decide not to. the d.c. u.s. attorney could convene a grand jury, present evidence to that grand jury and let the grand jury decide whether not an indictment against mr. bannon as warranted one other option i believe don t hold me to this if it s not the case but i believe based on my understanding of how these things, work based on the type of charge this would theoretically be against mr. bannon, i believe the d.c. u.s. attorney also has the option to draw up the charges against bannon himself without going to a grand jury at all which is another way to approach this. regardless of how the u.s. attorney s office decides to handle this, we won t know anything about the process until it s done, until the charges brought, in case that would be known. or into the justice department, u.s. attorney s office decides to release some statement about their decision not to charge mr. bannon. nwe won t know until it s done. we might not for sometime. attorney general merrick garland, the leader
for prosecution over his refusal to obey a subpoena from the january 6 investigation. now, as to whether or not the justice department is actually going to put him on trial, we really don t know. the dc u.s. attorney could decide not to. the d.c. u.s. attorney could convene a grand jury, present evidence to the grand jury and let the grand jury decide whether or not an indictment against mr. bannon is warranted. one other option, i believe, don t hold me to this if this doesn t turn out to be the case, but i believe, based on my understanding of how these things work, based on the type of charge this would theoretically be against mr. f bannon, i believe that the d.c. u.s. attorney also has the option to just draw up the without going to a grand jury at all, which is yet another way to approach this. regardless of how the u.s. attorney s office decides to handle this, though, we really won t know anything about that process until it s done, until a charge is brought, in which case that
a vote of like the entire, i don t know, d.c. u.s. attorney s office or the metropolitan police department to come to the conclusion that a subpoena needs to be enforced. i mean, i feel bad for the members of the committee that have to go through this kind of, you know, circus, just to enforce a subpoena. it s interesting you just said that because i think you point to something that hangs over this entire story. you re a police officer. you ve spent your life and career as a police officer and policing in america can be a very fraught topic. it can be polarizing in certain ways and yet the thing that stands out in this story is a group of people show up to the capitol and violently assault a bunch of police officers. in some cases, under a literal blue lives matter flag. you know, saying that they are there, you know, on the side of police against the unruly mobs.
the vote was 413-0. once the justice department got that unanimous referral from the house to prosecute her, the d.c. u.s. attorney s office moved quickly. they pretty much immediately convened a grand jury and within eight days that have vote in the house the grand jury, in fact, handed down an indictment of that reagan administration official. so she was put on trial, but then in the end, surprise, the grand jury, excuse me, the jury in her trial acquitted her. she was found not guilty of criminal contempt of congress, and that was the last time it was tried. 1983. this is not a thing the justice department does often. it s been almost 40 years since the last time they took a run at it. but they don t have to reinvent the wheel. the president is there. it s just very rarely used. meanwhile, just to up the drama, former president donald trump sued the january 6th investigation and the national archives yesterday in an attempt
that unanimous referral from the house to prosecute her, the d.c. u.s. attorney s office move quickly. they pretty much immediately convened a grand jury, and within eight days, of that vote in the house, the grand jury in fact, handed down an indictment of that rigging image ministration official. so she was put on trial. but, in the end, surprise, the grand jury, the jury, acquitted her. she was found not guilty. of criminal contempt of congress. and that was the last time that it was tried, 1983. this is not a thing the justice department this often. it has been almost 40 years since they took a run at it. but they don t have to reinvent the wheel. the president is there. it s just very rarely used. we mean well, just up to drama, former president donald trump sued the january six investigation, and the national archives yesterday. in an attempt to stop the committee from obtaining trump white house documents and other records that the committee has subpoenaed in part of its