nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. firebrand former donald trump adviser steve bannon was found guilty this afternoon on two charges of criminal contempt of congress for defying subpoenas to appear before the january 6th select committee a federal prosecutor saying the defendant chose allegiance to donald trump over compliance with the law. the verdict coming less than 24 hours after a primetime session of the committee featured testimony from former white house insiders describing indifference by former president trump as deadly violence was rocking the u.s. capitol. tonight with the investigation reaching a turning point, the committee sending a strong message through steve bannon, who himself is still pushing back let s begin with pete williams reporter: just shy of three hours after getting the case, the jury came back with its verdict, guilty on two counts for refusing to provide testimony and documents to the committee investigating the capitol riot w
why nasa is now joining the hunt for ufos announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone, from los angeles where president biden today offered an explanation for why consumer prices are still climbing may s numbers out today dashing hope inflation was starting to cool. instead it jumpe another percent growing to 8.6% year over year, leaving inflation sitting at 40-year highs affecting everything from home prices to food, clothing to gasoline put another way, american households are paying $460 more per month to buy the same amount of goods and services with the port of los angeles as his background president biden putting some of the blame on shippers, oil companies and vladimir putin as wall street suffered a major sell-off the dow lost 880 points, 2.7% the nasdaq down 414 points, 3.5% tonight, all eyes now turned to the fed and its next steps tom costello has more. reporter: the red arrows on wall street represent real money for american