legal news. it is the first conviction of anyone for defying the house january 6 committee as well. we have experts about to join us who were inside the courtroom . this is a major deal. prosecutors basically made may have won their case that steve bannon hid insurrection evidence by refusing to show up or testify or provide documents requested under that lawful subpoena. mr. bannon faces up to two years in prison in a precedent- making a victory. for the justice department and the house, we have a lot to get to. a lot of angles. we go right into the breaking news to the people who know it best. armor federal prosecutor john flannery has dealt with exactly these kind of cases and has been counsel to three confessional crannies congressional committees. josh gerstein has been covering the story. he is out side the courthouse. josh, tell us how this news came down and what it means. well ari, good to see you. deliberations were very short in this case. the trial was pretty
move now. if we lose any more time, we may lose the ability to to leave. so forget to leave, we need to do it now. we ve gained access to the second floor and i ve got people about five feet for me here below. they are on the second floor, moving it now. we may want to consider getting out, leaving now. copy? we will make our way. rippey,. we need to make our way to the . six officers between us and the people that are 5 to 10 feet people away. i m going down to evaluate, we have a clear shot if we move quickly. we ve got smoke downstairs, unknown smoke downstairs. by the protesters. is that compromised? we have secure. however, we have some protesters that are being compete contained. they re in smoke, unknown what kind of smoke it is. copy. clear, we re coming out now, all right. make the way. we saw that video, remember, the vice president of men taking them out of the video that s been shown since the beginning. that though, is several former tru
mike pompeo. in uvalde, texas, a new investigation that uncovered a local of majority officers never had active shooter training. more on that this hour. we begin this morning with new details on the investigations facing former president donald trump. we start in new york where during his deposition before the state attorney s general office, the former president took the fifth over 440 times as part of the state civil investigation into trump s business practices. in a lengthy statement, trump slammed the probe as politically motivated and said he had no choice but to plead the gift after the fbi searched his florida home as part of an unrelated investigation. also this morning, new details emerging about the fbi s efforts to obtain documents with classified information allegedly taken to mar-a-lago from the white house after donald trump left the white house last year. according to the wall street journal, prior to the search someone familiar with the stored papers
york attorney general s office, he invoked his fifth amendment right more than 440 people. he did answer one question, though, his name. in moments, the line of questioning he faced and what it indicates about the civil case the attorney general is building. plus, new reporting about why the fbi search of mar-a-lago may have happened even after more than a dozen boxes were retrieved by the national archives earlier in the year. the wall street journal reports someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may still be more classified documents at the private club after the national archives retrieved 15 boxes earlier in the year. people familiar with the matter said. as of now, nbc news has not ind pently verified the reporting. the focus is intensifying on how the justice department should handle this unprecedented moment. pressure is intensifying on attorney general merrick garland to explain the search as trump s allies and defenders lob unverified al
declining to answer more than 440 questions during a civil deposition in new york on wednesday. i will be joined by former national security advisor and u.n. ambassador john bolton to talk about the iranian plots to kill him and four other top trump national security officials and to get his reaction to the new legal troubles surrounding his former boss. and i will speak to chef and global humanitarian jose andres from ukraine to update the work by his non-profit to keep communities fed after more than five months of war. he met with president zelenskyy today. let s talk about the internal deliberations within the justice department. barbara, we understand that there are concerns inside the fbi and others that the fbi chief chris wray was so careful about the justice department guidance that he did not push back when he was in nebraska yesterday against the false claims by the president and others the fbi could have planted information there. yeah. that is a baseless piece