bannon gets carried away, he gets kind of low kwash us. that s a dream witness for mueller. ken delaney, i think it is important to point out something, you guys are all well steeped in this. just for our viewers, the new york times in reporting bannon had been subpoenaed did clarify that the subpoena is a sign that mr. bannon is not personally the focus of the inquiry. justice department rules allow prosecutors to subpoena the targets of investigations only in rare circumstances. ken, that suggested to me what he had to say would be important, maybe in investigating someone else who was more in the cross hairs. and a couple theories posited by folks in the trump orbit were that look at where all of the primary public fires were between bannon and who he pushed against. that some of those people may have the most to worry about, just in terms of the things that bannon will talk about, the fights that he had that we know about were over the advice the president got to fire jim comey
conditioned by this event that just happened. the second issue is the more serious the fbi s concerns at the time about general flynn were, the more you would imagine everybody there would have been disturbed by what seemed to be flynn s longevity within the house, as well as the president s then request to comey that he drop the matter, and the subsequent pressure on the fbi and comey that eventually led to his firing. and the president s statements subsequently, including to the russian foreign minister, that he d relieved pressure on himself by doing so. so, there s a very deep set of connections between the underlying investigation, particularly as regards flynn, and the basket of material that
let s see. yesterday was an encouraging moment in a bipartisan way, you re not going to come here and assert bogus privileges. now, that will be tested with some of the witnesses we have coming up, and we don t acknowledge witnesses, but i ll just say that will be tested with some of the witnesses we re going to hear from today and throughout the week. let s see if republicans stick to the bipartisan precedent that was set yesterday. all right. well, thank you so much for spending some time with us. we know how busy you are. of course, my pleasure. we appreciate it. ben, let me bring you back to this and ask you about these two, i think it s safe to call them flash points that we started the program talking about and just ask you again if the house intel committee wants to know everything steve bannon knows about the decision to fire jim comey, your friend, does that suggest that maybe a potential obstruction of justice inquiry goes back further than that, that perhaps they re
knowledge? he wasn t on that flight, but he was obviously still on the senior staff of the white house and pretty frequent contact with the kinds of communications staffers who were involved in crafting either the ultimate statement or the one that was dismissed. is that the kind of lines of questioning that you would like to know more about from steve bannon? certainly, nicole. there is deep evidence he had expansive knowledge from the time he joined the campaign all the way up until when he fell out of favor with the white house, when the fire and fury book came out. he s a witness we must hear from. we hope that is resolved soon. if the president is indeed sincere about his declaration that he wants to be cooperative, then he should make mr. bannon available immediately. mr. bannon makes some allegations about jared kushner in the new book that s out, fire and fury. he squarely puts a lot of the blame for the firing of jim comey at jared kushner s feet. is there anything tha
more interest to you or someone that you d like to meet with again? nicole, we essential want to understand what led to the firing of jim comey because by the president s own words, it was attached to and related directly to the russia investigation. steve bannon, of course, was at the white house at that time. he was working with jared kushner and would have knowledge of what led up to that firing. so, yes, there are so many reasons we need to hear about what he saw at the white house, what he knows about actions others were taking. most importantly, what does he know about the president s knowledge of russia s interference, about the president s determination to fire james comey. the president s determination to keep general flynn on board until it became a public relation iz nightmare. there is so much he knows and so much that the american public needs to learn. you re about to your committee, i believe, is about to hear from corey lewandowski. he never worked in the white ho