i m brianna keilar with john berman on this day. it is a critical day for the january 6th investigation. the committee threatening action against anyone who defies their subpoenas. and the biden white house rejecting donald trump s efforts to keep documents under seal. plus, democrats possibly inching closer to a compromise as we head into a key day for president biden s domestic agenda. and the reluctant warrior, in his own words. what colin powell told bob woodward about his health just months before his death. and truth, justice, and controversy. why superman s iconic motto is getting a rebrand. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, october 19th. later today, the january 6th committee decides whether long-time trump ally steve bannon gets referred to the department of justice for criminal contempt. bannon is citing executive privilege for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena. but the white house, the biden
restored communications after months of silence. we re live in seoul with the latest. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church . u.s. president joe biden has a busy week ahead. on tuesday he heads to michigan to rally support for a pair of multi-trillion dollar bills for his agenda. the vote on the bipartisan infrastructure deal which was delayed twice last week has now been pushed back to the end of the month and progressive democrats insist it will not pass unless they get the even larger spending bill across the finish line as well. and here s where things stand right now. the white house is offering a compromise with a number of just more than $2 trillion. there s no indication yet if moderates, such as joe manchin, are willing to go that high or if progressives will agree to that number either. cnn s suzanne malveaux has the details. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi pushing pause now issuing a new deadline of october 31st for a vote for
massive implications for the u.s. economy. therefore for you and me. a shutdown would mean government services across the board would close millions of americans already burdened with financial hardships on the pandemic would feel the impact if the u.s. runs out of money. federal workers would not get paid. payments to medicaid recipients would be halted as well. social security checks would not hit bank accounts and pay checks for our troops would stop. for those of you receiving the child tax credit, that would end as well. so can democrats overcome the gop blockade to avert the looming shutdown? president biden, will he bridge the divide within his own party to push his agenda over the finish line? cnn congressional correspondent lauren fox is on capitol hill, white house correspondent jeremy diamond also with us. lauren, to you first, to be clear, we have been here before. we have been here where congress gets close to the brink, frankly when both parties have been in pow
marathon-running, barrier breaking moderate. plus cnn visited musicians shutting down in fear of a pending ban on music. stay with us. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. our politics lead and the state of negotiations on capitol hill changing seemingly by the minute. the two massive democratic priorities still hanging in the balance. today white house staff is meeting with moderate arizona senator kyrsten sinema for the fourth time in the last day. trying to figure out exactly what centrists such as she need to support the large spending bill that will expand social safety net programs such as medicare and child care. progressives want an agreement with sinema and west virginia senator joe manchin by tomorrow or they will tank the bipartisan infrastructure bill. manchin telling cnn s manu raju, no way is it going to be ready by then. they need by tomorrow legislative language agreed to that won t happen. this is about much more, of course, than just democrati
of people were abdicated from around the town of dema near kyiv during russia s occupation, and most were initially held here in a sprawling industrial site. the russian forces used as a command post. this is where they were kept? yeah. ukrainian prosecutor alexander shows me the conditions those captured people were forced to endure. a small, dark, cold room. people were packed together here, he says. hands bound, eyes taped. this place was where 22 people. when they try to get the toilet, they need to walk on the legs of somebody else. because there are too much people. he says people came and went. some spent weeks here. someone tries to keep track of days by scratching marks on the wall. he said all the people who came through this room had only one thing in common. they were civilians. several people who were kept here tell us they were frequently beaten and interrogated for local information. one man says his hands and fingers were cut to the bone by russian s