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Ruling is followed by an appeal? >> erica, thanks for having me back on the program. i think were going to get the ruling quickly because the judge is going to want to leave some time for trump to seek an emergency stay from the appellate court if he loses. i do believe that he is going to lose. he has the worse of the argument here because while he can assert executive privilege as hes done, the presidency is not a hereditary office that travels when he leaves. joe biden is in charge and for th...

Used to seeing from the various -- from the two attorneys general who served under president trump, who are much more willing to get out there politically and do some quarterbacking on behalf of their boss, the president. not so, right now, so we can look for the justice department in the next days and weeks to come, to be taking it more sober assessment of the facts of the case as it relates to bannon, and whether is executive privilege argument holds up considering his now private citizen and ...

Way for an executive privilege argument for bannon. im going to read some of it to you. it says the communications involve individuals outside the executive branch does not undermine the presidents confidentially interest. it occurred with the understanding they would be held in confidence and related to u.s. attorney replacements or responding to inquiries about the u.s. attorney general matter. this is a specific issue relating to 2007. this idea that the subject didnt necessarily have to be a...

Since 2017. could -- can it apply to someone like him? >> in my view, anderson, he has no credible basis to make this argument of executive privilege. he was not a government employee. he was not an adviser in the white house on january 6th. the committees investigation is about the circumstances surrounding january 6th, 2021. steve bannon was not in the white house then. he was not in the government or a presidential adviser. um, and even if he was, it would be the current president -- presiden...

Actually has the authority to assert executive privilege. >> carl, is there a danger here? i mean, you know, for president biden not to have backed up his former -- the former president in the executive privilege argument? i mean, dont most presidents back up the former president normally? >> it has to do with whether this is a legitimate exercise of executive privilege and this is clearly not a legitimate exercise of executive privilege. this is about trying to suppress the truth about a presid...

Out to to ask them to cooperate voluntarily. they are not messing around, and theyll use every power of the congress to make sure that happens. >> thank you very much ryan. now, lets go to elie honig, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. first, trumps lawsuit. you have gone through it. so, does it have a chance of succeeding? >> erin, i think this is a long shot for donald trump. he raises three primary arguments. the first one is that this is just intended to ha...

They very publicly step out and say no, we dont support this. no, this is wrong. this is in fact some version of a coup. that was the concern, but thats who jeffrey clark, is and thats why the committee wants to talk to him because they think he was trumps back door to try to overturn the department of justice and steal the election. >> tom foreman, thank you. >> youre welcome. now youre up to speed with where this investigation stands. lets break down where its headed with cnn legal an light ...

Themselves, quickly. >> quickly. is this about keeping drums off the ballot in 2024 thoroughly are thoroughly making him toxic. >> its of course both. anything that trump did or anything that this administration thanks that trum did, they are against, and of course with bidens numbers tanking so dramatically, and with the democrat numbers in th house tanking so dramatically, they are scared to death of one losing the house next year, and losing the white house very possibly to trump in 2024. the...

Executive privilege argument is of course, its always adhere to the president, not a former president. much less to the presidents assistance and officials, but also, even in those cases where the supreme court has taken it seriously, like u.s. versus nixon, the court has said that the new balance is the publics overwhelming interest in the right to know, against a serious national security concern, here, the publics overall interest, is getting information about the attack, and the national sec...

Thank you very much for joining us tonight, congressman. you have already had a first round of subpoenas out there. have you gotten any response from the attorneys for the people involved indicating they will resist production of documents or resist the subpoena for their testimony? >> not to my knowledge. of course, donald trump is out there talking about executive privilege and trying to delegitimize the work of the select committee. the interesting thing about that executive privilege argumen...