and traditions that we had perhaps come to take for granted. house committee members applauded the ruling. vice chair liz cheney tweeting, the investigation is firing on all cylinders and the truth will come out. the case is likely now destined for the supreme court. cnn s jessica schneider in washington this morning in washington starts us off with more. reporter: christine and laura, a second loss for trump to keep his white house records out of the hands of the january 6th committee. the d.c. federal appeals court refusing to agree with trump s claims that his assertion of executive privilege over those documents should prevail when the current president joe biden has waived the privilege. the three judges saying that trump just hasn t advanced any arguments that would warrant the documents being held back when the current president has said they should be given over to the committee. and this decision means the committee is one step closer to obtaining hundreds of pag
world. a lot to get to this morning. we begin with a major development on cnn s town hall with president biden last night. his strongest statement yet. the president signalled he would be supportive of the senate scrapping the filibuster. remember that s the rule that requires 60 votes to integrate most legislation. are you saying once you get this current agenda passed on spending and social programs that you would be open to fundamentally altering the filibuster if we re doing away with or doing away with it? well, that remains to be seen exactly what that means in terms of fundamentally, whether or not we end the filibuster straight up. there are certain things that are just sacred rights. one is a sacred obligation that we never are going to renege on a debt. we re the only nation in the world. we have never, ever reneged on a single debt. but when it comes to voting rights voting rights particularly is consequential. just so i m clear, you would entertain t
media the gang who kidnapped 17 missionaries is willing to negotiate their release for a hefty ransom. we have all the details for you. and it s a spacecraft, not a missile. china denies launching a hypersonic weapon, so is it all just a cover up? announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. hello. welcome, everyone. it is tuesday, october 19th, and in just a few hours the u.s. house select committee investigating the january 6th attack will vote on whether to hold former trump adviser steve bannon in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with the subpoena. now, political analysts say the rare move is intended to send a message to other allies of donald trump the committee wants to sque. but trump s team isn t backing down. on monday lawyers for the former president filed a lawsuit against the committee to keep trump records tied to the insurrection a secret. now, the committee had asked the documents as part of its probe. both trump and banno
revisited since it has been leaked to the public. and that may have something to do the motive of the leak. that is the leading theory which why it might have been conservatived. we don t know. but this fear that kavanaugh was polling one of the other conservatives decided to leave roe in tact and then we may have already had a revision. that is the main theory, right. is that this early draft that was intended to lock in all of the conservatives behind the sweeping reversal of roe. all right, new york magazine jonathan chait, thank you. there is so many different propgs to this story. right now democrats are trying to pass legislation to codify abortion rights. it is not going to pass because republicans won t support it. so, wonder what the point of that is. we ll talk about that. we kick off the fourth hour of morning joe now. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast. 6:00 a.m. for the early risers out west. and coming up on this hour, in just about 30 minutes, the markets will ope
it there, people gathered at this hour in front of the supreme court, just trying to take this all in. now, until this becomes a decision, abortion, at this hour, still legal in the united states. still the law of the land, although it seems unlikely that given this opinion, that the votes would change, it has happened before. this, though, right now, the conservative majority has, according to politico, provided a draft of this decision, of this opinion, that would overturn that law. now, the pubishing of the draft opinion is a stunning breach in and of itself, of supreme court confidentially and secrecy. you see the website actually posting it online, though cnn cannot confirm the document s authenticity. cnn legal analyst reports now from washington. reporter: this is seismic news coming from the supreme court. in a draft opinion obtained by politico, the court appears poised to overturn the landmark decision, roe v. wade, that legalized abortion in the united states. th