primetime thursday night. we are learning tonight that that person is matthew pottinger, he is set to testify, apparently this coming thursday. he served on then president trump s national security council but. his service came to an abrupt end when he decided to resign in the middle of the riot. one of my staff brought me a print out of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something to the effect of, mike pence, the vice president and not have the courage to do which should have been done. i read that tweet. and i made a decision at that moment to resign. that is where i knew that i was leaving that they. once i read a tweet. now a reminder of with that tweet said, he wrote in part, quote, mike pence did not have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution. unquote. when trump was out of sight during the riot, of course he had time to slam his own on twitter and did nothing to lower the temperature and you are, let a
have reached that point us where we are. yesterday for example a man leaped on stage at a campaign event and try to stab. a sitting member of congress is challenging kathy and the governors race in new york. it s ordinarily attempting to assassinate a federal officer would be considered a big deal, but the republicans so it s not a big deal anymore. the man who tried to murder was released immediately with no bail. less than 24 hours later by contrast from her tripadvisor bannon was convicted of crimes recently that were crimes at all. for which he now faces a prison term of two years. he has been declared guilty of some and called contempt of congress. my strike he was an unintentionally hilarious term since most the time congress invites contempts. the point is this is a crime the democrats are not convicted of ever. attorney general eric holder nrs executive or once found to be in contempt of congress of both of them and for real crimes it was in mexico. it was targeting c
conviction of steve bannon is an escalation wasn t even a pretense in the trial that mean selective prosecution is not allowed since unconstitutional if you don t try one person for a crime you don t get to church another person for the same crime because that is selective it s political. brenda garland that s a new rule. offend us and go to jail. some permitted to say the council is against spending against a january 6 committee you could even say that. they allowed to argue the subpoena was a legally invalid could you argue that? all steve bannon was allowed to do was shut up yet remain sound and await his conviction and that s what he did. outside of federal court today they pointed out that the subpoena members of the january 6 committee to testify at his trial. why can t you face your is not
described the first day of his federal trial for criminal contempt for refusing to cooperate with the january six committee. 22 potential jurors were picked today. the jar is gonna whittle down a little more and might be finalized as early as tomorrow, and then you ve got opening arguments getting underway. so what can we expect from this trial, and does bannon have any reason to think it was a really good day? back with me, elliott williams, miles taylor, and monash i m glad to hear. i want to ask about this idea of steve bannon. there s an element of bravado, right? the person who said the misdemeanor from sort of challenge to everyone for doing this, i want to point tried to have pelosi s subpoena members
process, force them to come in and testify. that s a very unusual act, and it has ramifications now. will there be litigation or contempt findings? if the republicans taken control of congress, will they turn around and subpoena members who they seek information from? so this is a very tough decision but it is a right decision, laura. these five men have key information about the insurrection, about an assault on our country and attempted coop. duoug, you kind of smirked o that issue. if republicans were in control and had some power, what would they do? you were involved in the contempt proceeding of eric