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His first tv interview since the sentencing. mr. attorney general, thanks for coming on. we appreciate it. we had an attorney on earlier that believes in this entire appeal process that the possibility of allowing these financial crimes in to this trial could be basis for an appeal. your thoughts. >> of course. i believe in the appeals process, too. it's a part of our system. they'll appeal and they always do. cliff newman, the judge that presided over this trial is one of the most respected judges in south carolina. we put the defense on notice weeks ahead that we would be doing this. the sta...

We could hear from legal counsel from other people who were witnesses and perhaps, more specifically, people who are targets of the investigation. we are talking about the fake electors. a third party, lindsey, that we will hear from, members of the media. there's a large media coalition that came together and put fort a motion that said there is an extraordinary public interest in making sure the report is seen by the public. they point to the fact that the grand jurors themselves wanted to see this thing come forward, and so they are making arguments as well. as for the timing on this, linds...

Today but he is personally approved all of the arguments that prosecutors are going to make today before this appeals court as they try to remove what has been a significant obstacle in their investigation and that is the requirement that a third party review all of the documents that were seized from former president trump's mar-a-lago home back in august. former president trump requested this review because he argued that privileged material may have been caught up in that search. now, a lower court agreed and appointed a so-called special master to review 22,000 documents, but they are cont...

He would take that. four months is more time than i think steve bannon would want to actually do. it's not going to be enjoyable for him. i think they will try the appeal process. it's basically throwing spaghetti at the wall because he didn't take a guilty plea in this case, he went to trial. there is a lot more options available to him in terms of the appeal. if a lot of people and up taking a plea deal, that limits what they are allowed to claim on the appeal process. he does not have those limits. he can try to delay this a little bit more and because he had that stay until he runs at the ...

>> reporter: well, bannon's arguing his sort of most persuasive argument according to legal analysts is he wasn't allowed to argue at trial, that he was just relying on the advice of his lawyers, that he didn't comply with the subpoenas because his lawyers told him he didn't have to because he was covered by executive privilege, but the case law in this circuit that covers washington, d.c., says that that's not a defense. if you defy a lawful subpoena, whatever your lawyers tell you, you should have known better and you can't use that as a defense. the justice department argued that is settled...