A public official? yes, i did who was that public official? senator robert menendez. and then he point get him seated right there in the courtroom. you rebase said he committed these bribes with the help of other people, namely nadine menendez, the senator s wife, who s being tried separately. and he talked about a conversation that the two of them had back in march of 2019. she was talking about men always lighting her down and he was talking about how he very much needed a criminal investigation involving insurance fraud involving some of his friends and people who we cared about. he wanted that investigation and to go away. he then told jurors i agreed with nadine menendez and other people to provide a car for nadine, in order to get the power and influence of mr. menendez? to help me get a better resolution for what if my associates, who is being charged in a criminal matter now again, uribe has already pleaded guilty to providing nadine menendez with their
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A stint in prison for lying to investigators about his contacts with russia. he also got a pardon and of course michael cohen who got sentenced to three years in prison for the work he did for donald trump, partly for his role in the stormy daniels hush money scheme among other charges and allen weisselberg, who is currently as i speak to you in a cell at rikers island awaiting a payment from trump to keep his mouth shut. so, steve bannon joins a rogues gallery of trump associates going to prison and he can talk all he wants about revenge. his number one concern should be finding a guest host for his podcast for four months. joining me now is glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor who was inside the courtroom with steve bannon today. he has covered steve bannon extensively, even once getting kicked out of his 2020 rooftop election party, which is a great sentence letter.
Proved himself to be a vital ally during the attempted coup, including, as the january 6 committee revealed, frequent contact with trump in the hours before the insurrection. while certain close associates of president trump privately expressed concerns about what would occur on january 6, other members of the inner circle spoke with great anticipation of the events to come. the committee learned from white house phone logs that the president spoke to steve bannon, his close advisor, at least twice on january 5. the first conversation they had lasted for 11 minutes. from those same phone logs we know the president and mr. bannon spoke again that evening for six minutes. we also know bannon was an advisor to the group of trump allies who met at their so- called command center at the willard hotel in washington, d.c. ahead of january 6 to plot ways to steal the election.
Money scheme. allen weisselberg, the former who is in a cell and rikers r island awaiting it to million dollar payment from trump to keep his mouth shut. steve bannon joins a rogues gallery of trump associates going to prison. he can talk all he wants about revenge. the number 1 concern should be finding a guest host for his podcast for four months. joining me is glen kirschner, former federal prosecutor inside the courtroom with steve bannon today. the staff writer for the it atlantic to cover steve bannon even the ones getting kicked out of his rooftop election party which was a great sentence to enter. author of the dangers of a second trump term. let me start with you because you were in court today. i guess there was an open question about whether the judge would say time to go to prison. how did it play out?
while close associates of former president trump express concerned about what would occur in january 6, other members of the inner circle of the president spoke with great anticipation about the events to come. the committee has learned from the white house phone logs the president spoke to steve bannon, his close adviser, at least twice on january 5. the first conversation they had lasted for 11 minutes. from the same phone logs, we know the president and mr. bannon spoke on the phone that evening, this time for six minutes. we know he was adviser to g, the group of trump allies who met at their so-called command center at the willard hotel in washington, d.c. ahead of january 6 to plot ways to steal the 2020 election. according to journalist bob word for word and bob costa, he was at the willard when trump called him on january 5. to be clear, bannon wasn t trying to hide his involvement in this scheme.
Entering prison. and if he does go there, he ll join two former trump associates now behind bars as well. well as a host of others who ve been there they re not going to shut up bannon and they re certainly not going to shove maga a defiant steve bannon lashes out after a federal judge orders him to report to prison by july 1. there s nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up. there s not a person. there s not a prison, there s not a prison built there s not a prison built. our jail built that every shut me up. the former trump campaign ceo and white house counselor to the former president has been fighting his conviction on contempt of congress charges. if trump gets elected, guess what happens? bannon is on the really i think shortlist for a pardon? as the former president himself await sentencing for his conviction in the hush money case. steve bannon becomes one of at least eight former trump aides or employees in the public and private sectors to serve jail time or at least be sentenced to jail. i think it s going to be the hardest and most dangerous
That he committed these bribes with the help of other people? namely nadine menendez, the senator s wife, who s being tried separately and he talked about a conversation that the two of them had back in march of 2019. she was talking about men always lighting her down and he was talking about how he very much needed a criminal investigation involving insurance fraud involving some of his friends and people who we cared about. he wanted that investigation to go away. he then told jurors i agreed with nadine menendez and others their people to provide a car for nadine and order to get the power and influence of mr. menendez to help me get a better resolution for what if my associates, who is being charged in a criminal matter now again, you re reading he bei has already pleaded guilty to providing nadine menendez with a mercedes, making payments on that mercedes, the defense will for its part, has been arguing all along that there was no wrongdoing there were no bribes that in some
Johnson kennedy, boston austin connection. you know in fact if you look back historically, kennedy would have won texas anyway. i think the news out of this process, this week is the vetting that some people announce that they were getting letters and questions for vetting. the big surprise to me was ben carson, the former secretary of housing and urban development. i didn t see that one coming. and what i hear is that in the lead right now you have two senators, vance and cotton. and i think that speaks to the trump family and trump associates in the campaign thinking that stamp of legitimacy establishment republicans would help him. this is trumpesque thing to drop this in the middle of a convention. is he creating about as much anticipation as you can with this thing. yeah. we are watching the apprentice play out with these veepstakes right now more or less. and no one really knows who he will end up picking up until the very end. i have been warned about by sources repeatedly. in terms of what he can do in
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