thank you for being with us. reminder, we re going to bring you president biden s remarks on student debt relief live at the 3 p.m. hour, 1 p.m. pacific. meanwhile, supreme court justice amy coney barrett has rejected a request to stop the debt relief program. a wisconsin taxpayer s group filed an emergency order saying it would cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion while bypassing congress. in denying the request barrett was responsible for emergency applications from wisconsin appeared to act on her own without consulting the other justices. she did not give an explanation which is not uncommon. in a separate case, federal judge rejected a similar request brought by six republican-led states saying they lacked legal standing to block the program. meanwhile, the pent gone is announcing it will pay travel expenses for service members seeking abortions. in a memo defense secretary lloyd austin ordered the defense
established press department for asking a former president to come before them and testify. listen to last night. this president for former presidents and even presidents to come to congress so i think we re on firm ground. there s another question whether we actually have the time to lit at this gate the former president is famous for trying to delay things in the courts. what i m really hoping is that he will decide that he owes it to the american people to come in and explain himself. reporter: that question, jose, of timing. would know in the case of steve bannon how long it took to not comply, send it over to doj, considered for criminal intent and this is a months long process. this is the time the committee doesn t have.
argue that the statute was ambiguous on that point. the judge says, no, in fact, it s a 30-day minimum. the judge said he agreed with prosecutors that steve bannon has shown absolutely no remorse whatsoever after his conviction in three hours by a jury on these two counts of contempt of congress. and so now we go through, the judge will discuss what the sentencing guidelines call for in this case. the prosecution has asked for the maximum under the guidelines, which is six months. now, of course, the judge could go beyond that if he decides his conduct is extremely egregious. he could go as high as two years in prison, 12 months on each of these counts that. seems to be unlikely. then the other big question in this case today is whether the judge decides to stay the sentence while steve bannon appeals and prosecutors argued forcefully in a brief this morning that he shouldn t do that because they don t think steve bannon has much of a chance on appeal, jose. so what, indeed, would th
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january 6th committee to formally subpoena former president trump. the committee met with lawyers and staff yesterday to finalize the subpoena a week after voting to authorize it. nbc news capitol hill correspondent alli vitali joins us. great seeing you. why has the committee not issued that subpoena yet? reporter: that is the open question here, jose. they ve been out in public saying the subpoena will come shortly or soon. my sources initially told me to expect this in the early part of this week but, of course, here we are on friday still waiting for the official issuance of that subpoena. in part, they were meeting yesterday to finalize some of the key language in this but also to make sure on the date by which the documents and deposition requests have to be met by. it s going to be likely after the mid-terms but nevertheless, that was one of the things they were trying to hammer out here. and in terms of the case that they feel they have, in order to get the former president b