Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, and we start, of course, with the breaking news.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been indicted by a grand jury and arrest warrant

we are told will soon be signed by a judge.

The indictment coming after Bannon refused a subpoena from the House Select Committee investigating

the January 6th insurrection.

Let's get straight to CNN's Jessica Snyder on the scene outside the courthouse, Jessica.

That specifically has Steve Bannon been charged with.

Well, Jake, we now know that Steve Bannon has been charged with two counts of contempt

of Congress and the Department of Justice issuing a release saying that those two counts

stem from his failure to appear for a deposition and also his failure to produce documents

for the House Select Committee.

Obviously, this has been a several week long process, people around Washington, maybe

around the country, wondering what the Department of Justice would do all along the Attorney

General has been saying that they would follow the facts and the law to possibly prosecute

this case.

I was inside the Magistrate Judges courtroom this afternoon.

When two attorneys from the U.S. Attorney's Office here in Washington presented that grand

jury indictment to the Magistrate Judge, the four person of the jury was also in the courtroom,

and the judge, the Magistrate Judge here, Maryweather, said that she would also be signing

an arrest warrant here.

The release from the Department of Justice has said that an arraignment date has not yet

been set, but this is significant.

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