. 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
frustration for somebody democrats is that we re even talking about someone who has been president for four years having to prove he can just do the job. it s really it s reminder he still has control of a nuclear coates. all right. thanks to all of you for joining us this morning. i m kasie hunt. don t go anywhere. cnn news central starts right now standing you buy for a pivotal decision from the supreme court. does donald trump have immunity from the federal election charges against him? the ruling comes this morning, while democrats are doing damage control over president biden s disastrous debate, cnn has learned his family is telling him to keep fighting new details on their frustrations with his team and talks of possibly filing top aides also, a powerful and life-threatening hurricane taking aim of the caribbean hurricane beryl is poison to be the strongest storm the area has seen in two decades. we re tracking its destructive path. i m sarah sign-in with john berm
Invoked the executive privilege doctrine and that his attorney advised him not to go to congress and not to answer any questions in congress. that concept is now going to be tested in an appellate court. this judge gave him the opportunity to do that. to that point, paul, bannon s attorneys earlier this week argued exactly that, they asked in a sentencing memo should a person who spent a lifetime listening to experts as a naval officer, investment banker, presidential adviser be jailed on relying on the advice of his lawyers. this particular judge said the answer to that question is yes but an appeal could further reveal whether or not he will actually end up serving time. i did also want to ask you, paul, about this idea that bannon s lawyers made the case to the judge today that he doesn t need to be deterred, that there is no sort of need to penalize him, but bannon outside of the courthouse seemed to be
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
Trial piece and kind of how he was involved in this case. so i don t know if it s going to provide any other lessons for others on the committee for that reason, but certainly bannon is going to try to use it to increase his own notoriety. i want to remind folks about why bannon was such a crucial witness for the january 6th committee. it s because he was in the lead up to january 6, basically previewing what trump was going to do i m sorry, i should say in the lead up to the election, previewing what trump was going to do after the election and also previewing what was going to happen on january 6. take a listen to what we heard from the committee in the last few weeks. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. just understand this. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it s not going to happen like you think it s going to happen, okay? it s going to be quite extraordinarily different and all i can say is strap in. the war room a posse, you have made this happen and tomo