that s exactly what happened. how important is it that the committee show its teeth? and if they do, what happens next? two senators on opposite sides of the democratic party in a showdown over president biden s agenda. the new shots fired in the war of words between bernie sanders and joe manchin. it s more than two months until christmas. kendis, if you haven t gotten my gift yet, you better get ready. we re live with a toy expert to find out how the holiday could affect us. we re like it will get there when it gets there. one of the biggest stars in the nba could give up $200 million for staying unvaccinated. what is going on can kyrie irving? this is not a political thing. it s about my life and what i m choosing to do. good morning. it s saturday, october 16th. i m lindsey reiser. i m kendis gibson. we re at world headquarters in new york. space is cool. as we found out about an hour ago. we have big blue origin space news this week. this happened abo
Better place than we are. what would you say to judy if she could hear you? i would just tell her i love her and i would give her the biggest hug. that s all for this edition of dateline. i m natalie morales. thank you for watching. first up on msnbc, stepping up the pressure on former president trump s former right-hand man. the january 6th committee is getting ready to turn up the heat threatening steve banning with criminal charges if he doesn t testify. committee member pete aguilar reminding us what s at stake. what we hope to get is the full picture of the pressure campaign that the former president utilized on his own department of justice and how they, in turn, used it on other states. we think it s very clear that
Apparently used in the insurrection. trump telling his supporters just not to vote in 2022 or 2024 unless republicans back all of his election lies. do you think voters are watching this as closely as people on the hill are? i think voters are watching this closely. and i think that youngkin is doing what my grandmother would call speaking out of both sides of his mouth. he s saying that he he is his own surrogate, he s the only person who is representing his campaign. but he s not denouning donald trump and he applauded that rally before he realized that folks in that rally were pledging allegiance to a flag that was used in the insurrection. he realizes that biden won virginia by 54-44, and he needs to have both the urban areas and the suburbs of virginia like
Will cross the potomac to go to virginia and visit. alaina, i do want to talk about the president s agenda. senator sanders has been promoting president biden s $3.5 trillion economic package. he seems to have ruffled some few feathers when he took that campaign to west virginia, publishing an op-ed, urging senator manchin to support it. manchin fired back saying no self-declared independent will change his mind about that bill. if you re at the white house right now, what would you advise the president to do to iron out this agreement that s holding back this agenda? these guys that are publicly fighting, they have lunch together every tuesday. they can hash it out there. what are you doing if you re at the white house? if you re at the white house, you are taking the show on the road, which is what joe biden is doing and talking about all the ways that the $3.5 trillion bill would actually serve the american people.
So he knows just how well former aides of president trump defy congress including bannon. he think it s important those guys face consequences. real quick, they re also waiting to hear from three other trump aides, that includes mark meadows, kash patel and dan scavino. thank you for starting us off. we want to bring in glenn kerstner, and also with us is emily beverly. glenn, we ll start with you. good morning to you. let s say bannon is held in contempt of congress. how does that bring the committee closer to getting what it wants? information? the perfect question. good morning. let s look at some of the steve