>> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. his vision is almost messianic. >> you're witnessing a political realignment. >> cnn investigates steve bannon and a political movement based on lies. >> he knows who won the 2020 election. >> this illegitimate biden regime. >> you sow some doubt, and you create a movement. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> from american politics -- >> steve bannon was the one that i heard say you've got to get involved grassroots. >> it's about dividing this country.

>> to the world stage. >> let them call you racist. wear it as a badge of honor. >> he studied factual propagandists. >> steve bannon, the single most dangerous american who came our way. >> his role leading up to january 6th. >> it's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen. >> he is comparing it to the revolutionary war. >> all i can say is strap in. >> and his master plan for upcoming elections. >> it is about who counts the votes, and guess what, we're going to count them. >> with rare interviews. >> bannon was calling the plays. >> he was the oracle. >> mr. bannon, why do you continue to push the lie that the 2020 election was stolen? >> it's not a lie. >> is this the end of democracy? >> well govern for 100 years. >> steve bannon: divided we fall." ♪ >> would you like a copy of the constitution? >> thanks for coming out. >> stacy altieri, a newcomer to

politics, is a local precinct time in dekalb, georgia. >> this is time to get involved. we've had a bunch of people who have had it. not anymore. when the censorship started just in front of your eyes, the economy, things going down in schools, i said, you know what. this is craziness. >> with stays and i being friends we were talk amongst ourselves, and we would say what's going on? what's happening to our country, to our children, to our economy? >> wendy and jodi diodati, both republicans and first-time candidates, both running for seats in georgia's house of representatives, both inspired to run by one man. >> i was just kind of going up the channels, and i land on this guys, and i was like, god, he looks so familiar. who is that? i recognize him, and it was

steve bannon. >> we have a unique once, not in a generation, lifetime opportunity to destroy this left wing globalist of it cabal. >> steve bannon is the one i heard say you've got to get involved grass roots instead of y'all complaining and i remember calling and talking to stacy about it. maybe we should go, you know, and do some local stuff. >> and how do you two go from doing that to be candidates? >> we ask ourselves that daily. >> what are we doing? >> did you know much about him before, that his involvement with trump's campaign, the white house, all of that? >> no, no. >> steve bannon has never been elected to any office, never confirmed by congress for any position, but potentially has more influence on the political direction of the nation today than almost anyone besides donald trump. >> we believe in the ballot box. we believe in fair and free and transparent elections, and we're winning everywhere. we're going to win 80 to 100-seat pickup in the house of representatives. we're going to win the senate. we're going to win the governorships and the state

legislatures. this is going to be a massive blowout. you're witnessing right now a political realignment and we will govern for 100 years after we win 100 seats. >> bannon sees himself as the narrator in a great, great grand conspiracy of his own devising. >> steve bannon is the intellectual and cultural navigator for the modern day trump era republican party setting the agenda even more than donald trump. >> this is illegitimate. >> bannon sets that agenda through his daily show, "war room." it's on tv, radio, the internet and the podcast version is often among the top three political podcasts on apple. >> the whole reason we started the 6:00 show "battleground" was to focus, particularly on the primary and then the run-up to this november where we're going to have destruction of the democratic party. >> his pathway to destroy the

democratic party, control who runs the elections by putting the ultra maga in charge. >> it is about who counts of votes, and guess what, we're going to count them, because we've got the election officials that are showing up. >> one thing that stopped the overthrow of the 2020 election was that republican precinct workers said no. they said we're not going to overturn what was a valid election. i think bannon saw that and said if donald trump runs in 2024 and the same thing happen, i want to make shower that we have people in those positions that will overturn the election for trump, even if he loses it. >> bannon insists he wants every vote to be counted legally, but his entire movement is based on the lie that donald trump, not joe biden, actually won the 2020 election. >> we will never concede. we will never say this election was not stolen. >> i was never inspired to be involved in politics until this

