times that donald trump may have committed to cutting a deal to trade white house documents as an exchange for fbi files related to his 2016 campaign russia investigation. we ll have more on that report in just a few minutes. also not this, our women are taking to the streets in washington d.c. and several states and cities as we count down 31 base so the midterms. the women s march is holding hundreds of events today and support of reproductive rights, will have a lot of reports for that for you. also overseas, a new setback for russian president vladimir putin. and after celebrating his 70th birthday, a massive explosion rocked a key bridge that links russia and crimea and ukraine officials refer to that attack as, quote a sick burn, no one has claimed responsibility. and new fallout from president biden s warning about the risk of nuclear armageddon. russia s top of using nuclear weapons as a responsible. and there s no way to use, to use them without unintended conseque
governor greg abbott. by his own count, abbott has sent some 11,000 migrants to new york so far. mayor eric adams went him against him this week, giving gop stunts that the city shelters that capacity, which means many of these migrants can find themselves alone. today s rivals also coming just days after florida governor ron desantis took credit for orchestrating two flights, mostly venezuelan migrants from texas, to martha s vineyard. men, women, children arriving without any warning, and under false pretenses. migrants say they were told they were going to boston. they were promised jobs and homes. and npr reports they were approached by a woman named perla, who said they would get their papers expedited, if they got on their plane. none of that was true. there is one of those migrants, explaining the ordeal to nbc news. [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] [speaking non-english] the most uncertain 24 hours we ve ever had, no way to listen to how one-way hel
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
and then act surprised when they don t win an election. arizona has heavy independent voters. they often vote republican in the past, their current governor, greg doocy for example. so when you try to make yourself smaller, make yourself feel better. but not think about the implications of that. that s a problem. but there s a number of candidates around the country who think it s bad to shrink the republican party. they only went to get more people in the tenth. you need bush, mccain, romney, trump, mcconnell. you need all the kinds of flavors of republicans together. because when you start to eject people, it makes it really hard to win. in states that are purple.
the secretary s office will compile those results, and put together the statewide canvas. the secretary does sign off on that, but it s also gonna be signed off by governor doocy, attorney general mark brnovich, and the arizona chief justice of the supreme court. so, it s not like secretary hobbs is doing that on her own. this is how it operates every four years and every state across the country where secretary of state is on the ballot. and they are certifying either their election win or their election laws. this is nothing new. and, you know, again, the administration and the election itself occurs at the county level. so, if you can, help me with a conversation, because you could make an argument in today s politics, given all the, i get it, no facts behind them. questions raised about election integrity, wouldn t it be best for katie hobbs to just recuse herself, to say because of those questions, i am not gonna be in the room? my good deputy is gonna sign these for me. that is