I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Tuesday, November 16th.

Here's a tale of two sound bites from the last 24 hours. First President Biden signing the bipartisan infrastructure bill

with money for roads, rails, broadband, water systems, and electric vehicle charging stations

coast to coast. The bill, I'm about to sign a law, as proof that despite the cynics,

Democrats and Republicans can come together and deliver results. We can do this.

We can deliver real results for real people. President Biden, late yesterday afternoon,

they can come together those two parties in D.C. But then there was Steve Bannon,

as he gave himself up for arrest on a

misdemeanor charge of being the only former Trump advisor defying a subpoena to testify at all

before the January 6th committee in Congress. I'm telling you right now, 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

along when he got off Marine 1. And we're going to do, we're going to go on the offense.

We're tired of playing defense. We're going to go on the offense on this and stand by.

Now, besides the obvious lie in there about Biden ordering him prosecuted, it wouldn't be

the first time that Bannon goes on the offensive against the rule of law.

The reason the committee wants to question Bannon in the first place is because they're

asking now what role President Trump himself played in

provoking the anti-democracy violence at the Capitol that day. Bannon was in close touch with the

president and Bannon said this on his radio show on January 5th. All hell is going to break loose

tomorrow. It's going to be moving. It's going to be quick.

And all I can say is strap in. The war room, a posse. You have made this happen. And tomorrow,

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