consecutive rate hikes of that size, something we have not seen in modern history. when the fed raises rates, the cost to borrow goes up making things more expensive. which is the point. the fed is trying to cool spending just enough that prices start to ease. if spending cools too much, we could experience a recession. the fed finds itself between a rock and a hard place. it's sort of like a leak in your roof. if you don't deal with it now, it only gets worse. one part of the economy still working in our favor is the jobs market, which remains very strong with unemployment at historic lows. >> thank you very much. to our viewers, thanks for watching. i will be back tomorrow. erin burnett starts right now. the january 6th committee

subpoenas former president donald trump. the committee shows never before seen footage of the leaders of congress scrambling for help on the day of the insurrection. russia's revenge on ukraine using drones from iran. we are live in moscow tonight. life without parole for the shooter at parkland. trump subpoenaed. the january 6 select committee voting to subpoena the former president, donald j. trump, for his role in the insurrection. >> he must be accountable. he is required to answer for his actions. he is required to answer to those police officers who put their lives and bodies on the line to defend our democracy. he is required to answer to those millions of americans who

votes he wanted to throw out as part of his scheme to remain in power. so it is our obligation to seek donald trump's testimony. >> it is a major move. one that sets up a showdown between the committee and the former president. it comes as we are seeing new video of congressional leaders scrambling to secure the capitol as it was being ransacked by trump supporters.

>> manu, i know you spoke with bennie thompson who we play aid moment ago talking about that subpoena. what did he tell you? >> reporter: i asked him about how they would deal with the subpoena to donald trump if trump decides to fight this. whether or not they will go to court. he would not go that far save what they would do if donald trump decides to defy the subpoena. when i asked him if he expected trump to appeal, he said, quote, ask donald trump. the january 6 committee revealing new evidence showing trump planned all along to try and stay in office. >> president trump had a premeditated plan to declare that the election was fraudulent and stolen before election day. before he knew the election results. >> the key thing to do is claim victory. >> get right to the violence. >> if biden is winning, trump is

going to do some crazy [ bleep ]. >> reporter: drafting a statement days before votes were cast. declaring that trump had won. while trump privately admitted to some that he lost, he continued to fight, becoming enraged when the supreme court threw out a republican effort to overturn the election, telling his chief of staff that something else needed to be done to stay in power. >> i don't want people to know we lost, mark. this is embarrassing. figure it out. we need to figure it out. >> reporter: trump began pushing the notion that voting machines switched votes from trump to biden, even something his own advisors said had no basis in truth. >> i went into this and would, you know, tell him how crazy some of these allegations were. there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. >> reporter: the committee showing deposition from witnesses describing trump's inaction.

>> it's my understanding he was watching television. >> reporter: while playing video of lawmakers running for shelter shelter. >> everybody on the floor is putting on tear gas masks. >> i'm going to call up the secretary of dod. >> i have something to say, mr. secretary. i'm going to call the mayor of washington, d.c. right now. breaking windows and doing all -- they said somebody was shot. it's horrendous. all at the instigation of the president of the united states. >> why don't you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol, mr. attorney general, in your law enforcement responsibility? >> reporter: new messages showing how the secret service was aware of the violent rhetoric in the days leading up to january 6. >> in this email, an agent received a note noting a lot of

violence directed at government people and entities, including secret service protectees. one of the protectees was vice president pence. >> every single [ bleep ] in there is a traitor. every single one. >> they are moving to the capitol after the potus speech. >> reporter: trump responded to the subpoena news on his social media page and criticized the committee calling it unselect and said it was a total bust. he said, why did they wait until the end in the final moments of their last hearing to issue the subpoena? this comes as the committee says it plans to investigate allegations of potential obstruction to deny witness testimony before the committee. trump himself has urged some of his allies to invoke privilege, to deny the committee some of the key information it has sought, which is one reason why the lawmakers said they decided to issue that subpoena today. >> thank you very much.

