poised to give a consequential speech on the world stage, returning to the beaches of normandy again this morning to deliver remarks on the threats against democracy and freedom at home and overseas. now, this speech coming just hours after president biden met with ukrainian president zelenskyy in paris announcing $225 million in new aid and apologizing for the political gridlock in washington that delayed that package. nbc s kelly o donnell is traveling with the president in france. also with us, david ignatius, foreign affairs columnist for the washington post, nbc news military analyst, retired colonel jack jacobs and presidential historian mark updegrove. it s great to have all of you with us. kelly, set the stage for us as we await the president. reporter: well, it is a spectacular setting. when you see how the white house has set up the president s lectern on the cliff. this is a cliff that 80 years ago american army rangers scaled that cliff using knives and pieces
for watching anderson cooper 360 is next what johnson tonight. on 360, the former president weighs in again about whether he ll use the criminal justice system for political payback. and again, suggest he might also tonight why steve bannon, his former strategist is heading to prison and his own call for trump s supporters to quote savage or enemies. plus, remembering a time 80 years ago today when americans defeated the enemies of freedom and humanity on the beaches of normandy, then help rebuild a continent. we begin tonight, keep them honest with the ongoing question of whether the former president, if reelected, would use the criminal justice system i m against his political opponents ongoing because he keeps hinting at it, speaking evening and phoenix had an event put on by the conservative activist charlie kirk he can find the bulk of his remarks, immigration and the economy, but also railed against his criminal prosecutions and finished with this and i m telling you we
jail. that is, unless this man can save them that s attorney david shown who will speak to live in just a moment. look, it s been what, two years now since bannon was convicted of contempt of congress for defining a subpoena from the january 6 committee. remember that his excuse back then, his lawyer at the time, robert costello, remember him from the hush money trial. one witness is calling the defense. while the time he said i didn t have to comply because he thought trump would assert executive privilege he didn t and bad, it was apparently on notice of that fact as well we have been appealing his conviction ever since that time and up until now, the judge in this case had been kind of holding off on the sentence. but today the judge said enough, there was no legal reason left to delay that sentence. we told bannon he has to report to prison then on july 1st, to serve a four month sentence outside the courthouse, steve bannon was see bannon but i want to say something spec
um, that s the thing he d been already pardoned by trump four before. yeah, that s right. i mean, this is in new york. he s facing state charges essentially saying that he defrauded folks by raising money to build a wall on the southern border then allegedly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to himself and some of his colleagues. again, that trial is set for later on this year. he s pleaded not guilty. and as you pointed out, that same conduct was the subject 50 federal charges, but those federal charges ultimately didn t go anywhere because donald trump pardoned steve bannon before he left the white house, sir, maria, thanks so much. john is now seen in political, a senior political commentator and former january 6 select committee member adam kinzinger, congressman the former president, called it an american tragedy that steve bannon and has been ordered to report to prison and in the same post on social media, he went on to take a shot at you and the january 6 committ
garland, lisa monaco, the atari justice department. they re not going to shut up trump they re not going to shop navarro you re not going to shut up bannon and they re certainly not going to shop maga. there s not a prison, there s not a prison built. there is not a prison built or jail built that every shut me up. all victory to maga well donald trump called this an american tragedy and he was apparently so angry that even called to indict the january 6 committee. remember those remembers a congress when, as part of a long now and growing list of trump allies who have been sentenced to prison, people who stretched back to the trump organization days. and the 2016 election and the 2020 campaign. and that includes peter navarro, who is currently in miami prison right now for the same reason, contempt of congress joining me now, steve bannon s attorney, david, shown he also presented former president donald trump in his second impeachment trial. david, thank you so much for being here