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condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannon s criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committee s subpoena. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is joining us from just outside the federal courthouse here in washington. katelyn, give us the latest. reporter: well, wolf, steve bannon was convicted today, even though he had vowed this was going to be the misdemeanor from hell for the select committee. it was not that. by the end of the day, we had two criminal convictions of steve bannon. now, these were both misdemeanor charges, but congress writes the law, and when they wrote this law, they said that it would be punishable by a m ....
day. we expect to hear two live witnesses that day, caroline edwards one of the first to respond to the attack. she was injured that day, as well as the documentaryian who was embedded with the mailitia group, the proud boys. they have been diving deep into this topic, and promising a lot. manu, tonight is just the first of several hearings in 2022. what can we expect in the days and weeks to come? we expect this month to be filled with hearings. two are expected next week. as far as additional ones through the course of this month, all of which leading up to a report that will come out later this year, probably before the midterm elections, detailing what this committee found. tonight will be the beginning of that effort to detail what they found leading to that report, as they try to complete this investigation in the coming months. all right, thanks so much. joining us now is a member of the house committee investigating the january 6th riots. congresswoman ela ....
reporting on what authorities now say happened at the robb elementary school. they re saying what they knew about survivors were still inside as they waited and waited and waited for orders to storm the classroom with an active shooter and wounded children still inside. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we are now less than two hours away from the first televised select hearing on january 6th. proceedings like this don t come along very often. the incident that sparked these particular hearings has never happened before in this country s history and we don t yet know what their impact will be. we do know that some of what we will see and hear and learn tonight and in sessions to come will be for the very first time. in a moment i ll talk to committee member adam schiff, but first, cnn s ryan nobles on the committee s work so far. it has been just over 17 months since riote ....
kids back into the classroom. the cdc is advising 3 feet of distancing instead of 6 feet for most students as long as masks and other measures are in place and depending on the community rates. joining me, andy slavitt who heads the covid response team. many states regardless are relaxing restrictions as cnn s alex alexandra field reports. k to 12 schools that operate safety can open. reporter: if even is masked, just 3 feet of students down from 6. the bottom line is there never was very good evidence for doing it alt 6 feet, not if kids are masked up. reporter: it s not clear how soon schools will implement changes as one said they ll, quote, reserve judgment. the push across the country accelerating as the new covid-19 cases hold steady. fewer than 55,000 new cases daily. still, alabama is one of the latest states moving ahead with plans to eliminate a mask mandate. the actual legal krgs of making it a mandate or not, you know, is not up to me, but we, you ....
gun at three different shootings at atlanta area spas. let s bring in kaitlan collins and jeff zeleny in atlanta. jeff, first to you. what do we know about the meeting that the president and vice president are in right now? reporter: we know president biden and vice president harris have been meeting for more than an hour with seven community members including five state leaders here in georgia. they re in the building behind me here on the campus of emeory univ university. it s running a bit long, but we know that president biden is going to be delivering remarks after this meeting. and percentages la, i m told he s going to condemn more forcefully the rise of violence we ve seen here in georgia and across the country directed at asian-americans in the last year during the coronavirus pandemic. president biden is also urging congress to pass the covid-19 hate crimes act. the white house is trying to draw a focus here. the question hanging over a lot of this is some o ....