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
Where we are expecting action on the floor of the u. S. House of representatives and cnns manu raju is there. I have been speaking to the House Republicans, as you have, and i am not expecting a different result. Is jim jordan . It is probably going to go poorly for him in a matter of moments here, jake. We expect the Republican Opposition in fact to grow, and remember that the first vote he lost 17 and then in the second vote it was 22, and they are believing it is close to 30, and some believe it is 29 republicans, and we will see if that is the case, but no one is believing he is going to be getting the votes to become speaker, and he can only afford three, because one of the supporters is in israel to bring down the total of what he needs raising so many questions and anger within the gop ranks of how to get out of this crisis that they themselves caused. If jim jordan does not get the votes which is widely expected, then some decisions to make, and does he continue on with another
Valiantly defends the American Flag from a prohamas mob and one of its patriotic brothers is here to share the story. But, first hitting the panic button, thats the focus of tonights angle now, its a good rule of thumb that whenever the white house staff rushes Joe Biden Tout address the nation, it can only mean one thing. He is in big political trouble. We have all seen images and they have put to the test two fundamental american principles, excuse me, neither are we a lawless country. [clearing throat] we are a civil society. Laura well, things havent looked very civil for the weeks on campus that we have been witnessing. Now, after a night of violent clashes on its main campus and after weeks of liberal dithering, ucla finally gave the would for Law Enforcement to come in and dismantle the encampment. All the creatures hiding under their umbrellas and wearing their masks, imagine how dirty those masks are, were all arrested. Regular americans are watching this and they are asking w
For talking about the eclipse with us. Thank you all for for joining us tonight. Seen a news night with abby phillip starts right now why donald trump is nothing like Nelson Mandela. Thats tonight on these lines good evening. Im abby phillip in new york tonight donald trump comparison that crumbles when confronted with common sense the former president believes he is being persecuted by prosecutors. And for that reason, hes claiming that there are similarities between Nelson Mandelas plight and his own. Trump wrote this on truth, social if this partisan hack wants to put me in the clink for speaking, the open and obvious truth. I will gladly become a modernday Nelson Mandela. Well, for starters, im really not sure anyone has asked that of him, but you might also recall that this is not the first time that trump has made this very comparison. They hound them and they scare them and theyve, but we dont get scared. We dont get scared. Ill tell you what i dont mind being. Nelson mandela, b
started. i am not resigning, i ve got a lot more work to do. you are not resigning? no, i m not resigning. so you ll stay and. i m staying. so don t worry, i ve got a lot more work. do you think you ll run for reelection? yes. yes you will? yeah, we re gonna keep the majority, i m going to help the people that are here, we re gonna expand it further. all right, so some not-so - from the first ever speaker to be ousted from his job. kevin mccarthy,k went from that that you just heard, to announcing that he will actually be resigning from the house of representatives at the end of the year. what a stunning turnaround. and yet, entirely predictable, given the radicalization of house republicans over the last several years. mccarthy follows two other leaders, erik kanter and paul ryan, the trio believe it or not, this is a real book, or once called the young guns of the gop. and now, as you can see, they are all out of congress. and yet, there is somethi