indicted steve bannon for contempt of congress after he refused to turn over documents. he has an arrest warrant and is expected to turn himself in on monday. this news obviously serious for bannon, but also for others who have been defying subpoenas and have been considering taking bannon's lead. adam schiff issued this warning. let this send a message to all those with knowledge of the attack on our democracy, the days of defying subpoenas are over. we will expose those responsible for january 6. no one is above the law. the only missing thing at this point, there's a lot missing, and at mark meadows, skipped out on a deposition friday just hours before bannon was indicted. evan perez joins me now. what the committee is basically saying about meadows at this point is what we did with steve bannon and this is potentially coming for you. >> right. i think the gamble they're making or i think the effort here is that they believe mark meadows is probably going to take a different tack than steve bannon, who you know, i think he feels standing up to this committee and is good for his podcast, his career, mark meadows is a different guy. he's a former member of congress and 30 days in jail may not sound so great to him. so they're hoping he arrives at a different conclusion. we heard a little bit from the committee though about what they believe is missing here. i'll put up a part of what they said yesterday. mr. meadows has failed to answer even the most basic questions including whether he was using a private cell phone to communicate on january 6th and where his text messages from that day are. this is something we saw in the russia vinvestigation, the mueller investigation. there were people who the fbi wanted to talk to who has mysteriously thrown away their communications devices or used encrypted or destroyed them. and so some of the answers this committee believes perhaps are hidden that way and maybe will never be found. >> and but people have actually spoken with the committee up until this point. the committee has information. >> there's a lot of information. >> they are gathering. >> they have. and that's part of what's interesting here is that some former trump officials have gone into this committee, including former justice department officials who have painted a very, very dark picture of those key days around january 6th when the president was trying to get the justice department to weigh in on his side, to say that there was fraud in various states. and to set the stage for something bigger on january 6th. for january 6th to have been worse, unless those people stood up, but here's a list you see. about three dozens subpoenas have gone out, but in addition to some of the justice department officials, you have some people who voluntarily, including elisa farr, who was a communications official at the white house. but you can see the list right there is a list of people who have essentially formed a wall of silence so far. >> thank you very much. for more on this, i'm joined by former assistant special watergate prosecutor, nick ackerman. thanks for being with us. do you think this indictment will scare these other uncooperative trump allies like mark meadows into playing ball? have they circled the wagons here? >> i think they've circled the wagons. certainly, this indictment is important, but if the goal of the committee is to get people to cooperate, to comply with the subpoenas, provide documents, this is by far not the optimum choice they had. the way to get these people to cooperate would be to invoke their civic powers, which is counterintuitive. under the civil contempt powers, they could have sent the sergeant at arms out and the congressional paddy wagon, picked up steve bannon, thrown him in jail and kept him there until he agreed to cooperate. the problem with the current indictment is it's going to go through the regular process of a criminal prosecution. he's going to be arraigned on monday. there's going to be discovery, documents are going to be asked for. the government will turn things over. there's going to be pretrial motions. all of this is going to take time. steve bannon will not see a jail cell for a long time. he's probably going to be given bail under our bail statute. so if the committee really wants to send the right message, they've really got to be using this civil contempt proceeding that they have all the right to use. they can bring people in. put them in prison. bring them before the committee. if the person refuses to testify. they can keep them in prison if they refuse to testify because they assert their fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. they have the power to give him immunity. if he then doesn't cooperate, they can still keep him in jail. that is really the hammer they have that they should have used and what concerns me is why didn't they use it? is it because the committee is afraid of political blowback from the trump people? i mean, that's what really concerns me. and it's not just the committee. it's also the department of justice. what we do know from this whole process is that the department of justice has not subpoenaed trump's presidential records. they've indicted over 700 people on the insurrection, for being on the capitol steps on january 6th, but yet they have not asked for those documents. >> and you've seen this play out before. i mean, this is