willing to testify before the january 6th committee. what impact if any does testimony could have on his criminal contempt try oh. plus, we will break down what to expect at tomorrow s january 6th hearing. in the next hour, president biden will pass a gun safety law and what it means for the national gun violence epidemic. gun violence activist and father of highland park shooting victim will be with us this morning. meanwhile, it s been one year after a crackdown on protest for freedom in cuba. the crackdowns by the regime continues. we will talk about what is next in cuba s fight for freedom. right now out west, firefighters are working around the clock to contain a wildfire at yosemite national park. we will bring you a live report. report. we begin this morning with the latest on investigation into the january 6th attack on the u.s. capital. attorneys for donald trump stan steve bannon and eight courtroom hearing. he is facing contempt of congress charges for refusi
ended well, charles? what happens? yeah, good thing for that eric. airport officials here in atlanta tell us fortunately all of the passengers on board that spirit airlines flight from tampa to atlanta are okay following a fire that broke out during the landing process this morning. eric, it was quite the sight to see. take a look at the video taken by a witness who was there as this all unfolded. you can see dark heavy smoke and bright orange flames shooting from the underbelly of spirit airlines flight 383, shortly after it landed at hartsfield-jackson atlanta international airport. according to spirit airlines, a brake got a little too hot as the flight from tampa to atlanta was landing around 9:30 this morning, and that s what s believed to have ignited the flames. as you can imagine, it was quite a scary situation for those folks on board, many of whom were confused and on edge as flight attendants tried to keep them calm. [inaudible]. please remain seated right now
that and more on the rise in violent crime many in several major cities. and ongoing concerns about the security of supreme court justices after an activist group offers money to anyone who reports the locations of the six conservative members of the nation s highest court. more on these stories lout the hour. but first, to president biden defending his upcoming visit to saudi arabia in a new op-ed ahead of his trip to that nation and others in the middle east this week. kevin corke live at the white house with that. reporter: jon, good afternoon. frankly, no two ways about it, the president s upcoming trip to the saudi kingdom comes with fairly heavy risk on both the domestic and international fronts. from the international perspective, he ll to obviously tie to smooth other hard feel feelings with the saudis, all while maybe encouraging them to open the spigot when it comes to oil production. but there s heavy cost and heavy risk here domestically because the president is
investigate vote fraud essentially, and so he was one of the persons who was at that what people call an unhinged meeting in december of 2020, and he is obviously s ly somebody ws sympathetic to this idea that the former president was not being served by his lawyers, by people inside the white house who were telling him this is not legal, this is not how you do things. finally, breaking a few minutes ago, business insider issued a freedom of information act request to the pentagon and found out that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was finding out about the attack on the capitol from tweets being sent by me and phil mattingly and manu raju, that that was how the chairman of the joint chiefs was finding out about the attack on the capitol. you tweet well, so that s good. but this is not how the joint chiefs of staff should be getting information, and it s clear from these records that were released to business insider that there s a lot of emails and messages that
bannon. the new response just in from lindsey graham on a subpoena in georgia. what he is saying about cooperation into potential election interference by donald trump. more than a dozen members of congress under arrest on an abortion protest outside the supreme court. who was there? with the new filing dropping in indiana, the action that a doctor is taking against the state s attorney general and what it is just the first step. good day, i m peter alexer in washington. i m in for hallie jackson. ali, on the hill. nbc news receiving this statement from the secret service where they say they have turned over thousands of pages of documents, secret service phone cell phone use and other policies as well as operational and planning records. notably, no mention of the text messages from the 5th and the 6th of january, right as everything was going down on capitol hill. what does that mean? where does it go from here? reporter: that lack of specificity caught many of ou