asked. i will say, one thing i thought was interesting, in your follow up question he said not only did he think that, but he was talking about steve bannon last week and bannon thought that that the president might have done something wrong in the campaign. bannon was there for a longer period of time than nunberg was there at a more critical period of time and when the wikileaks released john podesta s mails and there for a critical period in the white house. so bannon s opinion if it is true that bannon is saying that, that is something that i find very increasing. i want to talk to people in the subpoena. rick gates, hope hicks, carter page, roger stone and everybody has left or is about to with hope hicks except for michael cohen. and that is what i wonder about given today s news, the wall street journal story that michael cohen was report he wanted to get repaid for the $130,000 that he paid to stormy
is that she would not talk about anything having to do with her time at the white house including any conversation with anyone even if they weren t associated with the white house. which was an extraordinarily broad interpretation of executive privilege. that basically covered a conversation with anybody. so bannon did something similar. he was on the phone back to the white house. he came back again. there was an on the spot subpoena. there s a question what happens to him. are your colleagues on the republican side, have they offered any interest in a subpoena or a contempt citation here? no, none at all. it s my understanding from the majority that they re not going to compel her testimony as far as we can tell. steve bannon is in a different case because he s out of favor. he s beak a man with no country. he s riled up some of the republicans on this committee anyway. breitbart s probably gone after some of them.
invoking executive privilege. that s one thing. there s also a debate over what s covered within executive privilege. but the interesting thing today is that she would not talk about anything having to do with her time at the white house including any conversation with anyone even if they weren t associated with the white house. which was an extraordinarily broad interpretation of executive privilege. that basically covered a conversation with anybody. so bannon did something similar. he was on the phone back to the white house. he came back again. there was an on the spot subpoena. there s a question what happens to him. are your colleagues on the republican side, have they offered any interest in a subpoena or a contempt citation here? no, none at all. it s my understanding from the majority that they re not going to compel her testimony as far as we can tell. steve bannon is in a different case because he s out of favor. he s beak a man with no country.
so a little frustration among the committee members with respect to that. we have to have some discussion as to whether or not those are appropriate and would in effect shield him from having to answer our questions and that s an ongoing conversation we ll have among an awful lot of lawyers. do you feel like he should be held in contempt? i think he should answer our questions. so bannon has reportedly not limited the topics of discussion with the special counsel bob mueller s office. so top white house officials seeking security clearance are being asked if they could be blackmailed. now according to an excerpt from a questionnaire, they re being asked with as much detail as possible, please provide any other information including information about other members of your family which could suggest a conflict of interest, be a possible source of embarrassment or be used to coerce or blackmail you. as of november over 130 white house aides lack permanent
as a lot of other advisers around trump did. so bannon also recognized, though, that if he were going to continue to have a voice in national politics, if he were to be able to lead this nationalist movement, which has been his project all along, he had to be seen as a trump ally, and he positioned himself as this outside resistance leader, supposedly fighting on trump s behalf. in the paperback release of the book, you talk about watching the golden globe awards with steve bannon and you got his reaction to the me too movement, and he said, quote, the anti-patriarchy is going to undo 10,000 years of recorded history. the time has come. he is the patriarch. this is a definitional moment in the culture. it will never be the same going forward. i think bannon despite all his flaws is a shrewd analyst of american politics, and particularly national anxieties. he recognized in those golden