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
lee zeldin shockingly attacked at a campaign rally by a man who tried to stab him, and the very brief stint in custody for the man arrested has zeldin and others sounding off. proceeding with caution. could the optimism in one american city inspire us all to think big and more positively about our inflated economy right now? welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we re going to start with our politics lead and a clear sign from the january 6th house committee they believe it is time for attorney general merrick garland to charge donald trump with a crime. this morning, republican congressman adam kinzinger from illinois, one of the republicans on the committee, told cnn that the timeline laid out by the committee is not just damning of the president but leaves trump with clear criminal culpability. we have proven different components of a criminal case against donald trump or people around him in every hearing. and i think taken in totality, this represents the greates
probably withstand appeal. talk about how unusual a case like this is, this contempt of congress case and the difficulty of trying a case like this. you know, is highly unusual, but it s also extremely important because if you let individuals make their own decisions about whether they will or will not comply with lawfully issued subpoenas, whether they are congressional subpoenas, grand jury subpoenas, trial subpoenas, then the entire system just falls apart. congress could accomplish nothing if witnesses if witnesses if you would stand by, we want to head over a little ways from are you are and that s over to capitol hill where we find allie standing by. it s only been about 20 minutes so i m not expecting you to get any additional but you are top- notch at what you do. you may have additional grounder. how do you see this rippling out on capitol hill now that we have the sentence in the first of this first trial out of this committee, how do you see the rip
on the u.s. capitol. instead, for 187 minutes, between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home, the 45th president of the united states first argued with secret service agents who refused to take him to the capitol. then after returning to the white house, sat in a small, private dining room off the oval office, transfixed by the violence he saw playing out on fox news. which showed the capitol under siege. trump learned just 11 minutes after returning that the protest had turned violent, but he did not make any calls to intervene. failing to reach out to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the department of homeland security. instead, he demanded a list of senators phone numbers, calling and encouraging them to delay or object to the certification of the electoral college count. while the president s official call log from the white house that afternoon is empty, trump placed at least two other calls that day. not to the military or the police but