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provide more details from its closed-door interview with former white house counsel, pat cipollone. he testified friday for eight hours. yesterday at the south -- said cipollone reinforced alleged misconduct by trump, adding that his testimony included information that demonstrates the former presidents, quote, supreme dereliction of duty. a member of the committee explaining more of cipollones testimony this morning on meet the press. >> he made very clear that he took the side of man...

Have ultimately been a decision that two men came to at the same time. Whether or not there was some thought, and if there was not consider about making the administrations life and the president s life more difficult, he might have been left it. Kelly was said to have delivered the news. It is unclear and unknown, its a wild card. He goes outside independently. Steve bannon is now a household name. There is people that will be upset that he left this white house. I talked to a bannon ally earli...

Law. anyway -- >> i dont think any judge likes being told that. we now know bannon has until the end of next month to find a new attorney. thank you for joining us on that remarkable showdown in court. >> thank you very much. >> so interesting and so rare, and theyre still talking through a third-party attorney. >> basically they use someone else to communicate. >> can you tell her something? >> oh, sorry, someone was talking to me. this mornings number is zero, well tell you why ahead. >> the...

Case. but i cant go into those details, as i know you know, and steve bannon may well be right and i may be wrong. but its his case and his life and he deserves to be able to proceed with a defense he thinks is appropriate. >> the judge seemed to think this was part of a delay tactic because now bannon has until the end of february to come up with a new attorney. is this a delay tactic? what would you say to that? >> no, thats where the thing blew up yesterday, frankly. the prosecutor in this ca...

Brianna. as these are mounting legal problems for steve bannon, sources tell me that he will surrender tomorrow to face new new york state charges related to that crowd fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern u.s. border. now, these state charges are very similar to the conduct that bannon was charged by federal prosecutors in 2020, then prosecutors say that bannon and his co-conspirators defrauded donors to this crowd fundraising effort called we build the wall, they raised more t...

This week that no and is above the law not even a former president. >> speaking about not being above the, let me ask you about yesterday when the jury found steve bannon on two counts of contempt of congress. -- what is next for the trump loyalist? >> yeah, this was a very big deal especially for the january six committee because, remember, theyve had to dodge and weave around these former, current allies of the former president, who could be such a key witnesses to the committees investigation...

Around other tea party adjacent causes. stockton started organizing rallies for stars of the conservative movement. like former alaska governor sarah palin. remember her. but breitbart. ultimately ended up on team trump. the couple has had an on again off again relationship, with friendship steve bannon, who shares their affinity for troll politics. that working relationship took a turn in 2019, when they held bannon starter groups called we build the wall. an organization which raise tens of mi...

We saw it. now bannon is avoiding responsibility saying the guy who was president and already said no. in a letter to bannons lawyer the deputy white house counsel said one more time for everybody in the back, we are not aware of any basis for your clients refusal to appear for a deposition. yesterday, bannon also tried to delay tonights contempt proceedings by a week siting the lawsuit and needless to say, that request was not granted. the committee will be moving forward within the hour and af...

Ultimately up to the attorney general-maker garland, if he wants to move forward on this, and at this point its just not clear what hes going to do. now bannon has argued repeatedly that he will not comply unless ordered to do so by a court. he notes hes been directed by former president trump not to cooperate because he wants to raise issues of privilege. now the committee flatly rejects that action. >> remind us the results of a criminal conviction. >> if convicted he could be looking at a fin...

Bannon refusing to cooperate on the grounds that trump has exercised executive privilege is bogus. a former president has no privilege. we have never seen a case of a former president exercising executive privilege themselves. it has been exercised for them by current presidents. but never by a former president. thats maybe why bannons lawyer keeps referring to trump as president trump, as opposed to former president trump, tipping his hand that he would know it doesnt make any sense legally. no...