day, there is another question. do you indicted former president? what will that do to the country? what kind of precedent will that set? i don t want to see him indicted is a former president. but i also think they will be under a lot of pressure to indict him, because if anybody else would have gotten indicted, why not indict him? the justice department does have to decide by friday if it will accept a judges order to appoint a special master in the case or file an appeal. the doj appears to be widening its separate investigation into events leading up to the capitol riot. according to the new york times the fbi is looking to talk to more people, including william russell, a former white house aide who continued working for trump after he left office. the times said russell has been subpoenaed. it has been 20 months. tweet think about that. 20 months since the rioters stormed the capitol. today in an alarming report shows the extremism behind the insurrection. it is not g
the social media chaos machine? the 11th hour, wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. as the former president faces ongoing mar-a-lago investigations, steve bannon is expected to face a new indictment just hours from. now one of that his lawyers says that the onetime trump s trump strategist is on his way to surrender to manhattan s district attorney in the morning. washington post said this case probably similar to ban in federal indictment in a fraud scheme to build trump s border wall. but those charges never stop. trump pardoned abandon on his way out of the white house. bannon of course is now facing sentencing next month after defying a subpoena from the january 6th committee. trump himself may will be considering his next move in his battle with the department of justice over those classified documents he has been keeping down at mar-a-lago. he may want to pay close attention to the latest warning from his former attorney general, bill barr. t
lengthy sentence is sometimes they become more interested in cooperating. bannon is talking tough now, but i have seen defendants do that and then decide to cooperate. this will turn largely on the strength of the district attorney s case when we see his charging document tomorrow. the sort of charges he beings and the sort of sentence they carry and whether bannon believes they can prove it. if they can, he might be incentifies to deal. tracey bannon is a big deep state conspiracy theory guy. now you ve got his ilk talking about defunding the fbi. how is all of this impacting your former agency? i would imagine that it is impacting them tremendously. really, all of this, all of this top by bannon, by trump, even the appointment of a special master, frankly, is undermining the credibility of these institutions that have existed for decades and that really are the pillar of upholding the wall here in the united states. the reality is that no matter
this case is very interesting, stephanie, because it carries a longer time for punishment than the charges bannon showed faces for obstruction of justice in washington in connection with his failure to comply with the 20 january six committee subpoena. one of the things prosecutors will see with the defendant facing serious charges and a lengthy sentence is sometimes they become more interested in cooperating. bannon is talking tough now, but i have seen defendants do that and then decide to cooperate. this will turn largely on the strength of the district attorney s case when we see his charging document tomorrow. the sort of charges he beings and the sort of sentence they carry and whether bannon believes they can prove it. if they can, he might be incentifies to deal. tracey bannon is a big deep state conspiracy theory guy. now you ve got his ilk talking