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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump hit with historic Jan. 6 subpoena; Bannon sentenced to four months prison

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, October 21 and reports on the historic Jan. 6 committee subpoena delivered to Donald Trump which implies he is guilty of elector fraud. Plus, former Trump aide Steve Bannon sentenced to four months in prison. Civil rights activist Maya Wiley, former Watergate Prosecutor Nick Akerman and New York Times reporter and author Robert Draper join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat. I am Ari Melbourne. We're tracking breaking news.

0:05.0

Donald Trump just hit with a subpoena, and we have it. So the nation is now seeing very literally

0:11.6

the written roadmap, according to the January 6th committee to Donald Trump's coup culpability

0:17.6

for the first time. This is the formal letter summons and subpoena from the House

0:22.5

January 6th committee. And this new legally binding document cites evidence to show why Trump must,

0:28.1

they say, legally cooperate, setting deadlines for evidence, November 4th, deadlines for testifying,

0:34.0

November 14th. And this new material puts Trump at the center of the coup plot to overturn

0:38.9

the election, the committee writing that he maliciously disseminated false allegations of voter fraud,

0:46.0

corrupted the Justice Department, ran the effort to transmit false electoral certificates. That may yet

0:53.3

yield more indictments. It's basically saying he

0:55.3

committed crimes. And pressured Pence to help the coup, even though, according to the committee,

1:00.2

Trump knew at the time in advance that the Pence plot was illegal. And then, of course,

1:06.0

summoning supporters who Trump knew were armed, according to the committee's investigation to that DC rally and the

1:12.5

storming of the Capitol. Now, what happens if you defy a subpoena like this? Well, Trump aides

1:19.7

Steve Bannon found out today. It's a coincidence in timing, but there's a lot going on, and

1:24.2

sometimes things happen unrelated on the same day for what seemed like a related theme.

1:30.0

Mr. Bannon sentenced to prison.

1:31.7

We have more details on that story later tonight because it's just not our top story yet.

1:36.3

While in another subpoena clash, Senator Lindsey Graham lost again.

1:39.4

He's been ordered to testify in Georgia, also news.

1:42.8

He's now trying to get an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court,

1:45.8

which recently rejected Trump's appeal in the classified document case. You take it all together,

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