january 6th voting to recommend criminal contempt charges against steve bannon for defying a subpoena to appear and provide documents. next up, a vote by the full house. the question is, then what? what are the legal steps after that? we can turn now to cnn contributor, former nixon white house counsel, john dean. also, uc berkeley law professor and former deputy assistant attorney general, john yu. john dean, i want to read something that congressman adam schiff, a member of the select committee, just tweeted. he wrote steve bannon was given every opportunity to comply with the lawful subpoena. he chose, instead, to make specious claims of executive privilege. tonight, we voted to hold him in criminal contempt, despite what he and trump may believe, no one is above the law, unquote. what do you make that have? well, i think it s very accurate. i i m surprised that bannon is is as blatant as he is. he is working with an attorney who certainly knows what s happening and understand
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are not supported by actual facts, whether it comes to where most of the drugs come across into this country or volume of illegal border crossings. or that terrorists are coming across the border. a lot of specious claims. if they vote yes, are they de facto saying we agree with those statements from this administration? well, i think they certainly are in agreement. the challenge is if they vote against the president, they raise the possibility they ll get attacked by the president and other republicans on being weak on border security. you already saw that in the president s tweet. it puts the republicans in a difficult position. on the one hand, they all got to congress saying they re for border security and now potentially they re being put in a situation where if they vote against the president they ll be call weak on border security. the bigger challenge here, though, is if you look at the president s emergency declaration, it relies on this underlying law that says the mil