closely watched races as they go to austin for the festival. and live to new york, we kick things off with things on the ground with the festival. hey, casey. hey, good to see you. both sides and both parties represented here at this annual texas tribune festival in austin, i ve got to say a fa variety of topics have been covered, policing to education, the republican governor of west virginia, glen youngkin predicts the g.o.p. will do well. and hillary clinton was here yesterday and had a lot to say about former president trump, including that mar-a-lago raid. listen. did not find one piece of paper of any kind marked classified, zero. and so, you know, i don t know what to make of what he did. i find it deeply disturbing. the bottom line is what the heck was he doing with that material of the. and of course, there is also most certainly some campaigning that is going on here, especially today for the race in texas governor. republican incumbent greg abbott is ahead in
quote, irrelevant to the contempt of congress case against him. that is set to begin next week. the doj wrote, quote, the defendant s sudden wish to testify is not a genuine effort to meet obl gigations, but a last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability. bannon s reversal comes after he received a letter from former trump that waives executive privilege, but new court documents show that an attorney for former president trump actually spoke to the fbi weeks ago and contradicted bannon s claim that the former president had invoked executive privilege over particular information or materials, so who is telling the truth and who is not? more on that in a moment. also, in the january 6th public hearing that is tomorrow, this is the next one, the panel is expected to focus on how the violent mob came together, the rule of extremist groups in the deadly insurrection, and any connections of those groups to trump s inner circle. a former spokesman for the oath keepers, a far right
mister president, one quick follow-up. one of the things that they re asking for a public health emergency, is that something you re considering? that s something i ve asked the folks, the medical people in the administration to look at. whether that is i have the authority to do that, what impact that would have. in just a moment we re going to get the latest from in robot speech. let s go to today s other headlines. some major developments in the january six investigation. two here in set for this week. new intel this morning into what former white house counselor pat cipollone said in his more than seven-hour testimony. a member of the panel, congressman stephanie murphy, told msnbc choctaw that cipollone provided a lot of relevant information. some of this we may here on tuesday. are we going to see much of mr. cipollone s testimony on tuesday? or in the first hearing this week? we are always receiving new information from a lot of different sources. we are tryi
capitol hill attack. of course, the concerns now, what we ve learned from them since and the former president s lengths to some extreme groups others say were overit is aed, some saying not stated enough. i m neil cavuto in your world. trying to make sense of this hearing and one to go. where things stand for the former president of the united states and those around him, whether the committee was tipping its hands at possible criminal charges down the road. too soon to say. to chad pergram on capitol hill. what went down, chad? the committee focused on what it characterized as a profane verbal brawl at the white house december 18, 2020. it was between aides and those pushing election conspiracy theories. the committee says the fight prompted the president to tweet in the wee hours of december 19. he implored people to descend on washington on january 6. mr. trump warned it would be wild. trump s purpose was to mobilize a crowd and how do you mobilize a crowd in 2020? w
sit down and, you will hear what i have to say. o donnell: on the eve of tomorrow s january 6th hearing, what president trump s former white house counsel may have told lawmakers. plus, steve bannon s last-minute offer to cooperate. presidential palace under siege, the remarkable pictures tonight. why these protestors stormed the residence of the president of sri lanka. elon musk versus twitter, the social media stock plunges after the billionaire pulls his $44 billion bid. how this saga could end. and an honor 77 years overdue for an american hero. god bless america. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us as we start a new week together. tonight in california a fast- growing wildfire in yosemite national park is threatening the park s famous giant sequoias, some of the largest and oldest trees in the world. these national tr