i want to go to counsel to house democrats during trump's first impeachment trial, and our intelligence analyst stephanie grisham. john, do you think the committee made a case today? in the court of public opinion, something that they needed to do, separate from criminal investigations going on in the doj and elsewhere. did they make a case that trump committed criminal actions? >> they certainly are building towards that, because you can see they constructed it the way you would construct a case against any other leader who wanted to be insulated from those actions, a mob boss, a cartel chief. they said the proud boys were out there. who were the proud boys reporting to? roger stone. there's telephone records. the oath keepers were out there. who were they reporting to? roger stone.

the head of the proud boys visited the white house. what they didn't say is he claims he went on the holiday tour like anybody else. somebody will have to ask how a guy with multiple felony convictions got on holiday tour after they ran his background. they were building that case that there were people on the ground who were answering to people who answered to trump. >> right. the question is, will that be enough? they come out today and do this vote. they want trump to testify. trump is out there saying, why did the unselect committee ask -- why didn't they ask me? why did they wait until the end? that's a question. people have been asking them for months. actually, a lot of people thought they were done and then they added another one. they are making their case. why did they wait? what's the strategy? >> erin, one thing the committee has been masterful at -- you referred to this when you asked john the question is making the case to the american people.

this was the last bombshell. it's not unusual to wait until you have gathered evidence from others. you work -- it's classic law enforcement. >> yep. john is on the law enforcement side. i've been on the defense side. you work your way up the pyramid. i think it's both good drama, good stagecraft, but it is good law practice as well. >> which is interesting. there's the expectation trump will fight this or not do it. you know him well. do you think there's any chance that he actually agrees to do this? >> i think that he won't be able to resist the thought of going in front of the committee and defending himself. he always would say to me and everyone else, i am my own best spokesperson. he thinks as a narcissist that everything he says is right and beautiful and perfect. right? perfect phone calls. i think he is going to string the committee along. i wouldn't be surprised at all if he tries to negotiate with

them, maybe to get -- make sure it's in primetime for ratings, make them allow him to show some of his bogus proof that the election was stolen. that wouldn't surprise me at all. then when he doesn't get his way, of course, he will put out on his social media that they wouldn't cooperate, he tried. if i had to predict or guess, that would be my thought. >> of course, there's a risk in that theater for them as well. maybe that's why they waited. they did put some of that video that we haven't seen before of the capitol hill leaders -- pelosi and schumer -- let me play a bit of that again.

>> trump's response tonight, why didn't pelosi call out the troops before january 6, which i strongly recommended that she do? of course, testimony shows that he did not do on that day, despite repeatedly being asked. what's your reaction to this when you hear that? >> you know, the former capitol

police chief sat down with the sergeant at arms of both houses and said, i would like the national guard there. on january 3rd, he got an intelligence report from his own intelligence people saying this was going to be bad. the different between this and prime demonstrations was that not the counterprotesters fighting with each other but congress itself would be the target. what he was told was, reach out to the national guard and tell them just to be on standby. the national guard said, we don't do standby. call us out or don't. it takes them a couple of days to get there. in this case, they got there by that night. by then, they had to call every police department in the region just to get the building back. >> one of the interesting things about all of this -- all the investigations, the january 6 committee, the doj, what you are seeing in georgia was whether trump ever told anybody specifically that he knew he lost the election. that he didn't in some deluded insanity think he won and this

is justified. today, the committee showed something different. he explicitly told people that he knew that he lost the election. let me play it. >> we're in the oval. there's a discussion going on. the president says, i think -- it could have been pompeo. he says words to the effect of, we lost, we need to let that issue go to the next guy, being president biden. >> i remember maybe a week after the election was called, i popped into the oval just to give the president the headlines and see how he was doing. he was looking at the tv. he said, you can believe i lost to this fin' guy? >> mark raised it with me on the 18th. following that conversation, driving back to the white house, i said, does the president think he lost? he said, a lot of times he will tell me he lost but he wants to keep fighting it. he thinks there might be enough to overturn the election.

