last year, in august, steve bannon was arrested on a $35 million yacht belonging to a chinese billionaire where he was apparently chilling out. he was charged with defrauding donald trump die hard supporters. the kind of people who would donate their money to an online scheme, allegedly, to help build the wall on the southern border. it was called we build the wall. the effort collected more than $25 million and prosecutors said mr. bannon used nearly 1 million of it for personal expense. just to be clear, those were not like him building the wall. they were just him doing his thing. then after the election in the lead up to january 6th, we know that bannon was involved in donald trump s, you know, insurrection plot. his plot to overturn the election. he spoke to trump a week before the attack on the capitol. encouraged him to focus on january 6th. that s the day of course the electoral votes would be admitted and counted.
testimony as we ve compelled it. what is the timeline, or your understanding of the timeline? it seems like once again we re in the situation of there s the law and the timeline of the investigation and the obvious thing steve bannon and donald trump like to do is delay it until you can t keep doing it or it s too long in the future. no, we won t tolerate perpetual denial here. remember, we re collecting evidence every day. the vast majority of people we ve reached out to are testifying voluntarily. meeting with the community. we re picking on lots of information and our goal is to present a comprehensive and detailed portrait of the details of january 6th, the causes, then what we need to do to prevent this from ever happening again, but we re not going to let anything drag on for eight months, nine months, ten months. we re on a much more rapid
no. you know, people should know what she said. final thing is is it a bit, is it, is she doing a world wrestling heel thing? is it a person? what s the deal? i mean, it s hard to know. i mean, she seems to be inspired by a lot of the qanon mythologies and stories out there. she certainly had a lot of contempt herself for liz cheney. and you know, liz cheney has become a hero to millions of americans by her constitutional patriotism by the fact she s standing up for the rule of law. far beyond a particular political party or particular political leader. but i think her colleagues in the republican conference are regarding her with great derision and contempt right now. they re basically seeing her as the anti-trump. you can choose trump or cheney.
timetable. if you think about it, what could be a more important issue than the safety of congress and the security of democracy itself moving the future? and the way we see it is this insurrection/coup is really still going with the big lie. just today, president trump issued a statement asserting that the insurrection was on november 3rd. the day of the election is what he s calling the insurrection. again, to further confuse people and to cloud the issue. that demonstrates we re in continuing danger. speaking of which, there was a strange moment today in the halls of congress that i saw you speak to and i just wanted to get firsthand from you in which marjorie taylor greene, a freshman congresswoman from georgia who doesn t have any committees and she tweets a lot, i guess. she approached you and liz cheney, i believe. what happened? well, first, she started
back against any sort of mandate. right now that showdown is playing out in chicago. in august mayor lori lightfoot announced that all city workers, all of them, need to be vaccinated by october 15th. that was back in august. gave them some time. that happens to be today. the city s police union, which is the second largest municipal police union in the country, is refusing to comply. just so you understand the context of how all this is playing out, the union s former president, who used to be the head of this union, just died of covid on tuesday. his successor, the current head of the union, initially responded to the mayor s mandate saying, and i am quoting here directly, we re in america, goddamn it. we don t want on forced to do anything. period. this ain t nazi expletive germany where they say step into the expletive showers, the pills won t hurt you. what the expletive. that s right.