the kyle rittenhouse case. and britney spears finally has her freedom. a judge just term nailed the conservatorship she s lived until for 13 years. stand by for the details on this life-changing moment for the pop star. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. let s getting right to the breaking news, what it means for the january 6th investigation. paula reed is joining us. this is a major, major win for the january 6th commit aye. this is a critical development for the committee. up to this point they have not secured meaningful cooperation from any of the trump associates they subpoenaed. i m told several of the witnesses who have been stonewalling have been watching to see if there was any consequences for bannon s indictment. without this indictment, the investigation would have been essentially been crippled. each of the two counts carries a
our producer, hannah, has been staking this out for several weeks. today she noticed the activity. we came down to the courthouse. we saw an fbi agent going into the grand jury courtroom, presumably testifying, and then shortly thereafter, that s when two prosecutors from the u.s. attorney s office came out of the courtroom, walked two courtrooms down to the magistrate courtroom and that s where they handed down this indictment that was returned by the grand jury. the foreperson of the grand jury was also in the courtroom. and the magistrate judge said she would be signing this arrest warrant for steve bannon. this is a justice department, according to the attorney general s statement, who has acted according to the rule and the law. we saw that play out today with the federal grand jury returning this indictment. attorney general merrick garland issued a statement very shortly after news of this indictment came out, jake, saying that they adhered to the rule and the law here