long-time trump adviser steve bannon is back in court. this time awaiting sentencing after he was found guilty on two counts of contempt of congress. we ll take you live outside the courthouse and explain what happens if the appeals court decision goes one way or another. and with just 18 days to go until the critical mid-term elections, president biden continues his mid-term push. next hour he ll give live reports touting his economic plan. plus, we ll head out west on one of the key races that could decide control of the senate. the biden administration now says it has evidence iran sent troops to crimea to train russian soldiers to use those iranian-made drones. we ll bring you a live report from kyiv. and we begin this hour with the sentencing hearing now underway for former trump adviser steve bannon as he arrived at the federal court house in washington this morning. bannon spoke briefly thanking the press before attacking the biden administration who was convicted
ukraine, russia and turkey to allow rain exports through the black sea to resume. hundreds of police in riot gear begin to dismantle anti government protest camps in the sri lankan capital, colombo. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. he did not fail to act, he chose not to act , that s what one republican member of the commitee investigating the us capitol riot on six january last year said about donald trump. the panel has been setting out in minute by minute detail how the former president ate lunch and watched tv, doing nothing to rein in the mob of his supporters over 187 perilous minutes. during this last hearing of the summer, dramatic footage from several witnesses was shown. they each corroborate that donald trump s daughter ivanka was among several key figures close to the president who tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade him into making a statement condemning the violence. sarah matthews, one of today s live witnesses, was deputy press se
the strategy is to blame people, his advisors called, the crazies, for what donald trump did. this, of course, is nonsense. president trump is a 76-year- old man. he is not an impressionable child. donald trump cannot escape responsibility by being willfully blind. nor can any argument of any kind excuse his behavior during the violent attack on january 6. that is the public narrative, but for the legal case, a congresswoman liz cheney dropped a bombshell. she said that trump tried to call an unnamed witness not yet seen in the hearings. whatever details the committee has on that, they have been turned over to the justice department. the question is, how might that, or any of the new revelations on tuesday, help the doj build a criminal case? among the stunning revelations, the unhinged white house meeting in mid december was screaming, insults, and nearly, apparently, a physical altercation. details on how the infamous tweet by the former president galvanize the right, a
established press department for asking a former president to come before them and testify. listen to last night. this president for former presidents and even presidents to come to congress so i think we re on firm ground. there s another question whether we actually have the time to lit at this gate the former president is famous for trying to delay things in the courts. what i m really hoping is that he will decide that he owes it to the american people to come in and explain himself. reporter: that question, jose, of timing. would know in the case of steve bannon how long it took to not comply, send it over to doj, considered for criminal intent and this is a months long process. this is the time the committee doesn t have.
though that this committee has got to reach to take this further? further? ultimately the committee further? ultimately the committee doesn t - further? ultimately the | committee doesn t have further? ultimately the - committee doesn t have the powers to bring criminal charges, all they can bring as set out the facts as they see it, broadcast the testimony but ultimately it is up to the justice department to take this further. ., ~ justice department to take this further. ., ,, , ., justice department to take this further. . ~ , ., , further. 0k, thank you very much indeed. we can now speak tojennifer kerns who s a republican strategist, author and conservative national talk show host. i don t know if you heard my last question to rhianna in terms of what legal threshold would persuade perhaps the department forjustice to move further, have we seen enough do you think tonight? you think tonight? great to be with you- you think tonight? great to be with you- i you think toni