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Trumpland with Alex Wagner

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Plus, Bannon imprisonment threatens to hobble MAGA movement at key time

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0:00.0	You may know him as Steve Bannon, but on Monday,
0:03.9	Trump's former campaign manager and chief White House strategist
0:07.0	will become federal inmate number 0.535 509.
0:12.1	Having already lost his case and his first appeal, Bannon is expected to report to a federal
0:16.9	prison in Connecticut on Monday morning.
0:20.2	That is, unless the Supreme Court intervenes, which it could do at any moment.
0:26.4	Today the Department of Justice formally urged the High Court not to intervene here and to let Mr. Bannon face accountability for his actions, but remarkably, the Justice
0:37.8	Department isn't the only group that lobbied the court about Steve Bannon today.
0:59.5	Mr Speaker, I understand that might be a change in position regarding the House and their stance on the January 6th committee and it might be regarding Steve Bannon and it may have a big impact on on his contempt case. Tell me what's going on.
1:01.4	Yeah, we're working on found in amicus brief and his appellate work there in his case.
1:07.0	Today Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson and several other Republican members of the House voted to make the formal
1:14.3	position of the U.S. House of Representative the formal position that the January
1:19.7	6th Committee did not have the authority to do the work that it did and that therefore
1:24.2	Steve Bannon should not have to go to prison. To step back here for some context
1:29.6	remember that the reason Steve Bannon is headed to prison in the first place is because he refused to comply with the subpoena from the January 6th committee.
1:38.9	That's despite clearly knowing a lot about January 6th and the plan to overturn Biden's win in
1:44.7	Congress. Just to refresh your memory, here was Mr. Bannon the day before the
1:49.2	attack on the Capitol.
2:06.0	Tomorrow morning, look what's going to happen capital. analysis with exactly what's going to go into the day. I'll tell you this, it's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen. Okay? It's going to be quite extraordinarily different.
2:10.6	And all I can say is strap in the war room a posse. You have made this happen and tomorrow it's game day.
2:18.0	Strap in tomorrow it's game day.
2:21.0	You might think that defying Congress would not be something
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