refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let s begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over documents. the government has asked that he spend six months behind bars and they said he should pay a $200,000 fine. now, bannon s team has said, look, at the most he should get probation, he listened to his attorneys advice and if you are going to put him behind bars it should be house arrest only. they are also saying bannon plans to appeal his conviction and they re saying that any punishment he
former aide to then trump chief of staff mark meadows. a surprise witness at a surprise hearing that was only announce 2 wood 2 hours ago. so why is she such a big deal? as politico said, she knows a lot. what she heard and who she personally saw coming and going, all add to her value. as she told the committee in march, she had insight into essentially all of trump s meetings. in multiple depositions, she leveled explosive allegations against trump, mark meadows, and republican lawmakers. now, we saw her on tape in the last hearing, naming names about who was seeking presidential pardons. s seeking presidential pardons. we also know that the testimony you just heard revealed only five days ago, has prompted concerns about her safety and security. here s a look at washington post said earlier. in the last hearing, she did reveal that margorie taylor greene, she had heard that margorie taylor greene asked the white house counsel s office for a pardon. you can only imagin
now for bodies, thoughts to be connected to an ongoing investigation into the gambino crime family. what the new york attorney general is saying about former president trump s request for a mistrial in the new york civil fraud case. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments, and we start in san francisco, where president biden is scheduled to address ceos at the apec summit. they, those ceos have been grappling with the impact of world conflicts on their businesses. monica alba is traveling with the president. what are we expecting to hear from the white house today? reporter: well, this is really a continuation of some of the progress made yesterday in the summit with president xi jinping of china. but of course this now broadens out the conversation, but many of the themes we expect will be similar, and president biden will be speaking here at the ceo summit at this site of the asia pacific economic cooperation conference where of course now ma
it s ultimate speed for ultimate business. don t miss out on our fastest speed plans yet! switch to comcast business and get started for $49.99 a month. plus, ask how to get up to an $800 prepaid card. call today! welcome back everyone to the weekend. election interference was at the heart of the new york criminal case against donald trump. in closing arguments, the prosecutor put it like this. quote, this scheme cooked up by these men at this time could very well be what got president trump elected. this was overt election fraud, act and furtherance of the conspiracy to promote mr. trump s election by unlawful means. more simply, those crimes contributed to trump being electedment. wekaty fang is with us and also partner of the alliance law group. i love the fact that you are an attorney. you don t just play one on tv. people would refer to this as hush money case. i would argue that s to differentiate it from all the other election interference. there is so many. we h
this is the katie phang show. life from msnbc headquarters in new york city, real estate mogul. reality tv store. teflon don, president of the united states and after his july 11 sentencing, donald trump will add a new moniker to this list. convicted felon. a jury of trump s peers found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. and, yet, the twice impeached quadruple indicted one term ex- president who has also been found liable for civil fraud and sexual abuse and does over half $1 billion in verdicts, and who hoarded classified documents in his bathroom at mar-a-lago remains the presumptive nominee of the republican party per president of the united states. let s talk about it. i want to welcome you to a special chance to show. for those of you who remember, i have a rockstar panel of a roundtable today. catherine christian, at the d.a.s office and msnbc, former d.a. and criminal defense atto