. 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
i am emily. president donald trump struggles to unite his party. the reporting on nikki haley s refusal to endorse them. they say they are voting for someone else. michael cohen will take the stand and president donald trump s criminal trial after a week of fireworks from another key witness, stormy daniels. jen psaki will talk about her former boss s reelection campaign in her new book. grab your coffee and settle in. welcome to the weekend. we begin this weekend with another wild outburst from president donald trump outside of court. he attacked the judge and prosecutors in the case, claiming his criminal trial is corrupt and declaring he would be, quote, very proud to go to jail for our constitution. his efforts he defied everything the constitution actually embodied. he is laying the groundwork to repeat that playbook in 2024. this week, we are talking by challenging the results of the next election. trump said people should, quote, follow your heart. joining us n
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
Impossible for this to be too far from the top of people s minds. i would say for me this certainly ends the sort of ongoing trial piece of this, but i think it will be a really long time before this episode and all that came with it ever lands in my rear-view mirror. and i think that would be true for most people. we ve been listening to massachusetts governor charlie baker, reacting to the breaking news of this afternoon s death sentence for boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. the governor was a personal opponent of the death penalty, saying the only opinion that matters here was the jury s opinion. this was their call, and we are a nation of laws. that s the opinion there of governor charlie baker. i want to bring in msnbc s ronan farrow who s been covering the death penalty phase of the trial. you heard the governor there speak to something that s been debated extensively. whether the state of massachusetts, which at a state level doesn t use capital punishment, would be a