as steve bannon, the trump aide, surrendering in new york for new criminal charges, money laundering, defrauding his own maga supporters. a story nicole and our colleagues have more on that in tonight s broadcast. we begin here with the united kingdom and really much of the world mourning. queen elizabeth ii dying at 96 years old. she sat on the throne as you may have heard for a full 70 years. if that sounds like an extraordinarily long time, even for a monarchy, that s because it is. it is indeed the longest reining british monarch ever. her son, prince charles, is now officially king charles iii. mourners are outside buckingham palace. you can see that there in the evening, a make shift memorial has been growing. the queen passed away in scotland at the family s summer vacation home where she had actually been living for most of the duration of the last two years. the posts on that gate, the queen died peacefully at balmoral this afternoon. that is how the world learned of
favor of the prosecution. on the other hand here are some factors to consider against charging him. al former president does have some claim of executive privilege and the courts never clarified exactly what level of privilege former president claimed but it s not zero. the justice department taken the position that the privilege applies to a president s conversation with people outside the executive branch. getting a conviction requires proof that somebody acted with improper intent. a good faith relies on the advice of council is a completely defense to a criminal contempt charge. there is a matter of precedent. the justice department prosecuted dozens of people for con testimony of congress but never done it in a case involving. prosecuting bannon could set a precedent to contempt charges in
has no way on its own to compel bannon to comply with a subpoena. on the other hand here are some factors to consider against charging him. a former president does have some claim of executive privilege and the courts have never clarified exactly what level of privilege former presidents can claim, but it s not zero. since at least 2007, the justice department has taken the position that the privilege applies even to a president s conversations with people outside the executive branch. getting a conviction requires proof that somebody acted with improper intent, and some federal courts have ruled that a good faith reliance on the advice of counsel. and then there s the matter of precedent. the justice department has prosecuted dozens of people for contempt of congress, but it has never done it in a case involving a claim of executive privilege. so prosecuting bannon could set a precedent that would expose former officials in the future to contempt charges in highly
we can install the person we want to install. this is all tied together in one package. let s listen to what congressman jamie ras kin who is on the january 6th committee said about prosecuting steve bannon. steve bannon is under the spell of donald trump who travels with an army of lawyers. these people think they re above and beyond the law. we expect and we demand that people comply with our orders. so i want to ask you, you know, both points of view, is there a danger in prosecuting bannon, that it will give him a platform for his ideas of tearing down democratic institutions or is the danger bigger by not prosecuting him? i mean, i would go back to the foundations of all of this, which is that we as a democracy with a long history. we have to know what actually happened on january 6th. that s the real issue, it seems that mr. bannon was closely involved in the preparations for january 6th and closely involved with the ideology of what s
chairman, prosecuting bannon or other witnesses for that matter, could take a long time, maybe years. so realistically, what s the goal of criminal contempt? you really think you ll compel testimony or is this meant to send a powerful message to other witnesses? well, i think it s both, wolf. what we want to do is get to the facts. we could support a criminal contempt or we could look at a civil contempt. there are other thing available to us, but we think the criminal gets us to where we need to be in the shortest period of time. we have to get all the information. we have received thousands of pages of information from different agencies about what they were doing during this process. the platforms. facebooks. google. all of them have really cooperated substantially in