you'll see the genius of steve bannon. >> bannon staged a media coup. 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. everybody got pretty emotional obviously. it's one of those moments i'll never forget. i could see bannon was proud. everybody was really just proud. the president walked up to me, and he said, good job, brad, you really did a great job. but just don't stand to me on stage. >> because you're too tall. >> i'm too tall. that's the last thing he said to me before he was president of the united states is, brad, don't stand next to me. >> what was bannon thinking at the time? >> that he created this political revolution and now was going to have the kind of power he had only dreamed about. >> bannon was now chief strategist and senior counselor to the president of the united states. >> this american carnage stops ri

steve bannon was gone from the i trump had sacked him. steve . or to sixth of january 2021, tim. house for three years prior to sixth ofjanuary 2021, tim. he was not involved in it. he had nothing to do with it, and neither did peter navarro. forgive me, i don't want to keep on interrupting you, but his original excuse was claiming executive privilege, wasn't it? because he was part of the trump administration. but how can he be part of the trump administration when he has been fired by the president?— has been fired by the president? has been fired by the resident? ., , ., ., president? he was not part of the trump — president? he was not part of the trump administration - president? he was not part of the trump administration on | president? he was not part of. the trump administration on the sixth of january. the trump administration on the sixth ofjanuary. however, sixth of january. however, steve sixth ofjanuary. however, steve bannon, such as president trump and the january ethics committee, their attorneys were not allowed to cross examine,

was waiving that executive privilege, that steve bannon would be free to testify to the committee. bannon's lawyer saying he wanted to do a public hearing where he would testify. the committee not yet committing to that. but then how this played into his criminal trial for contempt of congress that's supposed to move forward in just a matter of days, prosecutors then motioned to say, we are going to exclude all of that evidence that you want to now testify, that you believed whether rightly or wrongly that executive privilege would come into play, and now so far the judge is ruling on the side of the government, saying that steve bannon basically can't rely on that when trying to prove his own case and that the government here, when they move to trial, whenever that may be, if it is indeed on monday, the government just has to prove, alison, that steve bannon cannot comply with that subpoena and bannon can argue that maybe it was a matter of dates. so we're still waiting for more information from that judge, including whether that trial will be delayed, or if it will, in fact, start

steve bannon, facing up to two years in prison.y but we won't lose the war. here is why they wanted to speak with him. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it is all converging and now we are on, as they say, the point of attack. right? the point of attack tomorrow. talking one day before the riots kicked off, they believe this showed he had beenin they believe this showed he had been in contact with donald trump ahead of the chaos. considered the brains behind the former president's 2016 election victory, he had served as his campaign chief as course strategist before he was fired by the white house in 2017. inside the court, mr bannon argued his old role made hit protected by executive privilege, and so he wouldn't have to give evidence about his former boss, but this was dismissed by investigators because he was no longer in government, and they said he had chosen his loyalty to donald trump over compliance with the law. 0utside court, steve bannon�*s lawyer said he would appeal the decision. you will see this _ would appe

so i want to remind you, you are looking at the image on your screens outside the courthouse, steve bannon found guilty on both counts. awaiting a statement from his attorneys or bannon. we will bring it to you. we are also watching the white house, the press briefing for the president, being moved to 3:30, an update of course on his health, the president, positive for covid, this is the second day that he's dealing with covid symptoms but we are told he's doing well so we are waiting for an update on that. we are also dealing with a major heatwave in the country. we are covering that for you, as well. we will be right back right bacou can do more riders! let yoes be known. yeah, hi. instead of letting passengers wrap their arms around us, could we put little handles on our jackets? -denied. -can you imagine? i want a new nickname. can you guys start calling me snake? no, bryan. -denieow aboute alls to see if we can save with america's number one motorcycle insurer? approved. cool! hey, if bryan's not gonna be snake, can i be snake? -all: no. >>> what the jury heard that came to the conclu

in terms of the -- steve bannon himself. no witnesses were called for him. he didn't attend.peaker pro tempore: he didn't testify. he did attend and would make statements outside after the hearings, largely continuing to talk about the stolen election. his -- he had various strategies at the lawyers wanted to pursue that the judge said he wouldn't allow and so in the end the defense didn't call witnesses. what it did argue was that this was a politically motivated attack on steve bannon, they argued he should have executive privilege. they also said he hadn't defied the subpoena, that he had in fact been in negotiations with the committee and he didn't realize there was a deadline for not showing up. those were broadly speaking the argtds. toward the end in the closing statement the defense went so far as to suggest the signature on the subpoena by the committee chairman had been forged. there were various attempted they made to make the case to the jurors. the prosecuon argued, as i said that executive privilege department apply. it also said that it was quite clear that he

