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we re following multiple breaking stories tonight. the president weighing in on the january 6th investigation, saying anybody who refuses a subpoena should be prosecuted by the justice department. sources telling cnn that the clean energy program will likely be cut from the democrats budget bill, after pressure from joe manchin. so what will president biden say? and the doj responding to biden s comments on the select committee. here s what he said. i hope that the committee goes after them, and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? i do, yes. let s go to ryan nobles. reporter: they re making it clear the president s comments from their perspective don t have anything to do with their decision making process in terms of how they will respond to this criminal contempt referral. and anthony coley putting out a statement saying the department of justice will make its own independent decisions in all prosecutions. based solely on the facts and the la ....
day. the threats to the holiday season with christmas and hanukkah on the way. the white house trying to address the backlog as consumers face a triple whammy. the supply train problems and some rising inflation and increasing gas prices. arthel: we have michelle steele standing by with reaction to the president response. first we will go to david. live at the white house with the very latest. hi. the first few months of the covid pandemic in 2020, and candidate joe biden criticized his predecessor who was here at the time donald trump. biden, this was during the food shortage in the candidate said we needed leadership in the trump administration was not doing a good job in managing that food shortage crisis. now biden is in the oval office and he has quite a few issues to wait through including the crisis. many different words for it. cargo ships have been parked off the coast of california for the last few months. millions of goods are in limbo. new numbers from the ....
actor has gone before. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. well, the u.s. has reason for optimism in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. as data shows the country is gaining ground. only five states saw cases jump more than 10% over the week before. two-thirds of eligible americans, that s ages 12 and up, are now fully vaccinated. and shots for those aged 5 to 11 may be on the horizon. rates of new infections, hospitalizations, and deaths are all headed down. but experts warn now is not the time for americans to lower their defenses. here s national institutes of health director, dr. francis collins. kind of like if your house was on fire. and and delta had set it on fire, and now we could say, okay, the fire s under control. it s not time to run back in and pretend like nothing s going on. we still have some work to do here. and dr. collins, also, had a message for those who say they are unvacci ....
we begin in washington with a showdown over executive privilege. donald trump is pushing back after biden denied shielding. the former president has written his own letter to the national archives in an attempt to keep more than 40 documents under wraps. more on what this means for the investigation. tonight, the biden administration is clearing the way for the january 6 select committee to get information about what was going on in the white house before and during the insurrection. president biden will not assert executive privilege over some record since the document shed light on the events and baron the committee s need to under the attacks underlying the most serious attack on operations of the federal government since the civil war. this is just the first set of documents and we ll evaluate privilege. the president has been clear he believes to be the utmost importance for congress and the people to have a complete understanding of the events on that day to p ....
hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is watching to see if president biden can deliver. the new clock starts now for democrats after a week of frenzied infighting and two delayed votes. house speaker nancy pelosi set a new deadline for her party writing in a letter to her caucus on saturday the bipartisan infrastructure bill must pass before october 31. which means the party must also reach consensus on the larger social policy bill, the centerpiece of president biden s agenda. on friday president biden made clear now that he believes those two packages are linked saying that to all house democrats during a rare trip to capitol hill that s where he stands in the effort to try to calm tensions in the party. and while his negotiating skills may have worked in the short term there s signs that his decision to side with progressives by delaying the infrastructure vote may have caused real damage with the moderate wing. saturday, senator kyrsten si ....