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Certify the election and turn it into a crucible moment for democracy. i think they're really going to try to explain how that happened and who is responsible for it. >> what's the strategy here? is there a potential risk that they run that if it enters a more public phase here, that could deter more people from cooperating? >> well, i think people have made their decisions, by and large, on whether they're going to be cooperating. you know, i think it remains to be seen whether these contempt citations, the threats of contempt citations, are going to make a difference. clearly the department ...

Harass and they try to put their political opponents in jail. in a matter of weeks, the committee has passed three contempt citations. today, we vote on holding mark meadows in contempt of congress. on september 23, 2021, the committee served meadows is subpoena for a sweeping set of documents and a deposition. in october, president trump instructed mr. meadows to maintain his executive privilege in any response to that subpoena. mr. meadows told the select committee he would give them any information they requested that wasn't protected by executive privilege. he gave the select committee ove...

Eyes to the 1/6 committee, the only group in town trying to track this down. and laurence tribe said, nearly a year has passed since the insurrection, not one person in power has been held accountable, and not one safeguard for democracy has been added. and some would say, the democrats just aren't killers. >> some people wish the democrats would be more aggressive. the committee, i think, has tried to address some of these concerns by, for instance, bringing contempt citations against steve bannon. the thing that has, i think, surprised many people since january 6th is the, what has happened ...

These contempt citations, the u.s. attorney in the words of the law, shall present it to a grand jury. now, the justice department has traditional viewed that law as discretionary under the belief that the congress can't tell the justice department who to prosecute. but it will be up to the u.s. attorney, and there are several factors weighing i think for and against this. on the one hand, bannon's got a claim of executive privilege here, but it's weak. the biden administration has waived it. executive privilege applied only to a president's official duties, not to possibly discussing how to u...

Office has the right to waive executive privilege which he's done. trump is no longer president. he can't invoke it. so i think it's really just a stalling technique. i think bannon may have things to say, but i do agree it's also going to kind of set a precedent. if one guy gets away with not responding, then everyone will do it. remember, the reason why we're able now to support and enforce subpoenas is because we actually have a justice department doing its job. under the trump administration, they were not about to enforce contempt citations. now we have a justice department that independe...