the committee believes steve bannon _ him. the committee believes steve bannon and _ him.ves steve bannon and donald - him. the committee believes i steve bannon and donald trump were in contact when the riots kicked off on sixth of january last year, the day before the attack on the capital, steve bannon has said on his podcast that all hell was going to break loose tomorrow, suggesting he may have known a bit of what was to come. the us department ofjustice said that steve bannon had felt above the law when he ignored the legal summons from the committee to co—operate with their investigation, but he pushed back against that, saying he was protect by executive privilege. that is the right of those in government to maintain confidentiality with the president, but this was dismissed by investigators because steve bannon had been fired by donald trump in 2017, so technically he wasn't in government. so now he faces up to two years in prison, which he says he will appeal. {lilia to two years in prison, which he says he will appeal. 0k, he is a he says he will appeal. ok, he

steve bannon has flouted justice a number of times.ed for a major fraud case by the southern district of new york back in 2000, and he was pardoned by donald trump on donald trump's last night in office. meanwhile, two of steve bannon's codefendants from that case have been convicted. they pled guilty. they have not been sentenced but they likely will go to jail. steve bannon got away with it, because he has this relationship with donald trump. he gets a perfectly lawful subpoena from the january 6th committee, he doesn't defy it, he celebrates his defiance, and a jury has spoken and he's going to prison for at least 30 days. >> and we're going to hear right now how he responded to that guilty verdict. sara, what was he right in the courtroom? >> we are told that bannon smiled as they read the verdict, and to be honest, this is kind of indicative of how he's been behaving the entire trial. he has been pretty nonchalant in the courtroom. he was nonchalant in the run up to his trial, even though he decided not to take the stand on his ow

steve bannon has contempt for congress. they really tried to simplify this down for the jury, not get into the privilege ideas, which they can't. they really, really wanted to show that bannon had a firm date where he needed to turn over documents and he needed to show up for testimony, and he defied that willingly. that is what they have been trying to show. one of their witnesses, we saw the first witness, she's a deputy with the house select committee. the questions were very straightforward. did he turn over documents on that date he needed to, october 7? she said, he did not. then she was asked, did he show up for testimony at 10:00 a.m. on october 14th, the date his subpoena said he should? her answer was, he did not. >> thanks. appreciate it. >>> joining us now, drew gr griffin, whose special report aired over the weekend. also john dean served as white house counsel in the nixon aminute administration and abby phillip, anchor of "inside politics sunday." what do you make of the defense here, john? of his argument. >>

the test case, former trump strategist, steve bannon. 's charged with contempt of congress for failing to comply with a subpoena and a trump appointed judge is hearing it. what do we know about this judge's history with bannon. >> well, he's had a tough go. he's been very deliberate listening to bannon's concerns but ultimately bannon tried to do things like delay the trial. the judge refused to do that. bannon wanted to argue that he had some kind of presidential executive privilege that prevented him from having to comply with the subpoena. the judge blocked that. the judge has basically blocked most of the defenses that steve bannon wanted to bring up at trial to the point where at one point steve bannon's attorney said what's the point of even going to trial if we don't have any defenses. so we'll see how this pans out for bannon of the right now we're in the jury selection process. it's slow going but they want to be very clear they're picking jurors who do not have a predetermined view of steve bannon and this case. they're asking t

it's important that we are all in this together and steve bannon is innocent. the jury didn't buy it, deliberating less than three hours, but bannon's team already plotting their appeal. >> this is a bullet proof appeal. >> now it has been pretty clear throughout the week that bannon's team has been eyeing his possible appeal, whether it is bullet proof, of course, we simply will not know until it goes to the appeals court. what we do know is steve bannon has a sentencing date, october 21st. >> thank you very much, sara. so now elie honig, cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor is with me, along with evan perez, our senior justice correspondent. let's just start where sara finished. bannon's attorney reacts to the guilty verdict, says this is a bullet proof appeal. we heard that sentencing isn't until mid, late fall, how long could this process play out? >> so erin, on the criminal side, as you said, steve bannon will be sentenced in october. after that he will go to his appeal. he does have the right to appeal to the court of appeals for the d.c. circu

