00:16:20.060But on Monday, Trump's former campaign manager and chief White House strategist will become federal inmate number 05635509.
00:16:29.260Having already lost his case and his first appeal, Bannon is expected to report to a federal prison in Connecticut on Monday morning.
00:16:37.340That is, unless the Supreme Court intervenes, which it could do at any moment.
00:16:42.560Today, the Department of Justice formally urged the high court not to intervene here and to let Mr. Bannon face accountability for his actions.
00:16:51.780But remarkably, the Justice Department isn't the only group that lobbied the court about Steve Bannon today.
00:16:58.480Mr. Speaker, I understand there 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 his contempt case.
00:17:17.080Yeah, we're working on filing an amicus brief and his appellate work there in his case.
00:17:23.360Today, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and several other Republican members of the House voted to make the formal position of the U.S. House of Representatives, the formal position that the January 6th committee did not have the authority to do the work that it did, and that therefore Steve Bannon should not have to go to prison.
00:17:43.320To step back here for some context, 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.
00:17:55.240That's despite clearly knowing a lot about January 6th and the plan to overturn Biden's win in Congress.
00:18:01.920Just to refresh your memory, here was Mr. Bannon the day before the attack on the Capitol.
00:18:06.860Tomorrow morning, look, what's going to happen, we're going to have at the ellipse, President Trump speaks at 11, we're going to be live at 10, we've got a lot more news and analysis of exactly what's going to go into the day.
00:18:19.240I'll tell you this, it's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen, okay?
00:18:24.140It'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 tomorrow it's game day.
00:18:38.000Today the Washington Post and George Mason University are out with new polling that asked voters in six key swing states who they trusted more when it came to protecting our democracy, Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
00:18:51.040And somehow Donald Trump came out on top.
00:18:54.92044% of voters in those six swing states trust Trump over Biden to protect democracy.
00:19:01.980In Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia, 44% of voters trust Donald Trump, the man who incited the attack on the Capitol, the man who calls the January 6 rioters hostages, and more to the point, the man who tried to subvert democracy and steal our last presidential election by force.
00:19:24.720But somehow, somehow, more voters in the swing states that will likely decide this election trust Donald Trump over Joe Biden when it comes to defending our democracy.
00:19:38.880But it also highlights a dark reality and one that we have to wrestle with to understand what is really happening in our nation's politics right now.
00:19:54.720But Donald Trump and his Republican boosters in Congress and the right-wing media, they have all successfully sold a sizable portion of the American public, not just on the lie that the 2020 election was rigged, but that people like Donald Trump and Steve Bannon are victims.
00:20:12.240And that they, Trump and Bannon, are the defenders of freedom, fighting against an unseen fascist cabal, as preposterous as it may seem, that lie, based on grievance rather than the actual truth, well, that lie really seems to have found an audience.
00:20:33.040I mean, he is the id of the MAGA movement at this point, but keep in mind that he is doing the bidding of the former president of the United States, the future president of the United States.
00:20:42.700And let's go back to Mike Johnson, that Mike Johnson is looking at him and says, this is our guy.
00:20:47.860This is somebody that we want to defend.
00:20:50.960So the larger picture here is the assault on any sort of legal accountability for people who were involved with January 6th.
00:21:01.040This is part of this revisionist history, turning January 6th into some sort of legitimate protest.
00:21:08.800And Republicans in Congress are now all in on all of this.
00:21:12.520So, you know, Donald Trump is out on a regular basis, joining himself with the January 6th rioters, pledging that he will pardon all of them.
00:21:22.440And in many ways, you know, Steve Bannon is just a symbol of all of that.
00:21:27.380What's extraordinary is that Mike Johnson has a choice to make.
00:21:30.560He could distance himself from that, deal with the business of the country, put the country over this and move on.
00:21:39.540Instead, because Donald Trump is demanding it, he has to go and use his authority to try to defend Steve Bannon, who was obviously in deeply involved in the conspiracy to try to overturn this election.
