we bipartisanly passed the respect for marriage act. don t say we can t get along. years ago, i wrote with great consternation, but we ve reauthorized it again, the violence against women act. the electoral reform act. folks, we did that in a bipartisan way, democrats and republicans did it. i don t know why they don t acknowledge any part of what s making the country again, but in addition, we passed the american rescue plan. the inflation reduction act, and the people sent a clear message. fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere. there s things that we ve got to get things done. that s always been my vision for the country, and i think that s what the american people said in this off year election. yesterday i went to wisconsin, nice and warm like down here. [ laughter ] to talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle-down economy. not allowed to trick down at my dad s table when we re growing up. today
hello, everyone. i m biannabianna. this morning, the president met with the leaders of the bucharest nine in warsaw, poland. that s the group of nato countries closest to russia s borders. biden praised the leaders for their continued potter soft ukraine ahead of the one-year anniversary of russia s invasion. as nato s eastern flank, you re the front lines of our collective defense. and you know better than anyone what s at stake in this conflict. not just for ukraine, but for the freedom of democracies throughout european and around the world. cnn s chief white house correspondent, phil mattingly is in warsaw. so, phil, what was the outcome of president biden s meeting there with the warsaw nine? i m sorry, the bucharest nine? you know, bianna, this was a 72-hour period full of clear symbolism, dramatic moments. this meeting was also critically important. it wasn t something that was going to draw a massive headlines, but the president s reassurance, commitment, and
condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannon s criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committee s subpoena. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is joining us from just outside the federal courthouse here in washington. katelyn, give us the latest. reporter: well, wolf, steve bannon was convicted today, even though he had vowed this was going to be the misdemeanor from hell for the select committee. it was not that. by the end of the day, we had two criminal convictions of steve bannon. now, these were both misdemeanor charges, but congress writes the law, and when they wrote this law, they said that it would be punishable by a minimum
family, maybe a country, maybe a democracy. the toll, the human misery. but the question for a texas jury today is what it should cost conspiracy theorist alex jones. we now have our answer. nearly $50,. now, recall jones was already ordered to pay more than $4 million this what s called compensatory damages just yesterday. that to the parents of a beautiful 6-year-old child, a little boy killed in the 2012 attack. but today, they added $45.2 million on top of that, awarded him punitive or the punishment side of damages. why? for spewing lies that have caused unthinkable arm to one family of many families, destroyed by the sandy hook massacre. $50 million. and that s just one case. he has two more defamation trials awaiting him, so this is really far from over for the far-right conspiratorial host of infowars. this has really been a case that centered on lies, and throughout this trial, it felt like so many additional lies kept dpgetting exposed, like those texts that jones s
p pal. when i called sean to congratulate him, he said, the credit goes to all of you, all of you out there and it does. it may be true, but it doesn t hurt to have a leader with a backbone like a ramrod. and that s sean. you know he and the entire uaw proved what i always believed. wall street didn t build america, the middle class built america and unions built the middle class! yeah! tlhat was true in the 20th century and still true today. that s why unions are more popular today than they were in decades. about six weeks ago, i went to bellevue, michigan, to join your brothers and sisters in the picket lines. it brought back a lot of memories, but what i didn t realize, it was the first time a president ever did that. it was second nature. no, i m serious, i didn t know that. it looks good on you! i tell you, i have worn this shirt a lot, man. i have no idea! i ve been involved in the uaw longer than you were alive, man! look, that day in michigan, i said the auto