history. the foundershi, as you know, wee quite partisan and , you know,e the federalists went after the democrats with the alienistens addition act and thn jefferson turned the tables on him. so it makes absolutely no sense. it s kind of akin to dana basht. ,spirit of the law statement.d but david makes a really good id point. it is not i don ont know t kno r or not this judge is is biasedtf or not. he seeme hd to giso out of his y to to show that he didn t wante to issue a gag order. but i know that the appearance, the appearance of proprietisy is very, ver iy important.e shot and every judge should think about this whe n he or sher decides whether they should stay on the case. th case. well, david , one thing struck me as potentiallyng t concerning tonight, and everyone knows i alway, ans speak my mind on these legal issues.. and i thought trump speech was d really very strong in tone
by the court what s good and what s bad. the doj now gets to handle its case as they handle every other case, which is pretty much on their own without judicial interference. so, yeah, it s a big advantage for the government. all right. full steam ahead, they say. right. michael zeldin, good to see you. thanks so much. good to see you, fred. thank you. still ahead, democrats are looking to shake up the presidential primary calendar. ahead, why president biden wants to make south carolina the first state to hold a primary and strip iowa of their long-held status. mom couldn t decide. but thanks to the right plan promise from unitedhealthcare she got a medicare plan expert to help guide her with the riright care team behind her. the right plan promimise ononly from unitedhealthcare. with gold bond. you can age on your own terms. new retinol overnight means the smoothing benefits of retinol are now for your whole body. plus, fast-working crepe corrector diminishes wrinkled skin
what about how the committee should handle and treat the republican members of congress who ignored those subpoenas? is it enough, you know, to have them censured? you know, challenge them, you know, by filing contempt, you know, arguments? what do you think should happen? each case is different and the committee has to make a determination whether or not it is the sort of behavior that requires referral to the justice department, like we saw in the steve bannon case, where they re recommending contempt of congress, or they just refer it to the ethics committee because it s something less than that. i don t think they can do nothing. i think that sets a bad precedent. i think that over the years congressional power has been marginal itzed by the executive branch, and i think the government the legislative branch of government needs to assert itself. it s interesting, fred, of
what they ve been investigating for all these months. then on friday, two top lawyers from the trump white house, they were seen entering a court in d.c. and it came after a federal judge rejected trump s privilege claims and ordered pat cipollone and patrick philbin to provide testimony as part of the investigation into january 6th. so, in your view, what kinds of questions were probably tossed their way? i believe that what has happened here is that the judge overseeing this case decided that president trump s assertion of privilege, executive or attorney client, is not availing, and therefore these guys have to come in and answer questions about their conversations with the president. so we re going to get this first-party testimony from these guys, i spoke to the president and this is what he said-type of evidence. i saw these documents, and this
we start with this breaking news, any moment now, we re expecting a sentencing for former trump adviser steve bannon for the contempt of congress after defying a subpoena from the january 6th committee. prosecutors asked the federal judge to sentence bannon to six months. let s bring in ken dilanian. he s outside the federal courthouse in washington. what s the latest? reporter: jose, the judge took a break to consider the sentence and he came back into the courtroom. literally, any second now, we could hear about a sentence for steve bannon. perhaps the most interesting thing that happened before that was first of all, steve bannon declined to speak to the court. he said his lawyer spoke for him and that lawyer told the judge that steve bannon had nothing to apologize for in this case.