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Asserted in 1794, this is crazy what democrats are doing and the american people get it but the hard left to control the democrat party they are going to keep doing this kind of stuff if we don't stop them so we have to speak out and make sure the next election is coming, the american people again to say time out to all this garbage from all the bad policy and all the things you are doing to violate the constitution in sacred principles and president we've had in this country since the first president. >> the executive privilege question regarding certain communications is a little bit murky, ...

Other seven republicans who did vote to refer steve bannon, chris. >> so pete, the timing obviously, the members of committee would like the doj to make a ruling immediately. but do they feel that pressure at all, is there any indication of how quickly we might hear something? >> no, none at all. and they don't do this very often before the bannon decision it had been decades before the justice department had actually presented a contempt citation to a grand jury. so, i would say, you know, it is going to be at least a couple of weeks. i would be surprised if they get this done before the new ...

I'm not, i would think this comes down on a decision not to prosecute. but also, you know, in the interim he could change his mind or it could resolve the executive privilege question. and the text messages show why that is so important, maybe meadows doesn't get prosecuted again. >> phil, how is all of this being processed by the former president, his closest advisors and others exposed by those text messages? >> this has not been a good week in terms of january 6th investigations for the former president. because of the criminal contempt charge, also by the text mess ans that was coming out ...

A long list of reasons why meadows believes he cannot testify, again the executive privilege question that they believe is still hanging in the balance. further, they are really urging the committee not to follow through with the criminal contempt charge because they feel that meadows is a good faith actor and doesn't feel that he can offer this information so it's totally inappropriate for the committee to go after him criminally when he's trying to do the right thing. the committee has always maintained they just want to ask questions about information meadows has already supplied. they say ...

Also the lead house manager for the second impeachment of donald trump and he joins me now. congressman, let's first start on this statement by psaki today and the executive privilege question. last night we were gaming this out a little bit. the ex-president says he's going to invoke it, the current president says he will not. what does that add up to constitutionally and practically for your committee? >> when the former president says he's going to invoke executive privilege, it's got to make you laugh because he doesn't have an executive privilege because he's a former president. i know he...