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Big lie, the former acting attorney general. >> the big question today, will any witnesses show up? the former president urged aides to ignore subpoenas. one said overnight he wont show, effectively daring lawmakers to hold him in contempt. cnns ryan nobles has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: laura, christine, thursday is a crucial day for the january 6 select committee. today is the day where they are expected to have those first round of closed door depositions from two key trump associat...

Today. president biden would like some climate victories in place before he goes to scotland later this month for a big environmental conference, but chasms remain as to what is in the bill, and what can pass. bret. >> bret: yeah, and chad, youve got moderates that they just put the infrastructure bill on the house floor, like terry mcauliffe and mark warner. theyd like that before that election. >> thats right, and there is concern if they dont get this done by the end of the month and, say, yo...

With the absurd notions that there was improprieties in georgia and the georgia leg legislature should overturn the election. clark is a key figure and needs to answer that subpoena. >> you believe that the meeting with the acting a.g. under trump, jeffrey rosen, you believe that what came out of it is a sign that the committee is winning. why? >> chris, theres been a lot of focus on the coming contempt likely criminal contempt against those who arent cooperating but there is much more cooperati...

Criminal contempt. with patel off the calendar today, all eyes are on what the committee will do regarding steve bannon, longtime trump associate and adviser. he has made it cleerp he is not going to show up, he will not comply unless ordered by a court. in a letter, his lawyer writes that this is an issue between the committee and president trumps counsel and mr. bannon is not required to respond at this time. i noticed, one, bannon was not in the executive branch at the time in question. there...

In contempt after he defied their subpoena. in a statement, the chairman said he will not tolerate defiance of our subpoenas, so we must move forward. >> were not fooling around. we expect people to fulfill their lawful duties. >> bannon has said he will not co co co comply unless ordered by a court, noted that trump said he would invoke executive privilege. in a letter to lawmakers, bannons lawyer wrote that is an issue between the committee and president president trumps counsel. while lawmake...

Saturday. >> we have had 43 resignations, 70% of those are in clinical areas. unfortunately a number of the maternity nurses, the professionals who do labor, delivery and postpartum care are part of that group. >> tucker: so the maternity nurses all left. no more delivering babies in the hospital. the russians blame joe biden for this. but the truth is very different. the truth is that this is yet another heartfelt tribute to joe biden. those nurses left so they could devote more time to campaig...

Anyone as we pursue to get to the truth. so i can assure the listeners and the viewers that our committee is committed to following the information and just as we are pursuing the criminal contempt on steve bannon, it is just the beginning. you will see more of this type work coming. but well start. we put our staff together. investigators. so its a work in progress. >> i know you guys are working fast on all of this. cnn has learned that your committee did hear from the former acting attorney g...

A subpoena. they were only able to serve that subpoena last friday so because of that delay with the subpoena, theyve also delayed the date of his deposition. now, its not clear when these depositions have been postponed to, but keep in mind, even though the committee has given them this grace, they have also said that theyre not going to fool around. this is kind of the situation they ran into with jeffery clarke, the former doj official whom they subpoenaed yesterday. they were in negotiations...

Paintings, they were smoking a bunch of weed in there. >> he was trying to get his bond status revoked and against the advice of the judge, he chose to represent himself, and admitted to two additional felonies. he had climbed into the capitol through a broken window and tried to get the previous judge removed as putting his wifes phone number as an his emergency contact, and missed court ordered drug and alcohol appointments. the judge in question told him quote you have engaged in a pattern of...

Subpoenas for handing over documents and testifying to the committee. some of these figures are apparently complying. some of them are not. now, the committee has pretty explicitly said theyre not going to take "screw you" for an answer and keep saying theyll pursue criminal contempt charges for anybody who blows off these subpoenas. we dont know what that will look like yet. dana reamus tonight formally notified the national archives president biden is not going to go along with trump trying to...