good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. we have major news developments in the capitol riot investigation. this is including the public s first look at a documentary at the center of a subpoena of the january six committee. can we talk for minute about january six? yeah. you said before you did want to talk about the capitol insurrection. yeah, let s get the sixth. so what s trump and his children would and would not say as you saw there about what happened on that fateful day. plus, we re going to get into breaking news on trump die hards deep in and who may now want to talk to the committee. we re also following these wildfires and yosemite. these are threatening historic sequoias there. weeks of go oil and gas prices have people fear in some relief at the pump. more on that ahead as well. we want to start with the january six investigation. two days before the committee s next hearing a, highly anticipated trump documentary on the presidency. you saw a little bit
so, now we know all the details of what took place. when it came to the phone call to brad raffensperger, when it came to the pressure campaign that was put on the governor of georgia, what do you make of what we just heard from the former president? i, ghana think we see donald trump just trying to discredit those people that are in power. trying to undermine their credibility in an effort to push his own narrative. but i think that it s gonna get to the bottom of this. she s putting everybody in the grand jury who was involved in this, those facts will ultimately prevail over whatever fiction donald trump is peddling. can you tell me about your thoughts on steve bannon, i m fascinated to hear, what do you think the motive is behind donald trump writing this letter saying, okay, i m no longer claiming executive privilege, even though that doesn t exist when that comes to steve mott bannon to testify? this is a last-minute effort
in my view, a gimmick to create a defense for steve bannon at his trial. i think he s trying to model and confuse the jury by suggesting that the only reason that steve bannon refused to testify in the first place because donald trump had a judge felt he had not. as you just suggested, he doesn t have a privilege to assert anyway. the privilege belongs to joe biden. the judge found that it s outweighed by the interest of getting january six. there s no executive privilege at all on many levels. but by waiving it now, he is creating an issue for steve bannon to say trump, how could i have violated the law, when donald trump didn t even wavered the privilege until july. the other clever thing about this letter, is what it says it is not that i am waiting privilege, or have waived the privilege, but i will waive the privilege if you can work out an appropriate time with the committee to testify. knowing full well that the committee has moved on, they have seven other witnesses, the mo
the jury selection for a trial and his contempt of congress charge. the department of justice charge bannon with that at the house voted to hold him in contempt. this is very, as you said, interesting timing for this lighter. it opens the door for bannon to be with the january six house committee. as several number set on the shows today, they will welcome any and all testimony from bannon. the key though, they have to agree on the terms. i would like to read a portion from the letter that bannon s attorney sense to chairman bennie thompson shortly after president trump waved, as you said, that executive privilege. the letter reads, in part, president trump has decided to be it would be in the best interest of the american people to waive executive privilege for bannon to comply with the subpoena issued by your committee. mr. bannon is willing to, and indeed prefers, to testify at your public hearing. if that s a term for bannon s involvement, that might be a
in georgia, both privately, and publicly, and i think it s noteworthy that this documentary does not just for each of the interviews with the trump family. it has a lot of footage that really emphasizes the violence, and the chaos at the capitol in tandem with trump s rhetoric. yasmin. we re going to be talking more about this documentary, unprecedented, with former u.s. attorney a little earlier in the show. it do want to talk about this breaking news we re hearing. when it comes to see bannon, msnbc obtain these letters that show the president leaving his nonexistent, should i say, executive privilege. bannon offered to testify in fact of the january six committee. what is the committee hoping to learn from steve bannon? what are we see as the motive here, the motivation for bannon to in fact testify? it s worth noting, yasmin, that steve bannon is about a week away from his trial beginning.