and thanks to you at home for joining us tonight. really happy to have you here. so, his son was 18. his daughter was 16. and on christmas eve 2020, so that s like a month and a half after the 2020 election was called for joe biden, on christmas eve 2020, this 18 year old son went online to the fbi website, to tips.fbi.gov, and he submitted a tip to the fbi about his dad. he told them that his dad was planning to do something violent, that is, that was not only calling for there to be violence against government officials. the son told the fbi, when he submitted that online tip, that he believed his dad was actually planning to do something violent himself. he told the fbi, his father was planning to, quote, do some serious damage. that was christmas eve 2020, when that young man submitted that tip to the fbi. he didn t hear back, initially, took a couple of weeks. it took until after the january 6th, 2021 attack on the u.s. capitol building. then, the fbi decided that the th
who s facing criminal contempt charges in the steve bannon trial in washington, which started today, we re expected opening statements, tomorrow. and then, you know, blink and you might miss it, we expected to be fairly quickly after opening statements. prosecutors have said in the statement just thinking they re only gonna need one day to lay out their whole case against him. we don t know how long bannon s defense will take, but the judge has already told bannon s defense lawyers and pre trial hearings that he doesn t have much of defense to mount. but he is going to trial, and he will be trying for an acquittal, if he is convicted, he will be facing a year in jail, like in opening statements tomorrow and what is expected to be a fast trial of steve bannon in washington. so, we are seeing prosecution of individual defendants who took part in physically attacking the capitol. we are seeing this a couple of prosecutions for contempt of congress, people not participating, not following
department has moved forward with, beyond people who took partrd in the capitol rite itse, the only prosecutions they re actually acting on is two contempt of congress, two former trumpnt advisers who refused to testify and hand over documents to the january 6th investigation in congress. prosecutors said in court on friday that the trump adviser peter navarro had refused their offer of a plea deal. they say he could have pled guilty to one charge of contempt and agreed to respond to the subpoena as he is legally required to do and in return they would have made sure he did no more than 30 days in jail. peter navarro, told prosecutors, he said no to that and go to trial and if convicted, he will be facing up to two years in jail. on the other contempt charges, jury selection was today for the other trump adviser who is facing criminal contempt charges, in the steve bannon
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