bannon is his legal claims and defenses here are the weakest because he was not in executive branch employee at the time of these events. any executive privilege claim he may raise here is just completely ridiculous. reporter: while the committee is moving quickly on bannon, they are offering some grace to the other three subpoena targets. the depositions of former white house chief of staff mark meadows and former dod official kash patel have been postponed because they are engaging with the committee, but warning they will only tolerate the delays up to a point. adam schiff taking aim at patel. patel was a former nunes staffer who was a demonstration of the principle in the trump administration that the more willing you were to do anything the president wanted, no matter how unscrupulous it s called and the faster you could rise, and he rose phoenix-like
to comply because he wants to raise issues of privilege. today the committee said we reject that argument in its entirety. now, if he is prosecuted and found guilty, he could be looking at a fine and even jail time. look, jake, this is not a common kind of proceeding. it rarely results in jail time p but i spoke to the lawyers, even in the trump orbit, who say jail could be a possibility if he is found guilty. interesting. of course, there are other trump allies, mark meadows, former chief of staff, kash patel, a pentagon advisor and dan scavino who work at the white house. how about them? lawmakers have agreed to a short postponement of the depositions. does that mean that any of them will cooperate? it s unclear. look at the reporting on kash patel. the former pentagon official. multiple sources say he is still engage being the committee, but we also heard earlier today on a podcast representative adam schiff referred to patel as an evil zelet. yesterday schiff said that not