he pretty much acknowledged that he lost. >> this is all really interesting and crucial. meadows at the end, a lot of times he will tell me he lost. those are conversations that would have happened between the president of the united states to mark meadows. this is -- it seems extremely significant that he said to multiple people that he lost. >> it does. i agree with that. i want to note, i think they did a great job today in the committee of showing premeditation, of saying no matter what, i won. that struck and rung very true to me. you could go back through our administration and look at many examples. covid, he knew covid was serious. then he chose to say it wasn't. that silly hurricane map where he drew where the path was. everybody knew that that's not where the path was. that was then true. it didn't surprise me. it didn't surprise me to hear that everybody around him at the white house knew that he had

lost. but it also didn't surprise me to hear people were tiptoeing around him and letting him throw his fits and say that he won anyway. that's truly what is scary and one of my biggest regrets about the administration is that we enabled this man. now look where it left us. >> it makes the point, which legally you may or may not have needed to do, but to say that when trump asked for one more vote, it wasn't because he thought he fairly won the vote. he knew he didn't win the vote. he was trying to get it anyway. he was trying to subvert democracy. we have heard a lot about meadows. we haven't heard from him. he is the crucial person we have not heard from. how important would he be at this point? >> meadows is critically important, because he can give you -- we had double hearsay from cassidy hutchinson repeating what meadows heard from trump. meadows can give you the direct

evidence against trump. i do think that evidence has mounted. as you point out, erin, in florida when he told raffensperger -- we heard that tape today. i just want you to find 11,780 votes. after today, nobody can believe any longer that he thought he had those votes. meadows is very -- is a very important witness. >> thank you all very much. next, the supreme court rejecting trump's request to get involved in the mar-a-lago documents case. trump's former white house attorney will be with me next. what's quickly becoming russia's new weapon of choice, cheap, self-detonating, unmanned, deadly, causing destruction across ukraine. a cnn exclusive tonight. elon musk's satellite internet service starlink, that crucial communication tool for ukraine's military could be pulled from ukraine. this on the heels of musk pushing a pro-putin peace proposal. is it a coincidence?

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in this order from the supreme court, if they had intervened, it would have been extraordinary, just as extraordinary as the initial ruling from the district judge in palm beach who set off a little chaos in this investigation. the justice department now is free to conduct their investigation. we know that they are using these documents, bringing witnesses to talk to investigators. their work is going to continue unimpeded. keep in mind, there's still a separate appeal still going on before the 11th circuit court of appeals in atlanta. the justice department is set to respond to that tomorrow, to file documents tomorrow, explaining why they believe the entire ruling from judge cannon in palm beach should be set aside. >> as you point out, no known dissent. new news into the federal

investigation into january 6. mark stewart, the chief of staff to the then vice president on that day testified before the grand jury for the second time today. what else do you know about that? >> reporter: what's significant about this is that he was compelled to testify. this is the second time he has appeared before the grand jury. this was a grand jury, by the way, that is investigating the effort to impede the transfer of power. it's led by prosecutor tom wyndham. our team at the courthouse saw mark and cash patel there today, also believed testifying -- providing some kind of testimony in this same matter. what's interesting about this is that we know as we previously reported behind the scenes, behind closed doors has been a secret court fight with trump trying to prevent people like mark from providing certain testimony, because he believes it's shielded by executive privilege. it appears that at some point here a judge has finally ordered

mark to respond to some questions that he had earlier refused to answer. >> it continues. thanks. let's go to ty cobb, the former white house lawyer for then president trump. it's good to see you. last week, i want to be clear, you told me trump going to the supreme court was an error. you predicted that the justices would not, your words, waste a na na nanosecond getting involved in this. >> it sends a message to trump that just because he put three people on the court doesn't mean the justice goes out the window. this was the appropriate ruling. there was a nuance jurisdictional argument largely invented by the trump team, not consistent with the governing law that would allow