right out of the stall and delay playbook, right? that's the name of the game here. for the trump team. >> absolutely. and the criminal prosecution gives them a little more opportunity to pull the old stall and delay tactic. the fact that the department of justice isn't asking for these documents means that they can try and run out the clock until the republicans think they're going to take over congress in the midterms then disban d the committee. then where are we with these documents? still pending motions before the united states supreme court, whereas the department of justice could keep this going and turn it into a criminal investigation. keep min mind, the committee's sole purpose is to recommend legislation and to do things to protect the security of congress. the goal of the department of justice is punitive. it's to punish people for what they did. now, clearly, bannon could be punished for what he did. it's certainly not a resume builder under federal indictment. >> i think it is for him. i think he sees it they way. like he's the next nelson mandela. just totally absurd. but that's how he's going to play it up to the public. i spoke with trump's former white house press secretary a short time ago. here's what she said about secret meetings held by trump and the role that meadows played in those meetings. let's listen. >> the president at the time was so paranoid of leaks that a lot of our meetings took place in the residence. number one, so he could keep track of who was in there and if it leaked out, he would try to figure that out, but two, so it was very much kept off the books and documents, anything written down could probably be thrown in the trash where people can't, you know, come and retrieve them to put into the archives. so that happened quite a bit. and i'm sure the select committee is aware of that and is looking into that. mark meadows was one towards the end who was definitely helping to plan those meetings. >> it all sounds very nixonian. >> they were trying to cover it up from the get go. that's why it's important to get bannon in there. mark meadows in there and everybody that was connected that war room at the hotel. the idea that there was a war room that was overseeing what was going on at the capitol on january 6th is absolutely chilling. and if there ever was a situation -- >> war on what? a war on us. a war on our democracy. >> exactly. the idea of executive privilege, rubbish. it doesn't apply when you're talking about overthrowing the government in an insurrection. it just doesn't apply. it's a red herring. >> i want to ask you about this new audio of trump, i'm sure you've heard it. the former president seems to defend the insurrectionists chanting hang mike pence. again, shocking, not surprising behavior on the part of the former president. >> were you worried about him during that siege? >> no, i thought he was well protected and i heard he was in good shape. >> you heard those chants. that was terrible. >> well, the people were very angry. it's common sense. it's common sense that you're supposed to protect. how can you, if you know a vote is fraudulent, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? >> it sounds like trump was getting updates on what was -- i heard mike pence was okay. who knows if that's true because we had heard that trump was not really keeping tabs on his vice president at the time. but he seems to be volunteering some information that he was getting updates on his vice president being chased around the capitol. >> even better. that's an admission that could be used in a criminal trial against donald trump. he's basically admitting to the lie that he's been spreading from day one about having won the election. two, he's not really taking any offense at the idea of people were shouting hang mike pence. then when you couple that, people were trying to pressure him to reject the vote that came through in the electoral college. when you put all that together, you've got a pretty decent case against donald trump, a criminal case. >> why won't they bring a case against him? we were just talking about this in the last hour. >> because i think that the department of justice, it's politics. they think they're getting involved in politics when in fact, this is such a serious issue. the idea -- >> do you think they should? >> they should, absolutely should. and at a minimum, they ought to be investigating it. you know they're not because they haven't subpoenaed those records. normally, with a grand jury investigation, you don't know what they're doing. here, we know exactly what they're going because if they had subpoenaed it, they would have had to go through the whole process laid out in the presidential documents act of 1976. or 7. and we would have known about it just like everybody knew about the tape issue with nixon going up to the support. so the question is where is merrick garland? why is he asleep on the job? where is our department of justice that ought to be protecting us and at a minimum, investigating trump's role in this entire matter. even mckonl said after he voted against impeachment the second time time, that donald trump is still subject to criminal laws in the united states. >> it's time to get on with it. thank you. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. the judge in the kyle rittenhouse trial, his words and behavior are all making headlines, but could it also influence the verdict? 