put himself above the law. the defense suggesting that to contempt of congress charges against him were politically motivated. proceedings began today after the judge in the case, carl nichols, who is a trump appointee, denied a defense request for a month long delay. you will recall that last week he rejected the number of defenses, including bannon s claim of executive privilege, leaving one ban a defense attorney to ask and these are his words what s the point of going to trial if there are no defenses? to which the judge replied, agreed. remember, this is the same c van who promised, as he made his first court appearance to make his, quote, the misdemeanor from. it s the same stephen and who, even as he recently offered to appear live before the select committee, express contempt for its members and continued his tough guy routine, conditions for his testimony here s what i need. give me a date, a time, a room number, a microphone and a wholly bible i can take the
arguments, leaving steve bannon were not many options and no way to make good on his threat. pray for our enemies. we are going medieval on this. we are going to savage our enemies. pray for them. who needs prayers? not maga, not war room, and certainly not stephen k. bannon. i spoke too soon, he is now actually speaking about himself and the third person. i must say, he sounded like i did when i was 11 years old playing dungeons and dragons. cnn s katelyn polantz was in the d. c. courtroom today and was outside when stephen bannon spoke out. what was it like inside the courtroom today? anderson, when we arrived this morning, we really thought that it would be very smooth. this case got off very quickly, the jury would be seated, and we will be off to the races with opening statements. that is not what happened at all. i actually want to highlight a little bit of what steve bannon said outside the court, because it echoed some of the strategy that his lawyers were trying inside t