selection part. but once they start the jury selection part, that should go pretty quickly and then we ll get to opening statements. and the government has said that they have just basically two, maybe three witnesses. an fbi agent who will discuss what he found in his investigation about how the subpoena was delivered, how bannon responded, and then the committee s chief counsel who will describe her interactions with bannon s lawyers and what she said was one nonoig s refusal to comply with the subpoena. and then maybe another counsel from the committee. soness would the government gets started, the case will go pretty fast. chuck, consequences, what consequences could bannon face if he is found guilty and if is he found guilty, does that mean that the committee automatically gets what they want from him? it doesn t, right? second question first. you are absolutely right, this is not an attempt by the committee to compel his compliance or force his testimony. that is by and large
i ll take the second question first, but the turkey thing we don t know what role president biden. they wanted the guarantees in writing about the kurds from finland and switzerland on that. president biden given erdogan that yesterday may have something to do with it. the agreement to buy f-16s, upgrade its military. those things could be factors, but we have not heard confirmation. the white house has shied away from taking credit from this. as far as the kremlin, we re seeing rumblings from vladimir putin about the nato expansion, basically saying if nato puts more battle grooups along the finland-russia border, 800 miles long, extends nato s border with russia, putin said if nato is aggressive, in his view, and puts more troops closer to russia, he will respond in kind. we don t know if that s saber rattling or serious that is. hard not to take him serious at
attorney general james who revealed tonight, related to january 6th, they are to stir being editor judy t to investigate these allegations. second question first. if james wants to look into this to see as a civil matter to see if any laws were violated, she is correct. that s well within her that s an important inquiry into the undertake. here as for the it is a very technical decision and it will turn in part on the exact language that was used in the solicitation, the kinds of promises that were made, whether those emails were sent under the aegis of the campaign or something else. in some sense it s hyper technical. i think the important point is that those sorts of campaign violations, campaign finance violations, should be explored, but they should not be the exclusive violation that you could see as a result of the
the justice department said it will end the ruling of a mask mandate on public transportation. elizabeth, as we wait to hear from the cdc as to whether or not they would pursue further legal action, should people continue to wear masks when they travel, and is there any sense of when and if the cdc may weigh in? bianna, i m going to take that second question first. we don t have a timeline from the cdc, but they have given us an idea of the factors that they re considering on whether or not they will be recommending that people still wear masks in planes and other types of transportation. let s take a look at the factors that they ll be including in their review. first of all, their looking, in no particular order, at covid-19 levels. how much covid is out there in
the u.s. military, chuck, to seize voting machines. how significant is it in your mind that they are in conversation with bill barr about this, and what will be they investigating about the military s role in interference? yeah, let me take the second question first, alex, if i may. there is a federal statute that prohibits using the military to enforce federal domestic criminal law. there are some exceptions to it, none of which i imagine apply here. and so if the president or those around him, his minions, were really thinking about using the military to enforce federal domestic law, that s a problem. as for mr. barr, you know, alex, we spend a lot of time talking about the folks who don t cooperate with the committee or who don t tell the truth. and really, the committee has heard from hundreds and hundreds of people. i think 400 people or so, who had cooperated and who