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
the plan. a very different way to garner information than just reading what he writes without being pressed on it or the other place where maga fans had been hearing him. isn t really an interview, more a public strategy session where he and his co-plotter, bannon, talk up these schemes. this moment that came one day after meadows was held in contempt. you are the hero on january 6th steve. you were the guy with the green bay packer sweep strategy to go up to capitol hill, pence is the quarterback. we had 100 people working on the green bay team. linemen, halfbacks and fullbacks. bragging about overthrowing the government in public seems audacious, even for steve bannon and even if you sprinkle in this incessant need to do sports analogies. but as they say, whatever. they both knew there were open probes going on. both have government experience and litigation and investigation is part of this.