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from washington today where we have a special show for you tonight on this first day of steve bannon's criminal trial. we're seeing this first sketches of the twice indicted trump aide in court with clues about the process as he faces up to two years in prison. john flannery joins me here in washington in person tonight, and we'll hear directly from a top economic figure in the biden white house, brian deese. plus, pulitzer prizewinner and author david kornacki on set with me. so we would argue it is a big show, or as good as any show we could bring you. we begin with the news about ...

with president biden and several actual movie stars in hollywood as george clooney and julia roberts, jimmy kimmel, and more were all part of this big campaign event and fundraiser raising over $30 million. that's actually a record-breaking amount for a single event by biden. obama juggling father's day celebrations. we couldn't resist a chance to share a little bit of that. i think, james, we can agree with the importance of family on a weekend like this, but he juggled that with the campaign business. this event did raise money, but it's also trying to raise awareness about the gen...

Is that correct? in your experience? >> i don't know of another situation where we we didn't get those add attached in our appendix to our report. >> thank you, chairman. >> thank you senator. >> thank you for your comments about senator lee and myself. >> absolutely. we will adjourn, recess until 1:00. i'm ari melber reporting live in msnbc headquarters. we have been watching live coverage of this much anticipated and at times admittedly dry senate judiciary committee hearing. this is all about an exhaustive report on what started the now very famous russia probe, the origins of which were ...

Uniform. so she'll always know. >> reporter: the children of fallen officers leading the way to a path of healing. >> msnbc's chief legal correspondent ari melber reporting. the retrial for former south carolina police officer michael slager has been set for march 1st. slager charged with murder in the shooting death of walter scott. earlier this month a mistrial was declared after a deadlocked jury couldn't come to a unanimous decision. in a separate federal case, slager is charged with violating scott's civil rights. that trial is scheduled to begin in may. the man convicted of killing n...