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Understand something very plainly. if youre thinking of following the path mr. bannon has gone down, you are on notice that this is what youll face. >> the vice chair liz cheney who lost her position in the gop for taking a stand against the former president is saying the privilege argument suggests that trump was personally involved in planning what happened at the capitol. >> mr. bannons and mr. trumps privilege arguments do, however, appear to reveal one thing. they suggest that president tru...

Okay? and he is trying to get executive privilege. trump fired him quite famously in 2017, a fact the committee noted when it understandably rejected bannons privilege argument. quote, even if bannon had been a senior aide to the president during the time period covered by the contemplated testimony which he was not, he is not permitted by law to the type of immunity he suggestion. now, many of these subpoenas are somewhat broad in their scope. thats true. its not always apparent to the public w...

Committee. >> maybe hes willing to be a martyr to a disgraceful cause of whitewashing what happened on january 6 by demonstrating his complete loyalty to the former president. so i want our witnesses to understand something very plainly. if youre thinking of following the path mr. bannon has gone down, you are on notice that this is what youll face. >> the vice chair liz cheney who lost her position in the gop for taking a stand against the former president is saying the privilege argument sugge...

Regular administration official. that passing of time was eight days. >> well, thats up to the u.s. attorney for the district of colombia and department of justice how fast they proceed. our expectation is that they will follow the law and so after we pass this off of the house floor, the speaker will certify it. it will get transmitted over to the u.s. attorney for the district of colombia and the federal law is clear that that individual has a duty to bring it before a grand jury and so thats ...

Try -- their point is this was such a defining day, the right to secrecy gets trumped, forgive me, by the right to the truth. >> absolutely. they are trying to lay the groundwork with this committee to say we can never do this again and we will not make exceptions like the privilege argument for future administrations on things like that because what happened here is so important and shook our foundation as a country so much that any other political argument or previous historical argument kind ...

For allegedly defrauding trump supporters. remember, trump let him off the hook and pardoned him. so, even if executive privilege did apply here -- and it should not, neither with the others and certainly not with bannon -- because that protection is about a president and key advisers so they can have conversations without fear of exposure. but in 2018, trump said of bannon, steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. now, that was after they had a falling out, but thats irrelevant....

The presidency according to former president trump, how could the privilege argument ever hold up even if privilege existed? so, with privilege waived by biden will the committee follow through on holding bannon in contempt. but i suggest a different question. forget congress. will any of what has, is and will likely come out about trumps savaging the department of justice and its officials move from congress to the doj itself, meaning will attorney general merrick garland take action? it seems ...

He turns around and makes a different privilege argument that these gentlemen working with rudy giuliani may be entitled to a kind of attorney-client privilege or a work product privilege. different privileges that apply when an attorney arguably in this case, rudy giuliani, is providing legal advice and services. but he has to be providing legal advice and services for privileges to apply. the attorney-client privilege doesnt automatically apply because im a lawyer and we happen to be talking a...

Let me put up on the screen all of the different individuals who have been stonewalling the congress in this investigation. why withhold the evidence? forget "stonewall." >> because it doesnt affect this case. it affects the office of the presidency of the united states. >> okay. thats an answer. that is the privilege argument. and that does not explain hiding this evidence from so many different people, let alone ambassador sondland today, who, and you dont need me to tell you this but to be as...

Hold some hearings and talk about the substance of the investigation, not this process talk. its june already. and, you know, the intelligence committee hasnt held any serious hearings, oversight has held a couple. the michael cohen hearing was a serious, important hearing. the judiciary committee hasnt held any significant hearings about investigating the president. do that, dont talk about this. >> and you can find people that has no privilege argument. corey lewandowski has no argument for pr...