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Possibility, your college will decide on wednesday, whether or not there is a scenario referral made around jeff clark. what is the difference between jeffrey clark and his behavior towards the investigation and the other former trump officials, other people related to the investigation, who have slow walk to you, or not testified yet? not handed over the documents that you have requested? it sounds like theres been a lot of resistance encouraged by former president trump. with puts jeffrey clar...

By then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen but still, they believe that clark could be a key link between the white house, these groups that were working outside of the white house, the trump campaign, these other groups stopped steal, other organizations that could perhaps build this case of a coordinated effort to try to drum up all of this angst across the country related to the election that then served as the precursor to what p happened on january 6th. clark did show up to be interviewe...

Committees request for an interview, clark showed up, but refused to answer questions, citing executive and attorney/client privilege. >> all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. >> reporter: the case against bannon is making its way through the courts. the podcast host has vowed not to stay quiet. >> were going on the offense. were tired of playing defense. >> reporter: prosecutors in the case asked the judge to limit what he can say. allowing the defendant to publicly disseminate will be wit...

Yet or not handed over the documents that youve requested? it sounds like theres been a lot of resistance encouraged by president trump. what puts you in the same boat as bannon in terms of this could be potentially criminal contempt? >> mr. clark is in a small group that has continued to stonewall us. hes not produced any documents. he came to the deposition but refused to answer questions and exerted both executive privilege and attorney/client privilege, which is a little confusing, and so we...

The courts to work out. its a very different picture for jeff clark who was, at the time, the acting assistant attorney general for the civil division, so hes not a close advisor to the president. hes claimed that he also has attorney/client privilege, but that seems questionable because the president was not his client. so hes got some other problems that i think make any potential claim on his part less forceful. but john is right, this whole question of the presidents former executive privile...

Decided not to exert executive privilege. it does sound like that is what clark is claiming. he cant be claiming attorney/client privilege, he as part of doj is not the presidents lawyer for the purposes. it sounds like hes purposing the executive privilege claim. many others have been pushing and trying to not testify with the committee. >> and of course, jeffrey clark is the person who drafted that letter that he wanted doj to send to the georgia state legislature to delay the certification of...

Will shift over to merrick garland to make the decision, does he charge the federal crime of contempt of congress. and a lot of people are asking that question. my question is, how can he not? when you look at the fact here, steve bannon has zero legitimate basis. hes saying executive privilege, hes saying attorney/client privilege. those things have no application to someone who is not an attorney and was not part of the executive branch. if merrick garland chooses not to charge this, where doe...

State prosecutor. goodness, theyre straight-up defying congress here. congress has decided to refer for potential criminal charges. its now up to the doj. given your knowledge of precedent and merrick gar land, do you expect them to do so? >> i do expect a criminal charge on steve bannon here. if you were drafting a law school textbook and needed a perfect example to illustrate what contempt of congress is, it would be steve bannon. he has direct information on january 6th. he was dutifully and ...

Turn this around. now this is on his plate. you have known him for a lock time, what do you think hes going to do? this was not a close case as gloria was saying. there is no executive privilege here because it belongs to biden. bannon was not even, even if there were executive privilege, erin, he was not working in the k executive branch. hes claiming attorney/client privilege. one thing we know about merrick garland, hes a laumw man. hes not going to turn his back on this and in a clear case l...

Noncompliance of the full house, the full house can send it to the department of justice, and then those individuals who defy subpoenas can be prosecuted under contempt of congress which will get you between one month in jail and a year and up to $100,000 fines. were talking about serious stuff. if you want low-hanging fruit, go after steve bannon first, because he stopped working for the administration in august of 2017. so any claim of executive privilege or attorney/client privilege, after al...