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The plain fact here is that mr. bannon has no legal right to ignore the committee's lawful subpoena. so far, mr. bannon's excuse is that former-president trump wishes to invoke some form of executive privilege for a subset of the relevant topics. president trump's direct communications with mr. bannon regarding the planning for january 6th. this information should not be subject to any privilege at all. and certainly, there is no basis for absolute or unqualified privilege for presidential communications. more important now, there is no conceivably applicable privilege that could shield mr. ba...

Want -- won't allow further harm to the rule of law in the course of our work. mr. bannon will comply with our investigation, or he will face the consequences. maybe, he's willing to be a martyr to a disgraceful cause of whitewashing what happened on january 6th. or demonstrating his complete loyalty to the former president. so, i want our witnesses to understand something very plainly. if you thinking of following the path mr. bannon has gone down, you are on notice that this is what you'll face. the process we begun tonight is a grave one. it seldom happens. and we'd rather avoid it, altoget...

Thumbing his nose with a bald assertion and you simply can't do that. when i was a prosecutor if i subpoenaed somebody to come and testify, it wasn't with a piece of candy. it came with a squad car, if you did not actually comply with it. the idea that you can do this with a congressional subpoena that's in the interest of oversight and separation of powers, and you can just say no, i don't feel like it because somebody might have a winning case in the end, what does that have to do with you? i mean, even former-president trump has to prove his case. he can no longer veto legislation, erin. he...

Right now, wolf. so there is a lot of militarization and of course the more moving parts, the more risk there could be for a miscalculation. >> will, thank you very, very much and to our viewers thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. outfront next holding bannon in contemptment the january 6th committee will vote on the charge in this hour. then it's ultimately in merrick garland's hands. will he charge steve bannon? plus, president biden making a major concession tonight while negotiating another component of his sp...

And that, at least based on what the president laid out today with negotiations very much still ongoing, was what the president said he was planning to do. now, something to keep in mind here, there are still a lot of details to be worked out, particularly on the climate piece. but democrats, with a level of momentum, we simply have not seen up to this point. erin, you have been following this very closely. want a framework by the end of this week. they are pressing for a framework by the end of this week, and one top-line message the president delivered to those progressives today when he get...