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for the source tonight. maga flame thrower and former trump aide, steve bannon, order to surrender to prison by july 1 he could be behind bars until just before election day. with no chance of a pardon. this time, speaking of what president biden pardon his son hunter, if he s it s convicted. he just answered that question about a sons ongoing trial. what he said in moments and too close for comfort. russia is sending warships in a nuclear powered submarine, two americas doorstep. what is flawed over putin up to now? i m kaitlin collins and this is the source one of the loudest voices defending donald trump is now on the verge of losing his microphone tonight at least for the next four months. that is steve bannon, the former senior white house aide, turned right-wing podcast firebrand, has just been ordered to surrender to prison by july 1st by none other than a trump appointed judge. that means voters may not hear as much from one of the biggest voices and the m ....
Donors to this rebuild the law fund. he s looking at substantially more time than four months. if and when he s convicted in that theft case. so he s got bigger problems. one quick thing to tina s point about bannon s ongoing media enterprise. you can actually communicate quite a bit from federal penitentiaries now from the federal bureau of prisons, inmates can communicate over the phones that a lot of them now have email, believe it or not, you are given monitored emails, so i ve seen people, michael avenatti has been in prison. he has been communicating quite a bit with the outside world. can you host a podcast? i m looking to do logistically? yeah you don t have an angel? i ll tweet from prison that it says that someone else is tweeting it on his path because he s in prison is just huge caveat, right? yeah. i don t think they ve figured out podcasting from the bop just yet, tina i just as someone who s covered this so extensively and you know, this orbit, so well from before, ....
Probably send a letter to his lawyer telling him in essence we won t charge the client. i m not sure how long this will take and not happened far whiled that justice department has received a referral like the from congress. do the justice department has never indicted or charged anybody with contempt of congress that asserted executive privilege as a defense but they were still in the government. bannon was not. there are a lot of factors that the government has to consider here. we think it takes several days and will hear at the end whether the switch is on or off. all of this ironically is about preserving the democracy but given the pace this is moving to a lot of people doesn t it feel like democracy doesn t work? reporter: there s certainly frustration among democrats in congress going back to the middle of the trump administration so many of the oversight efforts stifled by the ....
Right now we are watching capitol hill where today mark it is deadline for two people, people who helped organize the january 6 rally to appear for depgs for the committee probing the riot. coming after the full house voted to ask the justice department to criminally prosecute former top trump adviser steve bannon after he refused to work with the committee. i want to go to garrett haake and pete williams. the democrats and republicans voted to hold bannon in contempt. is there anything else they can do? reporter: not on bannon but they hope to send a message to the other witnesses including the two to depose today and others whose deadlines are next week if you don t show up or don t engage with the committee will will be consequences so i ll leave it to pete to describe the next steps that may happen to mr. bannon but the message from senate is sent ....
Administration running out the clock but to pete s point about bannon and executive privilege none of the other would be witnesses due to be deposed this week or next week fallen under trump s claim of privilege or have said that they are exempted from testifying by privilege so in this case the effort should investigate this should march on. well, we ll continue to watch as the wheels of democracy move slowly. thank you so much. speaking about lies and the election, there s a story i must share. lieutenant governor of texas dan patrick a republican way back when he offered to pay up big time if evidence for real voter fraud was found. last year. he just handed out his first reward. he paid out $25,000 to this guy on the screen. this guy is a progressive poll worker in pennsylvania. ....