he loses, could go to real prison time, and i want to remind people, it doesn t matter whether the committee still technically exists later, or what happens in a controlled congress, he could very likely end up in prison, which i think is lawyers warned him, how do you interpret what seems to me to be a pretty major washington post story tonight, friday night, john, that basically suggests that as soon as tomorrow, bannon might fold and try to cooperate? cooperate is where i stop, because i have to see it. consider the fact that executive privilege is granted by biden, the present president, and so it is irrelevant that trump does this, so why does trump do it? trump does it because that is what bannon has said already and he wants it to happen and why does he want it to happen since they both know what they did together? so, my feeling as a prosecutor would be this is a trojan war, coming into spread nonsense and to try to come in from inside, blow up the investigation.
trying to do misconduct or steal the election, who are providing privileged counsel or other privileged professional work, for the executive branch, for the president in this case. unlike say, mister bannon who i mentioned also is talking about privilege today and we will get to that or mister navarro, the white house counsel does have some strong privilege claims. but they are not like attorney- client privilege, indeed, there is no person that they have as attorney-client protection for. they are not the personal lawyer for the president. you pay mister pat cipollone s salary when he serves, and he serves for the office of the president. now here is how one former january 6 panel investigator puts some of this. i think mister pat cipollone, for some of the information he has, has legitimate privilege concerns but a lot of the information he has is not privileged, so hypothetically if he said mister president, you should not go to the capital because
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN) – Some of Donald Trump’s close associates can now exhale.
In the waning hours of his term in office, Trump granted clemency to dozens of people, including his former political strategist.
In the dark of night, hours before Joe Biden was inaugurated, Trump issued a list of pardons and commutations.
Among the 73-people who received a presidential pardon was Trump’s one-time political strategist Steve Bannon.
CNN Senior Legal Analyst Preet Bharara said, “I’ve always assumed that President Trump has no shame, doesn’t care about how things look and wants maximum protection for himself.”
for emails, call logs and documents relating to his role in how the russian investigation began. welcome to you both. are you there? i am here. shannon: the new york times talking about the presumption or appearance the president is using the doj to go after his enemies, the president long attacked mister bannon brennan about his narrative of deep state cabal of obama administration officials to sabotage his campaign. it is a potential avenue for proving those claims. where do you think this is going? that is ridiculous. john durum is a career prosecutor, unimpeachable character, i use that term intentionally, a guy the obama administration turned to to investigate the cia interrogation program and the
him. he called the store with his speech. it is awful of mister bannon. julie: when you look at how the president was elected and there are a lot of conservatives and those further on the right that don t necessarily find president bush a remarkable president you have to wonder if he is alienating republicans that do love president bush. he is a well-respected man. does he run the risk of alienating those republicans with the midterm elections coming around? it is clear steve bannon and donald trump are the head of this party, they won the presidential election, the won primary, defeating george w. bush s brother and other more mainstream republicans. they are the head of the party and the direction based on part