Prosecuting Bannon News Today

as steve bannon, the trump aide, surrendering in new york for new criminal charges, money laundering, defrauding his own maga supporters. a story nicole and our colleagues have more on that in tonights broadcast. we begin here with the united kingdom and really much of the world mourning. queen elizabeth ii dying at 96 years old. she sat on the throne as you may have heard for a full 70 years. if that sounds like an extraordinarily long time, even for a monarchy, thats because it is. i...

Favor of the prosecution. >> on the other hand here are some factors to consider against charging him. al former president does have some claim of executive privilege and the courts never clarified exactly what level of privilege former president claimed but its not zero. the justice department taken the position that the privilege applies to a presidents conversation with people outside the executive branch. getting a conviction requires proof that somebody acted with improper intent. a good fa...

Has no way on its own to compel bannon to comply with a subpoena. on the other hand here are some factors to consider against charging him. a former president does have some claim of executive privilege and the courts have never clarified exactly what level of privilege former presidents can claim, but its not zero. since at least 2007, the justice department has taken the position that the privilege applies even to a presidents conversations with people outside the executive branch. getting a c...

We can install the person we want to install. this is all tied together in one package. >> lets listen to what congressman jamie ras kin who is on the january 6th committee said about prosecuting steve bannon. >> steve bannon is under the spell of donald trump who travels with an army of lawyers. these people think theyre above and beyond the law. we expect and we demand that people comply with our orders. >> so i want to ask you, you know, both points of view, is there a danger in prosecuting b...

Chairman, prosecuting bannon or other witnesses for that matter, could take a long time, maybe years. so realistically, whats the goal of criminal contempt? you really think youll compel testimony or is this meant to send a powerful message to other witnesses? >> well, i think its both, wolf. what we want to do is get to the facts. we could support a criminal contempt or we could look at a civil contempt. there are other thing available to us, but we think the criminal gets us to where we need t...