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
calling witnesses, that means we have a short trial. so this isn t quite like a stream of consciousness of where the president feels aggrieved, but it s awfully close. again, this is clearly what the president thinks. another telltale sign in there, not just the signatures but the numerous exclamation points. ali. hans, while all of this is going on, we re also hearing more from the president s personal attorney, rudy giuliani, about his recent trip to ukraine. reporter: rudy giuliani isn t admitting the role he played in the ousting of marie yovanovitch, the ambassador, the former ambassador, he s bragging about it. he s boasting about it. he saw her as an obstacle to be removed because he wanted to get to the bottom of the entire corruption scandal. you know, among the other things the president mentions in this he mentions the russia collusion hoax. among the other things he mentions in this letter, the climate paris accords, the co2 conversations on that. he mentions how well
interesting that senator schumer said this morning he didn t think conversations in and of themselves would be problematic. it is the willingness in schumer s words and mcconnell to do kind of whatever the white house wants him to do that he would find most concerning. i can tell you that based on conversations with one of the senior administration officials i had today, the white house is working, already got its eye on the ball. past this week to what might happen in a senate trial. as you and jeff are talking about here. there will be work, i m told, continuing throughout the holidays. even over these next couple of weeks while the president is expected to be down at his mar-a-lago resort. there will be work continuing on how to get ready for that. i have sensed more of an openness with the folks that i ve been talking to here. to a shorter trial. there is, the white house says, hey, the president and officials and sources i talk to say the president feels aggrieved. like he has not
something for the american people appear to have gone out the window. let s go to hans nickels at the white house and kelly o donnell on capitol hill. hans, what is president trump s strategy here? can he really take his toys and go back inside for an entire election season? the white house seems to think so. the strategy appears to be to run against congress and china and rail against congressional democrats at any moment. there s some important caveats to the strategy. talking to administration officials over the last 48 hours it s clear the president feels aggrieved. they also want to have a little bit of room for some sort of safety valve. that is staff level conversations. just talked to sarah sanders. she s clear staff level conversations will continue on important issues like the debt ceiling. the president clearly feels wronged here. the line i keep hearing from officials inside is that nancy pelosi essentially accused donald trump of committing a