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jordan, the ranking republican and he will likely chair the committee if republicans take the house this fall. as such, you would think he would have deep respect for professional committees and the work they do when it comes to oversight. both of which he vigorously pursued when republicans ran the house. why did he snub a request to meet with the house select committee on january 6th. in his letters he said he had, quote, no relevant information to assist the select committee in advancing any legitimate legislative purpose. he didn t say he would have legislative information that would assist the committee, only a legitimate legislative purpose which he claimed he doesn t believe the committee has. it is a way of being less than honest without appearing to be. if the question is does he have anything of interest to the committee, the answer is clearly, yeah, he does. here s committee member adam schiff talking about text messages to former white house chief of staff m ....
crisis. billion dollar disasters are reaching record levels, and it s not just the price tag. new insight into just how bad climate change is getting. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, a standoff between the city of chicago and its teachers union over covid-19 safety protocols is over. teachers will be back in school in the coming hours, and students will return to in-person learning on wednesday. a week ago, record-high new cases among students and adults led to the union voting to start teaching virtually. the school district responded by canceling classes altogether. more than 340,000 students missed four days of school. the union said the agreement moves toward what teachers have been asking for. it includes the standards for when schools need to be closed. there s some really good things in this agreement. there s some really good things that are going to continue to strengthen and bu ....
a long fight kept all chicago public schools out of the classroom until late tonight. here is chicago s bay your just a little while ago. i will always be on the side of our children and their families. i was you when i was a kid growing up in my public school. i needed my school. my school made a difference in my life. i m not standing here today and just ahead, will they or won t they? two of the former president s closest allies playing coy over whether they ll talk to the committee investigating january 6th. gop congressman jim jordan who we know spoke with the president the former president that day speaking to cnn tonight. if they offer you the opportunity to speak in a public setting, would you be willing to do something like that? letter. read my letter. the letter doesn t say that specifically. that s our response is the letter. are you still because you said before that you were, you know, you didn t have anything to hide. i have nothing to ....
and it is the top of the hour, thank you so much for joining us. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. it s good to be with you. president biden is visiting ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. the president just paid tribute at king s burial site which is near the church in atlanta. speaking of reverend dr. martin luther king. the city is the backdrop to what s being called the president s most urgent plea yet for voting rights. soon he will push for two federal laws that would standardize elections. it s an effort to combat a slew of new laws put into place by republican state legislatures to restrict voting in response to the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. this is one of those defining moments, it really is. people are going to be judged. where were they before, where were they after the vote. history is going to judge you. it s that consequential. 19 states have already passed 34 laws that limit voting hours, remove ballot drop boxes or take power ....
in person learning is essential. switching back to remote learning again without public health reasons amplifies the social and economic turbulence. and the cbs cdc is facing backlash tonight. the agency is updating its guidance on masking and letter and 95 masks versus cloth mask. and there under fire tonight for not releasing data. by if they are being caused by a covid or somebody who dies with covid. omicron surges. we will head to georgia to discuss voting rights. the filibuster in an effort to push through an overhaul. we begin tonight with the cdc taking heat from both sides of the political aisle. kevin corke has that story tonight. happy monday, my friend. this time there under fire for inadequate the isolation, quarantine and most recently on testing, it s availability and wind delivery might happen, who needs it and went and who ends up paying for the test when they are picked up by consumers. many of the barbs are coming from people inside and ou ....