Participate. House republicans take their ball and go home over the january 6th investigation. Plus we ve got two epidemics go on right now. One of those biological caused by a virus. The other is informational. The head of the national institutes of health on how to fight covid misinformation. Then there are very few businessmen that ever survive in the political part of washington. The latest on the arrest of trump s inaugural chairman and what it can tell us about the expresident s actions in the middle east when, all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. For the last two days, much of the northeast and midwest look like this. The haze of the sun, a thick smog over an entire region of this country that is very much not used to it. Unlike the mountain west which lives with forest fires, this kind of smoke settling over the eastern seaboard has felt dystopian and new. In fact, it s not just your imagination if it feels that way to you, if you live in that p
Jim jordan. Both ardent trump loyalists who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. As pelosi explained, the unprecedented nature of january 6th demands this unprecedented decision. But she also said she had raised up her objections with mccarthy, asking him to recommend two other members in their place. Instead mccarthy threw a tantrum and pulled all of his proposed appointees, including the three that pelosi had already approved. As he made clear in a hastily arranged press conference, republicans are literally taking their ball an going home. It s an egregious abuse of power. Pelosi has broken this institution. Pelosi has created a sham process. Unless speaker pelosi reverses course and seats all five republicans, we will not participate. Mccarthy claims pelosi is somehow abusing her power, but her authority was literally spelled out in the resolution the house passed to create the select committee. In fact, it was the exact same language that republicans used when they
You know they were a hugging and kissing. Personally what i wanted is what they wanted, they showed up. Just to show support because i happen to believe the election was rigged at a level like nothing has ever been wrecked before. It s a loving crowd, and now there s been a meltdown over this bipartisan effort to investigate that insurrection, the wand were capitol police definitely were not being hugged and kissed, the one that left many capitol police officers with permanent injuries. Today the house speaker veto two of the five republicans members that minority leader kevin mccarthy chose for the house select one six committee, congressman jim banks of indiana, jim jordan of ohio. They are among some of trump s most vocal acolytes and loyal supplements. In fact, they both voted against counting electoral votes for joe biden. Banks released a statement monday, somehow, claiming the biden administration for the response to the riot, even though it took place, as you ll recall, when tr
live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. and we begin with new fallout from that musical festival in houston, texas, that turned deadly. a concertgoer who says he was injured at the event has filed a lawsuit against the rapper travis scott, entertainment company live nation, and the concert promoter. it seeks more than $1 million in damages, to be determined by a jury. authorities, meanwhile, have launched a criminal investigation. thousands of fans were pressing towards the stage, and we re now learning that scott continued to perform for nearly 40 minutes after first injury reports and for approximately half an hour after authorities had declared the concert a mass-casualty event. now, outside the venue, a growing memorial to those who were killed or hurt in the crush. mourners have been laying down flowers, photographs, notes, and candles. cnn s rosa flores picks up the story. it was a death trap, basically. reporter: more witnesses are comin
to tackle climate change, telling leaders in rome they owe it to the next generation. cop26 begins in glasgow tomorrow quite literally, it is the last chance saloon. we must now translate fine words into still finer actions. in 6lasgow, the president of the cop26 climate conference describes the summit as our last best hope to limit global warming to 1.5 celsius by the end of the century. hello, and a very warm welcome to glasgow for our continuing coverage 6lasgow for our continuing coverage of the cop26 summit. we are in place and ina of the cop26 summit. we are in place and in a very good place as well, we are right in front of the conference hall where, in two weeks time, we hope the world leaders will bring down the gavel on a summit that has been successful. this is where a lot of the discussion over the course of the next two weeks will take place, we are right in front of it so the leaders as they come out will be behind us and hopefully, many will come here to thi