new charges against steve bannon this morning, welcome to viewers here in the united states and all around the world. long-time trump adviser and ally steve bannon expected to surrender to prosecutors in new york thursday to face state charges related to his fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern border. bannon allegedly defrauded donors who contributed to a we build the wall campaign. the crowd-funded border wall raised more than $25 million. according to prosecutors bannon falsely told donors that all the money contributed would go toward the construction effort. bannon in a statement calls the indictment phoney charges and a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system. federal prosecutors charged bannon with the same alleged crime in 2020 but president trump pardoned bannon as he was leaving office. presidential pardons do not apply to state investigations, of course. cnn s kara scannell is joining us now with the details. what s the la
in a lengthy letter with indiscriminate capitalization committee chair bennie thompson sends it to him and trump doubled down on fraudulent claims that the 2020 election was stolen. a reminder, it was not. facts. once the subpoena is formally issued there will be specific deadlines for when the former president must testify. if he defies it, he could then be held in contempt of congress. yesterday s subpoena vote was the committee s mic drop moment before the november midterms. they also, though, used that final hearing to share new evidence from secret service communications, leading up to the capitol riot. and showed never before seen footage of congressional leaders scrambling to respond to the attacks from a makeshift bunker. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us live now. tell us more about new evidence that was revealed. well, victor, and erica, the biggest new evidence was all of that new video from congressional leaders behind the scenes, figuring
justice department s criminal probe into the january 6th insur insurrection. the doj is seeking testimony from former vice president mike pence and that pence is open to some level of cooperation. cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez is on the story for us. evi evan, what indications do we have pence could comply with the request? i think what you re hearing from people around the former vice president is that first of all, this is a criminal investigation and so he can t just reject out of hand a request from the prosecutors but they do, i think, want to reach some kind of accommodation where by, you know, they can negotiate for him to appear and provide some kind of interview. that would be the ideal way by perhaps they limit the questions he can answer. you know, of course, the former vice president just published a book in which he describes a lot of his interactions with the former president around this key
him. i don t know what he ll say but i m going to have other people call hill. the nature, if i m getting briefing, i m going to get another one from the fbi tomorrow, this is serious shit. cut this out. yeah, that s potentially illegal what he s doing. well, he s putting people in jeopardy. and he doesn t need to be doing this. we saw what people would do in the capitol. you know, and these people came prepared. along with everything else. man, so alex, let me start with you. tell us the backstory here. well, the backstory is this is another piece of the phone call that kevin mccarty held with several members of the house republican leadership team, and you heard also the voices of a number of staff members. four days after the january 6th insur insurrection, and they re talking through the behavior of
foes and defeat the republicans who voted to impeach him for inciting the january 6th insur insurrection. what is important to show in the last quarter of this past year, the republicans who voted to impeach are raising more money, a significant amount, in some cases than their opponents. liz cheney announced earlier she raised $1.9 million in the last quarter. that s more than 1.6 million of her closest primary challenger. one of the most vocal opponents of the former president. announced raising $806,000. he has a campaign war rest of over $3 million. that s 20 times more his closest challenger. the last congressman, anthony gonzalez, you see there on your screen, he has raised $600,000. it s more after a narrow advantage over his poopponent. donald trump went to ohio to campaign against anthony