historic flooding in texas. not seen in decades. the u.s. markets finishing sharply lower for the second day in a row on more concerns about the health of the u.s. economy. can we bring inflation down without triggering a recession, and my answer to that question is i don t know. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. this tuesday, august 23, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and we begin with exclusive cnn reporting tied to the january 6 investigation. we ve learned the u.s. justice department has issued a new subpoena to the national archives for more documents related to its probe of the capitol riots. it is a possible sign the department is ramping up its investigation into the role former u.s. president donald trump and his staff may have played in the events leading up to the capitol insurrection. here is evan perez with more. reporter: we were told there was a second grand jury subpoena served to the natigs archives t prod
to the capitol insurrection. here is evan perez with more. reporter: we were told there was a second grand jury subpoena served to the natigs archives t produce additional documents. you remember the archives responded to a subpoena from the justice department back in may to provide all of the documents that they have provided to the january 6 committee. it appears that tom wind demwindham and the team are looking at the effort to impede the transfer of power and the role of the former president and some of his allies. it looks like they have decided that there is additional material that the january 6 committee perhaps did not know about and did not ask about that they are interested in as part of their investigation. it tells us that there is more that they know about. and to be clear this appears to be a separate investigation from what led the fbi to conduct