quote, irrelevant to the contempt of congress case against him. that is set to begin next week. the doj wrote, quote, the defendant s sudden wish to testify is not a genuine effort to meet obl gigations, but a last-ditch attempt to avoid accountability. bannon s reversal comes after he received a letter from former trump that waives executive privilege, but new court documents show that an attorney for former president trump actually spoke to the fbi weeks ago and contradicted bannon s claim that the former president had invoked executive privilege over particular information or materials, so who is telling the truth and who is not? more on that in a moment. also, in the january 6th public hearing that is tomorrow, this is the next one, the panel is expected to focus on how the violent mob came together, the rule of extremist groups in the deadly insurrection, and any connections of those groups to trump s inner circle. a former spokesman for the oath keepers, a far right
now, we are expecting at least one more prime-time hearing that will focus on trump s actions or lack thereof on january 6th but the committee has not ruled out additional hearings, especially since they continue to unearth new information. just on friday the committee interviewed former white house counsel pat cipollone for eight hours behind closed doors so we could certainly see his testimony pop up in future hearings. on that point of the eight-hour deposition with pat cipollone on friday, i mean, what came of it, the main headline that they would share, because they won t tell us everything yet and we ll see clips of it tomorrow, but essentially he didn t predict anything, specifically the testimony of former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. he did invoke his fifth amendment several times and he didn t questions that were obvious. they didn t try to get him to cooperate. reporter: what the committee has said is they didn t specifically ask him about other
bannon and his legal team of trying every trick in the book to change the optics of this criminal contempt of congress charge. they re saying that really he s about to face the consequences, so now he s really throwing anything against the wall to see what sticks. and the prosecutors here are saying that you can t cure a criminal contempt of congress charge by later agreeing to comply. they say that doesn t fix it. and furthermore, they re saying bannon hasn t complied fully. he s now saying that he will testify, but he hasn t turned over all of the documents that were requested in the subpoena. so prosecutors are putting it this way, writing this, they re saying that defendant apparently has not told the committee he wishes to provide documents responsive to the subpoena, so his 11th hour efforts do nothing to cure his failure to produce records. instead, his continued failure to comply with the subpoena s document demand, while claiming he now will testify, suggests his actions are l
have one at a time. that s one of only six reasons why his claim orbanen s 11th hour claim of executive privilege is bogus, and as jessica mentioned, the attorney said he never did. so it s really a non starter in eight different ways. but it doesn t apply to anything else because trump doesn t have any executive privilege to waive. it s just a last-minute employ to try to affect the dynamic of the trial. harry, you are skeptical that bannon will ever testify. his demand is i will testify before this committee, but you can t depose me behind closed doors first. you have to do it all in public. basically hand me the microphone on live television. i can see the appeal of that from his perspective, however that s not how, as you point out, prosecutors work.