supreme court has ruled against him so many times when it comes to disclosing his public information, including to january six committee. and i just think it s a risk. because what if he loses? what is he supposed to say? the supreme court are bunch of traders? these are the people he appointed. of course, [laughs] , of course that s exactly what you do. john, listen, tara really just said how i feel. is it because it s such a small carve out here, right? is it our he and his attorneys pointing to this one little thing that they could win, so they at least can say that they have a win, even though it is it seems incremental, or, you know, it does not really matter that much? you get my point? i do, i do. and while it is not always clear what trump is doing, it s always clear he s looking for delay. this will certainly assure some delay in. how long, it s unpredictable. clarence thomas the circuit who it s his circuit, as a member the supreme court to take jurisdicti
condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannon s criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committee s subpoena. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is joining us from just outside the federal courthouse here in washington. katelyn, give us the latest. reporter: well, wolf, steve bannon was convicted today, even though he had vowed this was going to be the misdemeanor from hell for the select committee. it was not that. by the end of the day, we had two criminal convictions of steve bannon. now, these were both misdemeanor charges, but congress writes the law, and when they wrote this law, they said that it would be punishable by a minimum
tonight on why he s been calling for all court papers to be made public but not doing so in the place that it matters most, the courtroom. clarissa ward is in afghanistan and her harrowing return to a place deeply affected by the war and what she found when she got there one year after american troops departed. we begin with the search at mar-a-lago and the fight against unce unsealing documents. jessica, walk us through what the judge ordered today. anderson, the judge telling doj to go back to the drawing board and find a way to release some of this information from the affidavit. the judge is telling prosecutors two things. propose redactions but also better explain why they need to keep large sections of this secret. so the judge has set a deadline. he wants their recommendations next thursday at noon. after that point the judge says he might have additional confidential discussions with doj before he makes that final decision about what to release. parts of it are li
details the potential offenses being investigated. you can see there, it says willful retention of national defense information, also concealment or removal of government records. also obstruction of a federal investigation. that willful retention that you see there, anderson, it s key because legal experts are telling our evan perez and caitlin polantz that it s that language that points directly to the former president as a possible subject of the criminal probe. something else that was released was the motion to seal, and it has federal prosecutors expressing their concern that, as you can see there, evidence might be destroyed. and, you know anderson, that could explain why fbi agents were really compelled to move in and spent hours taking, you know, 11 steps of classified documents in the end. could you just explain what the doj s main argument against releasing the affidavit is? yeah, they ve been arguing this in their papers, they also argued it forcefully in court
Affiliate cnn if you ever miss an episode, you can listen to the show once you get your pod breaking news tonight and the trump trial, the Bruising Cross Up for the day after the defense repeatedly hammered the prosecutions star witness for his past lives, and aggressively tried to catch him in new lies. Under oath. The trump teams scoring major points and its bid to undercut cohens credibility. That includes getting cohen to admit he did not fully remember a phone call for trade as a direct link between trump and the Stormy Daniels Hush Money Deal. For the next hour, well be taking you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel with new testimony trend transcripts, breaking down all of todays most important developments and looking ahead to whats next welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Wolf blitzer is on assignment. Im Alex Marquardt a Special Report in the situation room, Trump Trial Today lets get right to the breaking news on a pivotal trial da