i think he has some legal issues here. he no longer controls the justice department. congress can now seek justice department enforcement of the subpoenas. that means you can t drag it out for as long as they did when trump was in office. some people might face the prospect of being penalized in some way, even locked up for contempt, which has happened in the past. he is on a weak side here. he will make the argument that executive privilege applies. i m not a lawyer, but in some of the cases it s hard to see. steve bannon didn t work for him. there s no precedent for executive privilege for people who wasn t working for the president. that s like saying anyone the president talks to is covered by executive privilege. that s hard to see in our legal system. they will fight it. they may be able to drag it out for a while. there s a confrontation coming. that s why i think you see two of the four, apparently talking with the committee, looking for an accommodation, rather than to
gone on to continue serving our public schools by becoming school board members. for them to be threatened, intimidated, bullied. some of them have been spit on. their families have been threatened. these are educators, people in the community, parents themselves. because they don t want their children to wear masks? a proven strategy to protect the public health against covid-19? it is unacceptable. jonathan, we stand with the national school boards association in calling on the federal government to step up and help. from the justice department, to the fbi, whoever it is that we need to ensure that all of them, our school board members, our educators, our students are safe and can continue to learn in person. becky mentioned the word mentioned what is happening at school boards, wes. you have also seen these threats. i want to have the audience watch what happened during a school board meeting in orange
msnbc legal analyst. paul, great to see you. is the criminal contempt referral the best way to ensure that witnesses comply with the committee s requests? there is nothing like the threat of going to prison until you cooperate until reluctant witnesses spill it, come clean. the difference between this administration and the trump administration is that trump s justice department wasn t going to enforce these subpoenas were congress. biden s justice department has a very different posture. and so a lot of these witnesses are huffing and bluffing, we don t have to come. but make no mistake, the threat of prison will be a powerful incentive. listen to congressmember jamie raskin, a member of the
in office could get a lot more interesting, a lot more quickly than we had expected. last week, biden s justice department released a memo saying that in their view, the former trump doj officials were in good shape to testify to these congressional committees about conversations that they had with president trump in their capacity as government officials. sometimes white house lawyers will argue that the concept of executive privilege means those conversations get to stay a secret from congress and the public, but the biden team said nope, good to go. when the biden team said that, the next huge question was, well, will trump try to step in and say i disagree with biden s folks. my former doj lawyers can t actually testify. that was the outstanding question. and if trump had said that, then it could have really slowed down the process by which this testimony moved forward.
have been held for months, since january while being denied bail since they could pose potential future threats. others sit in cells for 23 hours a day. julie kelly, senior contributor for american greatness, the only journalist on this story. do we know how many people they are holding and on what basis? as far as people who are being detained in washington dc this is a jail that was set up specifically to hold trump supporters, january 6th protesters, people who have been there since january and last count more than 3 dozen with more on the way and the government continues president biden s justice department continues to seek attention for nonviolent offenders at a hearing today, a federal judge