jurisdiction over anything -- to the 11th circuit over anything related to the injunction that judge cannon put forth. it was a very simple issue where you have the 11th circuit on an expedited basis moving forward. you've got that appeal will be heard before the deadline for the special master to release all the documents. there's just no reason for the supreme court to participate at this stage. >> so that is on that front. what about also the marc short, the department of justice criminal investigation? he was with pence on january 6. he goes back today for the second time before the grand jury investigating january 6. what do you think that means for trump? obviously, short was compelled to come back and answer more questions. >> i don't think that's good for

trump. i would like -- to the extent there's an edge here that might negatively reflect on marc, i would like to dispel that, just because it appeared the first time that he went forward, there was an understanding with the justice department that he was going to refuse to answer certain questions because of this issue. i think evan is right that that issue was subsequently raised with the judge and the judge directed him and frankly in a way that protects him from any claims from trump later on that he violated executive privilege to go ahead and answer, because marc is a very thoughtful -- you know him. >> yes, i do. >> he is a straight shooter, thoughtful guy. he has no interests here other than justice, as he demonstrated by faithfully and well representing vice president through these difficult moments,

particularly on january 6 and in the lead up thereto. >> you talk about how important he is. i want to ask you more about mark meadows. we have heard nothing from him recently. i want to play the testimony that the january 6 committee aired today. it's cassidy hutchinson. she's talking about a conversation she had with her boss who, of course, was the chief of staff, mark meadows, about trump's efforts to overturn the election in georgia. here is what she said. >> mark, you can't possibly think we're going to pull this off. that call is crazy. he looked at me and shaking his head, no, he knows it's over. he knows he lost. we're going to keep trying. >> this is about georgia. the call she's referring to is the 45-minute call with brad raffensperger where trump is saying i need 11,780 votes, one more than he lost by. meadows, according to cassidy

hutchinson, is able to say that trump knew he lost, directionally knew he lost, knew this was all bogus and knew everything he was doing was wrong. there's a lot of talk about meadows and how he himself is the subject of a criminal investigation in georgia. you don't think he should be worried right now. why not? >> i believe in my former prosecutor, former defense attorney heart of hearts that meadows is likely cooperating, either pursuant to a formal agreement or pursuant to an understanding with the justice department that his cooperation will be to his benefit somehow, whether that's totally formalized yet and the terms are specific, i have no knowledge. but i do think it was telling today that nobody on the committee even mentioned or was

whining about meadows, that meadows has cooperated with doj and as we know he produced all his records to the january 6th committee before he stopped cooperating with them. i think meadows is a central witness. everything touches him. i think this was one of the better veins mined today by the committee, because it does highlight the fact that trump knew he lost. it does highlight the fact that there's evidence of that and coupled with some of attorney general barr's testimony and others, i think that point was made pretty clearly today. and i thought that was a effective. i thought it was more effective than roger stone proud boys thing where you have to connect dots that don't quite connect. i think on the issue of trump's

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drone that russia is relying on to attack ukraine. >> reporter: early thursday morning, an attack on a town west of the ukrainian capital. russia continues its bombardment of ukraine's key infrastructure. across the country, scenes like this in central ukraine are a common sight. wreckages of power plants. the tactic is familiar, the weapon, until recently, was not. a kamikaze drone seen here after an attack on the other side of the country in kharkiv. cheap, self-detonating and unmanned, they are a new weapon in russia's war on ukraine. the markings say geran 2, but this is no russian-made weapon. it's designed and manufactured in iran. known as a loitering munition, it can circle a target and the lightweight air frame can travel long distances.

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says russia has ordered 2,400 kamikaze zones from iran. officials fear that as russia increasingly targets population centers, kamikaze drones are a growing part of the arsenal. erin, the ukrainians say the existence of the drones and the fact they are being used so often on the battlefield, including around kyiv, it shows how they need the western air defense systems. in fact, the president of the country, he told european lawmakers today that the o ukrainians have 10% of the capabilities that they need. we know the u.s. is trying to get additional systems here to ukraine as fast at possible. some european countries have pledged some as well. nato has also pledged specifically anti-drone equipment because that threat is so big. >> thank you very much, fred. i want to bring in matthew chance. he joins me from moscow tonight. it's stunning when you hear this.

