bannon is his legal claims and defenses here are the weakest because he was not in executive branch employee at the time of these events. any executive privilege claim he may raise here is just completely ridiculous. >> reporter: while the committee is moving quickly on bannon, they are offering some grace to the other three subpoena targets. the depositions of former white house chief of staff mark meadows and former dod official kash patel have been postponed because they are engaging with the committee, but warning they will only tolerate the delays up to a point. adam schiff taking aim at patel. >> patel was a former nunes staffer who was a demonstration of the principle in the trump administration that the more willing you were to do anything the president wanted, no matter how unscrupulous -- >> it's called -- >> and the faster you could rise, and he rose phoenix-like