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.
if hope hicks tries to invoke executive privilege, they re willing to go to court. they re not backing down on this point, natasha. right, they realize how valuable hope hicks testimony is to kind of getting to the broader, getting to the brought tem of the broader question whether or not trump had corrupt intent when he fired comey when he drafted that statement aboard air force one about the meeting. we ve already seen that they re, you know, willing to take action when it comes to steve bannon issuing an on the spot subpoena. and of course the democrats are extremely frustrated because the republicans will not issue subpoenas for some of most valuable witnesses. of course that means that they are free to attend the hearing and testify pretty much on their own terms. so they really don t have to answer the questions they don t want to answer. of course the white house did not inform the committee according to all the reporting we ve seen that there would be any limitations on hick