that s what northern greenland is facing every day during this unprecedented global heatwave. the images are incredible, and we ll take you there live. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we begin outfront tonight with garland s clearest signal yet, the attorney general going further than he s ever gone when ask if he will try donald trump for trying to overturn the election. no person is above the law in this country. nothing stops us even a former president? let me say that again, no person is above the law in this country. i can t say it any more clearly than that. you can t say it any more clearly than that. it is a crucial statement, because garland is in charge of the big decision. it is his justice department that will ultimately decide whether to prosecute trump. and the case against the former president, so far laid out by the january 6th select committee, which is gearing up for tomorrow, highly anticipated primetime hearing, has focus
other excuses bannon could have made, they even tried to inject politics into the proceedings today. they asked a house select committee attorney and staffer about her history working for democrats in the house. they also even asked about her belonging to the same book club as one of the prosecutors on that case on this particular case. both of those women have not participated in this book club for a year. but at the end of the day, the prosecutors had an extensive paper trail of the house warning bannon s team that the deadlines he had missed, that they were offering him extensions, that he wasn t even asking for extensions. so that is how that really played out today. and at the end of the day, at the very end, we heard an fbi agent talk about some of steve bannon s own social media posts saying he wasn t going to comply with the committee. that is what we saw throughout the entirety of the government s