former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy is standing by. first, david spunt who has been covering this all along, this very quick verdict. very quick verdict. we re talking three hours and ten minutes. when you have a verdict that quick, it s not favorable to the defendant. steve bannon, the former white house adviser to former president donald trump convicted on two counts of criminal contempt of congress. willful failure to appear before testimony before january 6. guilty. count two, willful failure to provide records guilty. steve bannon s team didn t put on a defense. bannon did not testify in his own defense, which was thought that he would. the government put on a case for about a day. jury selection began just on monday, a few days ago. this was an incredibly quick trial. steve bannon s team was upset. they filed a motion. last night in front of millions in the january 6 committee hearing, the committee played this audio clip of bannon from october of 2020. listen.
also, trump attorney jim trusty joins us to talk about the parallels between what happened when hillary clinton was investigated for mishandling documents and the trump raid. the doj explains how many documents they have went through that breaking today. first up, back to school day for one of mine and probably many of years as well across this country. some covid restrictions are lingering around certain corners of the country and parents not happy about it. in our nation s capitol, some students now have a january deadline to get vaccinated or else they will not be allowed back to school. in philadelphia, there kids will start the year, there s some images of them, masked up once again with hope of relief from that in the near future. joining me now with the breaking news as everybody gets back to school, betsy devos. great to have you with us. obviously schools have suffered so much. students have suffered so much over the past several years. now we re doing to give it ano
as the nation marks the passing of a person who loomed so large over the u.k. and the commonwealth for so many years. sandra: so many emotions as every hour goes by, leading up to the queen s funeral, takes place on september 19th. a lot of anticipation for that, people around the world will be watching, and also watching king charles as he addresses parliament and a short time from now will carry the speech for the audience. but it has been an incredible time to see the reuniting of the family members, the queen s children, and grandchildren grabbing headlines as they reunite and greet the people there and greet the mourners there, john. and many beautiful displays of affection and certainly all eyes on the king himself as he, too, has been filled with emotion during these days since his mother s death. john: and the beautiful service a short time ago at st. giles church, which is just up the royal mile from the palace or castle where the prince was staying, and the beau
understatement, redacted, we are learning some new details about the fbi justification for the search of the former president s home. sandra: one part reading after initial review of the nra referral, the fbi opened a criminal investigation to, among other things, determine how the documents with one classification marking and records were removed from the white house or any other authorized locations for the storage of classified materials, and came to be stored at the premises. john: david spunt is live at the justice department, 38 pages in total released in regard to this, including some attachments. so far we are getting an idea what the documents were or at least the category in which they fell. but we are not getting a lot in terms of the why they thought it was so urgent to go in there and unprecedented fashion and the fbi conduct a raid of mar-a-lago. david: john and sandra, that is the detail we have wanted to know since we first learned agents were going in
sandra: america reports with the justice department last hour submitting proposed redactions to the affidavit used as the basis of the search of former president trump s florida home. now it s up to a federal judge to determine how much of that document the public will actually get to see. hello, welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york. happy friday eve. john: as we like to call it around here, that s what thursday is. good to see you, sandra. the federal judge who approved the warrant to search mar-a-lago is set to weigh the pros and cons of releasing portions of the affidavit. the judge acknowledged heavy redactions to make the document in essence meaningless. justice department maintaining it could be dangerous to release any part of the affidavit saying it could compromise the investigations. republicans, along with several news organizations are pressing for more information about what prompted the unprecedented search of a former president s home. sandra