and imagine if after all the slavish loyalty to donald trump and all of the red and pink starbusts kevin mccarthy does not become speaker of the house. tonight, we re going to imagine what a sorry state of affairs it would be if he does. we begin tonight with me. in this chair. yes, i am back and very grateful to my dear friends jason johnson and tiffany cross for holding down the bridge of the reidout enterprise for two whole weeks. two weeks i flew away for my writing retreat, and it turns out i can t leave you alone for one day let alone two weeks without all hell breaking lose. there was the fbi searching mar-a-lago on day one, polio in new york on like day three. i mean, apparently, i need to stay here to keep y all out of trouble. real talk, now that i m here and all caught up, i have questions. because it is not, shall we say, normal for a president of the united states to pack up boxes of classified top secret material and ferry them off to his private residence. th
witness. our congressional correspondent ryan nobles is joining us from capitol hill. ryan, as far as we know, former pence chief of staff mark short is the highest profile witness to tv in the criminal investigation. what can you tell us? that s exactly right, wolf. mark short is among the people that has the most insight into what was happening on january 6th and in the time leading up to january 6th and specifically the pressure campaign on his former boss vice president mike pence and what this all shows is that that criminal investigation won by the department of justice is expanding at the same time the january 6th select committee s work is far from done. the january 6th select committee is far from done. the committee will be in order. reporter: planning hearings for september and promising their august will be spent expanding an already sprawling investigation. we anticipate talking to additional members of the president s cabinet. we anticipate talking to ad
canceled. can travelers expect more of this as we enter peak travel this summer? also new questions on whether the former vice president, mike pence, will be the next witness the january 6th committee subpoenas to testify. ahead of tomorrow s fourth public hearing in an exclusive interview with cnn, committee member adam schiff said trying to speak to pence for the investigation remains on the table. we re not taking anything off the table in terms of witnesses who have not yet testified. we would still, i think, like to have several high-profile people come before our committee. so mike expense a possibility still? you know, certainly a possibility. we re not excluding anyone at this point. central to the investigation certainly. new cnn reporting. homeland security and national security officials fear that russia could significantly exploit u.s. political divisions during the upcoming midterm elections. we ll have more on that in just a moment. first, let s br
house speaker nancy pelosi is in taipei. china is lashing out. nearly two dozen war planes crossing into taiwan s air defense zone. just after 7 a.m. local time in taipei as i m speaking. speaker pelosi is getting ready to meet with taiwan s president and to visit taiwan s parliament in just these next hours. as we await the meetings and await to see the speaker leave her hotel, chinese president xi has placed them on high alert and launched military exercises around taiwan. the red boxes that are going to pop up, each indicate a place where chinese exercises are now taking place. tonight the biden administration is warning china. there s no reason, as i said yesterday, for beijing to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding u.s. policy, into some sort of crisis or use it as a pretexts to increase aggressiveness and military activity in or around the taiwan strait now or beyond her trip. now the biden team has been struggling to separate biden from pelosi. f
i m just a humble host. on friday, night there s different rules for guests, but the host rules are all the same. always the same. there s a list of words that i can t say. it applies for friday night as well. even on a july friday night, late at night. late at night, 10:00, the kids are still watching. okay, i got it. thank, you chris. thank you. well, the two shirts guy is now the two guilty verdicts guy. steve bannon, who always wears to shirts for reasons known only to him, was found guilty on two counts of criminal contempt of congress in federal court today in washington, d.c.. former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner was in the courtroom, and will join us later in this hour. with the unsurprising details of those two guilty. when i watch the general six committee hearings, especially one that includes video of donald trump and his children, i always wonder what mary trump s thinking. mary trump will tell us exactly what she was thinking last night, wa