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Full house of representatives. then they get in a bind because they have to turn it back to attorney general jeff sessions to see if he would prosecute bannon for criminal contempt. >> is there any standard for which the sergeant at arms is to go get the witness, bring them in and compel their testimony. >> congress has that power, but they haven't used it in a very, very long time. >> we'll put that on the maybe category. vivi vivian, remind us, especially when we look more broadly at the story where bannon has spent 20 hours, give or take, in front of the mueller team. remind us of the stori...

House has. this is the nagging issue that stays in the news and rolling out. >> absolutely. again you have price earlier, two more. you have three instances. i think it does raise the question, it can happen in any administrati administration. go back to bush, his chief of staff was going to stamp shows and he was forced out. but when you have guidelines like rick just read, it does beg the question, are they really emphasizing this to folks? are they saying it's a point that matters? if you have three cases you get the idea this is not emphasized. >> that reference to stamp shows, we're old e...

Refused to answer questions that had not been scripted in advance. >> it went to far to not answer questions about conversations he had after the administration and with people who played no role in the administration. there's no claim of privilege that could apply to those circumstances. what's more, the only questions he would answer were questions that had been literally scripted for him by the white house. a set of 25 questions that had been written out for him to which the answer to each must be no. whenever we sought to probe anything beyond the four corners of the specific wording of th...

Have failed. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarter here in new york day 393 of the trump administration. we know this has been a busy week in the russia investigation. nbc news is reporting that steve bannon met with special counsel robert mueller this week. in all he spent some 20 hours in conversation with the team led by mueller. then today after an almost month long stand off, bannon returned to capitol hill to continue his interview with the house intelligence committee. he emerged after four hours answering 25 questions that the white house had negotiated with the house...

They would not want out there. and so they're still looking into, you know, people's security clearances because jared kushner does not seem to ever -- is ever going to get a permanent security clearance. >> i have a feeling the white house is scrambling to go through all those files. all right. we'll check in with you in about 30 minutes or so. >> the trump administration calls for major changes to the nation's food stamp program. why it's being met with a lot of skepticism. >> and the story president's lawyer tried to keep underwraps. >> i know you either do or don't have a nondisclosure agr...