legal news. it is the first conviction of anyone for defying the house january 6 committee as well. we have experts about to join us who were inside the courtroom . this is a major deal. prosecutors basically made may have won their case that steve bannon hid insurrection evidence by refusing to show up or testify or provide documents requested under that lawful subpoena. mr. bannon faces up to two years in prison in a precedent- making a victory. for the justice department and the house, we have a lot to get to. a lot of angles. we go right into the breaking news to the people who know it best. armor federal prosecutor john flannery has dealt with exactly these kind of cases and has been counsel to three confessional crannies congressional committees. josh gerstein has been covering the story. he is out side the courthouse. josh, tell us how this news came down and what it means. well ari, good to see you. deliberations were very short in this case. the trial was pretty
believe in what you re doing or she wouldn t raise the amount of money that she s raising. however it doesn t really tell us very much about what s actually happening in wyoming, and and, i mean, $1.9 million is incredible. she has more than five times all of her opponents combined, so but i think that show has to make this more about local politics, about what s happening in wyoming and she does tell me that there are republicans out there supporting what she s doing and i m certainly one of them. i think that her being courageous and standing up and actually this is the national national security issue in making sure that we re not hurting the innegative our elections. liz cheney did what she had to do for the country and at the end of the day i don t think she will regret your decision. i agree with you wholeheartedly on that. thank you so much. always appreciate your time. thanks, erin.
about the innegative elections. how significant that the democratic president is picking a republican state official to essentially be the clearing house? she s held in incredible high regard by election officials and administrators around the country. it s really significant and an effort to show that the need to protect investigate and protect democracy like dana was talking about needs to be a bipartisan one despite the fact that the republican party, all sort of levels of the party, are trying to implement these restrictions that would really curtail investigate and under the guise of election integrity and even says the that once parades how their election was won, people talking about how they are going to protect voting, she s particularly interesting because she was the vocal supporter of mail ballots, something that is growing more in popularity and something that we ll see more of. you explore this issue in a