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
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second-guessing. legal, economic and political over his plan to cancel some student loan debt. in the details of our plan we re working hard not only on loan forgiveness, but fixing a broken system. rain submerges entire towns in the south. flash flood fuel a life-or-death scramble to stay alive. we got everybody out, and that s the most important thing. everybody is safe. we got the staff and residents out. we can replace the stuff. the people are out. that s a good thing. up first, the legal back and forth over what stays secret from the mar-a-lago affidavit. we just passed a 12:00 noon deadline for the justice department lawyers to submit redactions to a federal judge. let s get straight to cnn s kaittelyn polantz. w when can we expect to learn what s going to happen in this case? when is the question. it s quite possible we don t see anything today out of the court as this process moves forward on this affidavit, what s going to be confidential there and what s
this morning. a judge has given donald trump s legal team until 3:00 p.m. to respond to the justice department s motion to unseal the search warrant and property receipt from the mar-a-lago search. overnight, trump posted on his social media platform that he would not oppose the release of the documents. in fact, he says, quote, he would encourage their immediate release. now, that s what he says. but remember, he s had the documents since monday. and he could have released them at any point himself. he still could. he doesn t have to wait until 3:00 p.m. he could release them right now. also, remember, what he said in the past about wanting to release his tax returns. and ultimately not doing it. we ll see. we ll see. as of now, his attorney says it doesn t appear they will object to the release. so attorney general merrick garland says he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant for trump s mar-a-lago home. what may be the most extraordinary of all the de
critical and methodical testimony at the second hearing. testimony from donald trump s own attorney general, william barr, as well as former top officials of trump s 2020 re-election campaign on how the former president refused to admit that he lost the election to joe biden, and he pushed his big lie of election fraud on the american people. now, i want you to pay close attention to the former attorney general bill barr telling the committee that trump had become detached from reality. the claims of fraud were bullshit, and, you know, he was indignant about that. and i reiterated that they d wasted a whole month on these claims on the dominion voting machines, and they were idiotic claims. and i specifically raised the dominion voting machines, which i found to be among the most disturbing allegations, disturbing in the sense that i saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way that they obviously were influencing a lot of peop