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
january 6th committee to formally subpoena former president trump. the committee met with lawyers and staff yesterday to finalize the subpoena a week after voting to authorize it. nbc news capitol hill correspondent alli vitali joins us. great seeing you. why has the committee not issued that subpoena yet? reporter: that is the open question here, jose. they ve been out in public saying the subpoena will come shortly or soon. my sources initially told me to expect this in the early part of this week but, of course, here we are on friday still waiting for the official issuance of that subpoena. in part, they were meeting yesterday to finalize some of the key language in this but also to make sure on the date by which the documents and deposition requests have to be met by. it s going to be likely after the mid-terms but nevertheless, that was one of the things they were trying to hammer out here. and in terms of the case that they feel they have, in order to get the former president b