last election. >> and what about that election inspired you? >> to see all the anomalies during the election. there's no way that biden could ever have won an election. he didn't campaign. the most unpopular person. if you believe that that was a safe and fair election, i mean, i just can't help you. >> the truth is it was a safe, fair and legitimate election. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> yet, tens of millions of trump fans don't believe it. >> steve bannon has had a great influence on where my party, the republican party has gone. he has a type of politics that is about hatred. it's about dividing this country and generating distrust of our institutions. >> beyond just spreading disinformation, bannon motivates. >> everybody should be a precinct committeeman. now is the time to get in power. >> i thought, okay, a precinct committeeman. >> now he's inspired an entire army of political neophytes to take over the republican party. >> have to do something.

i just can't sit around. >> far right candidates who believe in election conspiracy theories flock to bannon's war room, from lower level officials to members of congress, even senate hopefuls it. >> join the maga crew. get a rino hunting permit. >> the extreme characters, the folks where you're just like how are these people in public life? how are they seeking office? bannon's carved out a space in the republican party for these folks to have a seat at the table. >> of the more than 100 maga politicians who have appeared on bannon's "war room," more than two dozen have won their primary races so far. >> bannon's approach to everything is how can i weaponized this? how can i take this energy and redirect it towards my own goals? >> seems almost diabolically disingenuous. >> i think that's a term he was

happily embrace. >> he loves the image of being seen as the darth vader image pulling the strings from behind the scenes. >> we've moved into a post-objective reality society, right? >> ben hartwell is the international editor for bannon's "war room." >> some of these are the facts and the other side will say perhaps these are the facts. >> based in rome, he frequently appears on the show, and admits bannon's version of the so-called facts is what's covered on "war room." >> he has an ability to identify what the number one headline topic of conversation should be and bringing people on board, basing frame it as the national debate. >> he's the disciple that's delivering that maga movement. >> brad parscale, campaign's former campaign manager, gave us time to talk about steve bannon. >> his ability to manage people is why he's good as telling the story and why people are following him online. >> in terms of messaging, it

seems to me that bannon uses fear a lot. >> well, fear is one of the great marketing tactics of all time. fear sells. >> using fear, has served bannon well since his days of making dork political documentaries in the early 2000s. >> some of the figures he studied the closest and add mired from the past are actual nazi propagandists. >> leni riefenstahl was hired by adolf hitler to make films glorifying the nazi party ahead of world war two. politics aside, bannon said she was a master of communication. >> he showed me once shot for shot how he was copying in his own films what she had done in

her films, so it gives an idea of his depth of belief in propaganda. >> it wasn't until he took over the alt right bryant in 2012 that he found his way to spread fear. >> truth and fact is a narrative. >> kurt bardella watched as the popular website began to steer the republican party in an alt right direction. >> when you look at the pages of bryant, the overt racist comments from the bryant audience was littered across the pages. >> bryant's audience would grow to millions of readers per month. >> one of his great insights is these sorts of people can be radicalized politically if you incentivize to come over, to be part of your army and read what it is you're wright and then point them towards a goal. >> bannon's mantra is flood the zone. he would flood the news cycle through bryant and find persuadable voters through a company he helped launch call cambridge analytica. >> christopher wile, a

whistle-blower, was its director of research. >> the people served as a foundation for this alt right movement. >> through analytica bannon was testing campaign platforms like drain the swamp, deep state and build the wall. brittany kaiser was the director of business development. she's turned whistle-blower. >> as the company became more and more successful, it became more obvious that it was specifically to just promote his political ideals. >> his vision is almost messianic in the sense that he views the need for total systems change in the western world. >> bannon had his message.