but the next day you see it all happen and go back to steve bannon and say, steve, let's talk.going on here since predicted all of it basically, and all the players were converging on your show. so, yeah, i would imagine that -- i guess it's an open question how much he was involve in specific bad acts. you know, i need you guy as lawyers to tell me how bad an act is it to be talking to all the people committing all the bad acts? but it seems almost certain that he knows a lot of information that would be damaging to a lot of people, and he may well himself be facing jeopardy. look, he seems to me like someone -- what you've seen over the last 36 hours, he has been saying a big eff you to the whole justice system and political system for the last year and a half. and he seems now like someone who's just kind of out of time. and, you know, he's like tesio at the end of the godfather asking for a break from tom hagan, but there's no tom hagan. there's no one to ask. he's scrambling, flailing, and that's what i see. >> he needs a wartime consiglari and they've all run out of town.

so steve bannon didn't testify. he stood outside the courthouse each day listing his political grievances, but it's a far cry from going medieval, which he said he would do. >> right. or be able to get up on a witness stand and spew his rather or even just stand outside the courtroom and try to defend trump or put his arm around trump. two things i didn't say. i didn't see bannon fighting back vehemently on the street. i didn't see any of trump or trump's people coming to his aid, either. so it was very telling to me the distance that still remains, at least publicly, between these two entities, trump world and steve bannon. even though we do believe that there is some sort of level of communication or wink and nod communication, should trump run again. i'm sure bannon will be behind it. but it is telling to me that there is public distance between trump and bannon at this point. >> skand jeffrey, what about th claim of a bulletproof appeal from bannon's counsel, who's basing that on the idea that bannon was doing t

>> they first subpoenaed steve bannon in september, one of their% batches of subpoenas. bannon defied that subpoena, he claimed executive privilege. i want to explain how weak that claim is legally. first of all, we're talking about executive privilege as applied to a former president, trump was out of office by this point. second of all, bannon was not even in the government at that point and third the substance of these communications are probably not even what executive privilege is about, it's supposed to be about legitimate policy considerations. it's a weak argument on defense on executive privilege. the committee, full house, rejected it, held him in contempt, doj rejected that argument, they indicted him. bannon has been indicted, facing a criminal trial that's supposed to start for criminal contempt of congress. if he's convicted he has to go to jail for at least 30 days. steve bannon has been desperately trying at the last moment to postpone that. this happens all the time, john. defendants more often than not at the last minute say, judge, we need more time and

, and steve bannon's long game. it was a long game that began before donald trump. i think that is what is the real danger here that we might be missing in some of this. steve bannon has started a political movement based on a lie. we may all believe in our hearts that no one could possibly follow him. he is it that the modern people that believe in the lie and believe that they are somehow aggrieved by this election lost to action. he is getting people to run for offices who are election deniers. he is setting up a scene where into thousand 24, we may actually have election deniers, who are overseeing the vote. that is the real danger that we found in our documentary, and he is doing it all on this podcast which has millions and millions of followers who basically live within the echo chamber that he has developed. i don't think you can overlook that in terms of his political power. it i s -- there and a big shift, prosecutors say, that all 16 so-called fake electors, we are part of the former president scheme and

steve bannon has worked for him. people are affiliated with something like g tv, or just v news. they run, and bannon has worked with -- they were planning on how to cover election night, that's a chinese language. far-right site. the person who gave it to me, obviously i can't say very much about that. but there are a lot of people who are both unhappy with some of the people involved in bannon's circles. and also to have a lot of regret about january 6th and other activities that they were involved in. >> you write that bannon predicted widespread political violence, can you share more about that? >> one thing that he said was that he had this idea that antifa was having tens of thousands of people in washington on election day. obviously, that was wrong. more generally, he said that when trump falsely declares victory, biden is winning, and trump says, as they had a plan to do. when trump said he won, even though he was losing, that's going to start a fire storm. the left is going to be very upset. when he was sayi

