former trump aide peter navarro indicted today by the justice department on two counts, contempt of congress for the way he s defied repeatedly in public the insurrection probe. big news whether you follow it here on msnbc where mr. navarro has been a guest or anyone, really, in the trump world or around the nation. a trump white house adviser indicted for issues related to the insurrection. how it played out today. breaking news moments ago involving former top trump white house official peter navarro. peter navarro now criminally indicted. doj indicted him on two counts of contempt of congress. former adviser peter navarro is at this hour in federal custody and about to make a court appearance. he was issued a subpoena in february to produce documents and appear before the committee in march, but refused to do either. wow. they cuffed him, took him out. serious business here. this is very bad news for peter navarro. we are keeping an eye on the federal cows do
indictment and thought he was in some kind of discussion with the justice department. i m in negotiations, discussions, with them about that. as are today you are discussing with the justice department turning over those records? no. what i did was, they re let me say this very carefully. i had responded to the justice department, and there will be ongoing interactions on that to be determined. that was exactly 24 hours ago. this hour last night. in the ensuing 24 hours mr. navarro has seen where that goes. he has been put in hand covers and leg irons. dramatically arrested at the airport. whether or not he understands the gravity that he s facing, whether anything changes in the coming days, only time will tell. he would face up to two years in prison if convict and these counts and he also face as
we are keeping an eye on the federal cows down in washington, d.c. where navarro is currently before a judge. that s how the news played out all afternoon across all the news channels, because this is just a huge development, navarro in court today. you see the sketches. he told the judge he thought it was unfair he was unable to make a phone call after his arrest. he came out to speak to reporters and he used that appearance, you see him there. just within the last couple hours, to complain about the way that the feds treated him. he was apprehended, arrested at the airport. said, at the door of the airplane discussed the way put in hand covers and leg irons. that s what happens if you defy a lawful subpoena to this degree. more on that aspect later in the program. the big news first. doj filed this indictment under seal yesterday. indeed, right before he appeared on the beat last night and they said that would be done until the government s arrest
firearm used by that particular suspect at this point in time, but we haven t searched the vehicle yet. that s to be done. we don t know what we re find inside the vehicle. any indication of multiple suspects at all? no indication, four sur sure. reports are that are being checked out but we have a lot of witnesses to interview with regard to the assault and we ll find out in anyone else was involved. and step us more police presence here on campus and throughout the city? that will be up to osu pd to decide about campus. we don t have any information telling us there s a conspiracy going on. we understand there were at least two people taken out of the parking garage in hand covers. can you address who they were? hand covers. bystanders? suspects? we believe people fled the xeerch and might have gone to their vehicles and, therefore, might have hunkered down when they realized the police were going to search that building. pretty obvious we were going to do a search. until