the wider public through the right wing media concocting with that man, steve bannon, they called the green bay sweep involved persuading members of congress to challenge the college electoral results setting off a chain reaction by their theory also by their cockamamie theory lead to stage legislators appointing trump elengthers. months after the january 6th committee made a criminal reseveral navarro to the department of justice, turn over records including communications with donald trump. at the time navarro s contempt with congress, cited executive privilege as a reason for stonewalling the select committee even though he wrote a book and went on television to boast about his role in the insurrection and how his plan for a bloodless coup would have succeeded if it weren t for the violence on january 6th. here he is. peter navarro on this very network with our amazing colleague, ari melber. we ll see ari in a moment. on yesterday. the very same die the indictment unseal
gotham city on this friday. i m john holman in for nicolle wallace. for the last time this week, at least. major development in the investigation into the january 6th insurrection. the justice department has issued a two-count indictment former trump adviser peter navarro making him the first administration official working in the white house on january 6th to be charged with a federal trial. two counts in the doj s indictment for contempt s congress. first refusing to testify to the house 1-6 select committee. second, refusing to produce documents demanded by that committee. each charge, if proven carries a maximum sentence of one year in the pokey. navarro appeared in court earlier today without a lawyer. also revealed he was arrested and taken into federal custody at the airport as he was about to leave on what he claimed was a trip. former trump adviser one of the biggest promoters of the big lying peddles conspiracy and to