gop s team, breaks them republican dark money efforts to control our efforts. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. tonight, we begin with some good news, i know it s hard to imagine up but people who did wrong are actually being held accountable for their actions. i know, it sounds like a novel concept, but we do want to start with the biggest news of the week. the january six committee formally subpoenaed donald trump, and he must hand over to the panel all relevant documents relating to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election by november 4th. that includes everything, phone calls, texts, and put their messages, emails and make sure you remember if this statement, november 14th, that s when trump has been ordered to testify under oath in front of that committee. they have warned the testimony could last for several days, and that s no surprise when you look at the laundry list of allegations that the committee has been laying out against donald trump. a letter accompany
might s ancient sequoias as wildfires close in. i m standing right in front of the grizzly giant and we ve got a sprinkler system set up in front of it. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. we want to take you right now to mariposa, california as evacuations are under way as fires threaten the ancient sequoias. our nick watt has just arrived on the scene. nick, how serious is the season there, and what are they doing to protect these incredibly special trees? reporter: well, we just have heard that the fight is going in the right direction, but it is still a huge fight. the flames are within a mile or two of mariposa grove which is home to about 500 of these giant, beautiful, ancient sequoia freeze, so the way that they are trying to contain the fireworks the way they are trying to keep those trees safe, they have 360 personnel on the ground, including hot shot cruise who are digging trenches around mariposa grove, a kind of break to try to
yesterday s hearing. why is he more willing to fight the case in the court of public opinion than in actual court of law? plus, the former chief financial executive in the trump organization could have him testifying against the company in another trial that is expected to run up against the november elections. and speaking of the midterms, mitch mcconnell downplays now republican chances of retaking the senate, blaming the, quote, quality of his party s candidates. we ll have the new polling and reporting that shows mcconnell s concerns may be well-founded. joe, some more polls in the critical senate races across the country show why mcconnell may be concerned in august. word is they ve already given up on pennsylvania. they ve already given up on dr. oz. they re probably going to focus more in ohio and j.d. vance, hoping that he has a chance. but we have polls showing that this area, this stretch of critical swing states in the upper midwest all breaking against the r
the scene there to disperse demonstrators. in eugene, oregon, a crowd got rowdy. they used pepper spray to break up the crowd and arrested ten people. as of now 13 states have trigger laws banning abortions in light of this ruling and an abortion ban is already in effect in at least six states. let s go to some of the protests. polo sandoval in new york. and let s go to joe johns first outside the supreme court. i know it s been very busy outside the supreme court, joe. what are you seeing right now? reporter: it is, jim. this crowd has just built and built and built throughout the afternoon. let s take a look at the large number of people here in front of the united states supreme court. the speakers expressing everything from anger and shock and fear about the future, of course, the vast majority of the people here are supporters of abortion rights. there were a few people who were opponents of abortion rights, but they got into what you call verbal altercations with some
it s important to be out here and do this. so, we re actually gonna take you to some of the states throughout the country that are feeling the heat with some of these trigger laws that are now in place. 26 states in total, by the end of the month it sees a least 30 days or so yo have these laws in place for banning abortion. the country will look different than it does right about now. as we see, i just want to give you a lay of the land right now. before we move on. now, there s this protest that is continuing to grow here. throughout the morning, started a pretty small, as i, said it s really kind of day three of the protests. after the decision was delivered. it s continuing to grow. the signs are continuing to grow. the passion, the, emotion it s continuing to grow throughout the last hour or so as many of you have witnessed ourselves as a confrontation happening between women that are for abortion rights versus people that are anti-abortion rights. that type of thing