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Versions of that? >> thats right. its very unusual for someone like bannon to appear before the committee and refuse to answer questions except those that are prescripted. ive never seen that happen before where they were negotiating down to a specific set of questions that are negotiated by the white house and the committee. so its very unusual here. obviously the committee is very frustrated with this. theyre considering taking further action to hold bannon in contempt. what that would mean is...

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 about to ask an expert about that. and "the was...

Old committee, house intel and what does contempt of congress mean? i understand there are several versions of that. >> thats right. its very unusual for someone like bannon to appear before the committee and refuse to answer questions except those that are prescripted. ive never seen this happen before where they were negotiating down to a specific set of questions for a witness that are negotiated not by the witness and their lawyer, but negotiated by the white house and the committee. so its ...

Privilege. its a myth that has been codified by the supreme court in 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 it getting an injunction against him somehow, 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 p...