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As you know, the former president has made it clear he no longer even sees january 6th as a thing. saying this week, the real insurrection was on election day. and last night on fox, he made his contempt plain for those who have tried and failed to hold him accountable. >> you had fake impeachments, two fake impeachments where the republicans were great. i have to say, they stuck with us. the whole thing was fake. and i had to survive. and to survive, you had to be tough and you had to be out th...

Guy: welcome back to "the big sunday show" the marine commander who was forced to resign after the military leadership after the botched afghan. the military filing six charges against george schaller including contempt, failure to obey and dereliction of duty he will face a court-martial next week this is part of the video that he posted back in august that sparked the charges. >> we have chairman of the joint chief to advise on military policy and a marine combat commander all of these people ...

The house committee, assuming he was served. just so we know, political is reporting he has been served we know bannon is not cooperating. >> the answer is, if you have been served and you refuse to show up. congress should enforce the powers of contempt. >> we saw this in the case of the mueller investigation. the court resolved they have to come in and test. they ultimately did. the problem is speed. if the courts are dilatory, it will drag on for a long time.

Right? its like dont have to respond to subpoenas that. dont have to act like they even understand executive privilege. dont have to honor the constitution. have created the scheme. explicitly to get around the constitutional rights that have been granted to women according to the supreme court, which last time i checked, decides what the law of the land is. so its just this utter contempt for the law from the law and order party. >> well, the supposed law and order party. yeah. unless its -- yo...

Would vote, it would require -- merrick garland would have to sign on to it. merrick garland would then have a decision to make about whether or not he would try to enforce it, correct? >> yeah, he would, number one. then number two, when it went to the u.s. attorneys office in washington, d.c., they would have to convene a grand jury so that would take a bit of time, too. thats partly why i am making the case for doing both at the same time because you would have two different legal avenues goi...

September 1. what happens now is the fifth circuit, this three-judge panel, the most conservative circuit court in the country and it looks like this panel, which is two republican appointees will hear briefing and argument and they will decide whether this law, you know, goes -- remains in effect but lets be clear. this law is contrary to supreme court precedent and it is a complete outrage that the fifth circuit has reinstated it perhaps only temporarily but thats now the state of play. aborti...

Reasonable explanation for his conduct that day. >> to be clear, despite the merry band of crooks over the subpoenas, the new justice department said it will enforce the rule of law. lets see. if any of the trump people are found in contempt, they could face fines or a year behind bars. his loyalty to a twice impeached ex-president worth that sacrifice? joining me now is a pulitzer prize winner and author of "zero fail" and "a very stable genius." carol, good morning. bannons lawyers say he is r...

Testimony, after president trump sent some warning shots that he wants to maintain the executive privilege. and bannon is essentially daring the committee at this point to do one of two things s or, two, guess he has, that has happened in the past. the committee could hold him in civil defiance. send it to the courts and what bannon will have to do to show up to answer questions. or hold him in potentially criminal contempt for the justice department to prosecute him. other than bannon we do kno...

Privilege isnt for the benefit of any one president. it is for the benefit of the presidency, and so it is the current elected president who gets to decide that. the prior president can make a recommendation, but only the current president can invoke the privilege, and so steve bannon is right now in contempt of this order. now, what he seems to be saying to me is, im not going to do this until i hear from a judge in court. and so i imagine that if the justice department were tried to enforce th...

Counsel for president trumps first impeachment trial, norm eisen. first, a legal matter, norm. donald trump isnt president i did -- anymore. he cant hear me. there is criminal referral for contempt. maggie, let me ask you how this is asking inside trump world. the former president issued this demand that his four former employees, although steve bannon wasnt working in the white house, not cooperate. how is this being coordinated? . >> so trumps lawyer wrote a letter that was sent to these witne...