Bannon initiates talks with January 6 panel on testifying over Capitol attack

Cooperation of former Trump strategist could provide unique insight into inner-workings of Trump's push to overturn election

Steve Bannon, the onetime strategist to Donald Trump who was involved in the former president's efforts to invalidate his defeat in the 2020 election, has opened discussions with the House January 6 select committee about testifying to the inquiry into the Capitol attack.

The move by Bannon gives the select committee a prime opportunity to gain insight into the inner-workings of Trump's unlawful push to stop the certification of Joe Biden's election win even as it amounts to a final gambit days before he goes to trial for contempt of Congress.