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
with as many as 175,000 troops. ukraine s defense minister warning that would lead to a bloody massacre. it has been a crucial 24 hours as the president also infuriated china by announcing a diplomatic boycott of the beijing winter olympics. matthew chance live for us on the ground in ukraine with our top story. this is a hugely consequential day in u.s. foreign policy. matthew, can you hear us? all right. i think we re having, obviously, some technical difficulties. we re going to try to get matthew back up there from ukraine on what is a huge day for president biden. this phone call, this video con consequence call that he is going to be having with vladimir putin. january 6th was practice. donald trump s next coup has already begun. that is a warning in a terrifying report in the atlantic. quote, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. it will rely on subversion more than violence. if the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by american
good criticism helps us get better. my view is what we are seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively used leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company. the reality is that we have an open culture where we encourage discussion and research about our work so we can make progress on many complex issues that are not specific to just us. in reality, the facebook papers show researchers found the company essentially created a frankenstein, a monster, pushing falsehoods in the darkest corners in ways that won t easily be undone. cnn s donie o sullivan starts us off this morning. reporter: we need to steel ourselves from more bad headlines in the coming days, facebook wrote in an internal memo to colleagues over the weekend. we didn t invent hate, but you think it s making hate worse? unquestionably it s making hate worse. reporter: whistleblower frances haugen appeared before the parliament and cnn and other news agencies began producing thousands of page
baldwin s hands ended up fatally shooting the cinematographer and wound being the director. this is what the founder we learned today and reported exclusively that the gun that alec baldwin used to tragically, accidentally shoot haylna hutchins had been used earlier in the day with target practice. there s a lot of down time on sets. you probably know this. there is this pastime that crew members flin plinking. they shoot at beer cans. this is live ammunitions. this is the day that haylna hutchins was killed. we have new information about dave hols, the assistant director. he was fired in 2019 after a crew member was injured in another gun safety incident. production of rust is on hold indefinitely and possibly it ll never see the light of day. chloe is with us now. some of the pieces are coming together, even as there are so many questions to be answered. to hear the report about these crew members out doing target practice, plinking as we talk about it. when we ta
hours before so that the crew could use it for target practice. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. breaking news in the health lead. 28 million american children may soon have access to a covid vaccine. right now, right this second, the u.s. food and drug administration s advisory committee is voting on whether to recommend pfizer s vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11 under emergency use conditions. this comes as the american academy of pediatrics says the number of kids testing positive for covid is still considered, quote, extremely high. nearly 6.3 million american kids have gotten infected since the pandemic began. more than 100,000 this past week alone though we should note children are far less likely than adults to be hospitalized or to suffer long-term effects from covid. and as cnn s alexandra field reports, even though this is the seventh consecutive week of declines in cases for kids, experts are hoping today s vote will soon lead to shots going into little arms t