to the january 6 investigation. former trump official mark meadows is suing lawmakers to block their subpoenas. we ll tell you the committee s response. the omicron variant of the coronavirus now in 22 states. health experts are predicting a winter surge and urging americans to get their booster shot. and 2two more countries joi the diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics. we ll have china s reaction. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. it s thursday, december 9th, and we begin with the latest challenge to the january 6 committee s ability to investigate the capitol insurrection. it s an about face by former white house chief of staff mark meadows on testifying. instead, he s suing the house speaker and the committee to block enforcement of his subpoena to appear. donald trump s former top aide is claiming effective privilege, but he s already turned over thousands of pages of documents and has written about conversations wit
remember, but he says he changed his mind after being blind sided by the subpoena to verizon. he came to the conclusion that they are still going to try to question those personal private conversations that i had with the president of the united states and other senior officials in the west wing. and, quite frankly, their scope is way the court is going to have to determine that. committee members note meadows himself gave the capitol riot committee 6000 pages of documents voluntarily but is now refusing to testify about their contents, claiming executive privilege. here s congressman adam schiff. it s a very superficial filing meant to try to obstruct and stall. it won t be successful. we intend to move forward and hold him in criminal contempt, and expect and hope the justice department will move with equal a alacrity. i was surprised by the lawsuit. i don t think it will do him any good. ryan nobles on capitol hill. reporter: there was a lot of news on the se
if she s on the pitch, you stay in the seat. thank you so much. new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, december 9th. i was surprised by the thursday thing. it creeps up on you. one our from now, president biden kicks off a two-day democracy summit at the white house. the virtual meeting that will gather leaders from 110 countries to push back on what the biden administration warned is a global democratic recession. two nations not on the guest list, russia and china. both have attacked the biden summit. they call it hypocritical. we will bring it to you live. new signs of economic recovery fueling a wave of optimism throughout the country. among the reasons here, pay raises are coming down the pike. there s a radical drop in energy prices, jpmorgan made the prediction that 2022 will mark the end of the pandemic. cnn business reporter joining us now on that. hey, matt. reporter: good morn
and you could pay as little as $15 a month for wireless. click, call, or visit a store to learn more. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it s thursday, december 9th. there we made it this far. we have. so close. i m brianna keilar with john berman. mark meadows, former chief of staff, is suing the january 6th committee and also suing nancy pelosi, speaker of the house, all in an effort to block enforcement of a subpoena issued to him and to verizon for his phone records. meadows explained his sudden reversal on fox last night. we came to the conclusion that they re still going to question those personal private conversations that i had with the president of the united states and other senior officials in the west wing. and quite frankly, their scope is the court is going to have to determine that. so we re going to challenge it. the january 6th committee is calling meadows lawsuit flawed. they will meet next week. on
distract. lawmakers instagram after damning reports on the site s impact on children. you are the new tobacco whether you like it or not. you have got to stop. hillary clinton launched a master class. this was supposed to be the victory speech that i would have delivered. looks like self-pity and how to lose an election. it s beginning to look a lot like christmas everywhere you go ainsley: that is one of our trees inside studio m. brian: that s not on fire. ainsley: right. the one outside has been taken down, the remains of it, and we are going to light another tree during the five tonight and we ll all be here for the tree lighting ceremony. steve: it will be great. cardinal dolan will be here. members of the fire department of new york and the police department who helped apprehend the guy. we will all be there. and it is a big story. it is the cover of the new york post, treeson. grinch sets fire to fox s y all display he is free on bail despite a long rap