bannon is set to go on trial for criminal contempt for refusing to comply with the committee subpoena. days before the select committee is said to hold more public hearings, let s bring in marshall cohen. does it appear likely that bannon will, indeed, testify before the panel? it is not clear yet if this is actually going to happen. it is a change of bannon s posture from where he had been over the last several months. he refused to testify and hand over any documents. he claimed that there was executive privilege. now, he says that donald trump has sent him a letter waving those claims. i just want to be very clear. the justice department does not think that those are very legitimate claims because steve bannon was not in the executive branch. he had left the white house in 2017. that led to him getting indicted for refusing to comply with the subpoena. now, donald trump says that he is waving those claims, which opens the door to steve bannon to go to the committee and o
the january six committee, prepping a hearing for tuesday after landing a major witness. trump s white house counsel, pat cipollone, testifying for eight hours friday. and a videotaped and transcript closed-door interview. now remember the committee said that cipollone did not contradict testimony of other witnesses, and a source told nbc news that he was cooperative, quote. cipollone was inside the white house and the days leading up to the insurrection you may recall, including a white house meeting with discussions about seizing voting machines and sending false letters to state officials about election fraud. and he was also in the west wing on january 6th, during the eight hour testimony he was likely peppered with questions about bombshell testimony invoking his name. watch. presidents white house counsel s pat cipollone was also present. do you remember what his position was? pat was very supportive. pat cipollone throughout these conversations was extremely suppor
eight hour has to money he was likely peppered with questions about bombshell testimony invoking his name. watch. presidents white house counsel s pat cipollone was also present. do you remember what his position was? pat was very supportive. pat cipollone throughout these conversations was extremely supportive of the justice department. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out on the west exact that morning, and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure we don t go up to the capitol capacity, keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable. our committee is certain that donald trump does not want mr. cipollone to testify here. indeed, our evidence shows that mr. cipollone and his office tried to do what was right. we think the american people deserve to hear mr. cipollone personally. so this important testimony is likely to be revealed this week and we will also hear from another key witness it seems, sarah
focused on violent military tactics. i want to bring in national security analyst, julia, a former department of homeland security assistant secretary and she is also the author of the devil never sleeps, learning to live in an age of disaster. thank you for coming on. as terrifying as the attack on the capital was, with this new information, do you get the sense that it could ve been much, much worse? absolutely. the amount of weaponry that the proud boys alone had, as well as the oath keepers, just suggests that they were ready for some sort of activity that would ve been much more violent than what we saw. then, the question is, why did that happen? and in some of the filings we have seen so far in particular, in the cases against the oath keepers, because remember, a number of the oath keepers have now pled, they have turned against leadership, so we are learning a lot about what the planning was, they were waiting for some moments, some triggers, some activation from t
complete holy hell, remember? this is going to be the misdemeanor from hell for merrick garland, joe biden, and nancy pelosi. they took on the wrong guy this time. well, that s what makes the one-time trump white house advisers move now, well, extra confounding because eight months ago, bannon said that he wasn t backing down ever. i mean, the wrong guy this time, right? well, trial dates have a funny way of making people change their minds, shall we say, because now he is, well, backing down. willing to testify before that very committee that he seemed to be mocking and taunting. now, what exactly changed other than maybe the calendar date? we re going to dig a lot deeper into all of that tonight along with new january 6th hearing developments. and if bannon thought his decision to testify now would call someone s bluff at the doj, well he s surely mistaken because a trial is still happening and it won t even be postponed. a federal judge denied his legal team s request