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p.m. the cnn newsroom continues the cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. new today, a member of the january 6th committee weighing in on what would happen if former president donald trump ignores their promised subpoena. here s congressman adam kens ger. do you believe that the justice department, if the president refuses, should hold him in criminal contempt? look, that s a bridge we cross if we have to get there. you know, look, we well-recognize the fact that because of the committee only being able to exist until the end of this congressional year because that was the mandate, we re in a bit of a time limit here. and as we re wrapping up the investigation, we re also pursuing new leads and facts. and we want to speak to the president. look, he s made it clear he has nothing to hide is what he says. so, he should come in on the day we ask him to come
newsroom. we begin this hour with breaking news in iran where large plumes of smoke can be seen rising from an infamous prison in tehran. officials there confirming a fire has been set by the inmates of that prison. let s go to cnn s jamana. what more are you learning? we re still trying to find out what really is happening or happened at the prison. that notorious facility in northern tehran. of course, that prison that where many political prisoners, human rights activists, journalists, foreigners are kept in tehran. now, an hour ago, we started seeing video on social media showing this large plume of smoke billowing over the prison and according to the social media videos we have received, you could hear gunfire. according to the activist group that put out this video, they say that special forces were heading to the prison. now, according to the government s account of what is going on, they say that this was a fire that was started by these rioters. thugs as they desc
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and divide us. he will also call for federal legislation to keep guns from the mentally ill. there is cell phone video the moment the suspect was taken in by police. he spent months carefully planning it s attack. he was here. he was here in early march. then again, we know he was here on friday basically doing reconnaissance on the area. a manager at tops, the store where this attack took place, tells the news, he was was actually seen the day before the attack. he was wearing the asame tacticl jum jumpsuit. he was told to leave because he looked like he was bothering customers. and we ll have more on the disturbing details in a moment as well as how he was easily able to purchase a firearm, including the one he used to gun down ten people, despite the fact he d been given a mental health evaluation less than a year ago. cnn has obtained a photo of two of the rifles that the shooter brought with him to the scene in buffalo. and writing appears all over then, including a