served. with us to start off our coverage, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, at the washington national cathedral, melissa murray, a former law clerk to sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian, michael beshlash. reporter: josé, we will hear from the late justice s son in addition to her biographer. as you will hear from president biden and chief justice john roberts, it s remarkable because both of them really first met her in 1981. john roberts was working in the reagan administration, in the white house, he was helping to prepare her for her confirmation hearing, and then, of course, senator biden was somebody questioning her as part of the process, and who engaged with her and even told her that she should use the fact that she was going to be this trailblazer, this first woman to serve as a supreme court justice as something she could use to go out and push the equal rights amendment forward, for instance, and that s something sandra day
officials about the war in israel. secretary lloyd austin is holding a press conference with the israeli defense minister galov. and so, today, we had great discussion about the goals of the campaign and how to reduce harm to civilians in the battle space. and the need to ensure a sustained flow of humanitarian assistance into gaza. you know, we can offer insight based upon our own experience fighting terrorist groups, and that enabled to us have great discussions. we also have some great thoughts about how to transition from the higher operations to lower intensity and surgical operations. we have great discussions on all of those issues. in lebanon, we want to make sure that we don t expa and this into a larger or regional war in lebanon, and so we are going to call upon hezbollah to make sure they don t do things to provoke a wider conflict. this is to the first question. let me be more precise. it took 70 days before we exposed this tunnel to the public. it was disc
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steve bannon s team did not call any witnesses. so it was a quick trial. steve bannon and his team left the federal courthouse this afternoon after a jury of his peers found him guilty of two counts of criminal contempt of congress. a rare charge last brought a conviction with former nixon aid g. gordon liddy back in 1974. respect the decision. we may have lost a battle here today, but we are not going to lose this war. bannon sat and listened as the jury foreperson read guilty to the charges of willful failure to appear for testimony and willful failure to provide records. he ignored a subpoena from the january 6th committee last year. the same committee last night, bret, played audio of bannon from halloween 2020 just days before the presidential election. listen here. and what trump is going to do is declare victory. is he going to declare victory. that doesn t mean [inaudible] bannon says he did not cooperate because he was covered by executive privilege for his
spoke to a small group at an outdoor event in massachusetts. you see here he shook some hands with people after the speech, exchanged a few words. the first lady, she tested negative this morning. she attended events with the president and the first lady of ukraine earlier this week. mrs. biden spoke to reporters about the president s condition. watch. i talked to him just a few minutes ago. he s doing fine. he s feeling good. i tested negative this morning. i am going to keep my schedule. i am, according to cdc guidelines, i m keeping masked. cnn white house correspondent mj lee is with us now. so, mj, what s the latest? reporter: any minute now, we should be seeing white house press secretary karen jean-pierre and the white house covid coordinator, dr. ashish jha give us an update. you showed the tweet from the president earlier saying that he is doing great. we know, of course, that he tested positive for covid this morning, so let me just walk you through a timeline