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And we expect the house to take that up next week as well. and send it to the department of justice. >> so thats the plan now. i mean, just to reiterate your point, steve bannon, obviously, i think everyone watching the case agreed that the executive privilege indication, to the extent there was one, was as flimsy as humanly possible, right? >> right. >> hes not an employee, its not the current president, the current president has not asserted this privilege. with meadows you have someone who cl...

In a pretty broad sense of with an executive privilege indication that would cover more than just himself. >> is there any indication that the president or anyone on his team is listening to bannon or inclined to listen to bannon? >> it seems where he is right now is in the stage of trying to corral allies to push this. certainly, weve seen over the last few days that the president is itching to do something and not comfortable with the situation as it is. we see him issuing new statements almos...

Offices of trumps personal lawyer, michael cohen. and then, another part of this plan that bannon is pitching is that the white house stop cooperating with the mueller probe and start to exert a rather broad interpretation of executive privilege, that would even involve seemingly revoking some of the permissions given to aides and others who have spoken to the special counsels team already. hes painful saying the president should go to -- basically go to political warfare over this, by both pick...

Bill: how many democrats vote with republicans? do you have a guess on that? >> very few. i expect this to be almost a strictly party line vote. its possible one or two democrats, i be i think its -- but i think its likely to be a party line. bill: okay, so you have this executive privilege hanging out there. what happens after the contempt vote? do they compete? >> yeah, this is the question. procedurally, it goes to the courts, of course. but the question is how much do republicans want to rea...