it into Crystal Clear focus. The need. And also i talked to colleagues all over the world and in italy and many places in europe. In asia. Many of the Health Care Providers are also suffering similar rates of what you just saw there on the screen. Nurses appear to be more so than doctors even. But its obviously a concern. And then there was a period of time people thought it was maybe Getting Better and then when it worsened again, it reignited a lot of those concerns. Lets talk about covid cases among children because after falling for eight weeks, its now starting to tick back up, cases for kids. Overall, however, cases seem to be plateauing across the country. How do you interpret this . Well, take a look at the graph. You can see sort of the trajectory of whats been going on here. It kind of makes sense because, you know, you have adults that have largely or more so, obviously, been vaccinated. About 60 . But when it comes to kids, theres just now these vaccines becoming more available. So kids make up a larger percentage of new cases. 106,000 children were diagnosed with covid last week, which is a lot. People keep saying, look, this isnt something they need to worry about. Well, they do contract the disease. Theyre less likely to get hospitalized or die. When you get high numbers like this, the absolute number of kids who will get sick goes up. If we can put up that graph, a year ago, compared to now. A year ago, we were basically on the up swing. Numbers were going up. A lot of inertia. The concerns about hospitals and deaths, obviously, climbing. Here its been coming down. May plateau. Hopefully start to come down and because of the vaccine, even if the cases are high, the corresponding hospitalizations and deaths are hopy in lower. 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That would be a 13 jump from last year and close to Prepandemic Levels. But gas prices are anything but normal. The average price for one gallon of regular unleaded is 3. 42. Thats up from just over 2 a year ago. Pete muntean is at a gas station in alexandria, virginia, with more. Fuel prices are at levels weve not seen in years. What is driving this increase . Jake, its not really the huge demand on the horizon thats driving these prices but rather the supply. Aaa says oilproducing nations are constricting the supply trying to recoup some of their pandemic losses. Gas on average is about 1. 30 more expensive than it was a year ago. A sevenyear high and were all about to pay for it. Aa anticipates 48 Million People will hit the road during the thanksgiving travel period. Those numbers way higher than in 2020, pretty close to what they were back in 2019 prepandemic, and whats so interesting here is that aaa thinks these prices will not push people away from traveling. A lot more confidence. People are feeling better about traveling and no matter what the gas prices are, and they are quite a bit higher than last year, people are still going to take that trip. So the short version here, jake, the expense is back. The traffic is back. This thanksgiving will feel nothing like it did in 2020. Pete, are gas prices expected to go down any time soon . Well, the real version im hearing here is that were going to have to wait this out. Really not that much the administration can do about this. There is some hope on the horizon. Theres a new Government Forecast that says the price of crude, which right now is about 84 a barrel could go down to 72 a barrel. So we could see some relief for these prices but not soon enough for the holidays. Were talking next year. What about air travel. Are those supposed to be back to prepandemic norms this Holiday Season . Yeah, were going to see about an 80 increase from what we saw last year. And those numbers were relatively depressed. Were getting close to where things were in 2019. Not quite yet. We will see more of this time around a lot of lines. The planes will be packed. Airlines got smaller during the pandemic, and what weve seen even before were getting into this holiday period is that theres really not much flexibility in the airline system. One storm, one air Traffic Control delay can really cause the entire deck of cards to tumble down and you could end up paying for it with delays and cancellations. Pete muntean, appreciate it. Sharing animated videos of a fellow lawmaker being killed. Apparently thats okay to do these days if you are a member of one particular party. Stay with us. Fight back fast with Tums Chewy Bites. Fast heartburn relief in every bite. Crunchy outside, chewy inside. Tums, tums, tums, tums Tums Chewy Bites look oh my god. Oh wow. 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