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Book at him for the privileges that he waved in his book. we cant do enough, and adam schiff legislation, by the way, protecting our democracy act, we will vote on that tomorrow. and that creates effect track to get to the court on the subpoenas. >> and congressman ted lieu, i mentioned this before in the discussion this week. some of the biggest prosecutions in america legal history. the defenses never cooperated. they have to build a case without getting the criminals themselves to tell their ...

Shes not having it and her last words ill rule expeditiously which must have sent a chill down the spib of the president and his former lawyers and if it turns out as we feexpect is will go on apoel and the court must need to state matter. dont fall for trumps delay game. >> one of the things that weve learned that has come out of these documents or would be turned over to the house should it had go in favor of the committee is theres three handwritten notes. three handwritten knows and two page...

Appeals. and will they also be conscious of the time line, move quickly? they havent done it in the past. to the extent it is a delay game, the question will be, will the court of appeals play along with trump or not? >> betsy, we talked about what it means as the judge denies executive privilege claims for the former president. what does it mean though for someone like steve bannon who has cited trumps executive privilege claim as a reason for his own refusal to comply with the subpoena from th...

Privilege. the confidentiality that the law enshrines for presidential communications. but chris, when you look at the underlying purpose of this committee and the law that applies, that you need to have a valid legislative purpose, what could be more important than investigating an insurrection against the united states? so clearly this is not overbroad. theyre doing their job. and then on executive privilege, the complaint talks again and again about the president. but donald trump is not the ...

People that do not want to cooperate, as they will show on tuesday night, theyre not afraid to take the step of criminal contempt which they will do with the former trump ally steve bannon. ryan nobles, cnn on capitol hill. cnn analyst told us earlier why trump may be using this latest lawsuit as a delay tactic. take a listen. >> donald trump is not the president. joe biden is the president. joe biden is the one who decides whether to apply these confidentiality rules, and he said no as to the...

>> then, as you quoted the archivist, if theres no binding court order, then this complaint does not take effect, and the documents can be turned over. so hes going to have to move if he wants to block it. well see -- he knows these are not good arguments. he knows this is a delay game. so well see if he tries to do that. >> hes going to have to move for this type of relief, and so he will be actually setting up an accelerated timeline because those things have to be handled very quickly and eve...

That will speed things along. the level case that last precedent in 1983 only took four months from the contempt vote to the jury verdict. the one before that, the g gordon levy case was also completed in less than a year, so they can move quickly. and i have confidence, having known the attorney general for a very long time, that this kind of naked defiance of the law. bannon gets a subpoena like any of us, he needs to honor that subpoena. he cant just say im not going to do it on a baseless gr...

Litigate this in the ordinary course of time and not ask for anything like that? >> then, as you quoted the archivist, if theres no binding court order, then this complaint does not take effect, and the documents can be turned over. so hes going to have to move if he wants to block it. well see -- he knows these are not good arguments. he knows this is a delay game. so well see if he tries to do that. >> hes going to have to move for this type of relief, and so he will be actually setting up an ...

Committee and the law that applies, that you need to have a valid legislative purpose, what could be more important than investigating an insurrection against the united states? so clearly this is not overbroad. theyre doing their job. and then on executive privilege, the complaint talks again and again about the president. but donald trump is not the president. joe biden is the president. joe biden is the one who decides whether to apply these confidentiality rules. and he said no as to the ini...

Among private citizens. the observation we made several times on this air is that steve bannon wasnt a member of the white house, so the executive privilege presumably doesnt stretch that far. doesnt stretch beyond the confines of the white house itself, john. as you mentioned, the former president suing to try to block the records. the committee knew that this was going to happen. so now the timeline continues. very likely why they put the steve bannon subpoena at the beginning of their investi...