refused to talk about his role when loftily subpoenaed, he awaits sentencing. cnn s katelyn polantz was in the courtroom and joins us now. walk us through what happened in court today and how bannon reacted when the verdict was read? well, john, as steve bannon moved around the courthouse today, on the grounds in the courtroom, he appeared to be very much himself. he was smiling throughout the day, right before the verdict came down, when the jury came back in, he was waiting, on his phone, what appeared to be looking at social media, thanking his lawyers, patting them on the back. but then when the jury came in to deliver their verdict, they came in about two and a half hours after they started. when they came in, steve bannon didn t show a lot of emotion. he smirked a little bit. he nodded, as the judge thanked the jury. but ultimately, he wasn t really that reactive in court. and the jury had bought what the prosecution was arguing. that this was like a parking ticket, t
now the man who cannot stop talking about overturning the election to his listeners, but refused to talk about his role when loftily subpoenaed, he awaits sentencing. cnn s katelyn polantz was in the courtroom and joins us now. walk us through what happened in court today and how bannon reacted when the verdict was read? well, john, as steve bannon moved around the courthouse today, on the grounds in the courtroom, he appeared to be very much himself. he was smiling throughout the day, right before the verdict came down, when the jury came back in, he was waiting, on his phone, what appeared to be looking at social media, thanking his lawyers, patting them on the back. but then when the jury came in to deliver their verdict, they came in about two and a half hours after they started. when they came in, steve bannon didn t show a lot of emotion. he smirked a little bit. he nodded, as the judge thanked the jury. but ultimately, he wasn t really that reactive in court. and the
it says everything that you need to know about how reluctant trump was even then to acknowledge what happened and his role in it. you know, our white house team reported it took an hour to make this three-minute video. which even when we screw up on tv, that s not good timing. an hour to make three minutes, not good. exactly. andy, the secret service text messages, the ten secret service personnel that had phones that contain metadata, but not the actual text messages, what does that tell you? will we ever see that? and just the significance of the fact that there s now apparently a criminal investigation of sorts into this? well, the criminal investigation is very serious. and it is going to have the effect, unfortunately, of further confusing this issue, because now you have the original oig investigation, that was looking at the secret service over there performance on january 6th. you have the january 6th committee that was asking for the same information for their purposes
different sorts. and now we know that their own systems and processes aren t sufficient to even meet those sorts of responsibilities. i think there has to be a very thorough investigation of how the service was handling this responsibility, and of course, they should go to whatever lengths are necessary to try trofr the messages that we now know we currently can t grab. vice chair liz cheney, abby, very prominent last night. she s got a primary, a tough primary. where right now, it looks like it may be hard for her to win in in august. what do you think is next for her, if she loses? liz cheney has been really clear. she is making a case against donald trump. this is about preventing trump himself from ever being in that white house again. and so she has basically put her own political career, at least in wyoming, on the line for
in criminal prosecutions in all different sorts. and now we know that their own systems and processes aren t sufficient to even meet those sorts of responsibilities. i think there has to be a very thorough investigation of how the service was handling this responsibility, and of course, they should go to whatever lengths are necessary to try trofr the messages that we now know we currently can t grab. vice chair liz cheney, abby, very prominent last night. she s got a primary, a tough primary. where right now, it looks like it may be hard for her to win in in august. what do you think is next for her, if she loses? liz cheney has been really clear. she is making a case against donald trump. this is about preventing trump himself from ever being in that white house again. and so she has basically put her own political career, at least in wyoming, on the line for that. the question now is, where does