about to learn much more about just how aggressive the house january 6th committee is prepared to be in that search for the truth. trump allies now defying committee subpoena as lawmakers try to dock you ll the how the former president s rage over failing to get help to steal the 2020 election momented the january 6th rally and the insurrection. cnn s brian nobles up on capitol hill for us. a big day ahead for this committee. no doubt. this is the week, that first group of individuals that were subpoenaed by the january 6th select committee is scheduled to be here on capitol hill for closed door depositions, talking about dan schavino, mark meadows, cash patel, an official at the department of defense on january 6th and, of course, steve bannon, the former white house counsellor and trump booster who was part that have group of people, urging people, to come to the capitol on that day. we already know that bannon said he s not going to comply with the subpoena, that he s go
risk of covid hospitalization and death by 50%. right now the only other treatments have to be infused or injected, so is this a potential game-changer also for hospitals, this on the heels of a promising vaccination jump. over 2 million americans rolling up their sleeves over the past few days. more than 76% of the eligible population now at least partly vaccinate had had. let s bring in cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. two big questions on this new antiviral pill. how exactly does work, and how effective is it compared to other treatments? pamela, this pill, which is out from merck, is really quite effective. we haven t seen data published in the medical journal, but merck lass put out some data, so let s take a look at what the numbers say. they did a clinical trifle more than 750 people, and they divided them in half, half got a placebo which is a pill that does nothing and half got the antiviral drug. when they followed the folks with the placebo over
absolutely. republicans who once again rejected the big lie are now falling in line with trump. even the most senior republican says it s smart politics not to push back on trump s un-american attack on our democracy. just another sign that the party is no longer defined by policy, but by loyalty for one man. tonight, growing signs of democracy in peril. nearly a year into the biden administration, top republicans doubling down on the big lie. as they turn to the 2022 midterms. on surrenday, the number two ho republican refused to acknowledge that president biden was legitimately elected. if you look at a number of states, they didn t follow their state-passed laws that govern the election for president. that is what the united states constitution says. they don t say that the states determine what the rules are. they say the state legislatetures determine. are we going to follow what the constitution says or not? over the weekend, republican senator chuck grassley appe
voting machines from key states. one of the reporter who is broke that story joins us. and members of the january 6th committee, congressman jamie raskin will be here to talk about the collection of trump documents they received and what they mean, including some reportedly ripped up by the former president himself. and major news that millions of families have been waiting for, praying for. the washington post reporting that pfizer could ask the fda to approve the vaccine for kids under the age of 5 as soon as today. and in just a few hours, the top lawmakers on the senate judiciary committee are headed to the white house to talk to president biden about his supreme court pick. we start this morning with the latest on the diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff between russia and the west. the big headline today, secretary of state antony blinken set to speak with russia s foreign minister, sergey lavrov as the u.s. waits for the response to the biden administrati
ukraine, at least 19 people killed, several apartment buildings hit and reduced to rubble. cnn is on the scene in ukraine with the very latest. incredible video out of florida, destruction from a tornado that wiped out a dozen homes and damaged even more. now some 55 million people across the southeast are bracing for more severe weather as two major storms target the region. we have the forecast. a major win for abortion rights in two republican dominated states the latest attempts to ban abortions, ban most abortions failed and conservative lawmakers helped stand in the way. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. this is what is left of an apartment block in central ukraine after a russian rocket attack. it was part of a wave of strikes across ukraine. in the hardest hit, two rockets hit apartment buildings and a warehouse, killing at least 17 people. in dnipro the attack killed a mother and her 2