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
weather center. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin with both new hope and a new round of fighting in ukraine. officials say 13 missiles struck a city about 300 kilometer north of mykolaiv, leaving a number of people injured and killed. the missiles targeted military airfield and a railway facility. officials are urging people to stay in shelters for now while the mayor of mykolaiv is reporting what he calls powerful blasts in that city. but on the hopeful side, ukraine and russia have signed an agreement that will allow ukraine to resume grain exports through the black sea. much of that grain has been stranded because of a russian naval blockade, leaving 47 million people around the world in acute state of hunger according to a u.n. estimate. president zelenskyy says russia may not fully keep its side of the bargain. here he is. translator: the text of the document signed today is published, and everyone can read its points. they ful
famine. reporter: since the war began, russia has attacked and blockaded ukraine s ports, burnt wheat fields, stolen harvests from farmers. until now, russia has been holding the world s grain hostage. the new deal aims to end that by creating safe shipping channels, using ukrainian pilots to navigate through sea mines, implementation overseen by turkey includes inspecting cargos. russia s defense chief and ukraine s infrastructure minister signed the deal, but not with each other, simply with the u.n. tensions remain and the deal fragile with no hard ceasefire at ports. an adviser to president zelenskyy s chief of staff tweeting in case of provocations, an immediate military response. ukraine does not trust russia. i don t think anyone has reasons to trust russia.