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by 2015, bannon had boned his populist national messaging targeting how he would take over the republican party but still needed a candidate brazen enough to pull it off. then came donald trump. >> our leaders are stupid. our politicians are stupid, and the mexican government, they send the bad ones over because they don't want to pay for them. >> you finally have a guy that's speaking in a non-political

vernacular. he's a very imperfect instrument, but he's an armor-piercing shell. >> bannon would use trump like ammunition, feeding him into the ready-to-fire army of online followers that bannon had been molding for years. >> millions of people out there who spend all day online, who can kind of be whipped into a frenzy, what bannon was doing, is he told me, was to try to harness that energy specifically to build an online army on behalf of trump. >> trump plowed through a republican field. >> thank you! >> and now faced what polls showed was an unbeatable foe, hillary clinton. less than three months before the election, this unconventional armor-piercing candidate fired his campaign manager and put steve bannon in charge. >> the most dangerous political operative in america. the new ceo of donald trump's campaign. >> he will make the nixon

administration look like mary poppins. he's a dangerous man. >> bannon would make trump's message focus on one woman. >> lock her up! lock her up! lock her up! >> for what she's done they should lock her up. >> keep america great. >> brad parscale was trump's political director for trump's campaign and for a time ran his 2020 campaign. he had a front row seat to it all. >> what did bannon bring to you that you needed? >> narrative, bannon was calling the plays. steve was great at verbal warfare, when to punch, take the counterpunch and lean away. all those decisions lead to political victories that all root from that narrative. >> i've never seen a politician in my lifetime like trump engender the kind of dedication from his supporters.

and part of that is bannon's understanding almost like a maestro what notes to hit with them. >> ban thon would write the tune, brad parscale and an army of digital warriors would use facebook on a scale never seen before. >> 2016 hillary clinton made 60 million ads online. i made 5 million. bannon would look at every tv commercial i make and say that's not angry enough or this isn't tough enough. that's just too soft. turn to this. say this, brad. >> you know what's deplorable, hillary clinton viciously demonizing hard working people like you. >> bannon's targeted strategy appeared to be working. then came a bombshell. >> donald trump uncensored caught on tape speaking in vulgar language about kiss and groping women.

>> when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> whatever you want. >> grab them by the pussy. you can do anything. >> i remember when the billy bush tape, all of a sudden the rnc people disappeared from multiple buildings. they thought it was over. >> and bannon came up with the counterpunch. >> i never remember one inch where people gave up. people came to us and say what's going to happen? how should we do this? >> he was the oracle. >> the most outrageous audacious thing to do was to pull in these clinton accusers. >> bannon's defense against the tape, to go on offense. hours before the second presidential debate, steve bannon brought together four women claiming abuse at the hands of the clintons which the clintons had long denied. >> why don't you go ask bill clinton that? >> my girl, paula jones just that. bill clinton raped me, right, boom. they hit it, it was perfect.

>> just beyond the forced smiles there, they were. >> all of a sudden, the story on cable news isn't donald trump and the "access hollywood" tape. if you look at the photos that the press took of everyone standing on the side you'll see steve bannon over in the corner with a smirk on his face at moment. you'll see the genius of steve bannon. >> bannon staged a media coup. the trump campaign never looked back. >> right now a historic moment. cnn projects donald trump wins the presidency. >> i went to the president and said, sir, you need to get dressed. you've won. i remember bannon standing right there next to me, and bannon was like, yeah, you won, sir. everyone got pretty emotional obviously. i am today. one of those moments i'll never forget. i can see bannon was proud. everyone was really proud. the president walked up to me. good job, brad, you really did a

good job, but just don't stand next to me on stage. >> because you're too tall. >> because i'm too tall. >> the last thing donald trump said before being president of the united states is don't stand next to me. >> what was bannon thinking at the time that he created this political revolution and now he'd have the kind of bannon he only dreamed about. >> bannon was chief strategist and senior counsellor to the president of the united states. >> this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. >> and bannon wasted no time. >> the white house on his big board, he had like 100 things he wanted to get done in the first 100 days. >> the first year in the trump white house was total chaos. none of these people coming in, including steve bannon, had any idea how to govern. the chaos didn't really bother him and also he was fueling it. >> he wanted no aspect of presidential power and influence to be off limits.

