[sneeze] dude you coming? because the only thing dripping should be your style. plop plop fizz fizz with alka-seltzer plus cold & flu relief. also try for fizzy fast cough relief. john: a live look at lower manhattan where closing arguments are underway in former president trump s months long civil fraud lawsuit. one side the supreme court, the other a trump building at 40 wall street where just minutes from now the former president is expected to hold a news conference. we will bring you that live just as soon as it starts. new york attorney general letitia james says the rule of law is on her side but legal experts say the case is without any precedent. jonathan: she s a very political attorney general. none of us could find a single case like this one where james or her office sought these types of damages. john: hello, john roberts in washington. nothing happening this afternoon, sandra, if you want to go out for lunch, now is the time to do it. sandra: nothing t
origins and the handling of the trumpet russia collusion claims. now it is time for the people that have consequences for their actions. jonathan: chief among the speakers, democratic congressman adam schiff. it raises a lot of questions about his, adjust his character, his standing inside of congress and whether he should even be in congress. jonathan: the congressman on the other hand dismisses the durham report and its finding of fbi feelings and bias. this is investigation that started in a fraud manner. it was conducted in a flawed manner and its conclusion is a flawed conclusion. it began a flawed way because this was the result of donald trump battering bill barr to investigate the investigators. jonathan: separately, republicans congressman jim jordan is demanding answers from cia director william burns over the letter sent by 51 former intelligence officials downplaying the hunter biden laptop discovery as possible russian disinformation. former director
lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. there in nashville. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six people dead, three adults and 39 year old children. two expelled lawmakers. jones and justin pearson are black. laurie johnson, who is white, kept her seat by a single vote. jones and pearson have called for protesters to return to the capital tomorrow, when the house is back in session, so let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabelle rose salas. isabel i guess. first of all, if you can tell us do we expect those protests and materialized ? might they be as big as we were seeing? at the end of last week as they were huge, and the nashville city council doesn t appear they have the votes to get jones back in the statehouse. jim the passions don t seem to be tampering down . we are expecting a day of action is what has been organized on social media with folk
oh, no. also ahead, the latest from the war in ukraine where both sides are preparing for the next major battle among fears of a false-flag attack that could end up flooding 80 towns. plus, hospitals across the country have reported a surge in cases of a virus that s making infants severely ill. it s not covid, but covid has a big role in why the kids are getting so sick. we ll explain that just ahead. willie, our top story this morning. we begin in washington where moments ago former trump adviser steve bannon arrived in a d.c. courthouse to hear his sentencing for contempt of congress after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the house select committee investigating january 6th. the justice department has asked the judge to sentence him to six months in prison and to fine him $200,000. bannon s lawyers argue he should get only probation. they also have asked bannon be allowed to remain free until his lawyers are able to appeal the sentence. nbc news justice an
starts right now. hi. thank you so much. i am ari melber and whoop there it is. election day within three weeks. early voting has begun, including in new key states. and we begin with something special. i m not going to hide the ball. i m going to show you the two chairs. howard dean who ran the dnc. michael steele who ran the rnc. in our opinion, no two better people to walk us through and it, they are here right now. let me tell you the context. 2 million people cast ballots. when we say election day, it s like rhetoric. this is election month. early voting is showing records smashed in certain states. fluid dynamics. new polls show the house leaning slightly towards republicans, depending on what happens. democrats believe they are still in a strong position to hold the senate majority. and as we ve told you, we cannot accurately cover 400 plus races at once. we will bring you the highlights, the context, the facts and the music. but i will show you some of the deba