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former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy is standing by. first, david spunt who has been covering this all along, this very quick verdict. >> very quick verdict. were talking three hours and ten minutes. when you have a verdict that quick, its not favorable to the defendant. steve bannon, the former white house adviser to former president donald trump convicted on two counts of criminal contempt of congress. willful failure to appear before testimony before january 6. guilty. count two,...

reid. we begin with more on the search at donald trumps mar-a-lago home. while trump and his allies have been raging the fbi and the justice department have remained conspicuously quiet. heres what we have learned. according to authority the federal authorities drew increasingly concerned that the man, i dont know, known for skirting the law for the last 40 years and his lawyers, have not returned all of the classified material that he carted off with him when he went scurrying down to...

on this call. why did this interaction have the committee so concerned? >> don, witness tampering is serious. its a crime, and as ms. cheney stated during the hearing, we passed along this information to the department of justice to look into it further. we take very seriously. the safety of any witnesses, anyone who comes forward to the committee, and like wise their privacy. in this case any speculation who this person might have been and a lot of people trying to tie it together the...

times higher than when president biden took office. >> bill: threatening to make it worse a possible strike by tens of thousands of railroad workers. could happen as soon as friday. stoppage would cost the economy $2 billion a day. that leaves about a third of the u.s. freight in the lurch. >> dana: biden administration is working to broker a deal between unions and rail companies. the dispute is already impacting service with amtrak suspending some trains. kelly ogrady has the latest ...

everyday americans. listen. >> i didnt change my mind. i never changed at all. this is fighting inflation. weve closed loopholes and didnt raise taex. it doesnt raise taxes. it is an investment. i wont be responsible for inflaming the inflation rate. it is a red, white and blue deal. >> his colleagues in the senate disagree. pat toomey said manchin got duped. >> he got taken to the cleaners. the same gimmick he said he was opposed to. they claim the revenue over a 10-year window from t...

next several hours. now the island of taiwan says theyre on high alert for a possible incoming from china. china telling its troops stand by in battle formation and be ready for all incoming enemies. listen to this warning from china to speaker pelosi. >> if house speaker pelosi insists on visiting taiwan, we will defend our territorial integrity. as to what measures well make, well see if she dares making a visit. >> martha: john kirby joins me now off of a very active news conference...

>> the president has done what he can do with the tool in front of him. >> i think a targeted approach right now really does send the wrong message. a lot of people out there making $30 grand,s $40 grand a year tt didnt go to college and need help as well. >> the truth is, in a sense that criticism is correct, but the answer is not to deny help to people who cannot deal with these horrendous student debts. >> that debate in a moment, but up first for us today, a national security gut c...

border state democrats. the ability to close four wide gaps in yuma will better protect migrants that could drown in a low section hoff the colorado river. the biden administration must do much more. >> even if we build new walls, if you have the department of justice, the biden administration incentivizing and criminalizing people coming here and the consequences, youll continue to see this escalating violence and americans dying. >> the white house claims this is not a flip-flop on t...

4% of the dow is the worst weve seen in two years. all hit hard because inflation remains stuck and no one can get it under control. an 8.3% annualized inflation rate. the core rate, that is without food and energy, also soaring more than 6.3%. this is the fourth 1,000 point sell-off for the dow just this year. again, this was a worse than expected inflation report. now the president is heralding this inflation reduction act that some people said is actually making the situation worse....

the mid-term 71 days away. listen. >> it was mon mentally unfair. unfair to people who didnt go to college because they couldnt afford it. unfair to people who paid their loans back and unfair for people who got higher education in an area the government didnt make loans and just bad economics. >> its clearly trying to buy votes. simply putting a future cost upon taxpayers so that joe biden can do something about his terrible mid-term elections. >> not all members of the presidents par...