contempt of congress charges were politically motivated. proceedings began after the judge denied a defense request for a delay. last week he rejected executive privilege leading one defense attorney to ask, what s the point of going to trial if there are no defenses, to which the judge replied, agreed. this is the same steve bannon who promised as he made his first court appearance to make this the misdemeanor from hell. the same steve bannon who as he recently offered to appear live before the select committee expressed contempt for the members and tried to set conditions for his testimony. here is what i need. give me a date, a time, a room number, a microphone and a bible that i can take the oath on. deliver that. we will see how good you are, raskin and cheney. serve it up. surprised he isn t speaking about himself in the third person. when people view themselves as important, they reach peak pomposity and do that. to get a subpoena means you appear. there s no optio
which has already brought hundred of charges in connection with the capitol assault do with the information the select committee has uncovered? and will these hearings generate the kind of political consensus that might be needed before the attorney general decides to aim as high as the select committee is already suggesting might be necessary? president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. you will also hear about plots to commit seditious conspiracy on january 6th, a crime defined in our laws as conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force the government of the united states or to oppose by force the authority thereof. when committee vice chair liz cheney said those words plot to commit seditious conspiracy while putting former president trump in a plot the implication was hard to miss. prior to the proceedings attorney general merrick garland said he intended to watch the hearings, and he apparently wasn t the only one.
we are told by authorities that one person was taken from the hospital in critical condition. this initially went out according to authorities as a report of a man with a rifle and escalated in an act of shooter situation at the st. francis hospital campus and what is referred to a large building. authorities had to go door-to-door in that building and removed people and what they were referring to a slow evacuation. not a lot of additional details. first, authorities calling it catastrophic scene. we don t know any more details why they would be referring it in that way. what we do know at this time is three dead and four, including the shooter and one person reported in critical condition. anderson. do we know anything of the medical complex and where the shooting took place? and information of how the person able to get inside? not a lot of information from the authorities about that. other than it is certainly apart of the community and you have the hospital and you a
commenting publicly, exclusively to cnn. he was called out as the commander responsible for the delayed response at robb elementary last tuesday. the tactical teams took more than 45 minutes to enter the classroom where a gunman had locked himself in that room with children he had just shot and students who were calling 911 pleading for help. so the texas department of public safety says arredondo has not responded to its request for a follow-up interview with the texas rangers who were investigating this shooting. but just last night away from public view, from any media coverage arredondo was privately sworn in and onto the uvalde city council as a councilman. cnn s shimon prokupecz is in uvalde with this. what did the chief tell you? reporter: he insists that he s cooperating, that he s calling the dps, the state investigators. they obviously say he hasn t been returning their calls, but the key question here, the key question over what his decision-making was, what
we will be respectful to the family. i understand that. you have an opportunity to explain yourself to the parents. we re going to do that eventually. when? when this is done. the families grieve and we will do that. whenever the family quit grieving. he was trying to turn it on as though you were being disrespectful of asking these questions while people were gri grieves as if there s an end to the grief. i spoke to a stepdad of a child murdered. he said anyone who says they are withholding information for the benefit of the families is lying. if someone has any information how this happened, they want it now. he also talked about the families coming together. cnn reached out to arredondo s lawyer. has there been any response? reporter: no response. that s typical with arredondo s side. arredondo has talked. he talked to the texas tribune, he claimed he didn t get a sense he was the on-scene