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tomorrow. you may know him as steve bannon but on monday trump s former campaign manager and chief white house strategist will become federal inmate 056- 3509. having already lost his case and first appeal bannon is expected to report to a federal prison in connecticut on monday morning. s that unless the supreme court intervenes which it could do at any moment. today the department of justice, formerly urged the high court not to intervene here. and to let mr. bannon face accountability for his actions but remarkably, the justice department isn t the only group that lobbied the court about steve bannon today. mr. speaker, i understand there might be a change in position regarding the house and their stance on the january 6th committee and it might be regarding steve bannon and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. tell me what s going on. yeah, we re working on filing an amicus grief on his apellate court there in his case. reporter: today speaker of the hou
the justice department isn t the only group that lobbied the court about steve bannon today mr. speaker, i understand there might be a change in position regarding the house and their stance on the january 6th committee, and it might be regarding steve bannon, and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. tell me what s going on. yeah, we re working on filing on amicus brief in his appellate work there in his case today speaker of the house mike johnson and several other republican members of the house voted to make the formal position of the u.s. house of representatives, the formal position that the january 6th committee did not have the authority to do the work that it did, and that therefore steve bannon should not have to go t to step back here for some context, remember that the reason steve bannon is headed to prison in the first place is because he refused to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th committee. that s despite clearly knowing a lot about
deficit spending and options to pay for their infrastructure bill they re working on now. progressives are advocating for a wealth tax. the white house is reportedly focused on increasing the corporate tax rate, raising income taxes for those making more than $400,000 a year and other tax hikes that would impact the rich. biden president biden seems to realize that republicans are not going to get on board for this. i ll get the democratic votes for a tax increase. if we took the tax raise back when bush was president, 6%, that would raise $230 billion. because republicans have lined up against it, there s new pressure for democrats to strap the filibuster. moderates like joe manchin oppose nuking filibuster. president biden indicated he s open to the idea. republicans are calling it a power grab and they re warning democrats could use the change for immigration reform. they re prepare to steam roll the senate into a body like the house because they get in the way of
good evening, everyone. i m eric burnett. how much will it cost to bail out europe? $1 million. just like dr. evil in austin powers, that s not enough. $100 billion. nope. even a super villain would not ask for a number this big. the final number to bail out europe could be closer to $6 trillion. so take a deep breath. i ll get to the grand total in just a moment. days ahead of the crucial greek elections, spain asked for $125 billion to bail out its banks. and that s just the beginning because spain is only one of several european countries lining up for more money. spain, portugal, ireland, greece, already have asked for $615.5 billion. but does it add up to enough to save them and us from more economic calamity? sources tell outfront, not even close. one of our most reliable sources says that all estimates to date on how much this is going to cost have been wrong. he warns about a domino effect, most notably on france and says we re not even close to stabilizat