capitol. he is the first former member of congress held in contempt since 1832. that was a while ago. the democratic-controlled house voted 222-208 with just two republicans, kinzinger and cheney, joining the democrats. it will be up to the department of justice to decide whether to pursue criminal charges. more on this in a moment. first, though, a new cdc warning this morning that covid is raging across the u.s., and it is possible that a new wave is imminent as soon as january. this as the u.s. crosses the tragic milestone of 800,000 coronavirus deaths still the start of the pandemic. cornell university reporting more than 900 cases among students this week and now shutting down all in-person activities through the end of the semester. all finals, we have learned, will be taken online. in manhattan, jpmorgan chase is instructing all unvaccinated staff to work from home. they are urging them to get the vaccine and eligible employees to get booster shots. kroger said pai
donald trump s allies taking their fight to the supreme court, their appeal to be-to-get his ban from the ballot in colorado overturned. what caused the civil war? that was the simple question posed to nikki haley at a campaign stop overnight. her answer that confused some voters failed to mention slavery. and today the idaho home where four college students were murdered will be torn down. why some of the victims families do not want that to happen. i m sara sizedner alongside joh berman. and finally kate bolduan said if you re going to be off i m going to be off. she could be here, i m here. she said i m done. this is cnn news central. this morning the $2024 million question, will the u.s. supreme court weigh in on whether the u.s. constitution can keep donald trump off the presidential ballot. overnight the colorado republican party appealed a state court decision that said that trump is ineligible to run because the 14th amendment bans insurrectionists. other
keilar. broken laws and broken lives, the case being made by the january 6th committee in its latest round of hearings with new revelations about individuals threatened and harassed because of lies. lies the committee suggests that broke the law, including submitting slates of fake electors that simply did not win the vote. lies the committee says about election fraud in which trump allies did not produce evidence, in fact, admitingly according to the testimony without evidence. at some point did one of them make a comment that they didn t have evidence but they had a lot of theories? that was mr. giuliani. and what exactly did he say and how did that come up? my recollection he said we ve got lots of theories, we just don t have the evidence. witnesses revealed how the pressure campaign from trump world became dangerous. republican arizona house speaker rusty bowers said people often show up to his house, some calling him a corrupt politician and a pedophile. bower
worker too scared to even say her own name out loud in public, a steep price for those who defended democracy and did their job. the committee unveiled new information about previously unknown activity involving wisconsin s republican senator ron johnson. his aide offered to hand deliver fake electors to vice president mike pence on january 6th, now, johnson claims this is a nonstory. cnn s manu raju pressed him on this. reporter: why was he even asking for that? because somebody delivered this to our office and asked to deliver that to the vice president. reporter: who is the person that delivered it? i have no idea. and new reporting this morning on ivanka trump, this is a reminder of what she told the january 6th committee in a taped deposition when asked about bill barr s conclusion that there was no widespread election fraud. i respected attorney general barr, so i accepted what he was saying. barr made those claims on december 1st, 2020, but nine days la
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