and in an insane political and social world, steve bannon would tried to be selling tourist bus tours in times square, we're just a guy ranting at the end of the bar. but, by the sheer ravenous dysfunction of the modern american right, bannon was elevated to the right-hand of the president of the united states. that transformation began when bannon took the helm at the far-right breitbart news in 2012, and then took it even further to the right, identifying a desire for and explicitly nationalists and bigoted conservatism. in 26, same he probably declare that breitbart was the platform for the alt-right. it also give them the platform for donald trump, strongly supporting the nominee for president. less than three months before the election, trump tapped bannon to take over his campaign. now after trump won he elevated bennett to chief strategist, senior counselor and in that role pattern helped orchestrate among other things the muslim ban, he also counseled trump to not -- the white supremacists who marched in charlottesville chanting'jews will not replace us'. and then he returned

steve bannon was not a white house official. what magic executive privilege claims is he actually under? does that make any sense to you? >> i am going to go out on a limb and say this whole thing is a joke. steve bannon is under criminal contempt prosecution for failing to answer subpoenas that he didn't answer. that's a criminal charge from the justice department. that's done. if he wants to testify now, god bless, but his criminal case isn't about that it's about failure to testify in the past. this is a last-ditch effort for steve bannon to try to throw sand in the gears and say no, maybe i will testify, maybe that would be a waiver of the village. the whole thing seems like steve bannon trying to gain the committee's chain and it's not even up to the committee anymore. this is a charge from the justice department and they are the ones that have to decide whether to go forward with this case. there is a trial date and he is going to court. i think some letter that donald trump may or may not right is utterly irrelevant. >> h

will steve bannon take the stand in his own defense?rare, but this is steve bannon and that may be the platform he's looking for. we'll get into closings, the jury will deliberate. if it's not guilty, it's over and everyone goes home. if it's guilty, the judge may throw him in prison right away because he's got to do 30 days at least no matter what. after that he will go to sentencing and hes has the right to appeal. in his first time through the criminal justice system he was pardoned by donald trump. i don't think there's any pardons in place here. >> that pardon doesn't aplply here. and this could go very quickly? >> if i had to guess, i'd say we'll be done by the end of this week. >> let's fast forward to this week's january 6th committee hearing expected thursday in primetime. the committee says they will reveal what then president trump was doing in the 187 minutes from when his supporters stormed the capitol to when he issued that first public statement. here's republican congressman adam kinzinger. >> the reality is, i'll give y

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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 my testimony, but a crime. and he didn't have the courage or guts to show up here and he sent a staffer. >> now here is the thing. bannon now suddenly, right, after all these months, says he's willing to testify before the january 6th committee. but according to thompson, bannon hasn't even handed over the documents they've demanded in advance of an appearance which he has refused to do until this final hour. federal investigators called bannon's offer to testify nine months after first rejecting the subpoena a stunt, just pure and simple. bannon still is important in the january 6 investigation, and the reason why the commit

over the last year, steve bannon has remained defiant. and repeatedly suggested that, the january 6th select committee, has been -- to undermine america first movement. >> putting it live in front of the committee and testimony, he would be a complete loose cannon. would not be able to control what he might say. thank, you great setup, i appreciate that my friend. joining me right now to further discussion, and beyond, i'm -- harry lippman. former u.s. attorney, and deputy assistant attorney general. he's now host of the talking feds protest. harry listening to phone story there, there's all this hullabaloo about this that and the other. in essence steve bannon was just saying, let's just lie. about what the results of the election were, right? if you are boiling it down, is that not what it is? >> 100% which is why, why they want to talk to him. lying about the contempt charge, it's an open and shut case from way back. he never had any possible claim, there's almost a satisfaction in seeing, this swatch buckling braggart, -- now that he

so if you're steve bannon, make sense. just think, i've got away with everything else so far was not? now this is someone who was at his core hustler. going all the way back to his involvement at all three acre dome in the 1990s. >> it's been referred to in the past as a planet in a bottle. and wallet does not directly replicate earth, it's the closest thing we've ever come to having the major by owns an echo systems, animals et cetera that really try to make an analog for the planet earth. >> that ended up about as good as the trump presidency. steve bannon would be like trying to self-tourists bus tours at times square, or just a guy ranting at the end of the bar. but by the shore ravenous dysfunction of the modern american right, bannon was elevated to the right-hand of the president of the united states. at transformation began when bannon took the helm of the right far-right breitbart news in 2012. bannon took decide even to further to the right the 2016 he proudly declare the pry bar was the platform for the alt-righ

