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steve bannon to testify publicly on the eve of his federal criminal contempt trial for refusing to honor the committee s subpoenas. among those scheduled tomorrow, a former spokesman for the oath keepers which played a central role in the coordination and execution of the capitol insurrection. just moments ago, president biden was joined by gun safety advocates at a white house event celebrating bipartisan legislation signed last month. while the administration is struggling with the grim reality, on the cover of today s new york times about how many in the president s own party as well as independents are souring on him. and hundreds of firefighters in california are in a desperate battle to protect 3,000-year-old historic sequoia trees from the wildfires. we begin with the january 6th insurrection. joining me now ali vitali, jeremy peters. and tim miller, author of why we did it. ali, take us through what we can expect this week from the hearings and how they ....
semicooperative or cooperative fashion. i ll explain all that and where there s room for skepticism, but all this speaks to what is shaping up is one of the committee s most decisive legal victories as white house veteran and 2016 campaign chair steve bannon makes this move at an attempted partial legal surrender. he is offering a type of last-minute bid to try to cut a deal and cooperate with the january 6th committee. he is saying he wants to testify before this committee. he s sighing that now he will deal with them. he will talk, and if he did so under oath that s a new legal obligation, and he ll do so despite the defiance. a letter from trump himself attempts to explain the reversal. if nothing else, the pressure got to bannon. congress did not negotiate or weight on bannon. the committee made an assertive decision, unusual for democrat-run probes to immediately hold wanten in contempt when he defied, to immediately push for the doj to indict him, which it did. ....
prime minister, shinzo abe, a transformative figure and an important ally to american presidents, has been assassinated by a gunman at a campaign rally this morning. the killing sending shockwaves through a country completely unaccustomed to gun violence. on capitol hill right now, donald trump s white house counsel pat cipollone testifying at a closed session of the january 6th committee about those key moments described by previous witnesses where he was warning the white house and the president against illegal efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that panel is preparing to hold two more public hearings next week. at the white house this hour, president biden taking executive action to defend abortion rights, trying to ensure access to abortion medication as well as emergency contraception. this in the aftermath of the supreme court s decision overturning roe v. wade. even as the last abortion clinic in mississippi is shutting its doors. and a strong jobs report ....
and find some accommodation route to testify, he is going to cite potentially a letter from donald trump according to the brand-new washington post reporting, and as you may recall, he is awaiting a federal criminal trial that could land him in prison. it is a big deal that mister bannon now is i according to the post some sort of accommodation. we are going to get to that story in a few minutes. we are tracking one element. as for the white house lawyer, mister pat cipollone, he went hours and hours, a .5 hours total. in fact, we are told that it just wrapped up within the last few moments here, pat cipollone arrived before 8:30 am, he is visible in the passenger seat caught by cameras there, he was escorted to a conference room to provide this testimony. there were some shouted questions from the reporters today, this was a dramatic theme when you consider just how long this was, he did not respond to the press, mister pat cipollone matters because he is someone who h ....
is not doing enough. and d.c. news reporting a white house official, highlighting biden s election executive actions, boosting abortion pills, and contraception. only congress can codify roe v. wade into law. comes as america on friday, louisiana judge ruled that the state can now enforcing near total ban on abortions. just events a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion in that state. that could be on the ballot as soon as next year. president biden reproductive freedom he s also calling it the high court for its dangerous and outrageous kneeling we cannot allow an out of control supreme court working in conjunction with extremist elements of the republican party to take away freedoms. and our personal autonomy. the choice we face as a nation between the mainstream and the extreme. but we are witnessing is in a constitutional judgment, it was an exercise of raw political power. the mainstream, and the extreme. and as you know, it is not just abortion ri ....