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believes you have to basically burn the system down to rebuild it and fix it. >> steve bannon on trial in the first of several major developments this week related to the capitol insurrection. right now the secret service is getting ready to hand over subpoenaed text messages as the january 6th committee gets red for thursdays primetime hearing on the 187 minutes when trump did nothing to quell the violence. in uvalde, texas it was 77 minutes that police, hundreds of them, did nothing ...

Phil mattingly, thank you so much. Dana bash who used to run up and down those halls for years and years and years. Phil has talked to folks on both sides of the aisle. Confident that the house will get to this and nancy pelosi was so key in brokering this deal why is she standing there now for fourplus hours and saying no . I saw you write that down and because youre you, is why you picked up what you did about nancy pelosi. To people at home, it makes no sense. Not at all. Because shes getting...

Privilege from the president. i would expect the u.s. attorney in dc, a long time career doj official named channing phillips, very well-respected by both parties. i expect it would have to be approved by the attorney general himself. the only complicating factor is if the president has gone to court somehow and tried to assert executive privilege to try to either quash the subpoena or in some other way pursue a civil action to block the committee. that might delay the department of justice if i...

About republicans talking about contempt for not answering but not bringing steve bannon back to the committee, somebody else who refused to answer questions, not for any reason about investigation, just because he refused to answer questions. >> right. i dont think weve heard the end of it. the democrats obviously dont have any power or leverage here because they dont control the committee. im sure this was planned on the democratic side, that if they knew good luluck was going to threaten stzo...

Circumstances. whats more, the only questions he would answer were questions that had been literally scripted for him by the white house. a set of 25 questions that had been written out for him to which the answer to each must be no. whenever we sought to probe anything beyond the four corners of the specific wording of the question, he refused to answer. thats not how executive privilege works. >> schiff went on to say the next step would be initiating contempt proceedings against bannon. were ...

Full house of representatives. then they get in a bind because they have to turn it back to attorney general jeff sessions to see if he would prosecute bannon for criminal contempt. >> is there any standard for which the sergeant at arms is to go get the witness, bring them in and compel their testimony. >> congress has that power, but they havent used it in a very, very long time. >> well put that on the maybe category. vivi vivian, remind us, especially when we look more broadly at the story w...

Refused to answer questions that had not been scripted in advance. >> it went to far to not answer questions about conversations he had after the administration and with people who played no role in the administration. theres no claim of privilege that could apply to those circumstances. whats more, the only questions he would answer were questions that had been literally scripted for him by the white house. a set of 25 questions that had been written out for him to which the answer to each must...

Investigation into russia meddling. informing schiff he will not voluntarily return before the committee, corey lewandowski. >> page peyton, good to see you. >> good to see you, brooke. >> bannon saving what he has to say for mueller and schiff says not so fast. >> now were seeing the congressional investigations play out in many ways, the way weve seen some of the special counsels investigation play out. because subpoenas will now be served and presumably enforced if they do not come to terms a...

Case law, in u.s. versus nixon. but it really is based on the separation of powers. the fact that the president himself can withhold information. he cant force bannon to not testify without him getting an injunction against him, which would be unprecedented. if bannon wanted to testify, he could testify. i was in the same situation when i testified. nixon didnt want me testifying. he could have said, well, its executive privilege, and i would say, im going to tell the truth, i dont care what you...

Democrat on the house intelligence committee to former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski and former white house chief strategist steve bannon -- appear before the committee or else. adam schiff is threatening to subpoena lewandowski while pledging to force bannon to appear after a delay this week saying neither have articulated legitimate grounds for refusing to answer questions before congress. it will therefore be necessary to enforce the subpoena on bannon and now move to compel lewando...