00:21:54.040But again, this is all part of this continuum, this attack on the criminal justice system, this this this insistence that that they are all victims.
00:22:02.920And the fact that the Republican Party, the party of law and order, I can't get over this.
00:22:07.260I'm sure David can't either. The party of law and order.
00:22:09.760You go now to a Trump rally and people are going, I'm voting for the convicted felon.
00:22:13.640The chairman of the Republican Party in the county that I'm sitting in right now had an op ed piece.
00:22:18.300I am voting for the convicted felon. And the more felons they are, the more zealous I'm going to be in supporting them.
00:22:24.820I mean, this is we are in a really weird moment in American politics.
00:22:29.840And it's not just and when we talk about democracy, but there's a real assault on the concept of the rule of law.
00:22:36.940If you delegitimize the entire criminal justice system and you turn criminal behavior like Steve Bannon's into some sort of a martyrdom.
00:22:48.820Welcome back. The president, I think, has just landed.
00:22:51.960Can we do a two shot right here? We'll go to Brian Glenn as he pulls up to shot.
00:22:55.360But the president is in the eagle has landed. Getting ready for tonight.
00:23:00.500Very important there. Alex Wagner and a hat tip to her.
00:23:04.380She's the only one that's really addressed. This Washington Post poll because the Washington Post wanted to go out and do a poll.
00:23:14.420That they were released on the eve of or the morning of this debate that show, yes, Biden is resonating.
00:23:21.780This democracy, defending democracy is what the people want to talk about.
00:23:26.160It's very important. And he's up 20 points or 30 points.
00:23:31.240Remember the CNN, the head of politics over there? We used to play this clip all the time.
00:23:36.920Remember when he looked at the was at the reflecting pool and he had on the mall and they had those little lights like you see sometimes at weddings or at dinner parties or cocktail parties.
00:23:49.180And they says, look at that. That looks like Joe Biden's arms just embracing America because you need a hug.
00:23:56.440This was on the eve of the of the inauguration. Remember that crap?
00:24:01.900Charlie Sykes. Here's the reason. So let me let me make sure that MSNBC can understand this.
00:24:08.080There's some pattern recognition first and some understanding.
00:24:11.540The American people have tremendous common sense.
00:24:17.060The American people understand when something doesn't make sense.
00:24:21.500The American people. And we said this on the show from the very beginning of when the big steel happened.
00:24:28.840And particularly, if you remember on the afternoon of 20 January 2021, those of you that were, you know, followed this show.
00:24:36.980We said we're going to keep pounding this. We're going to keep pounding about the big steel because the more people get information about it, the more people that understand it.
00:24:47.820They'll start to question Biden's legitimacy.
00:24:50.060And once they question the legitimacy of this regime and they understand that the foundation is going to shift and all of a sudden you're going to see a massive shift in demographics supporting MAGA and supporting President Trump.
00:25:03.200That's exactly what's happened. We go into this is that Ezra Klein, the five thirty eight is pushed.
00:25:12.580The great pollster has pushed now that President Trump is no longer a toss up.
00:25:18.640It is two thirds, one third Trump to win.
00:25:21.000And the reason he said this, the battleground states, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania,
00:25:28.000maybe even throwing Michigan. That those are now those are now in play.
00:25:34.760There's a big story in Daily Mail today that a state that has not voted for Republicans since, I think, 2004,
00:25:41.680the great state of Nevada, Trump's now up three points.
00:25:44.980So the shifting and particularly the shifting on their key topic.
00:25:47.900If you looked at all week before The Washington Post poll came out, all they said was that Biden was really focused where he thought because the economic policies are not working,
00:25:58.680so much is not working that he was really going to focus and hone in on this democracy.
00:26:04.820And now that has blown up in their face.
00:26:08.780And Charlie Sykes, people can see when they see they came and understand what happened in New York.
