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they write we will not allow any witness to defy a lawful subpoena or attempt to run out the clock and we will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of congress referral. other democratic members of congress are proposing legislation to fine witnesses up to $100,000 for defying congressional subpoenas. one of the members sponsoring this legislation is congressman joe neguse, a democrat from colorado. he served as an impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of donald trump and he joins me now. there s a lot to digest here because there s a bunch of moving pieces. let s start first with the white house s stepping in to say to the national archives, there s nothing here, go ahead. what does that mean? what s the legal impact and significance of that? well, good evening, chris, it s good to be with you. it s a big development. i think the white house made the right call and a prudent step forward to ultimately direct the national archives to disregard any spurious cla
and at least one listened. the january 6th panel put this out earlier. while mr. meadows and mr. patel are so far engaging with the select committee, mr. bannon has indicated that he will try to hide behind vague references to privileges of the former president. we will not allow any witness to defy a lawful subpoena or attempt to run out the clock. and we will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of congress referral. now, if you ll recall, four trumpers got subpoenas. they only mentioned three. they left out scavino. why? because effectively he s been on the lam for the last two weeks dodging being served, although personal service, meaning to him directly, is not really necessary here. of all those four though, bannon has the fewest reasons to not comply. his lawyer put out this tripe that they must accept trump s
this past thursday to hand over documents related to the january 6th probe. the subpoenas call for them to sit for a deposition. and the congress member bennie thompson and liliz chaney said will not allow a witness to attempt to run out the clock and consider advancing a criminal contempt of congress referral. we will soon how bannon s defense holds up. bannon s resistance doesn t exactly make him look innocent. if he was innocent, he would cooperate. the reason he is not cooperating is because he doesn t have a
this? he needed to show up. the republicans have an interesting idea of what subpoenas are all about. you get subpoenaed, you know up. if they want documents, you give them to them. if you don t do that, you are found in criminal contempt. he had nothing to say. i will point out that the people who did testify from maricopa county were all republicans. those were some of the few republicans around who had the courage to stand up and tell the truth. that the elections were fair here and joe biden won arizona. they have done that from day one. they are to be commended for that. they are now under attack from the trumpers here. they are republicans and they stood up for the truth on this issue. meanwhile, other republicans are dodging subpoenas. the party of law and order. wendy, lawmakers on the gop side tried to use the platform to