texts by tomorrow. just in time for what may be the summer finale of their public hearings. what we are learning about new witnesses, including somebody the committee we found out will meet with tomorrow. that s just coming in to us, all of it as across town in d.c. inside the building you re looking at live here, you ve got steve bannon in court, getting ready to learn which of his peers will decide whether he s guilty or not in his contempt of congress trial. also this hour, breaking new details out of indiana, with police revealing more about the shooter who went on a rampage inside a mall, and the man who stopped him. and our nbc news team dropping a new investigative piece out of texas. what one conservative group is blaming for a recent school shooting, not guns, per se, but what they call a woke teaching philosophy. we ll explain that later in the show. i m hallie jackson in washington. with me now are my correspondents. allie, let me start with you and this new report
release of brittney griner and paul whelan. cnn learning exclusively that the u.s. is now proposing a deal to exchange a convicted russian arms dealer for the two americans. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with new evidence that the justice department s criminal investigation of january 6th is picking up steam big time. a star witness from the house hearings is now cooperating with federal prosecutors who have been asking questions about former president trump. let s go to our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles, up on capitol hill. tell us about the key witness who is now working with the feds. yeah, wolf. it is the witness that perhaps delivered the most compelling testimony of any of the january 6th select committee s public hearings. that s the former aide to mark meadows, cassidy hutchinson. it shows that this probe is expanding, specifically into the efforts to sta
into the memory. when they found that hillary wasn t going to be president. donald j. trump is president of the united states. [boos] and if you ask some people, decades from now, they will all remember where we were when cassidy hutchinson testified before the january 6 committee. you maybe asking who is cassidy has in turn? it s a good question. took a while for prime time to figure it out, but he was apparently a lower level junior staffer at the trump white house. this junior staffer became the leading lady in yesterday s made for tv drama. the new york times described it as a very special episode, and a jawdropping production. is this a serious congressional committee or an episode of west wing? because your testimony was reviewed by a new york times tv critic. cassidy was cast perfectly for this role. he gave the audience exactly what they wanted to hear. a jam-packed action scene straight out of 24. i mean, the trump white house. when barbie the president s
At morning, and welcome to the Sunday Edition of Morning Joe Weekend. It was another fastmoving newsweek, and here are some of the conversations you might have missed. I have, for 6 months since people have been freaking out, i am telling you every time, talk to anybody whos running the campaign, the big part of the campaign. I dont know what they are telling you, what they are telling other people. They act ing like people are holding four aces. How about this . Thats pretty bad. Oh, yeah. Looks really tough. Yeah. Is as a criticism . No, im telling you. They know something that i think a lot of us dont know. They look at numbers, they see where things are going, they have a theory of the case, and when they realize donald trump is going to be getting into the race, they understand that you win politics by raising money. They understand Donald Trumps numbers are way down in every way, and fundraising, and they say, no, they are not. And as far as organization goes, we all know anybody
Its geek versus geek as spen meets fry. And lots of people shout in a big tent. Summer is on the way and, well, it wouldnt be a british summer without a visit to a good Old Fashioned festival. No, not that one. Much better. Known as the town of books, hay on wye in wales is the location of the hay festival. Its a literary mecca, an annual gathering of artists, authors, daleks and, yep, even royals. Its even been called the woodstock of the mind by none other than former us president bill clinton. This year its the 30th hay festival, and the line up is pretty stellar. Well, for the second year in a row, weve been invited to share some of our favourite experiences and show off some really good tech, all in front of a real, Live Audience of actual people. What could possibly go wrong . A packed tent waited, all that we had to do was wow them applause we had robots falling over, experiments in Haptic Feedback and demos in binaural sound, but that was nothing compared to the climax a click