the overall state of the country. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is a critical week in the insurrection investigation as the january 6th select committee prepares to hold another potentially explosive hearing in prime time. at the same time, trump ally steve bannon is now standing trial for defying the panel s subpoena to testify. court just wrapped up for the day. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has all of the new developments. tonight, steve bannon s criminal trial for contempt of congress finally beginning with jury selection after his lawyers tried repeatedly to delay and bannon made a last-minute offer to testify before the january 6th committee. prosecutors saying his late offer will not make up for the near year he s refused to comply with the committee s subpoena. the trial will likely last just a few days. bannon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of c
guy, jeff clarke. the january 6th committee turns its spotlight on jeffrey clarke, the critical figure in trump s corrupt plot to put the parameter on his fake elector scheme. also tonight, trump is not happy with kevin mccarthy because the january 6th hearings are completely devoid of clowning, trolling and disruptions that trump was counting on for his attempted coup. i have a special guest, cherelle griner and the wife of basketball star britney griner who has been held in russia for four months. we begin with the january 6th committee hearings which most people can agree have been extremely substantive. so much so that they re going on longer than we thought. chairman bennie thompson said today that the committee received so much new information on the tip line that he s been promoting during each of the previous hearings that after tomorrow additional hearings will be held in july. one of the latest developments, never before seen footage subpoenaed from the committe
just a few hours. his remarks coming after a harrowing 24 hours in america yesterday when one gunman shot and killed four people inside a hospital in tulsa, oklahoma, before turning the gun on himself. the shooter whom officials say purchased his ar-15-style rifle just hours before he barged into the facility looking for a doctor he blamed for ongoing pain after back surgery. the tragic attack in tulsa was not the only one to take place. a prison inmate in dayton, ohio grabbed a security guard and fatally shot him. outside in los angeles, a student was shot outside a high school. that incident now among the two dozen acts of gun violence near schools that have taken place since the start of 2022. according to one count there have been 20 mass shootings just since the rampage in uvalde, texas, last week, which of course, became the country s deadliest mass shooting this year, just ten days after a white supremacist murdered ten people and wounded three others in a supermarket
sean, i can t even begin to express what an enormous loss this community has suffered here today. i m here at the vigil here in uvalde county and the families that came here to honor those that died, the 19 children that died came here they said with broken hearts with just need to be together in a time of morning. you can see everyone is leaving right now. we got a lot of crowds behind us but i got to tell you, sean, earlier today it didn t matter where i went in this town, people were hugging each other as they were saying you know, i knew a child that went to that school and it made sense. if this is population of just over 16,000 people, so everybody knew somebody. everybody was connected to somebody. i did know somebody in this town. i know a family here that i live only about maybe an hour and 40 minutes from uvalde here in texas and the family was shocked and stunned to discover that a number of people on their daughters softball team had been killed in the incident.
john podesta s better for america advice, the crisis they created, they want open borders, century cities, sanctuary states, and guess what? amnesty. if we had a border wall tonight, this would not be a threat to the united states, or even to the people that could possibly get hurt here, which nobody wants. we are just 14 days, tonight, in two weeks, you will tune into this channel, and a very important midterm election. the democratic playbook is in full effect. we are going to expose the very iworst, most despicable, vile ads that are out there, filled with politics of hate and fear, which i predicted. meanwhile, nancy pelosi, once again, she is measuring the drapes, she thinks she is getting the gavel back. but you have the power. we would tell you her bold and new prediction, and we have brand-new undercover footage, once again, project veritas, p first they outed bredesen in tennessee, then mccaskill tonight. wait until you see north dakoty senator heidi heitkamp, fore,