the attack on the capitol. high-ranking lifelong republicans, notable members of the former president s staff, detailing how he watched television as the violent assault unfolded. officials say he never called law enforcement or the pentagon to put an end to the violence. and while video evidence showed rioters hanging on every word from the then-president, we learned that trump initially refused to use the word peace when he finally sent a tweet to that mob. it was the then-vice president, mike pence, who ultimately called in the national guard as rioters were chanting to hang him. previous testimony revealed president trump thought pence, quote, deserved those chants. last night we learned that members of mike pence s security detail called loved ones in the midst of it because they feared they wouldn t make it out of the capitol safe and alive. to hear that was just stunning. and last night republican congressman adam kinzinger wrapped up the hearing with this messag
spur the justice department to launch a criminal case. nobody wants an organized crime prosecution where the d.o.j. lawyers or prosecutors go after foot soldiers and lieutenants but don t go after the people that are ordering the crimes and putting all of the criminal events into motion. so, i agree with that. you know, i think that as a matter of justice it is just wrong to punish the people that are seduced by a criminal mastermind but not the mastermind himself or herself. the hearing provided this jaw-dropping account of just how much danger vice president s secret service detail thought that they were in. members of the v.p. detail were starting to fear for their own lives. there was a lot of yelling. there was a lot of very personal calls over the radio. it was disturbing. i don t like to talk about it. there were calls to say good-bye to family members, so on and so forth. for whatever the reason was on the ground, the v.p. detail thought it was about to get very
of dollars of fines. this is not something that s going to happen immediately. the judge has set october 21st as the sentencing date. it will be a few months before we know what sentence is going to be handed down. it s been clear from bannon s attorneys throughout this trial that they do intend to appeal. because these are misdemeanor charges it s very possible that we could see the judge delay any kind of, you know, whether bannon has to serve any kind of sentence until after they go through that appeals process. we just don t know that yet. what we do know is this is a big boost to the house select committee. this is a reaffirmation of their investigative power, of their subpoena power, at a time when they re wrangling with a bunch of different witnesses. peter navarro is another person who defied his subpoena and is poised to go to trial over that. it s a win for the justice department. they ve come under a lot of scrutiny, criticism in terms of how they re investigating
condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannon s criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committee s subpoena. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is joining us from just outside the federal courthouse here in washington. katelyn, give us the latest. reporter: well, wolf, steve bannon was convicted today, even though he had vowed this was going to be the misdemeanor from hell for the select committee. it was not that. by the end of the day, we had two criminal convictions of steve bannon. now, these were both misdemeanor charges, but congress writes the law, and when they wrote this law, they said that it would be punishable by a minimum
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