00:26:13.880They can't explain it. And they see that guy got 34 felonies.
00:26:17.180He's going to be sentenced to prison on 11 July.
00:26:19.800And he's got another, you know, dozens and dozens of felonies out there for, I don't know, 700 years in prison.
00:26:25.900And they see the scam that's been run in South Florida.
00:26:29.440They see the joke down with Fannie Willis.
00:26:31.560They see the, you know, the the the Trump electors out in Arizona and Michigan.
00:35:20.520What I don't like about this tonight, Brian, as we're going to see the president, the president's going to take off, I think, immediately.
00:35:26.560What we don't like is kind of some of the structure of this.
00:35:30.400I don't like the fact that it's in this studio with no audience.
00:35:33.960President Trump, as you know, Brian, can read the room better.
00:35:36.220And he feeds off of, he feeds off that raw emotion that can come into a debate, particularly one that could be a fight club.
00:35:42.560The other thing, and the media is complaining about this.
00:35:44.480Because the media spin room and where many of Trump's, President Trump's surrogates will be is a ways away from, I don't even think it's, I'm not even sure it's in the same building with President Trump.
00:35:55.580They're going to watch it on closed circuit TV.
00:35:57.780This is the biggest journalist in the world.
00:35:59.420So it's not like they're going to be sitting in the room.
00:36:01.220They're going to be in closed circuit TV, I believe.
00:36:18.280And Trump feeds off this crowd like he's feeding off the crowd now as he makes his way to the debate.
00:36:23.080But by eliminating a live audience, that is taken out that once Trump throws a really good one-liner, a really good talking point back, and the crowd can get jacked up, that just feeds off that.
00:36:38.980So it's going to be a very silent arena.
00:36:42.840You will not get feedback from the studio audience.
00:36:45.880You may even get feedback from Joe Biden.
00:36:48.060I don't think he's going to say – he may not say anything except for answering the questions that he probably already has in advance.
00:36:57.900Brian, the president came down, gave a fist pump, recognized the crowd, but then immediately got into the beast.
00:37:05.300I think he – I think landing at 530 and going into Atlanta, rush hour traffic, which I think would assume – you would assume it would take you at least an hour, even with Secret Service.
00:37:16.020There's only so many ways you can clear those freeways, right, that it would take him at least an hour.
00:37:21.160That would put him down at 630, almost 7 o'clock, just two hours before the debate.
00:37:25.420And I think in two hours he's got to collect himself, just stand down, clear your mind, have a Diet Coke, relax, and just free your mind.
00:37:46.760Now, granted, there wasn't a whole lot of other stuff going on.
00:37:49.520We didn't have Joe Biden in town or sporting events.
00:37:52.980So, to your point, I think that was actually a really smart move.
00:37:56.780It was also early – yeah, it was also earlier in the day.
00:38:00.420Now you've got that Atlanta, rush hour traffic.
00:38:02.800It's get in the car and let's – look, I would have actually probably advised we'd come in a little earlier, but President Trump likes Mar-a-Lago.
00:39:35.000But let's imagine that President Trump is in there just throwing haymakers and getting Joe Biden mentally off his game.
00:39:45.860And real quickly, for the call to have him drug tested, Steve, I think that is a legitimate request because we have seen him at the State of the Union where he slurred that speech.
00:39:57.140He had the world's longest walk from the cloakroom down to to the to the speaker's chair for the State of the Union and then slurred his speech.
00:40:26.880What what people just to go back to the State of the Union, when the media was fawning all over him or they're the ones that push this early debate because they want to figure out how to change it out.
00:40:36.400Axios today, Mike Allen and the Mike Allen and the and the and the brilliant ones over there had a scoop today that Michelle Obama, who doesn't like politics and they say is is is is very nonpartisan.
00:40:50.120I think you remember that from the Obama years, how nonpartisan she was.
