in a letter to bannon former president trump writes, i watched how you and others have been treated spending vast amounts of money on legal fees. i will waive executive privilege for you. the committee says today it s open to bannon s testimony as long as it s under oath. bannon s potential testimony would come on the heels of testimony from another major witness. former trump white house counsel pat cipollone, part of his eight-hour closed door interview will be this week. context and nuance is important when it comes to steve bannon. the letter is essentially the equivalent of me telling you that i m waiving my executive privilege for you to talk to our bosses tomorrow in our morning meetings. what does what bannon and trump are doing here actually mean? well, look, if he actually testifies, let s say he actually goes in and does it for real that would be huge. we re so far away from that still. he basically gave bannon the cover so that he, bannon, could go to the commit
the overall state of the country. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is a critical week in the insurrection investigation as the january 6th select committee prepares to hold another potentially explosive hearing in prime time. at the same time, trump ally steve bannon is now standing trial for defying the panel s subpoena to testify. court just wrapped up for the day. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has all of the new developments. tonight, steve bannon s criminal trial for contempt of congress finally beginning with jury selection after his lawyers tried repeatedly to delay and bannon made a last-minute offer to testify before the january 6th committee. prosecutors saying his late offer will not make up for the near year he s refused to comply with the committee s subpoena. the trial will likely last just a few days. bannon has pleaded not guilty to two counts of c
committee as it releases preliminary report on the mass shooting at robb elementary. nbc s priscilla thompson is there and covering it for us. priscilla, as always, good to talk to you. talk us through this, because this obviously has been, since it s incredibly tragic shooting happened, such an emotional time for these families. and, as the details have begun to trickle out more and more, even more so emotional. now, the release of this report to family members in the community there. talk us through what we may learn today. yeah, yasmin, another emotional day here with that meeting between committee members and the family set to get underway in just about a half hour here. an hour or so here. well we re learning, just from the spokesman a short while ago, was that that report was going to be 110 pages. he says that 18 to 20 family members have picked up a copy of the report, they re still working to get a copy to the family of the victim who is still hospitalized. he also
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begin on capitol hill. the committee will hold the first session at 8:00 eastern tonight. committee members are promising never before seen footage and testimony and that includes video from a documentary film maker named nick kwequested th abc news obtained. i m not allowed to say what s going to happen today because everyone will have to watch for themselves. but it s going to happen. something is going to happen. one way or the other. that film maker will be one of the witnesses to testify tonight. he had unique access to the far right group, the proud boys and he captured video of the rioters inside the capitol as they screamed for speaker pelosi. a member of his film crew capturing the scene outside nancy pelosi s office. the vast majority of the footage tonight has not yet been seen publicly. the goal is to make the case to all americans former president trump was at the center of the coordinated multi step effort they say to overturn the 2020 election. c nrk