subpoenas on four ex-trump aides and allies. as of tonight, only two, former white house chief of staff mark meadows and former pentagon official cash patel are even engaging at all in the process after a midnight deadline for producing documents came and went. and that s the committee s word, by the way. engaging which could mean anything and is a far cry from cooperating. dan scavino, it s not clear whether he has responded at all or has even been served. however, he is not even mentioned in the joint statement from committee chair bennie thompson and vice chair liz cheney. as for steve bannon, he s flat-out defying the committee. his lawyer citing the former president s executive privilege which is a pretty brazen claim to make, given that bannon hasn t worked in the white house since 2017. and for the record, january 6th, 2021, wasn t in 2017. bannon is acting on the former president s orders. a trump lawyer last night telling all four not to comply. as you know, the form
the subpoena from the january 6th committee in congress. however do lawmakers have to go to get the truth? covid hospitalizations are down but experts warn this battle is not over yet. plus, a former navy s.e.a.l. going to sky high heights to help gold star families. and he s taking on mt. everest to help the children of fallen service members. you ll hear from him, live. we appreciate you sharing part of your weekend with us. it is saturday, october 9th. laura, the alarm going off a little later this month. it was a treat. such a treat. an hour later. i could get used to this. this is great. a lot to get to but up first here, executive privilege and the search for answers about the january 6th insurrection. donald trump is trying, trying to claim executive privilege to block the special house committee investigating the riots from getting documents. yeah, we should note. he s no longer the exec 2i6. former trump adviser steve bannon now trying to defy a subpoena fr
exists to do what must be done. the question for you to be asking is why does nothing get better? another school shooting. most shrug it off. i used to be at almost all of them. now we rarely travel to them because you only notice them if there s a shocking number of dead. that s the truth. today no one died at timberview high school in arlington, texas, but there they are in the morning, supposed to be in the place they should be safest. thank god no one was killed. four were hurt. three taken to the hospital. a fight in a class, a teenager opened fire. an 18-year-old suspect is in custody, with a .45 handgun. under texas law you got to be 21 to carry a gun. the laws don t work. 2021 is on pace to be the worst year for gun violence in decades. more than 14,000 dead from guns, just this year. no movement on national gun legislation. if you re lucky, your state does something. i don t even know what laws would make it better. check all sales? no more semiautomatic rifles like
rejected a request to block the laws. in a recent court filing an organization that runs several organizations said it would resume providing abortions after six weeks if a judge issued the order we saw tonight. the news continues tonight. i want to hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time i have brand new reporting in the petito case. i know why there was a renewed search for brian laundrie because police found a new clue. we ll go through what it is, what it could mean and the latest on the laundrie family s legal situation in a moment. first, i know the news seems unrelentingly negative but instead of cataloging the latest step down, here s the real question we face. it s not about what to do. it s about whether the will exists to do what must be done. the question for you to be asking is why does nothing get better? another school shooting. most shrug it off. i used to be at almost all of them. now we rarely travel to them because you only notice them if there s a sho
the first was the failed california recall election. where democratic governor gavin newsom handily defeated a trump opponent, in a deep blue state. we didn t know is going to, happen but it was a resounding victory. virginia, holds its given its oreo election on november 2nd. and while joe biden won that state by ten points last, year polling right now shows a tight race. and republican candidate, is in an interesting position here. the electoral reality that is in a blue state like virginia, where he s taking on former governor, he needs to flip some biden voters, and democrats to win. but he also needs to keep that trump maga based fired up enough to turn out for him. of course, there really is just one litmus test, donald trump and his hard-core supporters are interested. and the euphemistically call it an election integrity, which basically means the opposite. it means i ll open are you to doing a coup? so, he s trying to walk a very fine line here, his position reminds