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both government employees. they worked in the white house. they drew salaries paid by the taxpayers. they had conversations with the ex president so now they are saying they won t answer any of our questions because of executive privilege. there are a couple big problems with their argument. first, generally speaking, executive privilege doesn t belong to just any white house official to the president, here president biden has been clear executive privilege does not prevent cooperation with the select committee by either mr. scavino or mr. navarro and while the ex president reportedly raised privilege concerns when it comes to mr. scavino and mr. navarro s case, nobody is even trying to invoke privilege except mr. navarro himself. that s just not the way it works. peter navarro isn t president.
former fbi guy is when they admit they did it. that makes your job easier. here is peter navarro coming on ari melber s show. if the votes were sent back to those battle ground states and looked at again that there would be enough concern amongst the legislatures that most or all of those states would decertify the election that would throw the election to the house of representatives. do you realize you are describing a coup? no. i totally reject many of your premises there. ari tried to alert him to the foolishness. peter, the thing that s so wild is when you read the washington post piece about what ted cruz was advising be done, if you read the eastman memo about what he was claiming could be done and you go through what g ishlgs
it s important to note that even if a president has formerly said invoked executive privilege regarding testimony of a witness which is not the case here, that witness has an obligation to sit down under oath and assert the privilege question by question. but these witnesses didn t even bother to show up. second, if the ex president has a claim to privilege, this happened in a privileged capacity. if mr. scavino or mr. navarro are claiming they all that all the information they have is protected by executive privilege, they did it in their officials roles paid by taxpayers. as i said before, we want to talk to mr. scavino and mr.
something profound when we raise our hands and swear an oath. we haven t finished the work of our investigation but i can say confidently that the many involved in the run up to january 6th, an oath, i fear would happens if those people, again, given the reigns of power. these men, mr. scavino and mr. navarro are in contempt of congress. i encourage my colleagues to support adoption of this report, and i m confident the house will adopt a resolution citing them for this crime. i hope the justice department will move swiftly to hold them accountable. and please, now to recognize my friend the gentleman from wyoming for any remarks he cares to offer. thank you very much, mister chairman.