briefing entitled, election fraud, foreign interference and options for 6 jan. meadows isn t the only potential witness stonewalling the committee. trump ally roger stone now plans to plead the fifth, joining several other high profile targets who told the committee they do not plan to answer questions, because they could incriminate themselves. the committee also skeptical of this resistance. if they re asserting the fifth merely to cater to the president s whims or cover up for the president, that is not a proper use of the privilege. reporter: still the committee remains confident they will get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th and who is to blame, pointing to the more than 275 witness who s have talked. these people are well within our right to not cooperate. it s not as if we re not going to get to the information we need. but at this point the committee is still sifting through this lawsuit as it was just filed with the chairman told me a few minutes ago he is
militia group with connections to qanon, the first amendment provided security on that day. expect each of these individuals to show up, tell us the truth and help us uncover all of of the facts. reporter: on monday they handed down five new subpoena ises focused on see players in the rallies leading up to january 6th. the two high profile targets, conservative provocateurs. the duo has a long standing relationship with donald trump and fanned the flames of misinformation about the 2020 election leading up to january 6th. jones promising chaos during the certification of the electoral college results the day before. jones and stone both already forecasting that they won t give the committee a what they are
with subpoenas for documents and testimony relating to that riot, the matter is now set to go to the full house for a, vote possibly as early as this, week if it passes the house and it is expected to, a criminal referral will then be sent, to the u.s. attorney s office in d.c., which will decide whether or not it will proceed with a criminal investigation into bannon s lack of compliance. if he is ultimately convicted, bannon could face up to a year in prison, but before we get to, that which is a long way, off let s take a step back and look at the background, hear the january six committee has subpoenaed a whole bunch of trump associates for information, relating to the insurrection. there have been some high profile targets like bannon and lesser known subject with ties to various groups supporting trump, who may have been involved in the planning of that january 6th rally. the big one that the president spoke, up before the insurrection happened. some folks, the committee been
hello this is bbc news. the headlines: presidentjoe biden says another attack in afghanistant is imminient he expects within the next 36 hours. it comes after the us military says a strike by one of its drones has resulted in the deaths of two high profile targets, following thursday s attackat kabul airport which killed as many as 170 people. and the last uk flight to evacuate civilians from afghanistan leaves kabul the ministry of defence says the final planes to leave will be for diplomatic staff and military personnel. extraordinaryjob to evacuate as many as we have, but i am afraid it is absolutely heartbreaking that we cannot bring everybody out and i think that point has been made very strongly, certainly by the defence secretary and others over the last ten days or so. tens of thousands flee for safety in the us as hurricane ida intensifies
enduring freedom. okay. i don t have anything to add so we ll go right to questions. thank you, john. a couple of questions on the strike last night in afghanistan. general taylor just said that two high profile targets were killed and one wounded, the official announcement i think said someone. this was all the same strike? was it a single strike? can you explain more about whether these individuals were directly involved in the thursday bombing at kabul airport? so, it was without getting into too much tactical detail in terms of munitions used, i would tell you it was a single mission and to get these targets and as the assessments and information flowed over time, we were able to recognize that another was