president biden, democratic senate candidate john fetterman is getting an assist from former president barack obama. will it make a difference in the high-stakes pennsylvania race? and we ll also go inside children s hospitals overwhelmed right now by the surge in respiratory illness as more and more kids are getting sick and beds are running out. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the new response from the former president, former president trump s lawyer to the most aggressive move yet by the january 6th select committee. cnn political correspondent sara murray is joining us with details. so, what is the trump team saying about this new subpoena from the select committee delivered to trump today? well, it s now up to his legal team to grapple with how they want to respond. in a statement from one of these law firms, they slammed the select committee for making
Not just democrats like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and steny hoyer, but republicans like Vice President pence, Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell, Majority Whip john thune and countless other appointees across the administration. All of them did what President Trump was not doing, what he simply refused to do. Take a listen. Theyre taking the north front, staff only. Were not going to be able to hold. The door has been breached. People are gaining access into the capitol. Senator schumer is at a secure location. Theyre locked down in the senate. There has to be some way we can maintain the sense that people have, that theres some security, some confidence that government can function and that we can elect the president of the United States. Did we go back into session . Did go back into session. But now apparently everybody on the floor is putting on gas masks to prepare for a breach. Theyre putting on Tear Gas Masks . We need an area for the house members. Theyre all walking through the
exclusive access with the 101st airborne near the ukrainian border. cbs charlie d agata reports, this is not a training deployment but a combat one. music superstar taylor swift, the most streamed female artist of all time, crashes spotify. and cbs steve hartman goes on the road. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this friday night. we want to begin with what is likely to become a historic legal battle unlike any other in american history, as congress today ordered former president donald trump to testify under oath. the january 6 committee followed thrugh on its unanimous vote to subpoena the former president for documents and his testimony related to his false allegations about the 2020 presidential election. in a letter, chairman bennie thompson, and vice chair liz cheney write that the committee has gathered overwhelming evidence that trump perso
we re now about an hour away from the house reconvening and hopes to vote immediately or eventually will make him the next speaker of the house. spending the night trying to twist these arms belonging to the six hard right republicans that you see on the screen. it was so close, that absent members some of them came out of surgery or other medical provide tour procedures making they are way to the chamber. all of this has extra resonance. manu, so, we talked to you in the last hour, it seems to change over the hour, what s the latest. reporter: there s still growing confidence that they will get the vote. the longest speaker s race that we ve seen since the mid-18 hundreds. but, they believe they ve gotten there. the question will ultimately be on which members ultimately flip. you showed the six on your screen, some of those, they will need all members come and vote for a specific candidate, they will need four of those six. but, there are other strategies now being disc
the escalation by the rush slan l russian leader today. what does the french president think? he will be here live with his response. your money and the cost to borrow. historic move by the federal reserve, raising interest rates yet again in an effort to get inflation under control. welcome to the lead. we start on the extraordinary legal trouble for donald trump. there s a sweeping lawsuit against trump, three of his adult children and the trump organization, alleging they were involved in a decade-long financial scheme that allowed trump to fraudulently inflate his net worth by billions of dollars, allowing him to leverage the system for his own personal gain at the expense of others. white collar financial crime is not victimless. when the well connected break the law, to take in more money than they are entitled to, it reduces resources to working people, to regular people, to small businesses and all taxpayers. attorney general james campaigned on a promise of