steve bannon will not testify unless he just has a unilateral change of heart. this is an important win for doj and for congress but it's a qualified win. here's why. steve bannon is being punished now because he defied a congressional subpoena. doj charged him, they got their conviction. that's the win, but there's still a bit of a mixed message here. doj chose not to charge mark meadows they chose not to charge dan scavino. steve bannon is going to federal prison, unless he wins on appeal, while mark meadows and dan scavino did the same thing, provided the subpoena, they left the gaps in the evidence that nick was talking about and they are walking scot-free but better that somebody is held accountable than nobody. >> sara, let me come back out to you. it was a last ditch effort, some viewed it as a way to avoid this trial by telling the committee, i will participate, i will cooperate. does this conviction preclude any future participation with that committee now? >> reporter: you know, i think that one of the issues always around this case is that agreeing to

steve bannon threw down the gauntlet after being contempt of court in november. he threatened to raise, well, complete holy hell, remember? >> this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for merrick garland, joe biden, and nancy pelosi. they took on the wrong guy this time. >> well, that's what makes the one-time trump white house advisers move now, well, extra confounding because eight months ago, bannon said that he wasn't backing down ever. i mean, the wrong guy this time, right? well, trial dates have a funny way of making people change their minds, shall we say, because now he is, well, backing down. willing to testify before that very committee that he seemed to be mocking and taunting. now, what exactly changed other than maybe the calendar date? we're going to dig a lot deeper into all of that tonight along with new january 6th hearing developments. and if bannon thought his decision to testify now would call someone's bluff at the doj, well he's surely mistaken because a trial is still happening and it won't even be postponed. a federal judge denied hi

federal judge, a trump appointee nonetheless, he really issued a c cascade of rulings against steve bannoned bannon's request to delay the criminal trial. it will go forward as planned on monday, july 18th, and the judge here really limited what bannon can present at trial. the judge here saying bannon cannot point to claims of executive privilege or the advice of his attorney for reasons that he defied that subpoena from the january 6th committee. instead, bannon will really be limited in what he can present really limited to the fact that he can only say that maybe he just believed the deadline of this subpoena was somehow negotiable. this is all a very big win for the government. all of the points that the judge ruled on, and the defense now, the options for steve bannon really whittled down. in fact, so much so that bannon's attorney exclaimed after the judge made all these rulings, he said, what's the point of going to trial here if there are no defenses? so a lot of work for this defense team for steve bannon, just one week until this trial. jake, steve bannon actually wasn't in cour

we'll join steve bannon's attorney for his first interview. they say they could also subpoena begiginni thomas. >> let's bring in axios jonathan swan. what do you think about this move, contemplating subpoenaing ginni thomas? >> i think it's very significant. the comments that liz cheney made on jake tapper's show yesterday were the most pointed comments i've heard her make about ginni thomas. and there's some context to this. this is not something that liz cheney was especially eager to do early on when the news first broke about ginni thomas texting with white house chief of staff mark meadows, you know, urging him to work hard to overturn the election. there was, i'm told from a source on the committee, quite some discussion, debate and differences of opinion within the committee about how aggressively to pursue ginni thomas, how important she was to all of this. so, i found those comments to be very notable and we'll see what happens next. >> do you have any reporting, jonathan, on what's changed? liz cheney first was on the reluctant side

it's steve bannon, who knows. then we will have closing arguments, the jury will deliberate, they will return a verdict. if it comes back not guilty that's it. if it's guilty the judge may say you have to go into prison right now after that. of course, there will be sentencing, if he is convicted has to do 30 days. finally he will have the right to appeal. >> if he does take the stand steve bannon has threatened that this will be some kind of circus. how much could he get away with on the stand? >> this will be a push/pull between the judge and steve bannon. we will see how much control this judge has over his courtroom. not going to be an easy one to control. >> thank you very much for that. >>> ukrainian president zelenskyy suspending two top officials amid allegations of treason from within his own government. >>> plus, first lady jill biden lamenting the crises that have prevented the president from achieving many of the things he hoped to do. >>> and senator ted cruz is criticizing the supreme court ruling le

