so trump has some things he needs to do with the establishment types. it remains to be seen how the grassroots will hold on to mccormick, but that s where we were going, and we will be soon enough. reporter: thank you so much. national political reporter for new york times, charlie dent, former publican congressman from pennsylvania and executive director and vice president of the congressional program at the aspen institute. coming, up nikki haley has a big endorsement this morning, donald trump has been collecting endorsements from top political figures of haley s own home state, and is parading around new hampshire with them. politics is hard, watching nikki haley get trust in two states at once by a guy who was once impeached twice, criminally indicted, and lost the last election is a sign that we should all turn our attention to the real two person race that is about to emerge, and they have nothing to do with the primaries. the one between joe biden and donald trump.
condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannon s criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committee s subpoena. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is joining us from just outside the federal courthouse here in washington. katelyn, give us the latest. reporter: well, wolf, steve bannon was convicted today, even though he had vowed this was going to be the misdemeanor from hell for the select committee. it was not that. by the end of the day, we had two criminal convictions of steve bannon. now, these were both misdemeanor charges, but congress writes the law, and when they wrote this law, they said that it would be punishable by a minimum
first glimpse. with regard to the responding officers, as you mentioned, this deepens the question about the total police response and why they did not act sooner to try to take down the gunman. according to investigators and other people who have looked at this photograph, they are baffled as to why police did not act sooner, knowing that they had in their minds, in the minds of people who have reviewed this evidence, that they had not only the sufficient equipment but sufficient firepower to try to breach that classroom door. because it wasn t a pistol of theirs versus an ar-15-style rifle of his, right? they were matching him on firepower. well, brianna, that s actually a very good point. initially i think the public, to some extent, was led to believe that those early responding officers and while it may be true for the earliest responding officers, but i think the public was led to believe that officers and those early minutes only had pistols, as a matter of fact i
community, entered the school with a handgun and possibly a rifle it appears he was killed by officers who responded to the shootings. president biden addressed the nation a short time ago more on his message in a moment this comes just ten days after the mass shooting at a supermarket in buffalo in which ten people were killed. one more horrific and stunning act of gun violence in a nation so weary from it we begin with morgan chesky in texas. reporter: lester, every update that s come in today on this story has only brought more heartbreak for this tight-knit community of only about 15,000 people. tonight, a massive law enforcement presence has descended on this small town, and it is converging on robb elementary school behind me. covered up in crime scene tape as investigators scour this area for evidence and try to find what caused thi 18-year-old gunman to go inside and open fire reporter: tonight, at least 21 live have been cut short. according to the state senator
sick and tired of us putting weak people in washington representing you and they re not doing it. in november we re not just going to see a red wave. we re going to see a tsunami. i ve been pushing to take the republican party in a different direction. that s why i got in here. i could not sit back and watch this train reck happen. my motto of one georgia is not a gimmick. it is a guarantee. i m confident about my chances tomorrow. and because i stood on the truth. let s begin the hour right there. democracy at work as we speak. polls open in georgia, texas, alabama, arkansas, minnesota. all holding primary or runoff elections. two trump grudge matches here in georgia. they get the most attention, but the power of the bush brand tested in a texas runoff. we ll get clues about the shifting politics of abortion rights from a house runoff in southwest texas. i hope you ll stay with us throughout the day. this race here, this georgia republican primary for governor