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Still plan to pause service in the maternity unit starting saturday. >> we have had 43 resignations, 70% of those are in clinical areas. unfortunately a number of the maternity nurses, the professionals who do labor, delivery and postpartum care are part of that group. >> tucker: so the maternity nurses all left. no more delivering babies in the hospital. the russians blame joe biden for this. but the truth is very different. the truth is that this is yet another heartfelt tribute to joe biden. ...

>> and the mlb investigated the red sox. lets be fair, both sides. during the same time, they didnt give the red sox much of a penalty. they gave alex cora a penalty for the time he was in houston. they never really followed what the sox, what mlb ended up saying the sox did or didnt do that season. >> they basically said the illegal use of electronic images. in other words, they had one guy who would set up the batting cage behind the bench, behind the dugout, and he was looking at live picture...

People who are being targeted. but the committee may be getting closer to forcing the issue. last night liz cheney, one of just two republicans on the committee said members were, quote, in solidarity on moving ahead with criminal contempt charges for people who dont compliment i want to bring in nbc national political reporter, sahil kapur. i dont mean to be negative. lets say they could get criminal contempt. again, what does that mean? does it mean a police officer is showing up at one of the...

Kash patel to not comply with the subpoenas for investigation into the riots on january 6. contempt is the next step. we get more now from ryan nobles on capitol hill. >> reporter: laura and christine, this is a key week for the january 6 select committee as that first round of in-person depositions is scheduled to take place among that group of the four individuals who were first subpoenaed by the commission. each of these individuals has dealt with the committee differently. meadows and pate...

Out in paperback. jennifer, thanks for being here. lets start with what might be on congressman raskins mind? what additional measurement of punishment if one of the former trump officials is charged? >> good morning, jonathan. as it happened, congressman raskin was also a law professor, so he knows the three options that congress has. one that you mentioned was ago the committee go to nancy pelosi and use the criminal contempt statute which is 2 usb 192. under that statute, 194, what happens is...

Bennie thompson saying, well, this is scheduled, if theyre not confirming, if these folks are not confirming that theyre coming to capitol hill or theyre saying theyre not, its scheduled but that doesnt mean we should expect them to come to capitol hill. i know theres a lot of talks behind the scenes between lawyers of some of these folks who have been subpoenaed and people on capitol hill and people on this committee to try to work this out. but i have to imagine that theres a good chance that ...

Continue for the higher level cases, the assault, the conspiracy. theres been a lot of concern, including an injured u.s. capitol police officer who told me, its ridiculous that anybody here unlawfully on january 6 would escape jail time. now were seeing low level defendants get some time behind bars. >> scott, one more quick story connected to this today, a dc federal judge holding two local jail officials in contempt after he says they mistreated an accused january 6 rioter who was being held....

We know bannon said he has no intention of complying with this investigation and thats why were getting to it. the contempt could come as soon as tomorrow. it could also be friday. but then this decision before it gets to the attorney general, and historically its been easy for bannon the past few days with trump in charge of the house. thats not the case anymore. >> not the case anymore, and one way is to build a record of truth and hope people read it and change their minds if they believe it....

Investigation showed up before a committee even when it was led by republicans and refused to answer all but 25 questions that were written out for him by the white house, by the subject of our investigation. he felt he could do that because he would never be held in contempt. he would never be prosecuted by the trump justice department. but those days are over. and i view that not only as essential to our investigation. but i also view this, the enforcement of the rule of law, as an early test ...

For the january 6th select committee. the first round of in-person depositions is scheduled to take place for some of former president trumps closest allies. more documents are due today. and committee members warn that those who do not comply may face criminal contempt charges. plus, captain kirk goes where no other "star trek" character has ever gone before. 90-year-old william shatner becomes the holdest person to travel beyond the earths atmosphere and he returns with some emotional, profo...