one reason is there's no disputing the fact steve bannon did not show up before the committee. why is up for debate here. bannon did not take the stand to testify, his attorneys put no witnesses on the stand, and the government only used one day to present its case. that's why it was so quick. deliberations come just hours after the january 6th committee held the hearing in primetime, millions tuned in. audio of steve bannon made it into the hearing last night, talking about donald trump declaring victory even if he didn't really win. listen here. >> what trump is going to do, declare victory, he's going to declare victory. that doesn't mean he's the winner, just going to say he's the winner. democrats, more of our people vote early that count. theirs vote in mail and so they are going to have a natural disadvantage and trump is going to take advantage of it, that's our strategy. >> bannon's legal team said wait a minute, even though jurors are not supposed to watch news coverage it's possible they saw something there that may be prejudicial to our client. deliberations are goin

defense -- steve bannon is the political victim of a -- political witch hunt -- we heard from kristing, the deputy staff director and general counsel for the january six committee. the bannon team had argued that somehow amerling was not competent to testify today. for more on what we heard from the witness in one of the trial is headed in, we want to bring in glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor -- glenn, welcome. first off, glenn. the judge wants this trial to happen. if one thing is clear from the ruling so far, is this judges moving this along at a pretty fast clip. >> yeah, you know, the latest asked the defense team was for a one month continuance. and judge nichols ultimately said, you know what, i may give you a one day continuance. and then about an hour later, judge nichols took it back and said, no, we're going to opening statements today. so we are now in the thick of steve bannon's criminal contempt of congress trial. >> so what went down today? >> opening statements. which were actually pretty interesting. the prosecutor, assistant u. s. attorney amanda von, did a r

has convicted steve bannon of contempt of congress.mer trump advisor defied subpoenas to answer questions from the january 6th committee. the jury took less than 3 hours to find bannon guilty today. afterward, he insisted he will win on appeal. mr. bannon: we may have lost a battle here today, but we're not gonna lose this war. ok? i stand with trump and the constitution, and i will never back off that, ever. nicole: the 2 misdemeanor counts carry a maximum penalty of 2 years in jail and $200,000 in fines. president biden's mild covid symptoms are said to be improving tonight. the white house physician says he's responding well to treatment. biden appeared today in a virtual meeting with economic advisors. his voice was ragged, but he said he felt better than he sounded. later, the president's covid coordinator stressed the importance of being fully vaccinated and boosted. dr. jha: we are now at a point, i believe, where we can prevent nearly every covid death in america. that is a remarkable fact. so if you're vaccinated but have not

what is the committee hoping to learn from steve bannon? what are we see as the motive here, the motivation for bannon to in fact testify? >> it's worth noting, yasmin, that steve bannon is about a week away from his trial beginning. the jury selection for a trial and his contempt of congress charge. the department of justice charge bannon with that at the house voted to hold him in contempt. this is very, as you said, interesting timing for this lighter. it opens the door for bannon to be with the january six house committee. as several number set on the shows today, they will welcome any and all testimony from bannon. the key though, they have to agree on the terms. i would like to read a portion from the letter that bannon's attorney sense to chairman bennie thompson shortly after president trump waved, as you said, that executive privilege. the letter reads, in part, president trump has decided to be it would be in the best interest of the american people to waive executive privilege for bannon to comply with the subpoena issued by your

steve bannon, the former aide to donald trump, has been found guilty of criminal contempt of congress. he tells reporters he remains defiant. the prosecutor missed one very important phrase, right? i stand with trump and the constitution, and i'll never back off that, ever. russia and ukraine have signed a deal to resume vital exports of ukrainian grain, which has been hailed by the un as a beacon of hope. this is an agreement for the world. it will bring relief for the european countries on the edge of bankruptcy, and the most vulnerable people on the edge of famine. as the deal is signed, we report from the farms on the front line in the donbas region, which have now become a battleground. a deal to end russia's blockade could make a huge difference — but it won't end the war. so here in the donbas, ukrainian farmers are racing to harvest and to store what they can, whatever the risks. a new prime minister is sworn in in sri lanka, as anti—government protests continue in the capital. hello and welcome. we start with some breaking news from washington — where steve bannon, who worked

steve bannon trying to run the clock or are trump and banning no longer in lockstep? >> i wouldn't say that biden and trump are no longer in lockstep because the other characters you see move out of trump's orbit and then back into the orbit and, i would hesitate to predict that. i want ice think we're seeing is pressure being put on the witnesses. we have the case against steve bannon, about whether not he should have provided information to the committee, where the just a minute departments own investigations are going, and they put a variety of a former presidents own allies. it's interesting that more and more of them are finding ways to cooperate, or you had a republican control congress during the mueller investigation, and courts that were grinding through multiple lawsuits regarding whether or not information should be shared. we're in a spent different environment you seeing people being more forthcoming. >> so steve bannon will get his day in court. neil should we expect to see senator graham testified to the grand jury? >> yes. i think that lindsey graham s