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>> well, there are different levels. the point of events two years before him, so i'm old as well, but you know, there are a couple of things going on. you know, he has lost his temper. he has not been mindful of the fact that what he says and what he does can impact not only the jurors, but the larger public. it is so important that a court look and be impartial to the independent branch of government. and that people are getting a fair trial. there's going to be a lot of disfd dissatisfaction with the verdict, whatever it is. he really got angry, i think his legal decisions were right. he shouldn't have lost his temper. the judge sets the tone in courtroom and if you lose their temper, people will lose their temper and he was obviously very, very angry. things have d-- whether it's th ring tone, the agent's statement, the applause for a defense witness because he was a veteran. those things really impact people's feeling that this is a courtroom that we can have trust in. >> yeah, i mean, he sounds like he's watched too much bill o'reilly. it's supposed to be a courtroom. i know there are cameras. it's sort of an argument against cameras in the courtroom, which i'm a big proponent of. but not if the judge is going to act like archie bunker. >> i'm a proponent of cameras in the courtroom. wisconsin was one of the first states to have cameras. many of my homicide cases were on camera and i think it's important for this case to be on trial. people have to see it and decide whether or not that's what you want in a courtroom. it's been very unfortunate. but i want to add is that my experience with juries is that they will not be impacted by that. they are concentrating on the witnesses, rittenhouse's testimony. the biggest concern is the wider perception of whether this is impartial justice. >> yeah. and thursday was veterans day and you alluded to this a few moments ago, the judge asked the courtroom if any one present was a veteran and the only one turned out to be a witness for the defense. let's watch what happened. >> any veterans in the room, on the jury or anywhere else? that's unusual not to have at least somebody in here. dr. black is, what branch? >> army, sir. >> i think we can give a round of applause to the people who have served. >> i mean, we all salute our veterans. so thankful to their sfervice, especially on veterans day, but the jury was asked to applaud a defense witness. >> that broke my heart. this was an important defense witness on use of force. if somebody that they have to decide whether it's a credible witness or not a credible witness, it should not be based on anything the judge said about that witness and to me, that was one of the most egregious things he did, which is to have the jury applaud this particular witness before he testified. i was very sore he did that because i think the perception is that it was biased. >> yeah. i want to put the charges up against kyle rittenhouse. on the screen. the judge is expected to tell attorneys today whether he'll allow the jury to consider lesser charges. what do you make of that? >> i think lesser charges are going to be indicated in a number of cases. you know, there's this whole question of self-defense and who initiated and whether the gun of one of the victims was pointed at rittenhouse before he pulled the trigger. that also gives the jury a chance to compromise. it would not surprise me if this jury is a hung jury. they have a very tough decision but they could also find lesser includeds. i think they're going to be out for a long time. >> interesting. and kyle rittenhouse' mother gave an interview to fox news this week, let's play a clip from that. >> have you and your son discussed whether or not if we had to do it again, he would go into a situation like that? >> with kyle, i know him. and he probably would do it again because that's the type of person he is. he always wants to help people. even since he was a little boy. that's all he wanted to do was help people. >> what did you think about that? what's that? >> just a little breathtaking. very upsetting. to say that you wound up murdering two people or taking two people's lives and injured someone else and that you would do it again when he didn't have to be there and he didn't have to be there with that very serious weapon, you know, it's his mom and i understand she's trying to stand with him, but you'd like to think that he would say i wouldn't do that again. >> right. >> not that it's going to make any difference in this trial. >> but i mean, here's the thing. the jury use not supposed to watch this stuff. what's your experience? >> i am concerned about that. you know, when we first, when i first started trying murders, we used to sequester every first degree murder. that was our common practice and you know, now we've gotten to a point that it's too expen sifr and everything and judges tend not to do it. i think this is a case where they should have been sequestered. there's so much social media and attention and it's hard to tell them to be disconnected. i'm sure they're trying, but what's the likelihood that all 12 that sit in that box have not been exposed to something during this trial. it's pretty remote. i know they'll take the responsibility serious, but there's a risk. if i heard that, i would be really concerned as a juror if i was trying to think, he'd do this again if he had an opportunity. >> no question. justice, thanks so much for all those insights. you were really terrific. thanks for braeaking it down. >> thank you. up next, when can you expect prices to come down and is there anything more president biden can do to fight inflation? 