>> he even got a seat on thing it national security council through trump's executive order. it elevated bannon to a position that had long been limited to top generals and senior cabinet officials. >> we didn't win an election to bring the country together. >> i think most people in the white house hated bannon's guts because he's a difficult guy to work with. he's explosive. he's a back-stabber. he's leaking in the press both about how great he is and how bad his enemies are, and ultimately i think that's why he only last seven months in the white house. >> who was running the country became the butt of jokes. >> send in steve bannon. >> "saturday night live" portrayed bannon as the grim reaper, trump as his pup the. >> i'll go silt at my desk. >> when "time" magazine named bannon the great manipulator.

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in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign, steve bannon was already talking about a stolen election. >> you see the ballot harvesting that's going on. what are your lying eyes telling you? >> but now in a leaked recording of a meeting three days before election day, bannon is heard outlining the very plan donald trump would use if he lost. >> what trump is going to do is declare victory, right. he have's going to declare victory, and that doesn't mean he's the winner. he's just going to say he's the winner. >> bannon admitted that the stolen election lie would be just that, a lie. trump would lose and trump would falsely claim he won. >> frankly we did win this election. >> steve bannon would go on to back the lie with his every

breath. >> they know they stole this, and they also know that we're going to show they stole this. >> he is comparing it to like the revolutionary war. >> grow up. we're in a war right now >> there's such an intimidation factor by steve bannon and those around him. >> this is our breaking news at this hour. >> arizona had gone for biden. bannon attacked the vote and aimed his stolen election ire at local officials like the maricopa county board of supervisors. >> the guys in maricopa county, you can hide, but you're going to be found. >> bill gates, a republican and chair of the board, suddenly found himself being threatened for certifying a fair election. >> my colleagues and i have been subjected to many threats. there was a guillotine that was set up outside of the arizona capitol here for the board of supervisors. >> we're here for reality. trump won a massive landslide on the 3rd of november. >> he's a real smart guy. he knows who won the 2020 election, but he understands that there is real power in that moment after the election of

stoking that fear. you sow some doubt, and you create a movement. >> wrap your arms around donald j. trump. >> bannon threw his weight and power behind the stop the steal movement. his show financially supported protests. then behind the scenes, bannon circled a date on the calendar, january 6th, for an entirely new plan. >> we're going to run the green bay sweep. >> dubbed by bannon the green bay sweep. the plan called for right wing members of congress to object to certification of the election when lawmakers convened on january 6th. trump attorney john eastman outlined the legal theories. >> we need to bolster the authority of our leaders in congress to not accept fraudulently certified slates of electors. >> according to the plot, vice president mike pence could then refuse to certify the votes and send the election back to the states where fake electors would

flip the vote for trump. >> donald j. trump of the state of florida, number of votes 11. >> if pence decides that it can't be certified and kicks it back to state legislatures, then that election is over. >> "war room" would talk about mike pence in 37 shows in the lead up to january 6th. eastman was a frequent guest. the plot is now part of an investigation by the department of justice and the january 6th committee. >> live from our nation's capitol, you're in the field headquarters of one of the small divisions of the bloodless coup. >> to make the plan work, bannon sought to pressure lawmakers and told his listeners to the same. >> step by step by step, day by day, understanding we're all going to converge on that point on the 6th. >> it was, as he told them, their moment to save america. >> i met so many people in my life, man, if i was in a revolution, i would be at washington in trenton or i would be in the civil war. well, you know, this is where --

this is for your time in history. >> on january 5th, bannon and trump would speak by phone at least twice, and bannon joined a meeting of trump's inner circle at the willard hotel according to a congressional subpoena in an effort for members of congress to plan the certification. >> it's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen. it's going to be quite extraordinarily different and all i can say is stop in. the "war room" posse you've made this happen. tomorrow is game day. strap in. let's get ready. >> next day on january 6th as a mob gathered outside the capitol, steve bannon was in his "war room" studio telling the vice president to execute the plan and overturn a fair election. >> the play has been called. mike pence, run the play. take the football. take the handoff from the quarterback. >> the votes for president of the united states are as follows. >> pence refused. >> hang mike pence.

