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Understand something very plainly. if you're thinking of following the path mr. bannon has gone down, you are on notice that this is what you'll face. >> the vice chair liz cheney who lost her position in the gop for taking a stand against the former president is saying the privilege argument suggests that trump was personally involved in planning what happened at the capitol. >> mr. bannon's and mr. trump's privilege arguments do, however, appear to reveal one thing. they suggest that president trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of january 6, and this committee will g...

Okay? and he is trying to get executive privilege. trump fired him quite famously in 2017, a fact the committee noted when it understandably rejected bannon's privilege argument. quote, even if bannon had been a senior aide to the president during the time period covered by the contemplated testimony which he was not, he is not permitted by law to the type of immunity he suggestion. now, many of these subpoenas are somewhat broad in their scope. that's true. it's not always apparent to the public what the committee is looking for. but that's not really the case with bannon. you might have hear...

Committee. >> maybe he's willing to be a martyr to a disgraceful cause of whitewashing what happened on january 6 by demonstrating his complete loyalty to the former president. so i want our witnesses to understand something very plainly. if you're thinking of following the path mr. bannon has gone down, you are on notice that this is what you'll face. >> the vice chair liz cheney who lost her position in the gop for taking a stand against the former president is saying the privilege argument suggests that trump was personally involved in planning what happened at the capitol. >> mr. bannon's ...

Regular administration official. that passing of time was eight days. >> well, that's up to the u.s. attorney for the district of colombia and department of justice how fast they proceed. our expectation is that they will follow the law and so after we pass this off of the house floor, the speaker will certify it. it will get transmitted over to the u.s. attorney for the district of colombia and the federal law is clear that that individual has a duty to bring it before a grand jury and so that's our expectation that it would follow the law and bring this to the grand jury. so that's what we h...

Try -- their point is this was such a defining day, the right to secrecy gets trumped, forgive me, by the right to the truth. >> absolutely. they are trying to lay the groundwork with this committee to say we can never do this again and we will not make exceptions like the privilege argument for future administrations on things like that because what happened here is so important and shook our foundation as a country so much that any other political argument or previous historical argument kind of, you know, is outweighed by that. i think the question now talking to democrats on the hill, the ...