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And do your hair nicely. for important occasions, yeah? and we believe that every single day of our life is important. and you call yourself a lower—class person... of course. ..but would it be fair to say that you have had a running battle with the art elite, the art establishment, because you think they dont give you the respect that you deserve? i mean, frankly, people like brian sewell and waldemar januszczak have dismissed your work with contempt as having no artistic value. weve had a lo...

Committee and tried to obstruct justice and refused to provide information. so he will have a short amount of time before we take our next step, but we dont have a ton of patience and are willing to use contempt. >> all of todays developments on capitol hill are managing to overshadow surprisingly good economic news for this administration. this morning, the labor department said there were 553,000 -- 531,000 jobs created in october. thats why i dont work for the labor department blowing past pr...

Bannon? has he faced any consequences? do we have a timeline on when merrick garland is going to make a decision? >> the biggest change thats happened is bidens nominee to head the dc u.s. attorneys office has been sworn in. so now that office, which makes the decision as to whether or not to prosecute steve bannon, is headed by someone who is a political appointee who has been confirmed by the senate. its possible that attorneys in that office were waiting to have senate-confirmed leadership be...

>> there are going to be people who love you for who you are is and who are going to hate you for who you are. its up to you to pick and choose your battles but if i were you, i would live yourself to the fullest extent that you feel comfortable with and try to kind of have your shuttle as much as you can. >> zachary willmore, queen of homecoming, great to talk to you. >> thank you so much. >> thanks for coming. still ahead, everybody, a former trump official who helped to try and overturn the...

Amendment right against self-incrimination. let me tell you, he assuredly has a right against self-incrimination he could invoke. thats never a good look because its announcing that if i were to testify truthfully, i would be telling you about crimes i committed. so instead he tried this deflection tactic, and i bet the calculation is, look, at least i showed up, and i pretended to cooperate, at least in part, with the subpoena, as compared to steve bannon who didnt show up at all. he just thumb...

Justify his clients refusal to cooperate. joining me now, hugo lowell, congressional reporter for "the guardian." welcome back, walk us through jeffrey clarks role in all of this. how significant of a witness is he in this investigation? what exactly happened? because he showed up, but he didnt answer any questions. >> reporter: thats right, jeffrey clark showed up yesterday for a deposition we think at oneal office building and he was there to answer questions posed by the select committee. we ...

His lawyer giving his refusal to testify, and then citing executive privilege. committee chairman bennie thompson told politico that his refusal to testify could lead to a referral to doj for contempt of congress saying quote, thats on the table. earlier tonight, committee member and democratic congresswoman stephanie murphy of florida, was asked about mr. clarkson. we >> are so deeply disappointed of someone who so recently upheld in office to the constitution tried to obstruct justice, and ref...

Acted on steve bannon. they had the papers on the desk for two weeks. they want the justice department to move yesterday. whether they go to contempt for jeff clark or partly how they assess what the justice department is doing with steve bannon and whether that is worth doing again. >> these other subpoenas expected to come out. 20 subpoenas that apparently chairman thompson signed. does that influence that? if you get a subpoena for the committee, do you get to look at steve bannon and jeffrey...

I would expect that one of the problems this committee is going to have is the one that you showed this morning involving jeffrey clark. people are going to claim the closer they are to the former president that theyre under some special privilege and cannot share or discuss things they knew or saw, but talked about with the president. >> and thats the problem that the committees facing. some of it looks like running out the clock. what powers does the committee have for those who have refused t...

He was voted in contempt by congress, but he hasnt been indicted. until he is, others will continue to follow in the path. there is no legal defense to jeffrey clark and actually i dont think anybody heard of him until after the january 3rd meeting that he had at the department of justice when his name started coming out as someone who was trying to overturn the election, and i am one of those who believes very much that we need to have accountability and that without it, these horrible things w...