the justice department isn t the only group that lobbied the court about steve bannon today mr. speaker, i understand there might be a change in position regarding the house and their stance on the january 6th committee, and it might be regarding steve bannon, and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. tell me what s going on. yeah, we re working on filing on amicus brief in his appellate work there in his case today speaker of the house mike johnson and several other republican members of the house voted to make the formal position of the u.s. house of representatives, the formal position that the january 6th committee did not have the authority to do the work that it did, and that therefore steve bannon should not have to go t to step back here for some context, remember that the reason steve bannon is headed to prison in the first place is because he refused to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that s despite clearly knowing a lot about
office. and in the midst of all of this, president biden will meet with stacey abrams, the woman widely credited helping flip the state of georgia and hand democrats control of the house. it comes at a critical time for voting rights in the peach state. sweeping new voting restrictions could be voted on as soon as monday. more on all of that coming up but first i want to bring in my colleague kelly o donnell at the white house and blayne alexander in atlanta. kelly, this trip has taken a whole different meeting since the shooting. what is the focus going to be? there are definitely dimensions to this day. it s the first time the president and vice president are traveling together. given the tragedy that unfolded in atlanta and wider reaction, especially in the u.s. asian american community, the white house decided to add a component to speak to those issues and the president and vice president will have a private leader with the leaders of the asian community and be makin
the day when death seems to have won, but we hope for a resurrection. we believe in the victory of life over death, and we pray that death loses. president zelenskyy said that life is beginning to return to normal in the liberated areas of ukraine. but life returning also means images like this. we ve just been able to confirm the details of this video. it s a makeshift grave for a mother and her son. the video shows two-plywood crosses on a grave with two names. marina and ivan. both died march 5th. and in the neighboring town new satellite images detail the sheer destruction wrought by the russian forces. these drone images are extraordinary. block after block of ruined lives, destroyed homes. it s said to have suffered the brunt of a weeks long fire fight but is now free from the imminent threat of russian forces. same cannot be said for other kwlairs of the country. today a russian general speaking on state television in comments picked up across the world made a sweepi
Campaign trail. Kpix 5s phil matier is in oakland with why a big union says sanders is their choice for president. Thats absolutely right. And this is sort of a stunner because just a couple months ago it was bernie who . And now it is bernie. Hey, this might be something. Reporter as campaign boosts go, it was about as big a bumpup as Bernie Sanders could have hoped for. The 187,000member National Nurses united through its endorsement for the little known senator from vermont over the big name in the race, Hillary Clinton. That we endorse doctors, medicine, not in the profits of Drug Companies who make every Public College and university in america tuitionfree. Telling wall street they are going to have to take their fair share of taxes. Its attracting thousands of supporters like this rally in portland, oregon yesterday. It shows hes got the unions with him and thats important in terms of overall strategy. It gives you a whole big base for moving forward. Reporter and Hillary Clinton
Just beginning for the republicans. They have taken back control of the senate for the first time in eight years. And for the g. O. P. , the victory was loud and clear. For the democrats, a lot of secondguessing, a lot of work ahead to figure out what went wrong. Lets first go to stephanie sy who is following the news. Democrats had to defend seats in seven states in which obama lost in 2012. All except alaska. The republicans have won all of those seats tonight. Starting in North Carolina, tom til is beating out kay hagan, the democratic incumbent in North Carolina. That was thegol pickup that chair changed the power in the senate . West virginia, this was an expected pickup. Shelly more capism to beating with 62 of the vote in west virginia. That was former democrat Jay Rockefellers senate seat. Another flip there. In the senate place arkan saw, representative tom cotton, a first Term Congressman unseats mark pryor, the Democratic Senate in arkansas. In south dakota, former govern mi