. a federal judge last hour handing down that four-month sentence bannon will remain free while an appeal plays out. outside the courthouse minutes after learning his fate bannon thanked the judge and immediately attacked democrats. november 8th on november 8th on november 8th there s going to have judgment on the illegitimate biden regime and, quite frankly and, quite frankly, that nancy pelosi and the entire committee, or they are about to be beaten like luria and others, or they will lose their power and become a minority. the american people are weighing and measuring what went on with the justice department and how they comported themselves. we re going to take you straight outside of the courthouse where cnn s sara murray has been covering all of the developments inside. sara, the judge seemed pretty dismissive of bannon s efforts to defy the subpoena, but ultimately bannon got jail time, which is had more or less what the government wanted. reporter: that
We will see how he enjoys prison if he serves it. certainly not a deterrent in part also because other people who defied subpoenas were never taken to court at all. stand by for us. join drew griffin for an investigation into steve bannon and his master plan to reshape the united states government and the republican party, a cnn special report divided we fall airs tonight at 11:00 p.m. eastern time. 18 days from the midterms and the ratings now show that the map is tilting in the favor of republicans. we will break down those numbers next. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. uhh - here, i ll take that ensure max protein, with 30 grs of protein, 1 gram of sugar and now in two new flavors ( )
that has been the significance of this bannon trial all along. what it means for other people who might want to stiff arm the congressional subpoena process. paul callan, thank you so much for that breakdown. here to help us break the rest of all of it down is cnn s kasie hunt, jeff zeleny and francesca chambers of usa today. classic steve bannon outside of that courthouse today. he is clearly really eager to come out of this a martyr. he s certainly trying to and i think that that that s what his audience is looking for from him because i think one of the interesting things about bannon as a figure in all of this is that he really had lost the support of anyone in establishment washington no matter what party they were a part of. there were republicans on the hill, trump supporters on the hill, who were very frustrated with how he dealt with the intelligence committee, for example, and that kind of went all the way through, you know, up to how the trump the former president ha
Now he might go to jail and pay a small fine but we will never know from a factual perspective what he knew. right. and i think it s i mean, he left the white house in 2018, he was one of the many people who left in the earliest stages of the first term, there were so many people leaving at the time, but, look, he remained very central to the former president at the time. we aren t sure how often they spoke, but it was pretty often, but steve bannon there has just i mean, he offered the most clear-eyed preview of what was going to happen on january 6th. i think, you know, had all of us been paying attention to that, strap in, i guess, that s what he was talking about. but, look, we won t know for history what exactly he knew in terms of his conversations with the former president, but i don t think this is a deterrent for others necessarily at all and we will see if he ends up serving prison time or not, but he s going to capitalize off this. he knew there were live cameras up th
Clear as we were going through the sentencing today is he pointed out that steve bannon didn t show any remorse for defying a subpoena, for testimony as well as for documents. there are some documents that he certainly could have provided, that steve bannon has been out of the government for a long period of time, that there were ways he could have been more responsive. and the judge also pointed out that this needs to be a deterrent to other people, a signal that you can t just, you know, get a subpoena and have your lawyer send a letter and refuse to provide anything or, you know, even lay out a list of sort of what your objections are document by document. i think that is the message the judge was hoping to send, you know, ultimately bannon s team feels like this is a victory for them in some ways because this sentence is delayed. i m told he is headed home to film his podcast for the day. abby? as one could expect from steve bannon. sara murray, thank you so much. here to walk us