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state department is rejecting steve bannons sudden willingness to testify before the january 6th committee days before his criminal contempt trial is set to begin. bannon produced a letter from donald trump, trump saying he is waiving executive privilege so bannon can testify. heres the thing, the committee and most legal analysts say no privilege existed in this case to begin with. whats more, federal prosecutors argue, trump never invoked executive privilege here. so, this doj court ...

teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrows hearing to dra...

gun legislation in three decades, just a week after a gunman killed seven people in highland park. >> this legislation is real progress, but more has to be done. those families in highland park, on july 4th a parade became a killing field. >> the white house being urged to do more on guns as democrats are also calling for more federal action on abortion rights. >> yeah, theres more that needs to be done. and i know the president knows that. >> president biden is facing challenging poli...

recovered from mar-a-lago last month, and it includes empty folders marked as classified. were live in moscow as the nation bids farewell to the leading soviet who brought the cold war to a peaceful end. ♪ >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with kim brunhuber. well, if at first you dont succeed, try again. its 5:00 a.m. on floridas space coast and after last mondays scrubbed launch, nasas artemis i rocket is ready for liftoff once more. have a look, this i...

along. >> dana: its the brand-new fox news power rankings predicting republicans will win 225 house seats. it would give the gop a seven seat majority. >> bill: factor in the toss-up seats. many by the way. that margin could grow to as high as 37 as of today. >> dana: feeling that potential red wave is a lack of enthusiasm for the president and his policies. that is me having the gift of understatement. a new poll shows a mere 13% of americans say the country is on the right track. >> ...

history. welcome, everybody. im neil cavuto. a busy day for the worlds richest man. and lets get the latest from kelly in l.a. kelly? >> hey, good to see you, neil. were about to see a battle of the tech titans. you have twitter lawyering up and elon musk saying that he can determinate the agreement due to the number of fake accounts. even with the confidence he showed in a tweet, hey, this is an interesting roller coaster here. transaction lawyers say its difficult to prove that twitt...

and the justice department believes the trump team attempted to obstruct justice. >> im not commenting on it because i dont know the details. >> ill talk to adam kinzinger of the january 6th committee. the war in ukraine. >> we are fighting for the future of our children, the future of our country. >> a stalemate at the front. a nuclear reactor in jeopardy. a mystery murder of a putin ally. six months into the war ill talk to former nato allied supreme commander and a former u.s. amb...

bannons change of heart, his trial will go on. also late today, what we learned about tomorrows january 6th hearing who will testify now? and the other key witness were expected to hear from. rachel scott with new reporting. the war in ukraine. and tonight, the white house now warning it believes iran is getting ready to help russia. what theyre expected to send to fight the ukrainians. james longman standing by, reporting from ukraine. japan in mourning over the assassination of f...

frailty had led his decision. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading british journalists with foreign correspondents based in the uk who write, blog, podcast and broadcast from the dateline london. ballot papers will be sent out in the coming week to the 160,000 or so people who will, in effect, choose the next british prime minister. the candidate debates have not been without incident — the host of one broug...

from you in person, instead of hearing from the media. >> this is the first time, and the only time that i had threat conversation with him. and i said -- >> i would like to see just speak to you at some stage -- >> to get your side of the story, effectively. >> i cannot be there in march. im going to iraq for he said he was very busy, because involve the saddam, rack at the time. >> i will be there -- >> very polite, very sincere. >> i can bring you documents, if you want. [inaudible]...