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January 6th committees investigation. and she joins me now. betsy, can you give me a little background i guess on the clark situation? a little different than bannon for a few different reasons. a more colorable claim to privilege. and he did show up. he didnt just blow them off. what can you tell us about the committees deliberations about arriving at this recommendation? >> the biggest problem for clark, which is a problem bannon actually didnt have, is that even though trump would have had fi...

Divinities -- arriving at his recommendation? >> the biggest problem for clark, which is a problem bannon actually didnt have. even though trump wouldve had a firm ground to assert executive privilege, as it relates to clark. trump didnt actually do that. trump ghosted clark. the last communication that trumps legal team said to jeffrey clark, according to clark himself, was on august 2nd of this year. in cajun, trump said he would not go to court to block clark from talking to congressional inv...

Or what extent trump was talking about? its exactly the purpose of this other undertaking. the congressional oversight of this attempt cues so important. and its why the information has been brought to life, to be confirmed and brought to the publics attention. because the threats not going away. trump is likely to run for president again 2024. and the american probably get deserves to know exactly how close he came to pulling it off! to dismantling the american democracy in his last days in pow...

>> right, was carefully coalescing something that had been laid in the actual groundwork of diplomacy of treaty of soft power where this feels a little bit more like desperately seeking a theme party. oh, well, lets pick this anniversary date. lets get the right decorations. this is not a joke. >> thats true. >> you mentioned as well, you said mustacheoed. >> howd you pronounce it? mustacheoed warmonger? you want to get into the mustache i take it. >> this guy, hes always been caricatured as yos...

Him? probably. but was he influential on this president? absolutely. there were times the president would send a tweet, give a statement, you could tell it was from steve bannon, you could feel it, the same way it was from jared kushner, but without trump, steve bannon is learning that his influence fades quickly, and this could be really, this is more perilous to him than the president. the president will still have his base. >> its a mistake to say the president has no principles or policies. ...

I think the downside to getting rid of steve bannon is that hes got a big constituency. a grassroots movement that is a big part of the conservative movement that donald trump was relying on and trying to create with steve bannons help. i think the problem bannon had, he was getting bigger than the principal. he was getting too much attention. frankly, he was responsible for policies that havent gone so well and theyre making the president look bad. any president doesnt like to look bad that way...

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