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Ruling is followed by an appeal? >> erica, thanks for having me back on the program. i think we're going to get the ruling quickly because the judge is going to want to leave some time for trump to seek an emergency stay from the appellate court if he loses. i do believe that he is going to lose. he has the worse of the argument here because while he can assert executive privilege as he's done, the presidency is not a hereditary office that travels when he leaves. joe biden is in charge and for that reason he's the final decider. we'll see a quick decision, i think, and then an appeal -- emerg...

Used to seeing from the various -- from the two attorneys general who served under president trump, who are much more willing to get out there politically and do some quarterbacking on behalf of their boss, the president. not so, right now, so we can look for the justice department in the next days and weeks to come, to be taking it more sober assessment of the facts of the case as it relates to bannon, and whether is executive privilege argument holds up considering his now private citizen and i, was not been in the government since the end of 2017. >> absolutely right, hey barb, let's go fro...

Way for an executive privilege argument for bannon. i'm going to read some of it to you. it says the communications involve individuals outside the executive branch does not undermine the president's confidentially interest. it occurred with the understanding they would be held in confidence and related to u.s. attorney replacements or responding to inquiries about the u.s. attorney general matter. this is a specific issue relating to 2007. this idea that the subject didn't necessarily have to be a part of the executive branch which bannon certainly wasn't at the time. is that in any way a com...

Since 2017. could -- can it apply to someone like him? >> in my view, anderson, he has no credible basis to make this argument of executive privilege. he was not a government employee. he was not an adviser in the white house on january 6th. the committee's investigation is about the circumstances surrounding january 6th, 2021. steve bannon was not in the white house then. he was not in the government or a presidential adviser. um, and even if he was, it would be the current president -- president biden -- who is the one who actually has the authority to assert executive privilege. >> carl, is...

Actually has the authority to assert executive privilege. >> carl, is there a danger here? i mean, you know, for president biden not to have backed up his former -- the former president in the executive privilege argument? i mean, don't most presidents back up the former president normally? >> it has to do with whether this is a legitimate exercise of executive privilege and this is clearly not a legitimate exercise of executive privilege. this is about trying to suppress the truth about a president engaging in illegal acts, anti-constitutional acts. trying to learn what, indeed, he was doing ...