by the end of the day, we had two criminal convictions of steve bannon. now, these were both misdemeanor charges, but congress writes the law, and when they wrote this law, they said that it would be punishable by a minimum of 30 days in jail if someone was found guilty of defying a congressional subpoena, being held in contempt, and that is what is happening for steve bannon. we're going to see him back in court in late october for his sentencing. there is some time between then and now. but i wanted to start with what the house select committee had to say after this conviction came in. they're cheering it. the statement from the chairman and the vice chair of that committee was the conviction of steve bannon is a victory for the rule of law and an important affirmation of the select committee's work. anyone who obstructs our investigation should face consequences. no one is above the law. but right now, steve bannon has not turned over any information to the committee. instead, we had these proceedings today, finding him guilty of trying to hold him acc

and the reason we know that none of this matters, it's because today, the federal judge hearing steve bannon's case, laughed it all out of the courtroom. bannon in criminal trial is not derailed. bannon has not even succeeded in using this tactic to delay the trial. past its scheduled start date, which remains one week from today. and oh, by the way, rescuers dispose of the court today that the fbi went to interview trump 's lawyer about all of this. and the lower clarify to them, yeah, trump never even tried to assert an executive privilege. when it comes to steve bannon, they will go, the whole thing was made up. so -- there is no drama around the january 6th investigation and steve bannon, other than the fact that steve bannon may now go to prison for contempt, for defying their legal subpoena to him. and, he can't get out of it by belatedly coming up with this publicity stunt, where he agrees to testify to the committee. yes, maybe, he will, eventually come in and testify, who knows? but, if he does testify, it will reportedly be behind closed doors, just like all the other kids, big guy.

>> reporter: it has been eight rough go for steve bannon. he cannot present a number of defenses that he wanted to present but he did get a glimmer of hope. it is possible he will allow bannon and his lawyers to hear the most recent offer to testify. the judge is still weighing if he will allow that to move forward. like you pointed out, bannon has tried over and over again to stall the trial. he has pointed to the committee hearings, a cnn documentary that is slated to premiere this sunday, he said, i am all over the news. i will never get a jury. we will sort this out during jury selection and make sure we have an unbiased jury. the jury selection is set to start on monday. >> what else do we know about this reported phone call from donald trump to white house staff about january 6th? >> reporter: what we have learned is a lot of information that explains why the committee thought it was necessary to hand this information to the department of justice for fear of witness intimidation. we are told that this individual that got a call from fo

sort of a financial nail in the coffin to say, no no, you and i we are not friends. >> wow, steve bannon and donald trump. they talk about gamesmanship the two of them have been going at each other for quite some years now and what's happening here is that bannon is a way for trump to kind of push back against generators committee. but bannon out there, knowing that he is there to disrupt things. biden has been very clear about this from the start. he's not exactly how to use motives here. he talks about it on his podcast all the time. he wants to delegitimized the biden presidency that was his motive in supporting the generous fifth demonstration. and in saying that all will break loose. that day and so that's what he's doing now to. he wants to disrupt this january six investigative committee. that has been pretty successful and putting on a show of its own. and controlling its message and she has presented publicly very carefully curated hearings each day. he wants this to be his live performance where he can turn things upside down. but the gamesmanship goes both ways. and the commit

author joshua green said steve bannon was introduced to donald trump before the 2016 presidential runfit, he says, to be the part of the trump campaign. >> he didn't come from the establishment and he didn't have a background in gop politics and all he wanted to do was come in and burn things done. >> all of this from a man who was born into a family of democrats and got a masters at georgetown, university and an mba at harvard and served as a u.s. naval officer. >> what do you think trdrove hi so far right? >> opportunity and fame. >> bannon didn't comment specifically for our story and sent a statement again, claiming trump won the 2020 election. >> the analyst we spoke to said a bannon-trump partnership could be rekindled in the future if trump runs in 2024. a trump run is not out of question and he could be acting as a proxy and stirring up the media. >> brian todd, thank you. >>> coming up, we'll have an update on a deadly shopping mall shooting in indiana. the fbi now says it's trying to recover data from the gunman's cell phone as well as a laptop left in a high-temperature ove

