bannon has been charged with criminal contempt of congress. the justice department wanted a trial to start in mid-april. the bannon team push forward october 2022. today a judge seemed to settle that disagreement and he set the date for july 18th, 2022. what s your reaction to his legal strategy? to bannon s legal strategy? yeah. i don t know if there is one. obviously, he d like to stay out of prison for as long as possible. you always hope for early trial dates. justice delayed is justice denied, but a july trial date means that he will be facing the music mid next year and i think that s appropriate. bannon has been all in on this strategy of trump supporters infiltrating local republican party posts. in an interview bannon told sara murray, it s about winning elections with the right people, maga people. we ll have our people in at
what he is doing in this tweet, he has attacked sessions many times for the investigation and witch hunt,es set hunt et cetera. he is warning he is going after the gop and risk to the party. this is president trump playing to that partisan base that he depends on. this time, at the expense of being the president who will support the law. no matter where it goes. at a time that should be so good for him with the kavanaugh hearings. julian, thank you. new yorker magazine is disinviting steve bannon as the headliner of the annual festival and the editor in chief does not like it. rescinding the invitation after several threatened to boycott. he was prepared to interview bannon at the festival, but after the revelation he was participating, jim carrey and judd apatow tweeted i will not
interest in representing multiple clients in the same matter because there could come a day where steve bannon has criminal information about one of the other clients that this lawyer represents. how s that being sorted out at this stage? what do we know about that? that s definitely a possible outcome and what folks told me is this type of situation where one attorney representing multiple people connected to the same matter can often be upsetting or frustrating to investigators because it can send a signal whether or not the signal is correct it can send the signal or suggest they are themselves colluding, if you will, to try to circumvent the investigation. that said our understanding right now is bill burke particularly is helping bannon prepare for his testimony next week before the house intelligence committee. we haven t seen reporting yet. we have not yet reported ourselves. i don t believe any other sites reported imminent plan for mueller himself to interview bannon. right
reported imminent plan for mueller himself to interview bannon. right now, the big hurdle bannon has to face is this grilling from house investigators and that s what bill burke is helping him prepare for. that said, of course, these investigations have all sorts of twists and turns. it is anyone s guess which investigators want to talk to bannon. there are multiple investigations here an it s really interesting story to keep an eye on and we could see the heat just get turned up. max, we have congressman schiff on the house committee, intelligence committee, saying he has dozens more people he wants to interview, including ivanka trump. well, it s probably not going to happen, obviously. you know, i don t know when s going to happen with the bannon testimony. i mean, i m glad he s called to testify but as we know the house republicans are not running a serious investigation. they re running a cover-up on behalf of the white house. devin nunes is chief prop gandist for the white ho
tender his registratisignation after we get tags taxes done, i ll step aside and have a revote. in an interview bannon accused house speaker and mitch mcconnell of trying to nullify votes. asked in an interview if the republican party has to choose between siding with the free trade and immigration reform policies of former president george w. bush or with the approach of trump. take a listen. is it going to be a choice for republicans, bush or trump? we already made that choice. we re with trump. we made that choice. that s a chase we made at the beginning of the year. we merged our agendas. we ran on a joint agenda with donald trump. we got together with donald trump when he was president elect trump and walked through what is it we want to accomplish in the next two years. we agreed on that agenda. processing that agenda. set to release tax reform