representative alexandria ocasio-cortez even as some gop members are also attacking their own. aaron rodgers now says he takes full responsibility for misleading people about his covid vaccination status. is it enough though to repair the enormous damage from the misinformation he spread? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we begin with the breaking news on this, the new flurry of subpoenas from the january 6th select committee. ten more trump allies were targeted. let s go straight to ryan nobles. ryan, now a total of what, 16 subpoenas have been issued in the past 24 hours alone. tell us about this new batch. that s right. this group of individuals that were targeted by the select committee today represent something very important. this is a group of people very close to the former president, donald trump, and they were in close proximity of him in
said that. much like in the george floyd case, this is the center really of this case, of getting that on videotape. i mean if it hadn t been on videotape look, even what they had on videotape was twisted, to try to make this story something that it wasn t early on. remember, there wouldn t be an arrest. remember, you and i were trying to get this videotape on the air. you remember the beginnings of this. this was before george floyd and having mrs. cooper wanda cooper-jones on and, you know, family members and the attorneys bringing light to this case. then we were going with ahmaud arbery. i remember you had the man on who was the neighbor, right? remember that? roddie, the man who made the video, with his lawyer, who basically said, you know, my client is the village idiot, and he s not sophisticated enough to answer any questions about this. i don t even know why he put the guy on tv. he couldn t have made him look any worse. but the situation has always been pa
kyle rittenhouse during protests in wisconsin last year. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. we begin with new details on the tragedy of the astro world music festival. according to the wall street journal, authorities are examining the role of illegal drugs in the incident, specifically counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, and whether a bad batch might have contributed to the casualties. that s according to people familiar with the investigation. cnn has reached out for comment and will bring you more information when we get it. meantime, houston s police chief has revealed that he met with rapper travis scott and his head of security due to public safety concerns just hours before eight people were crushed and killed in the crowd during his show. and cnn has learned festival organizers had no contingency plans for a surging crowd despite an estimated 50,000 people in attendance. video shows attendees trapped against barriers
deadly when the crowd surged toward the stage. we re learning more about safety concerns that were raised just ahead of the disaster. 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. let s get straight to the breaking news. these new subpoenas from the house select january 6 committee targeting former president trump s inner, inner circumstance. so what are you learning about these new subpoenas? it s clear the committee is targeting top advisers from the former president s re-election campaign who helped push the big lie. let s take a look at this list. the first one is bill stepian. trump 2020 campaign manager. also jason miller, former senior campaign adviser. john eastman, he was actually an attorney who helped craft trump s argument that the election was stolen. also mike flynn, a former trump administration official who was also involved in a meeting about how the trump campaign wanted to
nonessential travel. after more than 19 months of restrictions. i m pamela brown in washington. you re in the cnn newsroom on this sunday evening. and we begin tonight with the tragedy in texas. two teenagers are among the eight people killed in a sudden and massive human stampede at a music festival in houston. many more are injured after fans rushed the stage during a performance by rapper travis scott at the astroworld music festival in houston. video from the sold-out event shows the moment travis scott pauses and looks on in confusion as an ambulance moves into the packed crowd of about 50,000 fans. witnesses describe the crush of people squeezing against them, leaving them with nowhere to go. and i m going to be bringing in mayor sylvester turner to talk about this. he s in houston. i know things have been rapidly unfolding for you, mayor, since this tragedy happened. if you could, bring us up to date with the latest of what we know, how did this happen? well, tha