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>> then, as you quoted the archivist, if there's no binding court order, then this complaint does not take effect, and the documents can be turned over. so he's going to have to move if he wants to block it. we'll see -- he knows these are not good arguments. he knows this is a delay game. so we'll see if he tries to do that. >> he's going to have to move for this type of relief, and so he will be actually setting up an accelerated timeline because those things have to be handled very quickly and even the appeals are handled quickly. those are good points that i hadn't focused on and that make...

That will speed things along. the level case that last precedent in 1983 only took four months from the contempt vote to the jury verdict. the one before that, the g gordon levy case was also completed in less than a year, so they can move quickly. and i have confidence, having known the attorney general for a very long time, that this kind of naked defiance of the law. bannon gets a subpoena like any of us, he needs to honor that subpoena. he can't just say i'm not going to do it on a baseless ground. this kind of defiance of the law is not going to sit well with the attorney general. so i am...

Litigate this in the ordinary course of time and not ask for anything like that? >> then, as you quoted the archivist, if there's no binding court order, then this complaint does not take effect, and the documents can be turned over. so he's going to have to move if he wants to block it. we'll see -- he knows these are not good arguments. he knows this is a delay game. so we'll see if he tries to do that. >> he's going to have to move for this type of relief, and so he will be actually setting up an accelerated timeline because those things have to be handled very quickly and even the appeals ...

Committee and the law that applies, that you need to have a valid legislative purpose, what could be more important than investigating an insurrection against the united states? so clearly this is not overbroad. they're doing their job. and then on executive privilege, the complaint talks again and again about the president. but donald trump is not the president. joe biden is the president. joe biden is the one who decides whether to apply these confidentiality rules. and he said no as to the initial set of documents. so i don't think it will work. and as you point out, it's a delay game. nobo...

Among private citizens. the observation we made several times on this air is that steve bannon wasn't a member of the white house, so the executive privilege presumably doesn't stretch that far. doesn't stretch beyond the confines of the white house itself, john. as you mentioned, the former president suing to try to block the records. the committee knew that this was going to happen. so now the timeline continues. very likely why they put the steve bannon subpoena at the beginning of their investigation because they know the clock could extend here, so they're trying to get this calendar goin...