hang mike pence! >> it could have cost the vice president his life. he fled the congressional chambers down a back staircase as an angry mob searched the building for him. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> history will record it as a failed coup. the vice president upheld the constitution, but steve bannon's listeners have a different view. >> on the day that pence could have helped out, which was january 6th, if i'm not mistaken, he proved himself to be an establishment person. he didn't stick up for -- and it changed a lot, including myself. >> he stood up for the constitution. >> he, in my personal, what i took from this is you know what pence isn't the kind of i go that i hoped he was. he's part of the establishment. >> these three women and millions like them are what bannon hopes is the future of the republican party and the united states. bannon calls it the precinct

strategy. ergo, we're going to take over everything from school boards all the way up to the house and the senate. >> he is really talking about from the ground up remaking a party that is trump loyal, maga loyal kind of party. >> okay. i want to start with dan schultz, precinct strategy. >> the precinct strategy's author is a bannon regular, a local arizona attorney. >> if we conservatives don't take over the republican party, we're going to lose our republic. >> president trump comes out and endorses the precinct strategy. >> his step-by-step tutorial for taking over republican politics is considered gospel, inspiring thousand of believers in the election lie to get involved. gop leaders in more than 20 counties, in mostly battleground states, told cnn they have seen a spike in participation. >> the precinct committee strategy, that's the first thing. dan schultz, i'm like oh, my gosh. i'm calling everybody i know. did we even know we had a precinct in my neighborhood?

i'm the committee person now, you know. just feeling like, hey, i'm -- i'm actually doing something. >> they are all doing something because of bannon. >> jodi diodati is a long shot running for stacey abrams' old seat in the georgia house of representatives, and wendy ahrenkiel is running for georgia's house district 523 and may actually win and stacy altiery is now a precinct chair registering voters and recruiting poll watchers. >> i'm a precinct committee person. we need folks. we'll have someone get in front of you. my friends and i decided we didn't want to sit around an bitch anymore. we want to take it back. >> amen. >> did biden get more than obama? >> no way. >> no way. >> they say he got the most votes of any president ever. >> mm-hmm. >> and i just remember the

energy around obama, and there was -- >> there's still energy around obama than there is biden. >> i just didn't see that lining up. >> for me my thing with it is i would just like to know what happened, and i do think that the evidence is there and it's not being seen. >> we've watched american society go from trust in and reliance upon institutions and now they don't trust it. people like bannon have convinced them what they see with their eyes and hear with their ears is false, and it's genuinely created two alternate realities existing simultaneously in this country. >> nowhere is that more evident than michigan. >> i happened to stumble upon steve bannon and dan schultz. >> bet padula is running to be a precinct delegate and wants to support candidates who believe

the election was stolen. >> thousands and thousands of ballots that were dropped off in the middle of the night in detroit. >> in michigan, precinct delegates have even more power because they, not the general public, determine the winners of some primary elections. that is how two election deniers promoted by steve bannon are now the republican candidates for secretary of state and attorney general. >> but i've got to go to a superstar in michigan matt deperno. you're a patriot and candidate. >> ultra maga candidates from pennsylvania to arizona line up for steve bannon's podcast. >> thank you, steve, and thanks for introducing me to pennsylvania and america as well and what you really do here has consequences. >> doug mastriano, now the republican candidate for governor in pennsylvania has told bannon should he win he will control the state's elections. >> as governor i get to decertify any and all machines in the state.

>> know -- though it's impossible to predict what will happen in november, the real danger that the ultra maga detached from reality could take control of elections and impact whose votes count, whose do not, essentially eliminating the democratic process. >> if in fact this is an attempt to take away the vote of the people for a pre-ordained outcome that steve bannon or donald trump or their followers like, then that's as anti-democratic and anti-american as it gets. >> but bannon's actions do not end at the u.s. border. he's seeking a new world order based on a scary past. >> steve bannon was the single most dangerous american who came our way.

