investigation has found so far. cnn s senior justice correspondent, evan perez, is live from outside the district court. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles is on capitol hill. and cnn legal analyst elliot williams is also with us. evan, explain the indictment and what happens next for navarro. reporter: well, alison, we re expecting that peter navarro is going to appear before a judge in the coming minutes here at the courthouse in d.c. behind me. he s facing two counts. one for failing to turn over documents to the january 6th committee. and a second count for failing to appear before a deposition. now, navarro was referred by the committee, by congress for prosecution just a couple months ago, along with dan scavino, another trump adviser. this indictment is only against peter navarro because the justice department has been looking at this, and in the case of navarro they decided he simply has less protections for his status as an adviser to the former president.
thank you. top of a brand new hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota. happening now, former trump add v adviser peter navarro is in court. he refused to cooperate with the investigation, and was arrested by the fbi earlier today. cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent paula reid is on this story. so let s start by just reminding everyone of the information that navarro has that the committee wants and how investigators got to this indictment. well, victor, navarro was subpoenaed by the house select committee investigating january 6th. back in february, they specifically requested testimony and documents related to plans he was hatching with another trump adviser, steve bannon to delay the certification of the election results. navarro has been very public about his efforts to undermine the outcome of the 2020 election. he even wrote about this plan in a book that he published not too long ago. he refers to the plan as
this evening, president biden this evening, president biden is at camp david,■ç calling to nbc news reporting that he s discussing the future of his presidential campaign with family members. the president has come under fire for his feeble performance at last week s debate, several newspapers and the editorial boards have called for him to step aside. so far, most democratic lawmakers have kept their criticisms private. meantime, the conservative dominated supreme court is set to wrap up it s a controversial term tomorrow morning with a ruling on of the sessions most consequential s cases, they will determine whether or not former president trump enjoys constitutional immunity.■ç at a time when he s already been convicted of 34 felonies in new york, and is still facing three more criminal cases. republicans have vowed to stand by their candidate regardless of the extent of his legal liabilities, joining me now is democratic congresswoman mckayla williams from georgia.
tomorrow. you may know him as steve bannon but on monday trump s former campaign manager and chief white house strategist will become federal inmate 056- 3509. having already lost his case and first appeal bannon is expected to report to a federal prison in connecticut on monday morning. s that unless the supreme court intervenes which it could do at any moment. today the department of justice, formerly urged the high court not to intervene here. and to let mr. bannon face accountability for his actions but remarkably, 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 an amicus grief on his apellate court there in his case. reporter: today speaker of the hou
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