you are going to see some remarkable things today. you coming or what? bigger. why do they always have to go bigger? welcome back to way too early. it s just before 5:30 a.m. on the east coast, 2:30 out west. i m jonathan lemire. peter navarro is under arrest this morning, after a federal grand jury indicted the former white house trade adviser for contempt of congress. navarro said he was arrested on friday, while at an airport traveling to nashville for a television appearance. he was released without bail.
firearms, it is time for intervention and prevention. instead of showing up after a tragedy. how many buffaloes, uvaldes, sandy hook, parkland, we can keep going on and on. we need a country where you can be safe at church, at school, at grocery store. the senate this week can start to make a better difference in changing that. mayor lucas, we appreciate you being with us this morning. thank you so much. up next, new reporting on donald trump s potential return to the political arena. and coming up on morning joe, where gun reform negotiations stand on capitol hill following another 13 mass shootings in the united states since friday. plus, former white house trade adviser, peter navarro, is indicted for not cooperating with the january 6th committee. we ll have the latest from the panel s investigation ahead of its first public hearings. that s coming this week. also coming up, the latest from the war in eastern europe, as russia renews attacks on
white house officials. cnn s ryan nobles has the latest from capitol hill. reporter: the department of justice informing the january 6 select committee that it will not indict the former white house chief of staff mark meadows or his deputy dan scavino for criminal contempt of congress. this despite the committee saying the two men did not comply with a subpoena request from congress. this is no doubt a blow to the committee as they try and put some weight and some enforcement behind these subpoenas that they ve handed down. they do have a number of subpoenas that are still outstanding at this point, including five subpoenas for republican members of congress that these republican members have defied up until this point. and the committee has not said how they plan to enforce. while that was certainly a blow to the committee, to lose out on the meadows and scavino, they did have some success in that peter navarro, a former white house trade adviser who is openly defiant of the
trade adviser to the donald trump. he complained about the way the fbi handled his situation, the way they knocked on his door for a subpoena, and his apartment in washington, d.c. he complained that they arrested him at the airport in washington as opposed to asking him to come in and surrender on his own recognizance. they did not take his passport. they told him he was not able to travel anywhere outside the intercontinental united states without a specific approval from the judge. he s now going to wait a court date. this could take some time. steve bannon who was indicted several months ago by the committee, his hearing, his trial will not happen until late this summer. what this means, anderson, is that the information the committee is looking for from peter navarro, likely won t happen before their investigation wraps up, which should happen sometime this fall. it does send a message to these other individuals who have been subpoenaed by the committee that there is some power be
i m in an untenable position. reporter: trump s former trade adviser claiming he was handcuffed at an airport gate on his way to nashville for refusing to comply with the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. navarro was part of trump s inner circle that pushed false claims about the 2020 election, even writing a book detailing his plan to overturn an election trump lost. lawmakers wanted him to turn over documents and testify. he refused, claiming his hands were tied, citing executive privilege. overnight, the 72-year-old telling msnbc he was worried about prison. the average life span in america for an american male is 76 years old. if i were to go to prison for a year, which is what the contempt charge could do to me, that would be about a fourth of my remaining life. reporte rare move by the justice department. navarro now the second trump advisor to face criminal charges. steve bannon surrendered to