president biden welcomes barack and michelle obama back for the unveiling of their official white house portraits. i want to thank sharon sprung for capturing everything i love about michele, her grace, her intelligence and the fact that she s fine. we miss them. we begin tonight with steve bannon, the former white house chief strategist who is back in the news, usually for two reasons such as attempting to dismantle the west or as in this case trouble with the law. two years ago bannon was dragged off a billionaire s luxury yacht in handcuffs charged with defrauding donors as part of a fund-raising scam purportedly aimed at funding trump s border wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. now bon none lined his pockets $1 million in waldo nations. after trump pardoned bannon for milking his own supporters the manhattan s district attorney office opened its own investigation and that s because presidential pardons, well, they only apply to federal charges and cannot prohib
president biden pay respects in the wake of the assassination of former japanese prime minister shinzo abe. also, search and rescue efforts are under way in ukraine after a russian missile hit a residential building, killing at least a dozen civilians. we ll get a live report. n civil. we l welcome to way too early, on this monday, july 11th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for joining us. the next hearing into the january 6 capitol attack is tomorrow and it will focus on what the committee has called the marshaling of the mob. this will reportedly include evidence of coordination between trump world and the extremist groups that led the attack on the capitol such as the proud boys and the oathkeepers. a source tells the nbc news that former oathkeepers spokesman jason will testify. he left the group back in 2017 but he will speak about how it spreads propaganda and how it became radical over the years. he has met with the committee twice before. former produce white house
minute, something is afoot. what do you think? is this testimony going to happen? what are bannon s motivations? what do you think we could learn from this? well, i think what is afoot is as you say, his trial looming on the horizon. i think the select committee is going to move very, very quickly now to try and secure his testimony, they are going to try to bring him in as quickly as possible. i think zoe lofgren, a member of the select committee said on monday they expected to hear from him. and that s because the justice department believes that, they said in a late night court filing, actually early this morning, that they believe that this is nothing more than an effort to try to delay trial and try to delay proceedings and basically that bannon was insincere in his offer to testify because he has not produced any records, the records part of that subpoena, or the system part of the subpoena, so with the justice department now breathing down bannon s neck, i think the select com
year in prison, but he still doesn t have to cooperate with congress. and so if bannon decides to cooperate, perhaps the charges will be dropped, but this is a this is meant to send a signal to the rest of the people who are subpoenaed, but bannon could delay and prolong this as long as possible, and ultimately there s really a deadline in this entire process, which is the midterm elections of next year. if the democrats lose control of the house, republicans could disband this committee altogether. so lee ann just laid it out, even if he s held in contempt, it doesn t get the committee any closer to getting the information they want. that s right, not in the short term. what you have here is really a process that needs to play out. you have the committee members essentially then going possibly to the doj to hand that over to say, okay, can you do this. i was reading, sort of doing a deep dive on all of the different options for congress, and one of them is this idea
thompson announced they will move to hold bannon in criminal contempt. he writes, quote, the select committee will not tolerate defiance of our subpoenas, so we must move forward. it s not like there are u.s. marshals banging on bannon s door today. there s a process. it starts with a vote on tuesday, then it goes to the full house and ultimately to the u.s. attorney of washington, d.c. at the very same time, the fight with bannon should not overshadow the potentially good news. kash patel and mark meadows are apparently cooperating with the committee. their depositions have been postponed, but it is believed they are still going to happen. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent and white house correspondent for pbs news hour and moderator of washington week on pbs and former federal prosecutor. the committee wants to make taxes, but i said it. it s not like there are u.s. marshals banging down bannon s door today. walk us through the process, and because it s a bit of a lon