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the most serious charges leveled in this probes conspiracy so there is much happening there and there is pressure. we have new documentary footage of stone which shows him plotting strategy before anyone else knew there would be an insurrection. what you are assuming is the election will be normal. the election will not be normal. eastern california results? we are not accepting them. challenging all of it and the judges were going to our judges i appointed. you know what is striking about that? at the time you could imagine if you are in that room shooting it you can think well, this is bunkers are this is fanfiction or this is some episode of 24. it may have sounded like that, but we know now what mr. still referred to their. electors pledged to trump in the states biden one even after there was certified in the electoral college process. fraudulent material suggesting there was a contented outcome that there was not. the reverse terminology of stealing states that trum
of dollars of fines. this is not something that s going to happen immediately. the judge has set october 21st as the sentencing date. it will be a few months before we know what sentence is going to be handed down. it s been clear from bannon s attorneys throughout this trial that they do intend to appeal. because these are misdemeanor charges it s very possible that we could see the judge delay any kind of, you know, whether bannon has to serve any kind of sentence until after they go through that appeals process. we just don t know that yet. what we do know is this is a big boost to the house select committee. this is a reaffirmation of their investigative power, of their subpoena power, at a time when they re wrangling with a bunch of different witnesses. peter navarro is another person who defied his subpoena and is poised to go to trial over that. it s a win for the justice department. they ve come under a lot of scrutiny, criticism in terms of how they re investigating
condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannon s criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committee s subpoena. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is joining us from just outside the federal courthouse here in washington. katelyn, give us the latest. reporter: well, wolf, steve bannon was convicted today, even though he had vowed this was going to be the misdemeanor from hell for the select committee. it was not that. by the end of the day, we had two criminal convictions of steve bannon. now, these were both misdemeanor charges, but congress writes the law, and when they wrote this law, they said that it would be punishable by a minimum
former federal prosecutor andy mccarthy is standing by. first, david spunt who has been covering this all along, this very quick verdict. very quick verdict. we re talking three hours and ten minutes. when you have a verdict that quick, it s not favorable to the defendant. steve bannon, the former white house adviser to former president donald trump convicted on two counts of criminal contempt of congress. willful failure to appear before testimony before january 6. guilty. count two, willful failure to provide records guilty. steve bannon s team didn t put on a defense. bannon did not testify in his own defense, which was thought that he would. the government put on a case for about a day. jury selection began just on monday, a few days ago. this was an incredibly quick trial. steve bannon s team was upset. they filed a motion. last night in front of millions in the january 6 committee hearing, the committee played this audio clip of bannon from october of 2020. listen.