i m liev schreiber. thanks for watching. good night. hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world and streaming on cnn, max next i m paula newton in new york, just ahead for us or live in paris where emmanuel macron s election gamble appears to have backfired with the french far-right taking the lead in the first row browne of voting, a campaign in turmoil. cnn learns what us president joe biden s family is telling him as he faces increasing pressure to stand aside after his disastrous debate, performance and all eyes on the u.s. supreme court and the hours ahead, we ll learn whether former president donald trump pumpkin claimed absolute immunity on his alleged efforts to undermine the results of the 2020 election and we do begin this hour in france where my colleague, max foster is live for us in paris where max, there is no mistaking the seismic shift in the political landscape. there yeah, the very first time
it is really quite shocking when you listen to steve scalise, their number 2, the gop number 2 member of the house, just a week ago couldn t admit that the election wasn t stolen. no wonder he doesn t want the contempt to go forward. you know, he feels evidently the republican leadership does, it s more important to support the cult of donald trump than it is to defend their own democracy. and it s this abdication of their oath of office that has our democracy on such fragile ground. and there is another high pro profile republican who is not ready to cooperate and that is dan scavino. he now has one week to respond to the house committee subpoena, of course, the january 6 insurrection. the following week is his deadline to testify. scavino said his client was given additional time to respond to the subpoenas. now, covid vaccine booster
on-duty officer to be charged in connection with the capitol insurrection. he was on duty that day, but not actually at the capitol during the riot. he is now facing up to 20 years in prison for each count of obstruction. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. now, you just heard jessica say that steve bannon is actually refusing to comply with the house committee subpoena. so what s motivating the trump ally and his one-time adviser? cnn s tom foreman takes a look. reporter: he is not ready to speak to congress about the violence of january 6th, but steve bannon is talking plenty. on his daily podcast, whipping his followers into a frenzy. elections have consequences, stolen elections have catastrophic consequences and that s what we re seeing in this country right now. we need your blood to boil. we need to be in a situation where you re not going to back down, okay? reporter: he s done it all along. he seemed to confirm reports that just days before the
and strengthening security cooperation by the turkish president, a much-needed conversation with the two countries have begun to pull back from one another. an important day of the white house. because of everything that was going on normally of his like this by another national leader would be the top news of the day but washington is a different place right now. glad you are on it. the federal appeals court ruling congress can seek eight years of donald trump s tax return records. trump s legal teams that will appeal this to the supreme court. the ministration is arguing the house committee subpoena for the personal records exceeds congress s investigative and legislative powers. the supreme court says ruth bader ginsburg s argument to the court today because she was home sick with a stomach bug. she has had two separate bouts with cancer in the last year. her recovery from lung cancer caused her to miss some court sessions in january. 20-year-old molly tibbetts murdered. the fight
staff to the white house, was trying to say last week. the concern though, the question is, so what is the president s personal lawyer doing in this process. why is rudy guilliani, who is not a government official, why is rudy guilliani involved in this process? that goes to the why. rudy guilliani is the president s personal lawyer, which suggests that there were some you know, potentially some personal motives going on here. were there political motives? then, you know, with this inquiry was guilliani acting on potentially behalf of his other clients or even foreign government officials? those are the real questions that i think are sort of swirling around right now. you know, mark receipt, the energy department is now saying refusing to comply with a house committee subpoena, but just the last few days we have been hearing from top trump officials, former trump administration officials, really painting a pretty damning