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and good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the january 6th select committee raising the stakes. asking the house minority leader to meet with them. offering up two specific dates for his testimony, and here is their letter tonight to the house minority leader kevin mccarthy. they write, quote, we request we write to request your voluntary cooperation on a range of critical topics, including your conversations with president trump. so, it s about five and a quarter pages here and the committee lays out, in excruciating detail, mccarthy s central role in their investigation. here on page four, the letter notes that the committee has obtained, quote, contemporaneous text messages from multiple witnesses identifying significant concerns following january 6th held by white house staff regarding president trump s state of mind and his ongoing conduct. and the letter says, it appears that mccarthy and trump, during that time, had one or more conversations one o ....
senate tradition. more on this on america reports. sandra: to another alert, increasing covid cases, lack of testing and the highest inflation in four decades is sending president biden s poll numbers into a tailspin. hello, welcome, everyone. sandra smith. thursday. john: we like to call it friday eve around here, i m john roberts in washington. sandra, good to be with you again. a brand-new poll showing only 33% of americans approve of the job that biden is doing, and a whopping 53% disapprove of the president s performance so far. sandra: all of this as the poll tracking website, 538.com, shows joe biden underwater on covid the first time since he was elected president. trying to get a handle on the testing debacle, as americans wait on the 500 million free a the home tests. administration promised would go out. now biden says even more tests are on the way. today i m directing my team to procure additional 500 million more tests to distribute for free. tha ....
welcome, everybody, and happy weekend. i m neil cavuto. and the fallout from a decision that polarized the nation in one of the most scrutinized cases probably since o.j. simpson. let s get the very latest of how things are looking in kenosha with alexis mcadams. reporter: that s right. 18-year-old kyle ratenhouse walking outside of the courthouse here in kenosha, wisconsin, now a free man. people were preparing for fallout here in denobody that shah, but this morning things remaining very quiet. let s go back into the courtroom as we watched for two weeks things unfolding here. the illinois teen shot three men, killing two during the unrest following the police shooting of jacob blake last summer. kyle rittenhouse breaking down in court, grabbing his knees and sobbing as he stood in front of the judge hearing he was found not guilty on all five counts. also in the courtroom, the loved ones of the two men killed by kyle rittenhouse. we need to focus on what s most h ....
wants do in her life. stephanie elam, thank you so much. clearly the force behind her fans was pretty fierce. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka whitfield. we begin this hour with a trump ally in danger of going to jail after being indicted over a january 6th investigation. steve bannon will appear in court on monday and face criminal contempt charges. a former trump adviser has repeatedly refused to produce documents or appear before the committee concerning the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. bannon s attorney has stated his client would not be cooperating with the investigation into what happened that day because of executive privilege. cnn s kara scannell is following these developments for us. kara, steve bannon is expected to turn himself in, however, how defiant he has been. this occurred on monday. then what will happen. he ll face a judge where he s been charged with two counts of contempt of congres ....
equipment. the other would order the department of homeland security to do that job. it s unclear who drafted the orders and very important to know neither was ever sent. now the committee has the testimony of someone who might know something about all of this. cnn was first to report former vice president mike pence s chief of staff mark short quietly testified before the house select committee. caitlyn polan starts us off in washington, d.c. caitlyn, help our viewers out here. what might mark short actually be able to offer investigators about what was going on inside the west wing leading up to january 6th. reporter: good morning, laura. mark short is really the top guy around mike pence in the vice president s office at key moments. we don t know exactly what he told the committee. my colleagues did learn this was a lengthy session that he took part in last week when he went to speak to the committee. he also had handed over a limited amount of documents previou ....