situation as they dismiss questions about her being silenced. let s go out front. and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news. suing former trump white house chief of staff mark meadows suing the house january 6th committee and speaker nancy pelosi. meadows wants a court to block enforcement of both the subpoena the committee issued him to testify, as well as the subpoena that it issued to verizon to get all of his phone records. well, committee vice chair liz cheney has just responded to cnn telling meadows, bring it on. telling cnn just moments ago, quote, the committee has received a number of extremely interesting, nonprivileged documents from mr. meadows. and now, he is refusing to appear to answer questions about these nonprivileged documents. well, that would appear to be pretty inconsistent, right? and so, the committee is now moving to hold meadows formally in criminal contempt. that will make meadows the third former-trump official tha
between the lawyers and the judge, and testimony from rittenhouse himself, the jury may begin deliberating as soon as later today. rittenhouse faces multiple homicide charges for killing two protesters and injuring another during unrest last august. he was charged with being a minor in possession of a dangerous weapon. that charge was dismissed by the judge earlier this morning. protests broke out in kenosha last summer after jacob blake, a black man was shot by a white officer. rittenhouse then 17 was among other armed civilians who say they came to kenosha to protect businesses from the protesters. when the jury receives the case, they ll have to consider if rittenhouse was acting in self-defense and if the amount of force he used was reasonable in response to the amount of danger he was in. joining us now to break this down, shaq brewster, covering the trial from kenosha, wisconsin. and i m joined by legal analysts. in a moment danny have a us. give us the latest, shaq.
states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a january 6th committee taking a big step tonight towards punishing steve bannon for defying a subpoena. our congressional correspondent ryan nobles is awaiting the vote. he is up on capitol hill for us. ryan, first of all, tell us about the vote and what happens afterwards. reporter: yeah, that s right, wolf. for weeks the select committee has promised those who they sent subpoenas to, they would act quickly if those subpoenas were not cooperated with. they are making good on that promise. they are holding a vote tonight to hold steve bannon in criminal contempt and once that vote leaves the committee we are told the full house could refer it the department of justice as soon as thursday. to defend the rule of law reporter: the january 6th select committee making good ton their threat and moving quickly to oakland hold trump ally steve bannon in criminal contempt of congres
around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the criminal contempt charge in the works for trump loyalist, steve bannon, over his defiance of the january 6th select committee. bannon ignoring, ignoring a subpoena deadline he faced today. our correspondent is following the investigation for us. it looks like, as they say, they re not messing around at all. no. in fact, they re sending a message to bannon and the other witnesses they re targeting this this investigation that if you don t comply, they will try to force you but it s a lengthy process. it s ultimately up to the attorney general whether to actually prosecute. tonight, lawmakers investigating january 6th move to hold long time trump add vviser steve ban in contempt after he defied their subpoena. in a statement, the chairman said he will not tolerate defiance of our subpoenas, so we must move forward. we re not fooling around. we expect people to fulfill their lawful duties.
so the white house can still point to job growth. a number of aides have been texting the new york times story with the headline that the job numbers are still pretty good, but this was not the report that they were hoping for. they were bracing for better numbers. and even last month that is exactly how president biden did react when those lackluster numbers came out from the month of august and the president said look, i wanted to see something better here. we all did. acknowledging that because of the surge in the delta variant at the time that this was the economic picture of where we are. but that is something that the white house has been stressing all summer long, that these jobs reports are a snapshot of where we are and it is important to add context to what was going on and what was driving what is this weaker report. and what we are seeing clearly here is that as students were going back to the classroom, as some parents were going back to work, because of the