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for proof of just how far right the republican party has shifted, you only need to look at the conservative political action committee or cpac. this year for the first time cpac was held in europe and chose hungary and had its authoritarian leader viktor orban speak. he has forced white nationalism, clamped down on the press and taken control of his country's courts. >> we have to take back the institutions in washington and brussels. >> republicans ate it up. steve bannon not only at myers orban but advised him for years.

bannon's work is not limited to the united states, and he has given new life to europe's very dark past. >> what i have been working on since i went over there in 2018 is that these groups have to work together. >> starting in 2018 after his firing from the white house, bannon has been trying to get populous leaders from across europe to join forces turning the continent back decades. >> looking over the past 72 here's in the post-world war ii era steve bannon in my view was the most single dangerous american who came our way. >> bannon traveled across europe meeting with populist leaders firing up populist crowds. >> the tide of history is with us, and it will compel us to victory after victory after victory. >> promoting the growth of what he calls a judeo-christian west. >> they are the kind of people that the judeo-christian west has developed. they have a voice in orban,

mayato, salvini, le pen, trump, bolsonaro and others. >> bannon would call this push the movement. >> the thing that we're going do with the movement is like in the united states before i took over the trump campaign, we're actually going to provide the tools and the building blocks for victory. >> what is the movement? >> the movement is an idea to create more like a movement of separate nationalist political parties around europe's so they can fight together on positions of common interest, like in regards to illegal immigration. >> i'm going to go to ben harnwell first. >> ben harnwell is based in rome. >> it's strange to me you would bring in all these far right politicians from different countries. >> they are not far right. >> they are. around bannon's extravagant

recruiting tables in europe were far right leaders from more than half a dozen countries. >> father, we're gathering around this table with friends and comrades. >> to bless the gathering, bannon brought along maga far right arizona congressman paul gosar, the movement's unofficial ambassador. >> we were scared. >> wolfgang ischinger is a former ambassador to the u.s. >> you called him and described his actions as poisonous. >> yes. >> what do you mean by that? >> poisoning the political atmosphere in europe. we thought he's now going to bring a virus back into europe which had hoped to have gotten rid of after world war ii. >> what bannon wants is to

replace every progressive european leader with a far right autocrat like hungary's orban. >> if we had 27 viktor orban, the current prime minister of hungary, across the 27 member states of the european union, they would not be a european union. >> bannon inflamed tensions in europe as muslim refugees from africa and the middle east flooded across borders. bannon called it an invasion. he was labeled a racist and didn't care. >> let them call you racism. let them call xenophobes and nativists. times square as a badge of honor. >> wear it like a badge. >> you know why he says that. when you fight the establishment they will come back ought and call you white supremacist, neo-nazi and racist, fascist. you know you have won because they have no arguments to come back against your actual policy platform. >> to cement the movement to change europe's culture bannon sought to create a school in this 13th century italian monastery. >> and we call it a modern gladiator school.

>> a modern gladiator school. >> that's right. >> that conjures up fighting and violence to me. >> i don't think it really does. >> gladiator school. >> yeah. what it comes up to is the idea that if you're talking about culture warriors, then we're having a finishing school for culture warriors. >> bannon and harnwell's group dhi got approval to rent and restore this national treasure founded by peaceful monks in the year 1211. politicians like leah kortarelli were shocked. >> we were shocked to find out that the school would be in the center in europe. it was really quite scary. they wanted to teach how to hate, how to deceive and how to divide our societies. >> the school never taught a single student. italy's government accused the dhi of lying on their application and kicked them out of their monastery. >> americans should known here bannon here lied and forged.

>> but it's harnwell who is facing fraud charges. >> it is important that you see the horrific miscarriage of justice that the italian state inflicted in this action and it's the basis on which you have appealed. >> and you believe it was pure political. >> it was 100% political. >> among the allegations, dhi never paid its rent to the government. in fact, cnn confirmed this letter from a bank that supposedly verified dhi's financing for the project was fraudulent. dhi also told the ministry of culture it had five years experience running a cultural museum as was required, but we went to the location of that so-called museum with italian investigative reporter giorgio moto. >> this is the museum he was managing. >> you have in front of you the museum of steve bannon. the little museum of sir nicholas.

