what happens next. then, more states take action on abortion, after the supreme court decision, with democrats pushing the president to do something more, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening, i m alicia menendez, in for stephanie ruhle. after days a very public invitations to come talk, the january 6th committee tonight has issued a formal subpoena for pets to pallone. the move comes just one day after that devastating testimony from cassidy hutchinson, who the former trump white house counsel s actions ahead of him during the insurrection. in a statement, the committee writes its investigation has, quote, revealed evidence that mr. cipollone repeatedly raised legal and other concerns about president trump s activities on january 6th and in the days that preceded it. the panel notes cipollone did sit for an informal interview on april 13th. but goes on to say that, unfortunately, however, you have declined to cooperate with us further, inclu
have declined to cooperate with us further, including by providing on the record testimony. we are left with no choice but to issue you this subpoena. earlier this evening, committee member adam schiff had this message for cipollone. he ought to show just a small portion of the courage that cassidy hutchinson displayed. he needs to come out of hiding. he needs to do his patriotic duty. as we mentioned, cipollone was prominently featured in yesterday s testimony. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. please keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. and do you remember which crimes mr. cipollone was concerned with? in the days leading up to the 6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. hutchinson also testified abt cipollone s efforts january 6th to get the president to urge h
trial recorded short and his attorney leaving the federal courthouse last friday. just showing up. and short and jacob are the highest ranking trump administration officials known to have cooperated with the doj probe. both gave testimony to the january 6 committee and jacob, you will recall, was a live witness during a key hearing last month. meanwhile, member of the january 6 select committee congresswoman elaine luria revealed new testimony showing how former president trump edited a speech that was meant to condemn the insurrection. she tweeted this. it took more than 24 hours for president trump to address the nation again after his rose garden video on january 6 in which he affectionately told his followers to go home in peace. there were more things he was unwilling to say. here is some of the video testimony. i m not sure when those conversations began because they could have started early the next morning but i believe they started that evening, on the evening of t
attorney for palm 3w5beach coun. where is this investigation potentially headed? good morning, erica. i think this provides further evidence that the department of justice is investigating donald trump. the doj clearly wants to learn what trump said and did on and about january 6. remember, they already interviewed marc short and greg jacob and now they want the two pats. last week we had reports that do skrchlt was trying to block the claims of executive privilege the reason why is to get at trump s communications. why do you want to get to trump s communications? not so you can indict rudy giuliani, although that may happen, but to investigate the former president. also to put water on this, it means that an indictment of donald trump is not imminent. because when you litigate issues of executive privilege, that normally comes at the beginning of an investigation rather than the end. how do you see that playing out in terms of executive privilege here? i think that do
nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. firebrand former donald trump adviser steve bannon was found guilty this afternoon on two charges of criminal contempt of congress for defying subpoenas to appear before the january 6th select committee a federal prosecutor saying the defendant chose allegiance to donald trump over compliance with the law. the verdict coming less than 24 hours after a primetime session of the committee featured testimony from former white house insiders describing indifference by former president trump as deadly violence was rocking the u.s. capitol. tonight with the investigation reaching a turning point, the committee sending a strong message through steve bannon, who himself is still pushing back let s begin with pete williams reporter: just shy of three hours after getting the case, the jury came back with its verdict, guilty on two counts for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the committee investigating the capitol riot w