steve bannon, he s in a federal courtroom right now about to be sentenced for defying a subpoena from the january 6 congressional committee. earlier this year, a jury convicted bannon, you remember, on two counts of contempt of congress regarding this insurrection investigation. and defying that subpoena. this comes also at a really interesting moment. when everyone is also standing by for that committee, the january 6 committee, to formally issue a subpoena to donald trump himself. let s get to washington. cnn s sara murray is live outside of the federal courthouse are bannon is listening to his sentencing right now. what are hearing is happening inside of the courtroom right now? reporter: that is right, kate. the judge just ran through the factors that are at play here and just hasn ted down the sentencing. steve bannon is sentencing to four months in prison. now it is four months for each count but will run concurrently so that is four months as well as a 650$65,000 fine and for
be a frosty beverage. now some employers are saying drink up on the job. no evidence of human remains. now that we are just coming in just a couple of hours after the fbi suspended operations for the day. they said they will be back tomorrow. however, the fbi and the new york police department not saying anything on the record about this. but this is what sources tell us. don, we had some indications of some activity going on today that something had changed because at one point, they removed all the tents that had been covering the basement entrance to where the digging has been going on and they put a van up behind us to block our view of what was going on. they did say however that they will be back on scene tomorrow morning to continue operations. this is exclusive of the information that we reported earlier about a possible bloodstain that we are checking out now. we learned that a piece of cement wall that had been dug out during a part of this excavation had a susp
desperately screaming for help. two separate and independent auto analyses say it is not george zimmerman s voice. we ll get more in a live report moments from now. malfunction and pilot error are the two leading theories in the crash today of a commuter plane in russia with 43 people on board. 31 people were skilled. survivors badly hurt. the pilot reportedly was trying to make an emergency landing shortly after take off for reasons still unknown. better from canada, france and britain will help with the investigation. the top republican presidential candidates are in wisconsin planning for tomorrow s battle of the badgers state. wisconsin is one of three primary contests tomorrow. voters in maryland and the district of columbia also make their picks and wisconsin the biggest prize. it is a key swing state and the chair of the rnc says tuesday ae results could be pivotal in deciding this race. wisconsin is seen as just one of 12 swing states in the race so they could go
why congress may have breathing room when it comes to raising the debt ceiling on this american morning. and good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, july 27th. this is american morning. a lot going on today. let s get to it. it does feel like dueling bangoes, doesn t it? when you hear both sides of the debate they re dug in but insist they re right. and a growing number of americans want them not to be. they all say god bless america. how we get there is the question. two maker developments in the debt crisis, following minute by minute here. six days until the deadline and house speaker john boehner s plan is coming under fire from members of his own party. he s going back to the drawing board because the numbers don t add up. today s vote has been postponed and in just a few hours, house republicans will meet again as john boehner says that they are looking for more cuts and deeper cuts. this is the plan. i ve got it here. 57 pages. what happens when you co
press room podium and listen to a tiny bit of what he had to say. it is hard to understand why speaker boehner would walk away from this kind of deal and, frankly, if you look at the commentary out there, there are a lot of republicans that are puzzled as to why it couldn t get done. in the interest of being serious about deficit reduction, i was willing to take a lot of heat from my party up until sometime early today when i couldn t get a phone call returned. my expectation was that speaker boehner was going to be willing to go to his caucus and ask them to do the tough thing but the right thing. i told speaker boehner, i ve told democratic leader nancy pelosi, i ve told harry reid and i ve told mitch mcconnell i want them here at 11:00 tomorrow. these are body blows in d.c. terms and speaker boehner struck back himself about 45 minutes ago. listen to what he said. think refuse to get serious and making the tough choices. it s time to get serious. and i m confident th