you ll recall he was sentenced to four months in prison after he defied that subpoena from the january six congressional committee as did another senior trump aide, peter navarro. as we ve reported, peter navarro is currently serving a four-month sentence at a federal bureau of prisons facility in miami for also stonewalling congress but you may over why the committee wanted to hear from bannon himself when it was investigating that attack on the capitol here is in part what he said that sparked that interest on his war room podcast, the de before january 6, all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it s all converging. and now we re on as they say, the point of attack. all i can say is strap in more recently, bannon has been one of the voices who is urging other republicans to use all the tools available to them for retribution as they frame it following trump s indictments
Report to prison by july 1st, which of course, former president trump has opposed very vociferously. do you think that he belongs in jail? for not speaking to the january 6 committee he chose c the decision he made himself i m pretty sure that some we re going to hear that he s a political hostage himself. you know, it s he made that decision for himself and he thought that he was above the law. and unfortunately, he got he went through the court system and a jury of his peers and the judge funding guilty and therefore, he needs to pay for constant sequencers that he did just like the same people that assault to me more than 23 of them also are 40 officer rider attack me on jeremy six. i ve gone through the core multiple times, 23 i just finished a statement for one another. righter than assaulted
call 1803 558999, or visit home serve.com i learned box on capitol hill tonight one of the former president is staunchest allies and loudest voices for political vengeance of all stripes is heading to prison. steve bannon, who spent months fighting jail time for define the house january 6 committee was ordered to begin serving his time just three weeks from now. more from cnn s sarah marie there s not a prison built our jail built now where every shut me up, steve bannon already using the judge s ruling that he report to prison by july 1st for his four-month sentence as a rallying cry for the trump base. this about shutting down the maga movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting now i m present at trump making his long-held taste for vengeance. we re going to medieval on these people were going to savage our enemies even more
Of expenses they were having. he s gets pardoned by then president trump. he s now facing state charges on it, banned and said he s going to fight all the way to the supreme court. and when do you think there s any chance of that happening on him going to prison? no i mean, i don t think the supreme court s going to turn his prison sentence down. i mean, it s very cut and clear like he violated a subpoena by congress. we gave him many opportunities to come in and talk, look at the number of people anderson that came in spoke to our committee and just took the fifth amendment. nothing happened to them because they comply with the subpoena. that s the requirement. he could have, come in, he could have pled the fifth and this would all be over, but he wanted to try to look tough to the maga base, even as he s go into prison, he wants to look tough to the maga base because he s going to come out of prison in november or whatever and he s going to monetize this. so he can again make money from people that are going to give him this because they think think he s some great fighter. he s a con
Potential jail time, a real possibility, is the pardon. for him to rule that out for a respect for the rule of law that is above his own family interest i think is a wrenching moment for the family right now. let s talk about other legal news. steve bannon, one of donald trump s closest confidant, has been ordered to report to prison july 1 after his appeal failed for his contempt of congress sentence. what do we need to know about how he got here? right, steve bannon was held in contempt by the house in the last congress because he openly defied a subpoena from the january 6 committee. and he wasn t the only person who did this, but he was one of only two who really refused to give any information, refused to sit down. refuse to give a single document, a single minute of
Between actual january 6 hundreds of millions of dollars was raised on this idea of stop the steal. and none of that money went to try to stop any steal. it went into the lawyers, into the pockets of donald trump and this just continues. and so i have always called this, this is abuse of the american people, convincing them that their very existence life is at stake. so you can extract one more dollar from them every day and until the american people stand up and reject this, it s going to continue. was the january 6 committee able to work around bannon s testimony or were there areas are your investigation that you still would have liked to explore with his testimony? oh, i m sure there s a lot we would have liked to explore if you would ve come in and testified honestly and openly, i think we got quite a bit of evidence. we made quite a strong case, but you never know what we don t know that he could have brought to light. and i think a lot of that through the smith investigation will be able to see because doj has a lot more than iris has to be able to compel witness testimonies. we didn t do we didn t give people immunity, for instance, to come in and
Garland, lisa monaco, the atari justice department. they re not going to shut up trump they re not going to shop navarro you re not going to shut up bannon and they re certainly not going to shop maga. there s not a prison, there s not a prison built. there is not a prison built or jail built that every shut me up. all victory to maga well donald trump called this an american tragedy and he was apparently so angry that even called to indict the january 6 committee. remember those remembers a congress when, as part of a long now and growing list of trump allies who have been sentenced to prison, people who stretched back to the trump organization days. and the 2016 election and the 2020 campaign. and that includes peter navarro, who is currently in miami prison right now for the same reason, contempt of congress joining me now, steve bannon s attorney, david, shown he also presented former president donald trump in his second impeachment trial. david, thank you so much for being here this evening. we re all trying to unpack all that happened in the courthouse
Chapter report, you can read it yourself online. the committee also held multiple televised hearings that you saw here on cnn and they also release transcripts of the interviews with these witnesses, which you can read online tonight. let s get straight to the source on capitol tonight with a member of that committee, democratic congresswoman zoloft grin, and congresswoman, i just what s your response to the former president saying that you in the fellow members on that committee, including he cited specifically liz cheney and adam kinzinger should be indicted well, i mean, he s really off the deep end. i don t know whether the president ex-president s ever actually read the constitution. if he had, he would know that article one, section six basically provides that members of the house and senate can t be prosecuted for doing their legislative job. number one. number two, we did a good job and we referred matters to the department of justice where
Jail. that is, unless this man can save them that s attorney david shown who will speak to live in just a moment. look, it s been what, two years now since bannon was convicted of contempt of congress for defining a subpoena from the january 6 committee. remember that his excuse back then, his lawyer at the time, robert costello, remember him from the hush money trial. one witness is calling the defense. while the time he said i didn t have to comply because he thought trump would assert executive privilege he didn t and bad, it was apparently on notice of that fact as well we have been appealing his conviction ever since that time and up until now, the judge in this case had been kind of holding off on the sentence. but today the judge said enough, there was no legal reason left to delay that sentence. we told bannon he has to report to prison then on july 1st, to serve a four month sentence outside the courthouse, steve bannon was see bannon but i want to say something specifically about the justice department merrick
Artist. he s a scammer and we saw that even in maga fundraising between the election and between actual january 6, hundreds of millions of dollars was raised on this idea of stop the steal and none of that money went to try to stop any steal. it went into the lawyers, into the pockets of donald we ll drop and this just continues. and so i have always called this. this is abuse of the american people, convincing them that they re very existence in life is at stake. so you can extract one more dollar from them every day and until the american people stand up and reject this, it s going to continue. was the january 6 committee able to work around bannon s testimony or were there areas of your investment? nation and you still would have liked to explore with his testimony oh, i m sure there s a lot we would have liked to explore if you would ve come in and testify, honestly and openly i think we got quite a bit of evidence. we made quite a strong case, but you never know what we don t know that he could have brought to light. and i think a lot of that through the smith investigation will be able to see because doj has a lot more