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Fifth. to be clear, pleading the fifth means that you are trying to protect yourself against criminal charges. so what the committee did is that we proceeded with efforts to hold him in contempt. what i think that anybody who has been called before this committee and the american people should understand from both the bannon contempt, as well as the initiating the clark contempt proceedings is that we will allow no one to be above the law and no one to stall the investigations of this committee. and so that is why we are moving forward to preposition. we will allow him an opportunity this week...

Fifth. to be clear, pleading the fifth means that you are trying to protect yourself against criminal charges. so what the committee did is that we proceeded with the efforts to hold him in contempt. what i think that anybody who has been called before this committee and the american people should understand from the bannon contempt as well as initiating the clark contempt proceedings is that we will allow no one to be above the law and no one to stall the investigations of this committee. so that's why we are moving forward to pre-position. we will allow him an opportunity this weekend to app...

While Bannon’s legal position is weak, it is not frivolous — and, therefore, is not criminal defiance.

Congressman pete sessions of texas walked into the middle of the conversation. >> you doing okay? let's get out of here. >> but not steve bannon. >> hey, what about all the people that are rotting in jail? why don't you worry about them. >> and that was the end of that. democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland joins me now. he's a member of the committee. you had that run-in with congressman greene. she's calling liz cheney a traitor. have you heard her call any of the capitol rioters traitors? was this something she was saying to you on the floor the other day when talking about this b...

Of the doj. this is incredibly sensitive. i think it's fair to presume that merrick garland, the attorney general, would have a say. and if everybody is on the same page, they could go to a grand jury. they have other options to charge him, but they could go to a grand jury, present evidence, get subpoenas for some testimony or documents, and it they think they have a case at that point they would ask the grand jury to hand up that indictment for steve bannon for criminal contempt of congress. to be clear, guys, if they do get all the way to that last step, it's just a misdemeanor. nobody want...