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Documents and is offering to answer written questions, do you really have the grounds for contempt? >> were going to move forward with the deposition tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and if he doesnt show, well carry forward. but its important to note that we have already received thousands of documents from him. back when he wanted to sit before us, he transmitted documents and text messages that have been important to our work. and so we will evaluate whether after he shows up or doesnt show up, what th...

And lastly, a federal judge ordered a trial date of july 18th for the criminal contempt case against trump ally, steve bannon, who refused to comply with the panels subpoena. all these developments underscoring the urgent mission that rests in the hands of the members of the january 6th select committee. politico reports this. "right now, the january 6th panel is the only comprehensive investigation in washington that is probing how the government responded to an attack on one of its branches. r...

Number 10 staffjoking about holding a christmas party in downing street last year when tight covid restrictions were in place. number 10 continues to deny that a party took place. but the footage obtained by itv news shows the prime ministers then spokesperson, allegra stratton, rehearsing at a mock press c0 nfe re nce . she laughs as she tries to work out how to answer a question about whether a party took place on the 18th of december, two days after london had moved into tier 3 restrictions, ...

Of contempt for refusing to testify for the january 6th committee. he wants the legal battle to play out in a very public way, thats the way to distract everybody and make a circus out of it and the court of public opinion or whatever. is this going to go how the committee wants it to? >> i think bannon is a lost cause for the committee. he clearly has a path here. the greatest upside for him is to make as big a spectacle as he can that brings more viewers, more donors. >> is that the point for ...

Pressure of criminal contempt. this was on fox. take a listen. >> congress has the power to issue criminal contempt. normally, those dont go anywhere in such charades as this, but the department of justice is fully in line, and they have already brought one criminal indictment against one of the people who review to comply. >> michelle. >> i actually dont think the question is whether mark meadows did anything bad as much as what he was a witness to on january 6th. he was a witness to donald tru...

Going to get all of the facts. and i think the committees right to take on the fights that theyve taken on and to play hardball with steve bannon and i think potentially soon jeffrey clark and mark meadows. i think they have to do that. they cant let these folks sort of wriggle away and give them nothing. that said, you still have people in the key rooms at the key times who i think have a sense of duty, enough of a sense of patriotism, perhaps enough of a fear of being held in contempt, that th...

Labour calls the latest revelations shameful. they are treating the public with contempt. the prime minister needs to step up, accept what happened, and apologized. unfortunately we have but a prime minister who is socially distanced from the truth. the government defends itself after a whistle blower claims its evacuation of people from afghanistan was chaotic and dysfunctional. of course, sometimes decisions took hours longer than we wanted to, but you know you have to be careful about how you...

Depend on each individual conversation. if mark meadows were having o outside conversations and this question of this cell phone that may exist, what was he doing with it and to whom was he texting, it is hard to come up with any basis for thinking that those conversations or communications would not -- would be protected under executive privilege. >> so he writes a book about it, hes just described the presidents health condition, right, which the former president is not happy with, but hes not...

These third parties for thousands and thousands of pages of documents. the committee specifically is not responding and saying exactly what it is. but they are, you know, what meadows is saying is that this is this was something that was unacceptable to him. that there is things that would fall under that subpoena that would violate this executive privilege guard rail that he had put up. now, when meadow said last week that he was going to cooperate with the committee, he noted that there was go...

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