dicier. the big question will merrick garland, will doj have the comm committee s back? will they support the committee if there s a contempt referral? it s different from bannon in two respects. one, steve bannon did not work in the executive branch at the time of his communications. mark meadows was the chief of staff for the white house. bannon put up a straight up stop sign, red light, saying i m not giving you anything. here meadows will say i gave you significant documents, these are important documents which sort of cuts both ways. it underscores how central his testimony could be to the committee. a powerpoint presentation, a plan to overturn the election. the committee has that. it doesn t say he produced it, i just want to say. but as you say, elie, possessed it. one of the questions if we were on the committee, who watched this, who saw it, how far did it
faith in this case? forgive me for being a skeptic here. given that it seems some analysts who say that the advantage of that right is that you can engage the committee, claim the fifth, and therefore prevent the possibility of contempt charges. so you win on all fronts. it definitely will stop doj from bringing concept charges because they know that there is the basis for a good faith belief. i mean, it is tricky here because you are not in court. when you are in court in the course of a regular proceeding, there is a judge there. and so what often happens is the parties talk to the judge about what the good faith belief is. sometimes without the prosecutors present so that the judge is convinced in the good faith belief. here there is no judge, so a little dicier than it normally would be. who is kind of making that assessment. but i think that we all know frankly from information that has become public, for example the conversation that was recorded with former president trump and
however, you have to measure a against a promise he s made and words, a statement he s made and assurance he made that all troops would stay until all americans were brought home. there are no longer any u.s. service members in afghanistan. there are still americans who want to leave afghanistan. the president, i think, will have to address it today given his assurance he made. that s going be a big question for them given what was how much dicier the situation is. there s no diplomatic presence in kabul. they have moved it. it s a lot different from being on the ground as the presence was before.
of those checkpoints and barbara was saying they don t think this is intentional. they don t have intelligence showing otherwise, but i do think the larger point of what we re seeing happening in afghanistan and where it goes from here, it s only gotten dicier, the last few days the president has said they re still going to stick by these next now less than five days that are going to happen, is going to be even more concerning because there are still active threats on the ground, before this attack had happened, white house officials said they were most worried about the last days when there were the fewest u.s. troops when they were starting to wind down that presence about what could happen. we have seen those worst fears realized, but they could not be over. they re very real, very concerned about it, and they still have a lot of people to get through the airport before the u.s. is completely gone. these groups have a lot of people willing to blow t themselves up. the frafternoon
from here, it s only gotten dicier, the last few days the president has said they re still going to stick by these next now less than five days that are going to happen, is going to be even more concerning because there are still active threats on the ground, before this attack had happened, white house officials said they were most worried about the last days when there were the fewest u.s. troops when they were starting to wind down that presence about what could happen. we have seen those worst fears realized, but they could not be over. they re very real, very concerned about it, and they still have a lot of people to get through the airport before the u.s. is completely gone. these groups have a lot of people willing to blow themselves up. i approeciate it. thank you. the afternoon, i spoke to matthew aikens who was in kabul when the attacks occurred. i understand you went to the airport. how soon after the attack were you there and what did you see? we were there less than