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griner's case disgusting. let's go "outfront." and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight above the law. federal prosecutors making a simple case tonight against steve bannon who they say is guilty of blatantly defying the january 6 committee. if convicted he's looking at jail time. the man once dubbed donald trump's brain, bannon leaving court after the first day of testimony, lashing out at the january 6 committee and at its chairman, bennie thompson. >> he's too gutless to come over here himself. he's made it a crime -- made it a crime, not a civil charge, of wanting...

>> this room and the next contain my archives. it's magazines, newspaper articles, depositions, documents. everything relating to watergate. >> i was 31 when i went to the nixon white house to work. >> i have no intention of ever walking away from the job that the people elected me to do. >> the job forever changed the trajectory of my life. >> we're not on the road to fascism. but we're dangerously close to it. >> these are the events that are going to follow me to my grave. >> i told the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency. >> we will never give up, we will ...

is the witness who vice chair liz cheney name checked at the end of one of those recent investigative hearings, which was itself a powerful move because there's rangling that goes on over time, so tub lick -- publicly calling out a witness is a last resort, but that's what congresswoman liz cheney did to name and shame a trump white house lawyer who she said was not fully cooperating at the time. you probably heard his name, pat cipollone. he had talked to the committee once, so he was not total by defying them like steve bannon or peter navarro. he didn't get to the point of recomme...

could easily win a national election. he had left the 1960 election which he lost narrowly to john f. kennedy with bitterness. and a sense the election had been stolen from him. this allowed the demon that is he always had within him to play during elections. >> it is about lust for power and absence of morality. >> it was all about holding on to power. no one can find out about this. whatever it takes. >> when the president does it it means that it is not illegal. >> i told the american people i did not trade hostages for arms. >> there will not be an abuse of power in this office. ...

we're learning that person is matthew pottinger. and he is set to testify, apparently this coming thursday. he served on then-president trump's national security council. but he decided to resign in the middle of the riot. >> one of my staff brought me a printout of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something to the effect that mike pence, the vice president, didn't have the courage to do what should have been done. i -- i read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign. that's where i knew i was leaving that day once i read that tweet. >> a reminder of what t...