And todays judges put a hold on their own ruling to give his lawyers time to file an appeal. It comes as the select Committee Heard from four important witnesses today. That would be john eastman, author of the memo used to try and convince mike pence to toss out the election results. That would be former trump Cyber Security czar chris krebs, who publicly disputed the big lie, famously said at the time that our president ial election had been free and fair. Former pentagon official, kash patel, also Ali Alexander who organized stop the steal rallies after the 2020 election. He happened to meet with the committee today for eight hours. It was really just important to me as a man of faith and a man of peace to have come here and say, stop the steal held 500 rallies in all 50 states in the union, and not one turned violent. Alexander also denies his group had anything to do with the violence at the capitol. The Committee Vice chair, liz cheney, said today the committees approaching 300 w
Election. And then there is the question of consequences, it has been pointed out clearly just this week that if they dont pay, the rest of us will during the second attempt. For the bigger names called before the committee, the strategy seems to be Defy Distract and delay. Worth the rafts, beat the clock, and hope to get away with it. Mark meadows, trumps fourth and final Chief Of Staff and member of congress himself, is now suing the committee and Speaker Nancy Pelosi for good measure. Meadows is asking a federal court to block enforcement of the subpoena to testify as well as the subpoena issued to verizon for some of his electronic records. Meadows has stopped engaging with the committee, he backed out of a deposition scheduled for this morning. Tonight Committee Members dismissed his lawsuit. I think it is a very superficial value meant to try and obstruct he is really in a compromise legal position because he is providing information to the committee which he acknowledges theres
Information with the public on the progress of the investigation. A significant amount of very telling evidence has been accumulated. It is a significant case that is developing, and the staff is working overtime, pulling all the pieces together and connecting the dots. This comes amid the less than surprising news that one of the committees bigger fish, mark meadows, a former congressman himself and of course trumps former chief of staff, has decided to skip out on his deposition tomorrow. That reverses a deal he made with the committee. Today meadows explained why he just cant cooperate. The committee was fully intending to continue to press forward asking about Executive Privilege items, things that are protected by that. In addition, we found that in spite of the our cooperation and sharing documents with them, they had issued unbeknownst to us and without a courtesy call, issued a subpoena to a thirdparty carrierer trying to get information. So we feel its best to continue to the
Selfdefense when he killed two men and wounded another during protests last year. Atlantis were screaming and i was trying to get to the police. Why did you try to get to the police . Because i didnt do anything wrong. I defended myself. His testimony was not the only emotional testimony in the courtroom. The judge overseeing all of this angrily berating the prosecution a couple times, even leaving the defense to ask for a mistrial. That threat still hangs over the proceedings as theyre back under way today. Lets go there. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz is live outside the courthouse in kenosha with the latest. Where are things that the moment, shimon . Reporter the defense expert, john black, is now on the stand. Normally you would see these kind of Expert Witnesses in the prosecution of Police Officers or perhaps a disciplinary hearing when an officer is charged or accused of using force unnecessary sily or in so violation of a law. Its interesting to see it being use with a civilian on the s
General garland, who can then make a call on whether or not to prosecute bannon. A conviction could land him in jail for over or about a year. The entire clash is not what democrats are aiming for. They pushed for bannons cooperation to gather facts about the insurrection. He is the one escalating this with total defiance weve seen. Hes following Donald Trumps calls to duck the request as it probes how so many people came to washington with such aggressive tactics and plans to storm the capitol, which they did. Its also eyeing statements like this from bannon to the maga faithful before the riot, a dark warning, this was on the eve of the gathering and the same day he reportedly met with trumps team. All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. Just understand this. All hell is going to break loose tomorrow. Its going to be moving, its going to be quick. The committee wants evidence and testimony from bannon on what he knew and why he was talking like that and what kind of hell he was ro