explosions seen across russia s capital from the russian kamikaze drone strike. at least four people were killed in kyiv, including a pregnant woman. a ukrainian official says they were able to shoot down most of the drones. like this one. caught on dramatic police body cam video. the words for beldograv written on the drone. here s what she saw there. reporter: i think you can see behind me, this is an ongoing rescue effort, this is quite clearly a residential building. we have already seen one body being removed from the air. we also saw another elderly woman being rescued from the rubble, actually from the balcony on the neighbors building. if we sort of look around at just how chaotic this scene is. there are dozens and dozens of paramedics, firemen, rescue workers. officials say at least 19 people were rescued from that building alone. let s start our coverage with fred pleitgen in ukraine. fred, earlier, you were at a power plant that was targeted by the russians.
msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. developing this hour new report from the january six committee s questions swirl over whether donald trump will formally answer a subpoena from the panel. the former president avoiding the question in the 14-page response to the committee. a bit earlier today panel member reports trump testified live could be an option. that is going to be a negotiation i will only address that when we know for sure whether not to the president has tried to push this on to our lives. he s made it clear he has nothing to hide. so we are coming on the day we asked him to come in. he pushes off the on that we ll figure what to do next. also new today another member of the committee was pressed on why the committee did not vote to subpoena vice president mike pence. i think that is comparing apples to oranges. the former president was the perpetrator and the central figure in orchestrating the effort to ove
in 2022 they put his political opponents in jail. steve bannon will join us. first welcome to tucker carlson tonight. it feels like washington has always hated trinity. donald trump. that s not true. for years he was considered a joke in washington, d.c. that was true as the latest 2016 primaries. many professional republicans that were making positive noises about donald trump. it changed in a moment. it changed on february 13th of that year at the republican debate in south carolina which donald trump criticized the iraq war. obviously it was a big fat mistake he said. it was obvious it was a mistake. that doesn t mean you were allowed to admit it in washington. you weren t. thousands of lobbyists and journalists owed their salaries and reputations to perpetuating the lie that american foreign policy was succeeding. no one believed that but everyone had to say it. here was donald trump refusing to play along and giving away the game in public in tv. the reaction in d.c.
former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy is standing by. first, david spunt who has been covering this all along, this very quick verdict. very quick verdict. we re talking three hours and ten minutes. when you have a verdict that quick, it s not favorable to the defendant. steve bannon, the former white house adviser to former president donald trump convicted on two counts of criminal contempt of congress. willful failure to appear before testimony before january 6. guilty. count two, willful failure to provide records guilty. steve bannon s team didn t put on a defense. bannon did not testify in his own defense, which was thought that he would. the government put on a case for about a day. jury selection began just on monday, a few days ago. this was an incredibly quick trial. steve bannon s team was upset. they filed a motion. last night in front of millions in the january 6 committee hearing, the committee played this audio clip of bannon from october of 2020. listen.
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