acting attorney general, jeffrey rosen, he met with the committee for eight hours. wow. but pointing out, with people like steve bannon completely stonewalling, it is important to know someone like clark could comply and i know this is a big week for the committee from your reporting, paula. previously subpoenaed trump loyalist bannon and cash patel are scheduled to give testimony and depositions to the committee tomorrow. mark meadows and dan scavino are scheduled for friday. now, we do know bannon is not cooperating, right? um, so don t expect anything there, yet. is there any chance that the other three show up for their scheduled deposition? well at this point, bannon says he is not going to comply unless there is a court order. and the committee has made it clear that they will move quickly, perhaps as soon as tomorrow, to refer anyone who doesn t comply to the justice department for criminal contempt. now, cash patel. he told us earlier today that he is engaging with the comm
four years, democrats are now in charge of the house and the justice department. while trump was in office it was a lot easier for advisers like bannon to get away with obfuscation because attorney general sessions and barr would not pursue criminal contempt. but now the decision on whether to pursue proceedings will go to attorney general merrick garland. schiff would not comment on whether the teams already started drafting criminal referral for steve bannon but it is expected the committee will wait at least until the end of the week after the deadlines have passed before pursuing any additional recourse against any witnesses who don t show up. paula, tomorrow also is a key deadline for other subpoenas, right? that s right, jake. trump advisers are not the only ones who received subpoenas. tomorrow is the deadline for a group of people associated with the january 6th rally to turn over requested documents. multiple sources tell cnn that several of those people intend to comply b
urge the justice department to prosecute anyone who refuses to comply with subpoenas from the panel. now there are some signs of what could potentially be progress. schiff said today the committee is engaging with lawyers for former chief of staff mark meadows and former pentagon official kash patel to try to secure their testimony. as you noted, longtime trump adviser steve bannon has indicated he ll not appear until a judge resolves questions about executive privilege. now bannon was not part of the executive branch at the time in question and his blanket refusal to cooperate is unlikely to hold up. he s scheduled for a deposition on thursday. if he makes good on his threat not to show, just how fast could a criminal referral happen? let s take a listen. days, weeks, months in terms of when the criminal referral will come? it will come very fast if people refuse to cooperate. schiff noted unlike the past
biden presidency in the crib. that is a foreshadowing, of course, of the violence that we saw the next day. they re trying they are working around the edges in a very logical way. now bannon what we have in our book, bannon has publically confirmed. robert, bannon is one of the of the people being subpoenaed. the book reveals how instrumental he was in the final days of the presidency. as bob said, by then, it was known that people who once were horrible could be advisers once again. were you surprised how much influence that bannon had on the president leading up to january 6? it s significant they were in such communication. this was not some kind of outsider occasionally talking to
the trump world you go and you come back. ban no one says to trump, we will strangle the biden presidency in the crib. and that is a foreshadowing, of course, of the violence that we saw the next day. so they re trying they re working around the edges in a very logical way. now bannon, what we have in our book, bannon has publicly confirmed. robert, bannon is one of the people, as we said, being subpoenaed. the book describes how instrumental he was in the final days of the trump presidency. as bob said, by then it was known that people who once were persona non grata around the president could easily become his best friends and advisors once again. were you surprised by how much influence bannon had on the president leading up to january