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Versions of that? >> that's right. it's very unusual for someone like bannon to appear before the committee and refuse to answer questions except those that are prescripted. i've never seen that happen before where they were negotiating down to a specific set of questions that are negotiated by the white house and the committee. so it's very unusual here. obviously the committee is very frustrated with this. they're considering taking further action to hold bannon in contempt. what that would mean is they would have a vote to hold him in contempt, if it's criminal contempt, they hold it to the...

He would answer were questions that had been literally scripted for him by the white house. a set of 25 questions that had been written out for him to which the answer to each must be no. whenever we sought to probe anything beyond the four corners of the specific wording of the question he refused to answer. that's not how executive privilege works. >> schiff went on to say the next step would be initiating contempt proceedings against bannon. we're about to ask an expert about that. and "the washington post" reports, quote, house republican leaders are weighing further steps to force bannon ...

Old committee, house intel and what does contempt of congress mean? i understand there are several versions of that. >> that's right. it's very unusual for someone like bannon to appear before the committee and refuse to answer questions except those that are prescripted. i've never seen this happen before where they were negotiating down to a specific set of questions for a witness that are negotiated not by the witness and their lawyer, but negotiated by the white house and the committee. so it's very unusual here. obviously the committee is very frustrated with this. they're considering tak...

Privilege. it's a myth that has been codified by the supreme court in case law in u.s. versus nixon. but it really is based on the separation of powers. the fact that the president himself can withhold information. he can't force bannon to not testify without it getting an injunction against him somehow, which would be unprecedented. if bannon wanted to testify, he could testify. i was in the same situation when i testified. nixon didn't want me testifying. he could have said, well, it's executive privilege, and i would say, i'm going to tell the truth. i don't care what you think about it. >>...