griner s case disgusting. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight above the law. federal prosecutors making a simple case tonight against steve bannon who they say is guilty of blatantly defying the january 6 committee. if convicted he s looking at jail time. the man once dubbed donald trump s brain, bannon leaving court after the first day of testimony, lashing out at the january 6 committee and at its chairman, bennie thompson. he s too gutless to come over here himself. he s made it a crime made it a crime, not a civil charge, of wanting my testimony, but a crime. and he didn t have the courage or guts to show up here and he sent a staffer. now here is the thing. bannon now suddenly, right, after all these months, says he s willing to testify before the january 6th committee. but according to thompson, bannon hasn t even handed over the documents they ve demanded in advance of an appearance which he has refused to do until this f
fires, drought , and deaths. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with missing evidence in the january 6th investigation. the u.s. secret service failing to find text messages sought by the select committee. and that s fuelling more questions about whether the texts were inappropriately deleted. here s jessica schneider. tonight, key secret service text messages from the day before and the day of the capitol attack are still missing. the secret service, under subpoena from the january 6th committee, acknowledging they re still unable to uncover the texts after admitting last weekda wee ww wweek. sending this letter laying out concerns about the potential unauthorized deletion of text messages and telling secret service to investigation and report back to the archives within 30 days to detail how the messages got athdeleted. secret service is pledging to cooperate. we want to see w