00:40:54.700They talked about how she detests the Bidens and particularly what she detests about him is kind of the creepy feral dog family aspect of it.
00:41:02.560And so they kind of teed her up as that, hey, I'm available and I'm not partisan.
00:41:08.320I can give you a I can give you a big group hug.
00:41:13.000But, Brian, I think that they're they're trying to tee up a potential to have something on the in the back burner in case it doesn't go right now.
00:41:20.480If I was President Trump, if I was President Trump, I would make sure I would do one thing during that debate.
00:41:26.140I would turn to Biden and I would ask him a tough question, a question that he just hasn't programmed by talking points and tells by the I would ask him about, you know, maybe the bird flu in Iowa.
00:41:39.420I would pick a topic that the president should know, but that he that he and his team haven't thought of.
00:41:45.280I'd ask him a direct and I'd ask him a tough question.
00:41:47.540And I think you would get a total vapor lock.
00:41:50.200I think unless it's been programmed into Biden, I think unless they've given certain tells of what Trump says, I had a pin that over to it.
00:41:57.200I think that the best way to show that he's not up to the job mentally is to challenge that mental aspect of it.
00:42:04.280And the best way to challenge is ask somebody hard questions.
00:42:06.560Let's ask him a tough question, a tough but fair question.
00:42:09.540And let him just sit there in front of the mic and babble an answer.
00:42:12.580As you know, when you see his and Brian, you've been around and seen Trump at these hour and a half, two hour speeches with huge crowds and applause lines and they're all policy driven.
00:42:21.840And then he'll go Mort Saul on you, right?
00:42:23.860He'll take news of the day and rift on it like, you know, he's playing a big room in Vegas.
00:42:42.100And so if I was President Trump, I don't know if I would say I would come off the chain, but I would be quite aggressive and challenge this guy and see if he can prove to the American people he's up to the task of being president of the United States.
00:43:03.300I don't offhand just I don't know what that question would be, but you're absolutely right.
00:43:07.340You've got to get him off what he has predicted and probably studied the last week.
00:43:11.740You know, just while you were talking, we had a lot of people come up here and say, hey, thanks for what you do.
00:43:16.360Thanks for what you do for the American people.
00:43:18.460I want to warn you of a huge change that could be coming to our money in our bank accounts.
00:43:23.800First, think back to 9-11 shortly after the government pushed through the Patriot Act.
00:43:27.800This gave the government power to spy on innocent Americans by monitoring our phone and email and tracking our movement across the Internet.
00:43:36.640Now, Jim Rickards, editor of the independent financial newsletter Strategic Intelligence and New York Times bestselling author, is warning about a coming event that could elevate this governmental surveillance to a terrifying new level.
00:43:49.500In fact, some of the guests I've had on the war room believe that the government will soon expand their powers to track our every move.
00:43:57.500If we say the wrong things on social media, donate to the wrong causes, buy firearms or even vote MAGA, the government may be able to shut us out of our bank accounts.
00:44:08.280I can't say for sure if this will happen, but it's an interesting and dire warning.
00:44:13.700Fortunately, Jim Rickards, an American patriot and friend of mine, has made it his mission to educate us on what he believes is coming and how to protect yourself from the possibility of programmable money.
00:44:26.300Watch Jim's warning video now before it's censored like I've been in the past.
00:44:53.400We've been doing it for years, and I'm telling you, Steve, from the bottom of my heart, we are not going to quit fighting for this country, and we're going to fight for you.
00:45:05.640By the way, what inspires me is that audience, the people that stand out there to greet President Trump and to make sure he feels pumped up,
00:45:12.060and then they come up to you and say, Brian, we love the job you're doing.
00:45:14.460We love the job Real America is voiced on.
00:50:11.860If we don't shut down the Robin Voss, the WEC, President Trump – and I'm taking this from Gableman – President Trump is not going to win Wisconsin.
00:50:19.700So what are we going to – how did they deny it?