for prosecution over his refusal to obey a subpoena from the january 6 investigation. now, as to whether or not the justice department is actually going to put him on trial, we really don t know. the dc u.s. attorney could decide not to. the d.c. u.s. attorney could convene a grand jury, present evidence to the grand jury and let the grand jury decide whether or not an indictment against mr. bannon is warranted. one other option, i believe, don t hold me to this if this doesn t turn out to be the case, but i believe, based on my understanding of how these things work, based on the type of charge this would theoretically be against mr. f bannon, i believe that the d.c. u.s. attorney also has the option to just draw up the without going to a grand jury at all, which is yet another way to approach this. regardless of how the u.s. attorney s office decides to handle this, though, we really won t know anything about that process until it s done, until a charge is brought, in which case that
you do this better than anyone. no one will just say is it okay? it s not okay. they know it okay. we re going to try to show people that unlike bannon, bannon s here to spin and you did a beautiful job of exposing the weaknesses in the spin but we will show that the president knows it was wrong. you can tell not because i m inside the mind of the man, that s too spooky even for halloween, but you see it in his actions. we also have adam schiff here to talk about the reality of what has been fair in impeachments past, what he thinks the likelihood of how this ends and his take on the republican arguments of what s wrong with the process. we ll lay it out with his side. i also have one of the acolytes of bannon on the though tonight, kelly armstrong, one of the president s defenders in congress, to ask the same questions we ask every night. is it okay to ask a foreign
it s not okay. they know it okay. we re going to try to show people that unlike bannon, bannon s here to spin and you did a beautiful job of exposing the weaknesses in the spin but we will show that the president knows it was wrong. you can tell not because i m inside the mind of the man, that s too spooky even for halloween but you see it in his actions. we also have adam schiff here to talk about the reality of what has been fair in impeachments past, what he thinks the likelihood of how this ends and his take on the republican arguments of what s wrong with the process. we ll lay it out with his side. i also have one of the acolytes of bannon, kelly armstrong, to ask the same question we ask every night, is it okay to ask a foreign power to help you in an election? they ll say he didn t do that. not only did he do it, he
new fallout for michael wolff s tell-all steve bannon. after president trump said bannon had lost his mind, rebekah mercer distanced herself. she said my family and i have not communicated with steve bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements. today president trump weighed in. the mercer family recently dumped the leaker known as sloppy steve bannon. for the purposes of this conversation, the author of bannon, always the rebel. ken, you followed the money pretty well.
what? the answer is very often nothing. so i m not sure that while he gets some blow-back here. i m not sure that the long-term effect is significant for him. we re talking about charlottesville this week. it was north korea before that. i don t know that things can t turn for him in a week and that he doesn t suffer long-term consequences. at least within the conference. the republican conference many. i m not saying the public at large, but at least within the conference. i m not sure the long-term consequence is great. so what s the message, selena, of bannon s firing to his base? bannon in his piece with the weekly standard said that the president, when he talked about charlottesville this week, he spoke from his heart that was his default. speaking to his base that got him elected. with bannon out, how is that received? well i ll be honest with you, okay? my read is the rust belt, pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, michigan, indiana, ohio, these are these great lake states that