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Year in prison, but he still doesnt have to cooperate with congress. and so if bannon decides to cooperate, perhaps the charges will be dropped, but this is a -- this is meant to send a signal to the rest of the people who are subpoenaed, but bannon could delay and prolong this as long as possible, and ultimately theres really a deadline in this entire process, which is the midterm elections of next year. if the democrats lose control of the house, republicans could disband this committee altoge...

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None of that, assuming a conviction and appeal and a failure to win on appeal, guarantees hell testify because criminal contempt is about punishment. its not about getting a person to testify. one hopes that if you are going to be held in criminal contempt, youll decide to testify rather than follow that route. but it doesnt guarantee anything, laura. >> so, it doesnt guarantee hes going to talk. its interesting. criminal contempt charges like this havent actually been used since the regan admin...

By current presidents. but never by a former president. thats maybe why bannons lawyer keeps referring to trump as president trump, as opposed to former president trump, tipping his hand that he would know it doesnt make any sense legally. now bannon, even if brought on charges of contempt, he can always plead the fifth. he can always offer to comply at some point along the process. the question becomes, how late can he do that before it just triggers the prosecution? what is this about? its not...

And once -- if the justice department decides to get in the game and prosecute it, theres still a long time before the house committee will ever get steve bannons testimony. >> you know, in truth, congress is just not well equipped to make things happen quickly. when someone doesnt want to comply. they go to the doj, it gets litigated, its a protracted process. >> very. the dirty little secret when is the founding fathers were creating the separation of powers, they didnt give congress tools to ...

They havent in over 80 years. and that doesnt change the legal requirements that the house has to meet to obtain a conviction. there would still be a legal proceeding. it would just be a different kind of legal proceeding via whats known as a habeas corpus, the person incarcerated would file a motion and the case would be litigated just as the statutory contempt would be. >> is there anything, stan, that you think the house should be doing just to make this process more effective? >> well, its v...

Co-author of "the playbook," eugene daniels. good morning. nice to see you. the january 6th committee is moving to hold banon in contempt. what kind of precedent do you think this sets? do you think the doj will move ahead with the prosecution? how do you think this plays out? what do you think bannons next move might be? and what about kash patel and dan scavino. >> theyre saying you cannot ignore the president. you cant say hes declaring some kind of blanket executive princh that doesnt exist ...

House with select a trial lawyer to represent them at trial. then maybe, to a series of appeals. and barb, it sure sounds like were talking about years and not months, are we close to right on that? >> i agree with you brian, it seems to be that strategically, if what the committee really wanted to hear was complain at compliance with the subpoena, the better course maybe to go the civil route. to get the judge to order compliance. and then bannon could be held in contempt of the court order and...

Declaration by the committee in effect that we know how urgent this is. we know that if we dont move immediately we can lose all of the ground here that we have and the time can run out. we heard committee members today saying that they are in some negotiations with some other witnesses but if they get the feeling that those negotiations are just a delay game, theyre going to hit them with the criminal contempt also. >> i think there are two pressures on them. one is the legislative clock as you...

To former president trump leaves us no choice. so the committee will do what we are required to do. were left with no other choice than to ask the justice department, lock him up, hold him in contempt. >> congressman adam schiff tweeting earlier, were not messing around. can they back up the talk? if so, who wins? look, heres the process. the house is going to have to vote on charges. they have the numbers in the house, the democrats. so then if they get the vote, it then goes to the doj and thi...