jail. that is, unless this man can save them that s attorney david shown who will speak to live in just a moment. look, it s been what, two years now since bannon was convicted of contempt of congress for defining a subpoena from the january 6 committee. remember that his excuse back then, his lawyer at the time, robert costello, remember him from the hush money trial. one witness is calling the defense. while the time he said i didn t have to comply because he thought trump would assert executive privilege he didn t and bad, it was apparently on notice of that fact as well we have been appealing his conviction ever since that time and up until now, the judge in this case had been kind of holding off on the sentence. but today the judge said enough, there was no legal reason left to delay that sentence. we told bannon he has to report to prison then on july 1st, to serve a four month sentence outside the courthouse, steve bannon was see bannon but i want to say something spec
listen the cases even before the cavoli and in the liquor vole case in 1961 case that nicholas says he was following the defendant was permitted to testify as to his reasons at the government s behest. this department of justice he has bannon was barred from testifying. costello was barred from testifying about what happened and what their reasons were. and the jury was told they may not consider the reasons remember, castello got the subpoena, not bannon costello as the experienced lawyer told bannon, executive privilege has been invoked, you may not comply, period. it would be against the law. it s not your privilege. but he told the committee, if you take them before a court and the court says privilege doesn t apply or it s not this broad, he will comply fully. they decided not to do that. they went on the air posturing and so on. they re going to pursue this criminally. and that s what they chose to do. we impose criminal liability yeah. i agree. excuse me. what is the argument