thousands of these being ordered. what more can you tell us about this now extremely crucial and growing relationship between russia and iran? >> reporter: that relationship has been pretty longstanding. actually, stretches back into the soviet union. it has been consolidated over the past couple of decades because russia has been supportive of iran when it comes to the nuclear program. it contracted to built nuclear reactors across the country. there's been a lot of exchange of technology in that regard. russia and iran effectively fought side by side in syria and continue to do so, backing the government of assad against the rebels in that country. they have been very close in military terms as well. in a situation where russia is very isolated in the world, as evidenced by the u.n. general

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tonight, after almost five years, a verdict for the gunman who killed 14 students and 3 school staff members in parkland, florida. the jury deciding against the death penalty for the 24-year-old killer, nikolas

cruz, recommending life without the possibility of parole. fred guttenberg, his daughter jamie was one of the 17 killed in the attack. she was 14 years old. fred, almost five years, you have waited. today, as that verdict was read, we could see your face, just the deep breath you take, that pain and shock that went through -- across your face. what was going through your mind? >> you know, erin, the fact that there were 17 victims and no matter what happened today, for me and for the others, we still have to visit those we love in a cemetery because of a system that failed that allowed a murderer to get the means to

commit this murder, to plan this mu murder. and it is amazing to me -- what was going through my mind is how, again, things failed. because the state proved its case. every aggravator, they proved, and the jury agreed. the state proved its case. not only is he evil and a murderer, he is still sitting in his cell thinking of people he wants to kill. so knowing all of that, knowing that if ever in this country there was a death penalty case that was justified, it was this one. there was a juror who may have, for whatever reason, not been honest to get on this jury, that resulted in this outcome, i'm horrified. you know, listen, nothing changes for my wife and i and my

son. jamie is still going to be dead. but this is going to shock the conscience of a lot of people. i wanted the murderer to die as well for what he did. listen, he is going to go to prison. i suspect it will happen there. but i did want to hear that the death sentence was going to be a part of his reality going forward. i'm just devastated that it wasn't. >> you know, there were three jurors, we understand, that voted against the death penalty. it had to be unanimous. >> yeah. >> one of them -- the foreman told one of our affiliates that one of the jurors was a hard no because of mitigating factors is the words they used around mental health. the defense claimed cruz's mother abused drugs and alcohol while pregnant. they talked about personality

disorders. that was the argument they made. apparently, with three jurors it held sway. what's your reaction when you hear those arguments and that those are what tipped the jury? >> you know, i will say this. it sounds like there was one who was a hard no. the other jurors accused of being a no from the day she got there. two others ultimately changed to join her. i suspect had she not been a hard no, this would are been unanimous. that said, i sat through every day of that trial with that jury. the defense did not prove the mitigating factors. i also would say, there are lots of people in this country with mental health issues that don't turn into mass murderers. >> that's right. >> that don't plan methodically the way this person planned.

the defense attorneys i think were probably shocked today also. because they knew that their own witnesses fell apart under cross examination. so i'm not really sure, ultimately, how the jury came to this position. they all agreed that every aggravator was proved. this person should have been sentenced to death. the crazy thing, erin, is his own defense attorney in her closing argument, attorney mcneill, she actually said, if you send him to prison, he will die there of natural causes or under some other cause. literally telling the jury, listen, send him to prison because someone will kill him there. it was the most bizarre thing i ever heard. but even they feel that way about him.

i was shocked. >> the judge is going to allow time for more victim testimony at the sentencing hearing, which i understand is about two weeks. i know and your wife, who have gone through this unspeakable agony spoke in court about this and your son who struggles every day with the loss of his sister and what happened that day. is is there anything more that you want to say or that you think is important to say that you're going to choose to speak out again to the judge? >> there is. what people need to know about the victim impact statements that we gave, they all had to be vetted by the attorneys. approved by both sides. so what we said had to meet all sorts of legal criteria. it wasn't everything we wanted to say. it wasn't the extent of how we feel.

