issuing its first subpoenas for witness testimony and documents to four loyalists of the former president. that as president joe biden is nearing the end of a rough week for his administration, especially with the big-ticket items at the top of his domestic agenda in peril. can he turn things around? also tonight, an arrest warrant issued for brian l laundrie for his alleged activities after the death of his fiancee gabby petito. this as investigators continue searching for laundrie in a nature preserve in florida. there s a lot to discuss this evening. i want to get to cnn s chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and senior legal analyst laura coates. jeffrey, this is big news. the january 6th select committee targeting four of trump s top aides, going straight to subpoenas. what does that tell you about the investigation? well, it tells you that what they re looking at is what donald trump knew and when he knew it and what complicity he had in this riot. what it also tells
i m michael holmes and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states and around the world. appreciate your company. this is cnn newsroom. those stories in a moment, but first after debate and disagreement among vaccine experts, pfizer booster shots can now be officially administered to millions of adults in the u.s.. the director of the u.s. centers for disease control rochelle walensky is breaking with the recommendation of the cdc s independent vaccine advisers. instead she s siding with the fda, which on wednesday recommended emergency use authorization for a booster dose of pfizer s covid-19 vaccine in people 65 and older. she is also giving the green light to those aged 18 and over with underlying health conditions that put them at high risk of severe disease, and those at high risk because of their occupation, which, of course, would include health care workers and the like. now, cdc advisers had voted against giving boosters to people age 18 to 64 who
And the committee isn t wasting any time. they d like this information as soon as october 7. they requested the interviews take place on october 14 and 15. it likely won t be that easy, though. it is a very likely that these men will attempt to use executive privilege as a way to fight the committee subpoena power and prevent them from coming forward. so even though they d like this to happen relatively soon, there is a very good chance that we re going to see a legal battle before we see any interviews actually take place. ryan nobles, cnn on capitol hill. so these trump loyalists may well try to stonewall the committee when trump was in power. white house officials were fending off subpoenas left and right. but now they might no longer be protected. cnn s senior law enforcement analyst lays out what the panel wants to know. sounds to me like they are taking the first steps at conducting what will prove to be a very thorough inquiry.
2020. that undisputed fact reconfirmed one more time as inexperienced pro-trump add uditors hired by state senators brought them phantom hunt to an end. in the end, the the effort back fired. trump lost 261 votes in that partisan recount. while joe biden picked up 99. now, four close aides and allies of former donald trump had been hit with subpoenas from the bipartisan panel investigating the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. the committee is trying to drill down on what led to the insurrection and what trump and members of his inner circle were doing when it all went down. cnn s ryan nobles explains who has been summoned and how likely they are to cooperate. this is a significant move by the january 6 select committee. the first round of subpoenas and
Interview requests that they have made, and it comes to four men that are very loyal to and served the former president donald trump. his former chief of staff, mark meadows, his former deputy chief of staff dan scavino. cash patel served as the chief of staff to the then acting secretary of defense, and steve bannon, former white house counsellor played an active role in the trump campaign and also involved in the planning and encouragement of people to attend that stop the steal rally that served as the prelude to the january 6 capitol insurrection. and when you read these letters that were sent to all four men, it seems pretty clear what the committee is looking for and why they are asking these men to come forward. the letter to dan scavino, for instance, reads, the select committee has reason to believe that you have information relevant to understanding important activities that led to and inform the events at the capitol on january 6, 2021, and relevant to former president trump