republican members of congress privately testing the chief of staff, seeking help in stopping the siege, but so, too, were some of the president s favorite mouthpieces who, since january 6, are the least willing to talk about the reality of that day. in fact, i couldn t help but notice that their network didn t even carry live the events that i m now showing you. this witness must testify like 300 other witnesses before him have done, either voluntarily and proudly as a patriotic citizen, or at least under compulsion of subpoena by the congress of the united states. but he has no right anywhere in our constitutional system to defy a subpoena from the house of representatives. what we saw tonight was a committee making clear that even some of the biggest names in trump world knew what we all were watching unfold on january 6 was not just a protest. and many of the president s most public supporters were privately urging the white house to get the president to call off the
we want to thank the people of mayfield, kentucky, for having us in his community. the pastor met so many extraordinary people today, and they are really bonding together, reaching out to each other. thank them for telling their stories here as well as other places around the state and other parts of the region where people are suffering tonight. our thoughts are with them. if you want to help go to cnn.com/impact. the news continues. let s hand it over to michael smerconish on cnn tonight. anderson, thank you. i am michael smerconish. welcome to cnn tonight. something astonishing happened. the committee investigating donald trump held him in contempt of congress. and moreover for the first time, we heard that not only were republican members of congress privately testing the chief of staff, seeking help in stopping the siege, but so, too, were some of the president s favorite mouthpieces who, since january 6, are the least willing to talk about the reality of that da
rust, is pausing production indefinitely as new details emerge about the fatal shooting onset. tonight, we re learning more about the crew member who handed baldwin the gun and growing questions about who s to blame. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with facebook s role in the january 6th insurrection. what the company knew in realtime and what it allegedly tried to hide. we heard new testimony from a facebook whistleblower today as cnn dug into a trove of documents. update our viewers. that s right, wolf. this whistleblower making headlines around the world and in the past hour, we ve heard from mark zuckerberg since the first time. he said good fit criticism helps us get better, but my view, we are seeing a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company. we sure learned a lot about his company today. have a look. we need
tonight on the readout tonight on the readout and we fight like hell, and if you do not fight like hell you re not gonna have a country anymore. we are going to walk down pennsylvania avenue, i love pennsylvania avenue. and we are going to the capitol. a judge ruling about those comments from donald trump, which seemed to open up the possibility of lawsuits against the former president by victims of the january six insurrection. meanwhile, transcripts just released from the january six committee, revealing a whole lot of trump insiders with convenient memory lapses. also tonight, more of george santos lives are uncovered. we are going to look closely at his finances, which highlight the glaring need for campaign finance reform. and, in state after state, it may turn voters rejected election deniers and how democrats of a golden opportunity to safeguard voting rights. one of the governors leading that fight joins me tonight. good evening everyone, i m in for joy reid. we beg
jack smith has secured his most valuable witness yet, mark meadows. prosecutors don t hand out agreements like candy. mark meadows was at the center of so much of this. he could speak to trump s mindset in a very specific way. welcome, everyone. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. we begin with the federal election interference case against donald trump. the former president s chief of staff mark meadows we learned was granted immunity by special counsel jack smith and met with his team more than once according to a abc news. he allegedly told investigators he didn t believe the election was stolen and talked about this moment on election day in november 2020. frankly, we did win this election. we did win this election. [ cheers and applause ] meadows reportedly telling investigators that he believed trump was being dishonest and saying that cnn anchor of the source, kaitlan collins, joins us now. we have been asking for, i don t know, a year plus,