scavino and former trump advisor peter navarro in contempt after both men refused to comply with committee subpoenas. those referrals her head to the house and then to the department of justice where the attorney general merrick garland will be left to decide on whether to criminally indict the two men. chief legal correspondent for msnbc and host of the beat with already. ari, video of your interviews with peter navarro were shown in that committee hearing. part of the reason that was done was to basically tear apart mr. navarro s defense, that somehow these correspondence, these documents, are shielded by executives privilege. tell us why it s meaningful that pirro navarro went on your program to talk about what role he played with mr. trump in the january 6th insurrection? it was striking. you and i were sitting there. we don t know where they re going to introduce. the report that came out there
lot of criticism for not being forthcoming about their conversations with the president. the president did not invoke executive privilege, they just said they did not want to talk about it. is it possible that now one of the reasons they did not want to talk about is because this knew this is investigated by mueller? well, you know anderson, i would not want to read their minds in that way. i don t know what they are thinking. i do know that they are out of options to refuse to talk about it because now that there is obstruction of justice investigation. if mueller wants to call them before the grand jury and even if donald trump decides to invoke executive privilege of, the court will reject that. in 1974, the supreme court case of the united states of nixon, criminal investigations by and large trump s executives