>> you're not kidding. this is a stable filled with hay. >> a stable for donkeys. >> and obviously very well used by the donkeys. >> yeah, completely. >> we went to it. >> yeah. >> it was a stable. >> yeah. >> for a donkey. >> yeah. >> filled with hay. >> yeah. >> so you actually ran a museum there. >> yeah, and there wasn't a museum there in the stable. the museum was in the old chapel which is under lock and key on the floor above. >> despite our request, harnwell offered cnn no proof of any museum behind this locked door. so we went to find also the priest who remained in the church, and we asked him if it was a museum, and he told us it had never been a museum. >> bannon's gladiator school and the movement might be over, but some far right nationalist parties are still surging and bannon is still spreading his praise for autocratic rulers. >> putin's speech the other night, but if you read, it it's so logical.

putin today gave a serious talk -- had a serious talk with the russian people that was a level of seriousness you will not seen with the clowns on capitol hill. >> bannon is very much aware of what vladimir putin has done and respects, admirers that appeal to blood and soil nationalism. those kinds of ideas can have power, and that's something that ought to frighten us.

mr. bannon. >> steve bannon has been called liar, racist, evil. >> you're a traitor to this country. >> thanks, fans. >> he thinks it's a sign he's

winning. >> it's not that there's a war between the rational republicans and the radical republicans. the radical side won. they took over the party. they're in control of the party. >> just look at the number of establishment republican lawmakers leaving office. election officials quitting. the number of republicans who believe an election was stolen and who don't believe that this -- [ screaming ] -- was carried out by trump supporters. >> i want to know the truth of what happened that day. >> show me the footage. >> yeah. >> i've seen the windows being broken and the people jumping through the windows. >> and who were the people breaking the windows? >> proud boys. >> do we know that? could they have been antifa? >> we know the names of them, actually. >> could neff been antifa? >> no, they weren't antifa. we know names of them. >> when the january 6th committee subpoenaed steve bannon to find out just what he knows about that day, he refused to comply and was indicted.

>> breaking news. another trump ally possibly going to jail. but he won't have to go to jail immediately. a judge saying he can wait until his appeal goes through. >> today was my judgment day. on november 8th they're going to have judgment on the illegitimate biden regime. >> there's got to be some accountability here. these people believe they are above the law outside a hearing in his contempt case cnn caught up to bannon. why do you continue to push the lie the 2020 election was stolen in. >> it's not a lie. >> you don't have the facts, rudy doesn't have the facts. >> get this guy. i want to sit down with you for

two hours and go through all the evidence. >> okay friday. >> done deal. >> despite that pledge the interview never happened. bannon ultimately ignored all our requests for interviews. bannon faces other serious criminal charges as well. long before the contempt case he was indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly funneling a million dollars in public donations from a private build the wall foundation. donald trump granted him a pardon. >> this is what happens in the last days of a dying regime. >> but new state charges in the wall scheme could send him to prison for a decade. >> they will never shut me. they'll have to kill me first. >> he's pleaded not guilty to money laundering and conspiracy charges. this time there will be no pardon. >> i have not yet begun to fight. we are going to win a sleeping landslide at every level. >> but his calls for revolution are being made between court appearances. the question is will bannon's

prophecy come true in november? >> pray for our enemies, okay? because we're going medieval on these people. we're going to savage our enemies. >> my greatest fear is that we have people who are elected, who will tip the balance in the elections in 2024. if that happens i think our democracy then you will be truly teetering on the edge. >> if republicans win back power, win back congress in november joe biden will be impeached. bannon's told me this. >> we're not going to rest until we decertify every biden elector. >> is he dangerous to democracy? >> there's no question he's dangerous to democracy. he seems to have no limits. >> he's divided his party with hate, he's divided his country with lies. bannon has vowed to tear it all down. divided he knows we fall .

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