president barrels toward conclusion, we put it all together. i got three men walking down a street carrying ar-15s. the explosive testimony. i heard the president say something to the effect of, i don t care that they have weapons. let me people in. new insight from witnesses. i said, you want me to take my state, 3.2 million voters and just throw them out the window? was he asking you to commit a crime? i don t know what he believed. the unanswered questions. i feel like we don t know the full story on the proud boys about oath keepers. and what might lie ahead. the former president and his allies represent a clear and present danger to american democracy, not because of what they did on january 6th. you better run, cops! it s because of what they pledge to do in 2024. a cnn special report american coup, the january 6th investigation. in arizona, the republican speaker of the house rusty bowers is an artist by trade. last february, bowers wa
selfishness or to stay in power. president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between the lips and telling the mob to go home, he chose not to act. it included gripping new interviews detailing just how scared secret service agents protecting vice president mike pence were about the situation on capitol hill on january 6th. watch this. it was disturbing, i don t like talking about it. there were calls to say goodbye to family members. he was getting for whatever reason it was on the ground. the vp detail it was about to get very ugly. and details about what trump refused to do on that day and the day after, and beyond that. this election is now over. congress is has certified the results. i don t want to say the election is over, i just want to say congress has certified the results, without saying the election is over, okay? after eight hearings, a wealth of evidence mounting against the former president, and a promise of more to come. as we m
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
well, i mean, there s constitutional duty. what he has, he s the commander in chief. that was my biggest issue with him, as national security adviser. white house advisers to former president trump understood the constitutional oath of the presidency. trump apparently did not. mika, as we have gone through the testimonies, as we ve talked through this the past several hours, one thing really does keep sticking out to me, and that is the testimony of cipollone, where he was asked who else in the white house agreed with the president that the riot should continue. who in the white house did not want him to stop the riots, did not want him to speak out and tell them to stop. he said nobody. nobody. he said nobody. nobody inside the white house wanted the riots to continue. let me put it a different way. everybody in the white house wanted the president to act affirmatively to stop the riots. they told him that. he refused. his family members, his children, told him tha
on the u.s. capitol. instead, for 187 minutes, between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home, the 45th president of the united states first argued with secret service agents who refused to take him to the capitol. then after returning to the white house, sat in a small, private dining room off the oval office, transfixed by the violence he saw playing out on fox news. which showed the capitol under siege. trump learned just 11 minutes after returning that the protest had turned violent, but he did not make any calls to intervene. failing to reach out to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the department of homeland security. instead, he demanded a list of senators phone numbers, calling and encouraging them to delay or object to the certification of the electoral college count. while the president s official call log from the white house that afternoon is empty, trump placed at least two other calls that day. not to the military or the police but