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Distract from what the conversation is today. can steve bannon defy a subpoena from congress? >> we've ryan nobles on capitol hill for us, correspondent paula reed, harry lichtman and margaret telev. ali, i want to start with you. what did you think made the most legal sense? >> i'm going to start with what made least legal sense. they were illogical and manipulative. first, they argued the reason steve bannon is subpoenaed is because people don't like thiz political beliefs. that's nonsense. there are plenty of people who have popular political beliefs. the reason steve bannon is subpoenaed i...

Bannon and perhaps others are going to point to, this internal opinion memo from within the justice department in 2007 essentially saying that people outside the executive branch can have some interest in executive privilege. the memo says basically sometimes the president needs to consult with people outside the executive branch. however, that is an internal memo. no court has ever found that. it sort of goes against the nature of what a privilege is in the first place. a privilege means a closed loop of communication between spouses, between a doctor and a patient, between an attorney and cl...

Second, this idea that the committee is not focusing on security. it is focusing on security. and let's not forget dan hodges who looked at the committee and said, we need you to figure out if someone more powerful was behind this. and finally, this is about more than steve bannon. this is about congress' authority to have oversight. meadows and patel and scavino and clark, they're all watching. if congress can't take action here in such a flagrant case as steve bannon, those guys won't be held to account and we'll never get to the truth. that's what this is about. >> margaret, i believe it wa...

0 have. the question they ask is why were we so unprotected on january 6 and what has changed since then? getting to the bottom of those questions should be the top priority for all of us in this house. there are serious security vulnerabilities that have been not addressed by this house in 11 months after january 6, and this is what the majority has decided to spend its time on. holding a private citizen who wasn't even part of the administration at the time in contempt for refusing to comply with house democrat subpoenas? this is after more than 600 people have been arrested for their role i...