will receive would be 30 days in jail, at the very least. it could go up much higher than that. the justice department would like it to be quite harsh, a six-month sentence in jail. they also want bannon to be fined the maximum amount, 200,000, because wherever the court was doing their proceedings to try to figure out how much he could pay financially, he said, charge me the most. i was convicted, charge me the most. i m not giving you my private, financial information. that s what the justice department wants. they also want punishment for bannon s bayer. the trial was very simple. it was about, did he show up or did he not, wherever he was subpoenaed. today is about how he has acted throughout this process of the congressional proceedings, of the court proceedings, and the justice department writes throughout the case, the defendant has exploited his notoriety to display to the public the source of his bathe refusal to comply with the committee s subpoena. a total disregar
A six-month sentence. bannon is seeking probation. the doj is pushing back on a request by bannon to delay serving any seasntence while hi appeal of the conviction place out. i want to bring in katelyn polantz, live outside of the federal court in washington with more on what we can expect here. katelyn? reporter: today is really a test of how much punishment will be delivered to someone who was flouting a congressional subpoena. that is what happened with steve bannon. he was convicted of two charges in the federal court, just a couple of months ago for failing to turn over documentses, and failing to sit for congress and the house select committee as they investigated january 6th and the attack on their own body. they have now come to court. they want the court to enforce this and provide some sort of sentence here. going into this morning s proceedings, we know that the minimum sentence that bannon
Will receive would be 30 days in jail, at the very least. it could go up much higher than that. the justice department would like it to be quite harsh, a six-month sentence in jail. they also want bannon to be fined the maximum amount, 200,000, because wherever the court was doing their proceedings to try to figure out how much he could pay financially, he said, charge me the most. i was convicted, charge me the most. i m not giving you my private, financial information. that s what the justice department wants. they also want punishment for bannon s bayer. the trial was very simple. it was about, did he show up or did he not, wherever he was subpoenaed. today is about how he has acted throughout this process of the congressional proceedings, of the court proceedings, and the justice department writes throughout the case, the defendant has exploited his notoriety to display to the public the source of his bathe refusal to comply with the committee s subpoena. a total disregard for gove
Going to have to see if the judge agrees with that argument today from the justice department. bannon is obviously saying that he should be receiving a very lenient sentence. he was following the advice of his lawyer. and he s also asking the judge to put on hold any sentence, so that he can appeal. so he hasn t arrived yet, but we are waiting. brianna? it s going to be very interesting to see what the message is that the judge is going to send. because, obviously, he s not the only one who has not complied with a congressional subpoena. you re awaiting his arrival. do we have any idea when he s expected there, katelyn? reporter: well, the proceeding is set to start at 9:00 a.m., so he s going to need to get to the court 20 or so beforehand. he s going to have to get through security just like anybody entering the federal courthouse. there is a crowd already gathering on one side of the building, waiting to see if he s arriving. there s lots of media here as well watching, but he h
As a stand-alone case, but they re coming closer to the finish line, and they re trying to figure out whether or not patel has any evidence. how specific will he get. will they say, did you see trump specifically declassify this document? absolutely. they will try to get him to be as specific as possible. and think about it. how could he testify, i saw him declassify, was he sitting at his desk looking at a document with patel at the other side skand hear him say, i hereby declassify this. this story doesn t have a lot of credibility. and he said it on tv, but it s very different answering those questions under oath. you couldn t be anymore right, john. this is exactly what s happening with the special master. the trump team, it s almost like the blind leading the stupid. they say things on tv and in the public, hay go into court and say the same thing and run into a buzz saw with the judge. patel has to be very, very careful if he answered questions at all. if.