Steve Bannon, Former Top Trump Aide, Charged With Contempt Of Congress
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national justice correspondent Carrie Johnson, and congressional reporter Carrie Grisales.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, this is Jamie from Durham, North Carolina. I'm currently holding a plank for a minute and ten seconds as part of Planks Giving. |
| 0:08.0 | This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:10.0 | Ha ha ha! |
| 0:11.0 | ...to 20 p.m. on 15th of November, it's a Monday. |
| 0:16.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll be one day closer to a three-minute plank on November 30th. |
| 0:22.0 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:24.0 | I want in, you know, I was for a long time doing a minute plank every morning. |
| 0:32.0 | Whoa! |
| 0:33.0 | And then my wrist started hurting. |
| 0:36.0 | Well, I feel bad about myself because I just had some fried chicken. |
| 0:40.0 | But, you know what, tomorrow is another day. |
| 0:42.0 | I feel like that's a reason to feel good about yourself, because you've just got yourself some fried chicken. |
| 0:47.0 | I did. |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.0 | There was no exercise involved. |
| 0:50.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm Claudia Grisolis. I cover Congress. |
| 0:58.0 | And I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice correspondent. |
| 1:01.0 | Trump, ally Steve Bannon, refused to sit for a deposition with the House of Representatives about his role in the events leading up to the January 6th attack on the Capitol Building. |
| 1:10.0 | It was a failed effort to stop the certification of the election. |
| 1:14.0 | Last week, a grand jury indicted him on two charges of contempt of Congress. |
| 1:20.0 | And earlier today, he turned himself in. |
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