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Steve bannon and former chief of staff, mark meadows. joining our panel, jill wine-banks, co-host of the #sisters in law podcast. trump says he is going to cite executive privilege. can executive privilege extend to a post presidency? >> it can, if president biden invokes it. there is no evidence that president biden will. but a former president cannot invoke executive privilege. it belong to the office, and he's out of office. so, no, he can't. and none of his people can. they can invoke the fifth amendment if they are willing to take the political heat for admitting that they would be incrim...

Right now. he had the vice president flying out there for a quick in and out trip to rally for him in her home state. she wouldn't be doing that, given how busy things are in washington if they weren't nervous about the potential of larry elder, a conservative show host, how do you game it? >> there should never be confidence. you need 50% of people say he shouldn't be recalled and then it goes to the next candidates and a conservative republican can win and just to make a quick point on the abortion issue, we saw it last night in bedford new hampshire and for the first time in 200 years democ...

To your point. she needed to get a sequencing bill through her chamber, and she did that, which is essentially her forte. now, yeah, the moderates would say we wanted to decouple the physical infrastructure bill with the reconciliation, social infrastructure bill, and we did that. we got a vote certain for the physical infrastructure bill, but there's no binding language to what was passed. if pelosi decides to change her mind, she can do it. she might risk offending those moderates and their votes, but you know, legislation as you know, joe, is simply about getting to necessary majority, and ...

Elected decision. i don't think president biden had much options politically, no support in his political party or the american people. certainly, trump left him with a farcical peace treaty, in which we essentially told the taliban, don't shoot at us, we will leave. you can settle up with the government. so he had no option there. i really don't think. and i don't think delaying it another 90 days or six months would have made a substantial change, in an endemic and corrupt will goni government. those people are getting ready to run for their lives, by their way. if the taliban get their hand...

Republican votes. there's no reason why we can't continue to investigate what happened that day. >> so the senate could hold a procedural vote to create this january 6th commission as early as tomorrow. politico reports, quote, susan collins is making a last-ditch attempt to broker a bipartisan compromise on the independent january six commission, even as republican leaders rushed to squash the panel. the mother and the partner of former fallen capitol hill police officer brian sicknick have requested meetings with all the republican senators to urge support for the bill. sicknick's mother rel...