Election integrity and all of this is completely aboveboard because he was the president and that is what president s do. That is the argument he made today in a new filing filed in state court asking a judge to dismiss the Indictment Charging Trump with election interference. In the new filing, trumps lawyers quote they can argue to ensure the integrity and the election were outside of the scope of his duties. They even went on to say quote, the president s motivations are not for the prosecution or this court to decide. Fact check. Trumps motivations i exactly what this court should be looking into. The lawyers also claimed quote the president s actions are within the ambit of his office. Is absolutely immune from prosecution. They are essentially arguing that donald trump is above the law and if that sounds familiar to you, it should. It is what Richard Nixon asserted after watergate. That means it is not illegal, by definition, exactly. I have expert guests tonight to weigh in on t
how bannon has been defying congress up until this point. drew, as we mentioned, this report about bannon, the special report, i want to play one particularly relevant part for our viewers. outside a recent hearing in his case, cnn caught up to steve bannon. why do you push the lies that the 2020 election was stolen? it s not a lie. you have no prove. we looked at all the facts. you don t have the facts. rudy doesn t have facts. do me a favor. i want to sit down with you for two hours and go through the evidence. okay. how about friday? done. despite that pledge, the interview never happened. bannon ultimately ignored all our requests for interviews. bannon s defense team used the airing of your documentary as an argument to delay his trial. that failed. yeah. like all his other motions and last minute appeals to try to stop this trial failed. he was promoting our documentary
steve bannon was served a subpoena, he did not answered. he did not even attempt to answered and showed contempt for the process, for the institution of congress. that, as far as the bennett is concerned is the point. bannon has always been about undermining institutions like congress, defying them flagrantly in an effort to make the point that they are, in his mind, illegitimate. it does not surprise me that these proceedings have gone a long these lines, with bannon continuing to put on a show for his podcast audience. that is ultimately what this is about. he really does have an audience of one at the end of the day. that is still donald trump. i still think that in a lot of noise, bannon is acting in a way that he believes trump would be pleased with. in fact, from the evidence that we have, trump is pleased with how bannon has been defying congress up until this point. drew, as we mentioned, you did a report about bannon, special report. i want to play one of the realm parts of
aside their views than to have someone say i never heard of bannon, i don t know what the january 6th committee is all about. someone with that lack of knowledge around the world around them probably isn t competent to sit on a jury. ali, let s turn to the developments on the hill. what are you learning about the two witnesses expected to testify but also about this positive covid test from chairman thompson and also the committee says it s not going to impact thursday s primetime hearing. reporter: they say this is not going to impact their scheduling for what we expect to be the last in this series of hearings from the committee. i say that because they are not closing the door on doing more. in fact, what chairman thompson said yesterday, last night, because he was here on the hill prior to this positive diagnosis of covid, he was telling us that the committee s made a decision to do a scaled-back version of the final report and ultimately issue their final-final report