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january 6th select committee officially issuing a subpoena to donald trump. when exactly they want to sit down with the former president, and whats next and what could be a potentially long and historic legal battle. plus, president biden set to speak any minute now. the focus, the student debt relief program. with election day less than three weeks away, how its moving forward, after surviving two legal challenges. >> and while were talking midterms, senator raphael warnock, no more...

4:00 in new york. happy friday. it is a very busy day of news here with the disgraced twice impeached ex-president subpoenaed today, and donald trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. also in the news today, trump ally steve bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison behind bars for his refusal to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th select committee. a member of the committee, democratic congresswoman zoe lofgren will join us in a few moments. we ...

thank you for joining me tonight. coverage continues with laura coates. >> ill take it on a friday night. >> one per customer. apologize. >> im not trick-or-treating at your house. one piece of candy for each kid. >> oh, no, no. >> you hand it all out? >> yes, i dont want it in the house afterwards because ill eat it all. >> im always like one piece kid and not the one i want. >> take 20 so i dont eat them, yes. >> okay. well, go to jake tappers house, not laura coates. you get one pie...

and not the one i want. >> take 20 so i dont eat them, yes. >> okay. well, go to jake tappers house, not laura coates. you get one piece of candy and probably black licorice. >> you probably give apples. >> ive given toothbrushes from time to time. i have. not just kidding i give full cans of sodas, too. the parents hate me. >> nice. this is "cnn tonight." im laura coates. as i mentioned allison is on assignment. were going to have a panelists from across the spectrum and theyre on t...

Li thehi there, im brianna keilar. North korea opening the door for diplomacy with the United States saying it would end its Nuclear Program if its security is guaranteed. What does that mean though . Officials from seoul and pyongyang will host an interkorean summit next month, this is following a round of talks that saw kim jongun meet with high ranking south korean officials including the president there. For more on the major developments i am joined by Cnn Asia Pacific editor andrew stevens...

Committee still gets good nighted in january no matter what. but in this subpoena itself, were you surprised by the breath of what was contained, what they were asking for? were you surprised at the timing? it was really the last thing theyve done? >> weve always expected if they took this step, a step they didnt want to have to take in the end, it would be one at the absolute end, we had all this witness testimony and documents produced and also, it was going to go towards this particular categ...

Efforts nor the justice department is going to hold him on a simple misdemeanor of contemp of congress. if hes facing problems in the justice department, if hes facing an indictment, its a larger issue of conspiracy to defraud the united states for january 6th. this is just something they throw in as an after thought. >> your issue or thought is not that the doj would be dismissive because its not credible because they have other fish to fry and this would be not a nuisance but more of we have o...

And that is reflected in the subpoena itself, that language of block. the question is, also, is it illegal to try to block the certification of the person who is the president? >> also false information. the eastman memo say that go night there are alternate electors -- >> and they dont exist. >> it is illegal to block action. >> thats sedition. >> thats in the statute. >> thats in the statute if youre working with other people to do that, to stop official government action that is the definitio...

Documents by friday. and many requested documents yesterday and today, many are questioning the subpoena itself, the validity of it, has since been edited. >> today we are remembering charles krauthammer, a man of extraordinary accomplishments. >> the dean of conservative commentators with insight but to many he was a friend. and dana perino sharing her memories of charles this morning the thank you for joining us on a difficult morning for you. in the divisive political landscape, what lessons ...

The grand jury subpoena to bring all the documents in. the other thing is that if youre mueller, you have to just rely on the facts that you gather. and not the opinions of these witnesses because thats not provable in court testimony that you can put in. so hes most interested in the writings. if you look at -- >> contemporaneous e-mails. >> it is more than e-mails. we look at the subpoena itself, documents are very broadly defined as correspondents, hard drives, discs, memoranda, draft memoran...