Have ultimately been a decision that two men came to at the same time. Whether or not there was some thought, and if there was not consider about making the administrations life and the president s life more difficult, he might have been left it. Kelly was said to have delivered the news. It is unclear and unknown, its a wild card. He goes outside independently. Steve bannon is now a household name. There is people that will be
upset that he left this white house. I talked to a bannon ally earlier this week. They said we had a sense this is coming and we look at this white house now and we see new york democrats and generals. That is not what we worked for in 2016. Steve bannon is the leader of a coalition and it remains to be seen. Let me bring in jennifer reuben. The author of the post, so your paper is quoting friends of Steve Bannons assayi saying lo he can help the president s agenda from the outside, that things were not working on the inside. Gabe sherman reports something very
grand jury. sara murray has that. what have you learned? we have learned that steve bannon has been subpoenaed for documents and testimony. this came about a month ago. and bannon is someone who, you know, was riling up the gop base, spreading falsehoods about the 2020 election on his podcast. he predicted all hell would break loose a day before the january 6th attack on the capitol. you know, this is what prosecutors are focusing on with bannon is the january 6th investigation. you know, according to the book, peril, he was talking to trump in 2020 and urging trump to focus on january 6th, focus on the electoral college. it is an indication that even as the mar-a-lago documents probe may be winding down, there are still witnesses that the justice department, the jack smith team, wants to hear from or try to hear from on the january 6th investigation. so, is there any indication of whether bannon will cooperate or has? well, that s a great question. we ve reached out to him and
lengthy sentence is sometimes they become more interested in cooperating. bannon is talking tough now, but i have seen defendants do that and then decide to cooperate. this will turn largely on the strength of the district attorney s case when we see his charging document tomorrow. the sort of charges he beings and the sort of sentence they carry and whether bannon believes they can prove it. if they can, he might be incentifies to deal. tracey bannon is a big deep state conspiracy theory guy. now you ve got his ilk talking about defunding the fbi. how is all of this impacting your former agency? i would imagine that it is impacting them tremendously. really, all of this, all of this top by bannon, by trump, even the appointment of a special master, frankly, is undermining the credibility of these institutions that have existed for decades and that really are the pillar of upholding the wall here in the united states. the reality is that no matter
this case is very interesting, stephanie, because it carries a longer time for punishment than the charges bannon showed faces for obstruction of justice in washington in connection with his failure to comply with the 20 january six committee subpoena. one of the things prosecutors will see with the defendant facing serious charges and a lengthy sentence is sometimes they become more interested in cooperating. bannon is talking tough now, but i have seen defendants do that and then decide to cooperate. this will turn largely on the strength of the district attorney s case when we see his charging document tomorrow. the sort of charges he beings and the sort of sentence they carry and whether bannon believes they can prove it. if they can, he might be incentifies to deal. tracey bannon is a big deep state conspiracy theory guy. now you ve got his ilk talking
inflammatory remarks a day before the capitol riot. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it s not going to happen like you think it s going to happen, okay? it s going to be quite extraordinarily different. reporter: staring down possible jail time and fines, bannon made an 11th offer hour to testify before the committee in public. my offer is out there. here is what i need, give me a date, a time, a room number, a microphone and a holy bible that i can take the oath on. reporter: bannon who is trump s chief strategist at the white house in 2017 if you think they re going to give you your country back without a fight you are sadly mistaken. reporter: claims he s free to talk now that trump waived executive privilege but prosecutors say privilege wasn t properly invoked and didn t give bannon the right to ignore the subpoena. the judge largely blocked bannon from using the shaky privilege claims as a defense at trial but hasn t decided whether bannon can use his new