refusal to testify before the january 6th select committee and his failure to turn over documents. let s begin this morning outside the u.s. district court in washington, d.c. cnn political correspondent sara murray is there. how is all of this expected to play out today? reporter: well, you know, look, steve bannon is here in court, we expect this could take a couple of hours. what we know is that steve bannon is trying to get out of any kind of jail time. he was convicted on two counts for refusing to show up for a subpoena to testify before congress and refusing to hand over documents. the government has asked that he spend six months behind bars and they said he should pay a $200,000 fine. now, bannon s team has said, look, at the most he should get probation, he listened to his attorneys advice and if you are going to put him behind bars it should be house arrest only. they are also saying bannon plans to appeal his conviction and they re saying that any punishment he
races. cnn s latest poll just over half of hispanic and latino voters say they would lean toward the democratic candidate. that number is considerably down from four years ago and 21% of latino voters say they support neither party. hispanic-americans make up a fifth of registered voters and more than a dozen hotly contested house and senate races that includes arizona, colorado, florida, nevada and texas. joining me now to discuss a democratic congressman ruben gallego of arizona. he is up for reelection this year and is the chairman of the bold pac, the campaign arm of the hispanic american caucus. let s going over those statistics. in 2018 in the midterms 69% of hispanic voters voted for democratic house candidates. why do you think we re seeing this shift from some hispanic voters away from the democratic party? look, i think you re going to see some shifts but right now all we re seeing is that we are pretty close to hitting 2018 numbers with hispanic voters.
bring you back to the build back better bill. because immigration, as you were saying, is key it s a key element of that bill in the house. the senate may strip that. including the language nah bill, on immigration, which has not changed in the final hours, right? just yesterday. but how important is the immigration part of the build back better bill for the house. reporter: so, jose, the language has not changed. let me just explain what the language does for a quick second. it provides a new legal status. not citizenship, but a legal status for millions of undocumented immigrants who were here before 2011. as far as how important it is for the house, it was actually very contentious. there s a lot of members, progressive members, leaders of the hispanic american caucus, the hispanic island pacificer caucus who demanded that it be