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Or go online today. on tuesday the select committee will hold a vote to refer steve bannon for contempt after he refused to compile with the subpoena on yesterday. just moments ago president biden was asked for witnesses like

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 actually enforce their contempt findings. >> right. >> so the reality is the house doesnt, people from both political parties managed to play rope a dope for a long time with congressional subpoenas and contempt, so this is the show. >> jimmy schultz disappeared, i thought you tried to duck out so ...

Process, could this thing still get detailed? >> yeah, it is a long process, and whats going to happen is the committee is going to convene next week where they will vote to recommend that the house of representatives send bannons contempt to the department of justice, and then the full house is going to have to take that vote, and then after it does, presumably, that will pass, it goes to the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia, where they will decide if they press charges or not. if the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has set a vote to recommend criminal contempt charges against former White House aide Steve Bannon after he defied

Afghanistan withdrawal. ceive steve is live in north carolina with more. >> thats right. just minutes ago the lt. col. pled guilty to all 5 charges against him including contempt for senior officers, and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. the penalty phase could range from a discharge with honor to one year in confinement. he received attention for a social media criticizing his military superiors for the way they handling the withdrawal from iraq. >> i want to say this strongly. i h...

Records and documents, actually get testimony from people, its still a little hazy as to whether theyll be able to do it. i mean as weve been reporting trump is trying to get his folks to defy these subpoenas, to refuse to testify, to refuse to hand over materials. a whole bunch of trump administration officials and people involved in the events of january 6th are now hitting their deadlines in these subpoenas for handing over documents and testifying to the committee. some of these figures are ...

Executive privilege but thats not going to stop him from asserting it so on the house side what they will do is first vote to hold him in contempt, that should be pretty quick, pretty easy to do and then from there, they have a couple of options. they could refer that contempt citation to the department of justice and ask the department to prosecute him criminally for contempt. they could decide to pursue it in civil court, federal court and in the same way that they went after trump and other t...

Winning. why? >> chris, theres been a lot of focus on the coming contempt likely criminal contempt against those who arent cooperating but there is much more cooperation thats happening. you have mr. donohue and mr. rosen, mr. clarks bosses who have gone in to testify, first to the senate and then to the house committee. you have the white house authorizing the disclosure of executive privilege documents. you have others co-operating confidential providing information. that information is pourin...

This would be finished within a year. and at that point, the congress doesnt even necessarily get the testimony. it gets a conviction. its a criminal statute. its a punishment. it is not a civil enforcement mechanism where the witness can purge the contempt through complying. its a very awkward process. >> were talking about all of the i diosyncraries in the pro process, and thats important, but how is it that someone can be subpoenaed by congress, essentially say no, and not be brought to justi...

People of these trump allies are engaging with the committee, though it is unclear what engagement means. so thats where were going to find out a lot more about today. we know, again, steve bannon, not going to comply. there is still a big question mark over kash patel, because we know that hes been engaging with the committee, we dont know what the result is going to be with his deposition. so thats the big question. this week will be extremely telling. and really the committee is going to have...