at the sentencing hearing, we will get to say whatever we want, including discussing how we feel now about this verdict. i have a lot more i'd like to say. i have a lot more i'd like to say directly to the killer. i couldn't -- i couldn't refer to the killer as a killer, by the way, in my impact statement before. i couldn't refer to his murder. i couldn't talk about how he planned the murder. i couldn't say any of those things. we were prohibited from them. we're not anymore. and we will now get to tell him exactly how we feel about him. >> fred, thank you. i'm so sorry. >> thank you, erin. >> and next, the cnn exclusive, elon musk's company spacex says it can no longer pay for the crucial satellite services used by ukrainian troops on the

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tonight, a cnn exclusive. elon musk's spacex says it's running out of money to run the crucial satellite service that ukrainian troops depend on daily in the battlefield. this comes amidst reports that musk recently spoke to vladimir putin about the war. that is a report that musk d denies. >> reporter: in ukraine's fight to push out russian invader, one of the most critical pieces of technology doesn't fire rockets or bullets. it's small, easy to use satellite terminals call starlink, made by spacex, the rocket and satellite company founded by elon musk. according to spacex, there are

around 20,000 starlink terminals in ukraine, and they've been vital for soldiers' communication, flying drones, and artillery targeting. >> starlink is the glue really between the forward deployed drone and the artillery that's conducting the strike against russian positions. >> reporter: starlink arrived in ukraine as the war started, earning musk global praise and thanks. cnn has now exclusively obtained documents showing not only is spacex one part of a large international effort gets starlink's to ukraine ace front lines, but now they're warning the pentagon they're facing the difficult choice of reduce organize stopping the service. >> why at this moment starlink is raising this issue. it's really bad timing. >> reporter: the company says it has spent almost $100 million and, quote, we are not in a position to further donate terminals to ukraine or fund the existing terminals for an indefinite period of time.

spacex has now requested the pentagon pick up much of the tab, $124 million for the rest of 2022, a rate that would translate close to $400 million for the next year. >> spacex is not a charity, of course, and they're losing a lot of money right now as a business. so i'm sure they're trying to recoup some of theirs costs. >> reporter: spacex's request came after ukraine's commanding general wrote in july directly to musk. the letter obtained exclusively by cnn. starlink units provide exceptional utility, the general wrote, then asked musk for almost 8,000 more terminals. instead, spacex said they told ukraine to send their request to the pentagon, adding we have now exceeded our original agreement with ukraine. without starlink, ukraine says it can't fight. last week reports emerged of widespread sudden starlink outages on the front line as troops fought to take back territory. >> they are puzzled about why that is going on.

is that something that spacex is doing intentionally? is that coming from elon? no one is quite sure. >> reporter: the outages and news of the funding request to the pentagon come as musk's support of ukraine is also questioned after he proposed a peace deal, suggesting that ukraine relinquish crimea to russia and hold u.n.-backed referenda for parts of eastern ukraine. he said ukraine doesn't want to talk about peace negotiations while he said russia would accept those terms. in the backlash that has followed, elon musk has repeatedly insisted he is pro ukraine, just yesterday tweeting at a ukrainian official who thanked him, saying you're most welcome. glad to support ukraine. the documents we saw show that spacex fully donated just 15% of the starlink hardware. the terminals, those are the terminals, with the majority, 70% of the internet service, the rest come from countries like u.s., poland, the uk and other

entities. now erin, at the same time musk is saying he is glad to support ukraine, his company is now saying that support may soon slow down or end. spacex ignored our repeated request for comment, and a lawyer for musk did not ronald. >> alex marquardt, thank you very much. alex's exclusive reporting. and next, rare resistance in china against the restrictive covid lockdowns that are still right now being imposed by president xi jinping, who is about to clinch an unprecedented third term in power.

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tonight, an extraordinary scene of resistance over china's severe crackdown on covid. protesters using an overpass to hang two big banners, one reading go on strike, remove dictator and national traitor xi jinping. an unbelievable statement. the other saying no to covid test, yes to food. no to lockdown, yes to freedom.