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steve bannon is in us district court in washington, the us justice department has requesting that donald trump's former adviser begins serving his four-month prison sentence bannon was convicted nearly two years ago of contempt of congress after defying a subpoena over the january 6 capitol riot let's bring and cnn political correspondent sara marie cheese, live outside court for us at cnn, legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. first of all, to you, sarah, what do we expect to see in court today? >> well if this is really the continuation of a fight of writer, it's time for steve bannon to face the repercussions for refusing to comply with the house committee investigating january 6, as you pointed out, a jury found him guilty of two counts of contempt of congress in july of 2022 for refusing to provide testimony and documentary minns to that committee. a judge sentenced him to four months behind bars, but he put that sentence on hold. so bannon