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refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let s begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over documents. the government has asked that he spend six months behind bars and they said he should pay a $200,000 fine. now, bannon s team has said, look, at the most he should get probation, he listened to his attorneys advice and if you are going to put him behind bars it should be house arrest only. they are also saying bannon plans to appeal his conviction and they re saying that any punishm ....
That appeal plays out. the government has taken issue with that as well saying, no, look, he did nothing to try to accommodate the process, did nothing to try to accommodate the january 6th committee, whatever sentence is hand ds down today he should have to serve it immediately. of course, things are just going to get under way in a few minutes in the courtroom and we will wait and see and what judge makes of all of this. and you will let us know when the judge decides, sara murray, thank you. and first on cnn sources say former trump white house counsel pat cipollone and former senator kelly loeffler both testified before a georgia grand jury investigating 2020 election interference, this as a federal appeals court has given atlanta investigators the green light to subpoena south carolina senator lindsey graham. evan perez is following all of this. evan, what can you tell us about the appearances by loeffler and cipollone? bianna, we know that the fulton county grand jury has b ....