of a football season with a military deployment. he address that at his press conference. earlier this week i made a statement about playing football and the military. it was a very poor choice of words. and i want to express that to any sentiments out there that people may have taken it in a certain way. so i apologize. didn t elaborate further than that. said he knows the difference between the two. smart to apologize. great to see you, carolin. new day continues right now. 19 days until the midterms i m john berman with brianna keilar. some democrats have been keeping their campaign distance from president biden but he traveled to battleground pennsylvania, touting his infrastructure law and raising money for democratic candidate john fetterman. fetterman is neck and neck with mehmet oz in a race that could determine control of the u.s. senate. today he ll be in delaware talking about the student loan relief program. another hotly contested senate race is in ge
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
Subpoena from the january 6th committee. prosecutors are recommending 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
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
And they were worried about people perhaps trying to interrupt the courtroom argument once it got started. the police had warned people in advance, you know, protests inside is a federal offense. but that didn t happen. so what did happen was brett kavanaugh took his seat on the court at about 10:01. he got the usual greeting from the chief justice wishing him a long and happy career in their common calling. then he dived right in to hear the cases. a case about what constitutes an armed felony. a federal law that can extend a person s sentence for violent repeat offenders. he asked 13 questions in the first two hours of oral argument. tomorrow, two case, one involving whether the department of homeland security can detain someone here illegally after they serve a seasntence for an unrelated crime. the kind of cases he ll be