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Subset of the information about the president's conduct in the days leading up to that, and including on january 6th. so he certainly is not the sole source of information about what took place. and we are approaching others that can share information about that. but i will say this also. his executive privilege claims are very remote and improbable of any success. what's more, he failed to show up, and that's not an executive privilege issue. that's a claim of absolute immunity, and no one enjoys absolute immunity. it's a very strong case to prosecute. and we certainly hope the justice depart...

Bring it right to the grand jury which would determine whether or not to indict. the interesting thing is there's not a lot of precedent about this. the u.s. attorney back in 2015 declined to bring charges against lois lerner and in 1983, it did only take eight days from the time of referral to bring it to a grand jury. that was in a case involving an epa official. she was ultimately, though, acquitted. in this case, there's a lot more at play. this whole executive privilege issue which, of course, the former president has directed steve bannon and others not to comply with this subpoena. so t...

On january tormented the violence that occurred onjanuary six. tormented the violence that occurred on january six. and tormented the violence that occurred onjanuary six. and these novel legal theories that his lawyers put forth on monday while they will likely be ultimately found to lack merit in the courts, simply by filing this lawsuit he can throw a significant ranch in the very important operations of the january six select committee for that which is looking into the urgent question of what happened leading up to that day and how to prevent another insurrection or more violence from hap...

Unfolded on january 6th. they're going to be very forward leaning in terms of supporting the select committee and i think that's good news for people that want to get to the bottom of what happened. >> elliott, bannon's lawyers say they are waiting for the executive privilege issue to be resolved and in a statement write in part that is an issue between the committee and president trump's counsel and mr. bannon is not required to respond at this time. does he have a legal leg to stand on? >> he doesn't. to be clear when you look at the four different witnesses we'll see over the next two days,...

>> elliott, bannon's lawyers say they are waiting for the executive privilege issue to be resolved and in a statement write in part that is an issue between the committee and president trump's counsel and mr. bannon is not required to respond at this time. does he have a legal leg to stand on? >> he doesn't. to be clear when you look at the four different witnesses we'll see over the next two days, two of them and particularly one in the form of mark meadows actually have a little legal leg to stand on. these white house chief of staff, he would likely have had some privilege conversations wit...