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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Steve Bannon Must Surrender to Prison by July 1 to Start Contempt Sentence, Judge Says [Watch (HLS stream): Steve Bannon Must Surrender to Prison by July 1 to Start Contempt Sentence, Judge Says](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/73pTVMYr.m3u8) (2:36)  _Published 2024-06-06. Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, must report to prison by July 1 to serve his four-month sentence for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol, a federal judge ruled Thursday._ --- Jun 7, 2024 1:39 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Steve Bannon Surrenders to Federal Prison to Serve 4-Month Sentence on Contempt Charges](/video/XsBmtp7E/) ### Steve Bannon Surrenders to Federal Prison to Serve 4-Month Sentence on Contempt Charges [Steve Bannon Gets 4 Months Behind Bars for Defying January 6 Subpoena](/video/cbvBGI3H/) ### Steve Bannon Gets 4 Months Behind Bars for Defying January 6 Subpoena [Steve Bannon Convicted of Contempt Charges in January 6th Case](/video/clIw5L8J/) ### Steve Bannon Convicted of Contempt Charges in January 6th Case --- ## Transcript Are you feeling ahead of the hearing? Fantastic. So fine, baby day. Hey sure you guys. So, as you know, the judge today issued a surrender date of July 1, in order to let us appeal to a higher court, meaning the Full Court of Appeals in DC and or the United States Supreme Court. As I said in the courtroom, this is an issue that legal scholars have said from day one. Is a case that has to go before the United States Supreme Court. Fundamental principle of law here that's got to be vitiated in the United States Supreme Court is that willfully in the criminal conduct context, means that you knew you did something wrong. The unequivocal evidence in this case without any dispute is that Mr. Bannon never got the subpoena. His lawyer got the subpoena, and his lawyer told him, executive privilege has been invoked. President Trump confirmed that, and his lawyer told him that when an executive privilege has been invoked, you may not, as a matter of law, comply with this subpoena. It's not your privilege to waive. And he offered the committee an out. He said, If the committee works out privilege with Mr. Trump Bannon will comply fully. If the committee goes to a judge and a judge says, either privilege doesn't apply or it doesn't extend this broadly, Mr. Bannon will comply fully. The committee only went criminal for their publicity reasons and for their political agenda, and you can see that from every statement they made. Okay, thanks. I've got great lawyers and we're going to go all the way to Supreme Court if we have to, but I want to say something specifically about the Justice Department. Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, the entire Justice Department. They're not gonna shut up Trump. They're not gonna shut up Navarro. They're not going to shut up Bannon, and they're certainly not going to shut up Maga. If you look right here, your reporters, in the 2.5 or three years we've been here. Look at the rise of Maga. Look at the rise of Donald Trump. If the election was heard held today, according to Harry Etton over at CNN, President Trump would win in a landslide. All of this besides the major legal issues that have to be addressed. All of this is about one thing. This is about shutting down the Maga movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump. Not only are we winning, we are going to prevail, and every number and every poll shows that. There's nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up. There's not a prison There's not a prison. There's not a prison built. There's not a prison built or a jail built that will ever shut me up. All victory T Maga. We're going to win this. We're going to win at the Supreme Court. And more importantly, we're going to win on November 5 in amazing landslide with the Senate, the House, and also Donald J Trump back as President United States. 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