semicooperative or cooperative fashion. i ll explain all that and where there s room for skepticism, but all this speaks to what is shaping up is one of the committee s most decisive legal victories as white house veteran and 2016 campaign chair steve bannon makes this move at an attempted partial legal surrender. he is offering a type of last-minute bid to try to cut a deal and cooperate with the january 6th committee. he is saying he wants to testify before this committee. he s sighing that now he will deal with them. he will talk, and if he did so under oath that s a new legal obligation, and he ll do so despite the defiance. a letter from trump himself attempts to explain the reversal. if nothing else, the pressure got to bannon. congress did not negotiate or weight on bannon. the committee made an assertive decision, unusual for democrat-run probes to immediately hold wanten in contempt when he defied, to immediately push for the doj to indict him, which it did. there
operator, just reporting stuff and not doing a job of a journalist. howie: steve bannon hasn t disputed many of the particularly inflated quotes about him. that he spent him time in the white house leak together media. if that s the case, he was part of the leakiest white house in history. mo: there is no question this is the leakiest white house in history. a lot of the leaks need to come out. it s coming from somewhere in the white house. steve bannon has not disputed any of the things he has said.
his aides handled the executive order, at certain points called it a ban. but to avoid this type of thing, reince priebus is going to take more control is that the right move? we have the first citizen president in the history of the country. he s not a political insider. i think the public will give him more latitude. brought in a lot of new people to the white house. reince has no experience, steve bannon hasn t served in the government. it s learning curve. i can hear the other side get this question in and then you can finish. people who disagree saying you re making excuses for someone or administration who is not quite ready yet. when obama took power i said publicly i wanted him to succeed, willing to give him