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those things don't seem to go with one another. >> yeah, people are calling it the great resignation. two months in a row where we had more people quit than in any months on record. i would call it the great reassessment. where people have more money in their pockets and decide they don't want to go back to work. in addition, if you really look at the problems and you zero in on the fact that a disproportionate number of people leaving the workforce are women, without schools fully open or family leave, women have to be home. they're the primary care givers for generations older and younger and they just don't have the option or their life is to stressful they're deciding to leverage work from home remote capabilities and deciding to exit the workforce. i believe if you wanted to tame inflation, get out in front of this incredible labor shortage, a lot of it leads back to helping people in the homes, specifically women, have the ability to go to work. i think all roads kind of mostly lead to the same place and that is we need to be, or not be one of the seven nations that doesn't have some sort of paid maternity leave and just give women the chance to get back to work. >> i was going to ask you about that. is whether or not the biden agenda could help tackle some of this. we just saw the infrastructure bill passed. paid leave, which you just mentioned, is part of, or maybe part of, we'll see what the final legislation looks like, biden's social economic and climate package. is there stuff in there that would, you know, bring some relief? 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>> exactly. this is really serious. they went to our house. they destroyed every single thing. >> reporter: desperate he turned to facebook to see if he could get afghans out of afghanistan for a price. >> they say you have to pay $10,000 per person to be evacuated. >> i cannot provide $100,000 in cash. in a way, even if i provide that money, there is no guarantee they will be evacuated. >> desperate afghans are being kploited and told they could get t their families out if they pay impossible amounts. >> for only one family, $50,000. >> >> reporter: we skyped with a father of three in kabul who offered to get them on an evacuation flight list. >> if you want to leave the country, they say pay first. i said, how we can pay that much money right now. it is only business matters. people are making thousands and hundreds of thousands per day. >> reporter: this man whose identity we need to hide worked as a contractor for u.s. aid. the kind they are working to evacuate. >> what the u.s. is doing that you know of to try and get you and your family out. >> unfortunately now they are not doing anything. they say everything is closed and it is finished. we did not receive anything back from any other organization. >> reporter: sew went online where he found a man named zachary young who is one of many advertising evacuations from afghanistan posting this week, we can deliver. one linked-in user posted messages where young said it would be $75,000 for a car to pakistan. he told another it would be $14.5 per person to get to albania for another 4,000 del. prices well beyond the reach of most afghans. in a text message he told cnn that afghans trying to leave are expected to have sponsors fay for them. if someone reaches out we need to understand if they have a sponsor to pay evacuation costs which are based on environmental realities. young declined to break down the cost or say if he's making money. back in california, young afghan american tells us even though he can't pay, he's still pleading to get his family out. >> i have sent tons of texts, asking these people, begging them to evacuate my family. if i don't evacuate them within the next two weeks, i think i will lose them all. i think i will lose them all, my family. >> and our thanks toal em mar court for that eye opening report. and finely the top ten cnn heroes have been announced and as you vote we'll introduce our top ten. here is lindy doughty. >> this is bittersweet and as much as i'm excited to see that animal be released, it is also hard in the sense of seeing the animal now gone. >> there is no way you're going back to the ocean. >> so any seal that we rescue the ultimate goal is for them to be released back in the ocean. >> i feel a responsibility to help these animals and this is what i was put on this earth to do. >> great stuff. cast your vote at cnnheroes.com. i'm jim acosta and i'll see you tomorrow. pamela brown takes over the "newsroom" after a quick break. have a good night. enjoy that sunset. football, is a game of inches. but it's also a game, of information. because the nfl is connected. and at any moment, the fate of the season can come down to this. billions of secure connections, per second. when the game is on the line and the game is always on the line touchdown! the nfl relies on cisco. ♪ feel stuck and need a loan? 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