refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let s begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over documents. the government has asked that he spend six months behind bars and they said he should pay a $200,000 fine. now, bannon s team has said, look, at the most he should get probation, he listened to his attorneys advice and if you are going to put him behind bars it should be house arrest only. they are also saying bannon plans to appeal his conviction and they re saying that any punishment he
new york i m ayman mohyeldin it is election night in america, and we are going to go straight to steve kornacki at the big board who has some breaking news for, us just in the last couple of minutes. steve, take it. away yes, even for folks who are watching this, hour we said we would get one big batch of votes, to san francisco about 12 minutes ago, we did. it s the mail-in vote, this is the recalled of the district attorney, just about dean. and you could see it s two thirds more of the vote over 60% voting yes an nbc news has now declaring that the district attorney of san francisco has been recalled from office. the margin from these mail-in ballots are just so enormous, you could see here nearly a 23 point spread in favor of him calling in for ops office. there just aren t going to be enough votes to overcome that. even if you were to do well with what is to come. he is getting absolutely blown out here. he will be recalled from office. what does that mean,? immediatel
am while he. polls are now close in the seven states that actually had elections today. many results are still too early to call, but here are some of the primary races we are following closely at this hour. and california, we are awaiting a call in the mayoral race in los angeles, congresswoman karen bass running against rick caruso. a lifetime of businessman. turned democrat, a special recall election in san francisco lost his job as additional guitar any of that. city in south dakota nbc news projects that accompany republican governor christine all has one parent mary for governor. over and iowa democratic michael franken excuse me there, difference crane that from what we are seeing, defeated former congresswoman abby finkenauer. frank you will now look to updating and convince senator chuck grassley, come november. and in montana, ryan thank, you donald trump secretary of the interior, is leaning in his campaign for congress in close race though that we are watching
now closed on another critical primary day. results are coming in just as we are coming on the air. steve kornacki is breaking all down for the big board. and only two days away from the first january six hearing. new reporting about the former presidents plans. that sent secret service scrambling that day. plus the emotional and powerful plea from uvalde native, matthew mcconaughey. to get something, anything done, on gun safety. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle, we are 154 days out from the midterm elections. and tonight, we are tracking all the results from the biggest primary day so far this year. seven states held contests today from new jersey to california. where the polls have just close. all eyes are on two key elections there. the race to be mayor of los angeles. the leading candidates, six from congresswoman karen bass, and billionaire developer rick caruso. in the ballot measure to recall progressi
the, your came in its election night in america and we are gonna go straight to steve kornacki at the big board who have some breaking news for us just in the last couple of minutes. steve to get away, aiming for folks that are watching us in the last hour we saw that we are gonna get one big batch of votes from san francisco about 12 minutes ago we did. it s the mail-in vote this is the recall of the district attorney, testable dean, where the two thirds of the total votes, over 60% voting yes. nbc news has now declaring that the test within, the district attorney intent san francisco, has been recalled from office the margin from these mail-in ballots are just so enormous, you could see here nearly a 23 point spread in favor of him calling in for office. there just aren t going to be enough votes to overcome that. even if you were to do well with what is to come. he is getting absolutely blown out here. he will be recalled from office. what does that mean,? immediately, i