kate bolduan in for erin bu burnett. going, quote, medieval, that s steve bannon. bannon is defiant on his podcast. pray for our enemies, okay? because we re going medieval on these people. we re going to savage our enemies, so pray for them. who needs prayers? not maga, not war room, and certainly not steven k. bannon. after leaving court today, bannon spoke briefly to reporters. listen. look, it was a very good first day. it was a long day for jury selection. and so it goes. now bannon faces two criminal charges for his failure to comply with a house january 6th investigation. it s been ten months since he received a subpoena from the committee. the case is a major test of how much power congress really has when a witness defies a subpoena. bannon, one of the biggest purveyors of trump s election lies was a key figure in the lead-up to january 6th. days before he was outlining trump s plan win or lose. in his words then, trump is just going to declare victory and ba
january six, and on friday, those two witnesses showed up, to testify, under oath, to the grand jury at the courthouse in washington, that was on friday. and the very next day, donald trump advocates the termination of the constitution. donald trump s activities leading up to january 6th, and on january 6th, resulted in don champion indicted, and investigation now being run by special actual prosecutor jack smith, donald trump could save him, if he can testify, convincingly, under oath, in a trial of those charges. but, if donald trump were to take the witness stand in his own distant events in such a trial, in front of the jack smith would now be able to ask this question knowing the answer. question, mr. trump, have you
running the constitution, no former president has. losing presidential candidate met representing a major party, has ever advocated terminating the constitution. and here is what don thinks should happen, after the constitution is terminated. quote, throw the presidential election results of 2020 out, and declare the rightful winner. that is exactly what donald trump is trying to do on january 6th. donald trump is now the subject of a federal criminal investigation washington d.c., grand jury, about what he was trying to do, leading up to and on january six. last week a federal judge ordered donald trump s white house counsel, and deputy white house counsel to testify under oath about what they know donald trump is trying to do on
did lawrence would be played out in court to say this is really damning evidence, and he knows it as he then tries to deny that he said it. daniel goldman, presumably, when this comes out in the trial, if a trial like that were to occur, the trump defense would try to argue no, he said that in december of 2022, he said that almost two years after january 6th. so it could not have any possible relevance to january 6th. donald trump is a walking false inculpatory, which is a fairly complicated legal doctrine, but basically says that if you intentionally make false statements to conceal your own guilt it can, in some circumstances, be admitted in furtherance of your own guilt. but we have seen this all the
were to occur, the trump defense would try to argue no, he said that in december of 2022, he said that almost two years after january 6th. so it could not have any possible relevance to january 6th. donald trump is a walking false inculpatory, which is a fairly complicated legal doctrine, but basically says that if you intentionally make false statements to conceal your own guilt it can, in some circumstances, be admitted in furtherance of your own guilt. but we have seen this all the time. on january 6th, lawrence, he clearly incited the crowd, which we now know from the january six committee that he knew was armed and dangerous. and he routes them and incited them to go to the capital and