the select committee issues a subpoena saying clark has to talk to congressional investigators. clark gets no word from trump. fast forward a couple weeks. clark goes into the deposition. still radio silence from trump and his lawyers. trump couldn t be bothered to take five minutes to type out an e-mail saying i believe jeffrey clark would violate my executive privilege if he talks to congress, jeffrey clark, i don t want you to go in. trump has not done that. we know trump has not done that because the transcript of clark s deposition, quote unquote deposition with these congressional investigators where he refused to answer questions, in that deposition clark s lawyer confirms they hadn t heard from trump for months. trump is not helping him. if you re a prosecutor at the department of justice and you re trying to decide whether or not
january 6th committee s investigation. and she joins me now. betsy, can you give me a little background i guess on the clark situation? a little different than bannon for a few different reasons. a more colorable claim to privilege. and he did show up. he didn t just blow them off. what can you tell us about the committee s deliberations about arriving at this recommendation? the biggest problem for clark, which is a problem bannon actually didn t have, is that even though trump would have had firmer ground to assert executive privilege as it relates to clark, trump didn t actually do that. trump ghosted on jeffrey clark. the last communication that trump and his legal team ah. sent to jeffrey clark, according to clark himself, was on august 2nd of this year. and in that communication trump said he would not go to court to block clark from talking to congressional investigators. fast forward to mid october.