counts of attempt by congress. that s expected thursday when he will appear before another federal judge. bannon was released without bail but had to surrender his passport and must check in weekly with court officials. after today s hearing, he and his lawyer david showen, who represented trump, you ll recall, in the second impeachment trial, went on the attack. this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for merrick garland, nancy pelosi and joe biden. joe biden ordered merrick garland to prosecute me from the white house lawn. if the administrative state wants to take me on, bring it. we re here to fight this. you see how we re going to go into offense. it is outrageous a criminal charge was brought in this case. he was instructed by his attorneys not to show up to congress. a layman has to listen to his attorneys, in my view, at least. trump had asked his former impeachment attorney to take bannon s case. there was a big lie in what was said there, and indeed, ban
bannon, former bright barr chief and trump aid is a nexus of political nonsense. he thinks he s waging a war on reelites when he s really waging a war on the truth. bannon s popular podcast is a dangerous family land of election lies. but that s not why bannon has been indicted by a grand jury. he s been indicted for ignoring a congressional subpoena, a subpoena in connection to the january 6th investigation. most americans want to get to the bottom of what happened that day but the trump base does not. ergo, bannon flawed the house s attempts to question him, kept on podcasting as the indictment news broke, and now he s well on his way to right wing martyr status. listen to the way fox framed the arrest warrant news friday night ridiculous indictment against steve bannon because he won t participate in the democrats january 6th political charade. the biden justice department is transforming into our eyes into an armed political instrument whose main job appears to be
fate as ban i don t know as referred to the justice department three weeks ago because not all insurrectionists are eager to cooperate. mark meadows attorney said he s covered by executive privilege. biden white house make it clear it rejects that claim. executive privilege is not a thing in this case. also today a federal appeals court has taken on the case meaning trump s effort to block the committee from seeing the records in the national archives to date back to the white house on january 6, federal judges have now slowed everything down, they have scheduled arguments in the case for november 30 which means it will be weeks before the committee might see the trump records and not turned orr tomorrow as the committee and democrats had hoped. i don t think it s a huge set back. i think obviously trump s folks will spin this as a win with a lag of wins frankly on the legal side. this is not unexpected. i think we expected frankly a stay issued by the appeals court. we se
information pointing to a comment he made on his podcast the day before the riot. 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. it s going to be quite extraordinarily different and all i can say is strap in. and yet only nine house republicans would join democrats this week in voting to hold bannon in contempt of congress. there was even drama on the house floor when marjorie taylor greene confronted two members of the january 6 committee, liaison chain, and jamie raskin, waving her hands and calling the vote on bannon a joke. i went up to the hill to ask her about that moment and here s what she told me. what about that confrontation with congresswoman cheney? why did that happen? she s a traitor. she s a traitor? yeah. how can you say that? pretty easy. we then caught up with green a second time and i asked her why she would not hold ba
general garland, who can then make a call on whether or not to prosecute bannon. a conviction could land him in jail for over or about a year. the entire clash is not what democrats are aiming for. they pushed for bannon s cooperation to gather facts about the insurrection. he is the one escalating this with total defiance we ve seen. he s following donald trump s calls to duck the request as it probes how so many people came to washington with such aggressive tactics and plans to storm the capitol, which they did. it s also eyeing statements like this from bannon to the maga faithful before the riot, a dark warning, this was on the eve of the gathering and the same day he reportedly met with trump s team. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. just understand this. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. it s going to be moving, it s going to be quick. the committee wants evidence and testimony from bannon on what he knew and why he was talking like that and what