and then there's steve bannon the entertainment media personality.d that's the guy you see outside the courtroom and appears in his podcast and gives all of these, you know, flamboyant remarks and what not. but like you said with the reporter just now, my assumption was that he planned on appealing, and that's why he put forth no defense. the last time i had a case similar to that was in 2011, the defendant did not put forth any defense because of his intention to appeal. fortunately in that case, it was a felony charge, and he spent time in prison before his appeals were heard. but in a misdemeanor case, i'm afraid he will not be incarcerated during that time. >> let's talk about tonight. we're told the hearing is going to focus on the three hours and seven minutes from donald trump, between his leaving the ellipse when he gave that team and the time he told the mob to stop attacking law enforcement officers and vandalizing the capitol, here is a preview they put out earlier today. >> was the president in that dining room the whole time that the att

so there is no drama around the january 6 investigation and steve bannon other than the fact that steve bannonio may now go prison for contempt, for defying their legal subpoena to him. and he can't get out of it by belatedly coming up with this publicity stunt where he agrees to testify to the committee. yes, maybe he will eventually come in and testify to the committee. who knows. but if he does testify, it will reportedly be behind closed doors, just like all the other kids, big guy, i mean the press for whatever reason may enjoy coveringes mr. bannon's every stunt, but he doesn't matter in the larger scheme of this. nothing he is saying or doing means anything in substance. and also, he should maybe be focused on, you know, other stuff. pack a toothbrush, big guy. while the steve bannon red-faced breath-holding tantrum over these past couple of days has gotten way more attention than substantively deserves, i think the thing that does deserve more attention ahead of tomorrow's hearing is the grenades. the military ordnance grenades and explosives and the many, many, many guns that w

steve bannon will use this. agenda of the whole time. i don't think that it is frustrated that much by a single conviction. brute frustrated that much by a single conviction. we don't have much _ single conviction. we don't have much time, _ single conviction. we don't have much time, but i single conviction. we don't have much time, but what| single conviction. we don't i have much time, but what does this mean for the committee investigating the attacks? hopefully for them, it shows their force. hopefully for them, it shows theirforce. it hopefully for them, it shows their force. it shows they can compel other people to speak and that they're willing to see their subpoenas through the end. that's certainly powerful. it would be a mistake for the committee's supporters to think that this is going to change public opinion among trump's supporters. i think it's going to be an additional piece of evidence in their minds that everyone is out to get them. the author benjamin, who's written about steve bannon. russia

steve bannon loves to run his mouth.bsurd little dog and pony show every day after trial, on the courthouse steps. where he is railing against, and trolling everybody from benny thompson to dr. fauci, to joe biden and others. he is the most aggrieved man on the planet. i think it will be really interesting, because tomorrow is his big day. he gets to take the witness stand, he gets to tell his story, and he gets to rock the mic. it will be very interesting to see if -- and i'm going to use the word brave. if he is brave enough to take the stand, and to try to field cross-examination questions, from a really strong, adept prosecutor named amanda vaughn, she is they lead counsel in the case. she has performed brilliantly. i don't think that steve bannon can withstand cross-examination from a usa vaughn. there are a lot of areas that are very bright for cross-examination. >> are there any other potential defense witnesses? >> the defense did not tip its hand and opening statement. they did not promise the jury that they wou

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going, quote, medieval, that's steve bannon. bannon is defiant on his podcast. >> pray for our enemies, okay? because we're going medieval on these people. we're going to savage our enemies, so pray for them. who needs prayers? not maga, not war room, and certainly not steven k. bannon. >> after leaving court today, bannon spoke briefly to reporters. listen. >> look, it was a very good first day. it was a long day for jury selection. >> and so it goes. now bannon faces two criminal charges for his failure to comply with a house january 6th investigation. it's been ten months since he received a subpoena from the committee. the case is a major test of how much power congress really has when a witness defies a subpoena. bannon, one of the biggest purveyors of trump's election lies was a key figure in the lead-up to january 6th. days before he was outlining trump's plan win or lose. in his words then, trump is just going to declare victory and bannon has never wavered from that message. here he is december, 2020. >> we're here for r