trump s victory. we are not going to let it happen. reporter: december 30th last year, according to the book peril, bannon was feverishly trying to prepare trump for january 6th when congress would certify the election results, telling trump, quote, we are going to bury biden on january 6th, f-ing bury him, kill the biden presidency in the crib. on his podcast war room recently bannon didn t deny saying that. just let this go with this illegitimate regime. it killed itself, okay? we told you from the very beginning, just expose it, just expose it, never back down, never give up, and this thing will implode. reporter: now the house select committee investigating january 6th wants information from bannon on what he did just before the insurrection. the committee says on january 5th bannon was involved in a war room at washington s willard hotel helping plan trump s stop the steal rally which took place the morning of the attack. on the 45th bannon said on this
injury and post-traumatic stress disorder. this is exactly figuring out how this happened is crucial. now of course unfortunately for him the president chose he or the former president can assert that is privilege. it resides with the actual executive office in power right now, president biden. here is the problem with the committee, they need ababannon. in a call on december 30th, bannon told trump, you got to return to washington and make a dramatic return, he tells trump quote, people are going to go what the f is going on here, we are going to bury biden on
meadows. there is no word on whether or not he is going to show up. he put out a statement last night lavishing praise. it seems like he would be unlikely to do that. there was a central role being played en though he left the white house quite a while ago. he was drumming up the so-called big lie. that is part of the book i alone can fix it. . you have to call pence off of the f-ing ski slopes. this is a crisis. we re going to bury biden on january 6th. how does bannon say that executive privilege should cover
that um it doesn t doesn t seem to change. when you talk about the january 6th committee, i just wanted to ask you about steve bannon, specifically. because i know that you reported that bannon had urged trump to focus on january 6th. and you quote bannon as saying, quote, we re going to bury biden on january 6th. now, bannon we re going to bury him in the crib at the beginning of his presidency. it s one i mean, it s it s bury is a word that has a lot of power, particularly in the days before the violence of january 6th. it absolutely does. and then, i just want to be clear here. bannon has admitted that you and bob costa s reporting was correct. here he is. this illegitimate regime is starting to collapse. you know, there s a quote from me i guess in the book and they re all over about it that i was talking to the president in late january that we could kill the illegitimate biden regime in
and steve bannon telling trump we re going to bury biden on january 6th in advance of the attack, chilling six-point memo on how vice president pence could overturn the election. as university of maryland law professor told me, from a constitutional perspective, there is no difference between trying to overturn an election by fraud, force or violence. all of them fall under insurrection. none of this is to say that putting an ex-president or lackeys on trial is likely or wise from the standpoint of stabilizing democracy. especially when biden s ag is trying to undo the politization of the trump doj. but these laws exist for a reason. they re tools that previous generations gave us to hold insurrectionists accountable, particularly those who abuse the power of their office and disregarded their oaths to protect and defend the constitution. by any definition, our country suffered through an attempted insurrection, and there is