client isn t participating because trump told him not to, citing executive privilege. bannon, you ll recall, was fired back in 2017, so he wasn t even part of the executive branch on january 6th, making any assertions of privilege about his talks with trump legally dubious at best. as for what happens if witnesses don t show, one member of this committee says there will be swift consequences. we re not willing to allow them to play rope-a-dope in the civil courts that way. that is why we will go straight to criminal contempt and expect the justice department, unlike the last one, to uphold the principle that no one is above the law. no one gets to say, i m not going to comply with the subpoena because i don t want to and there s nothing you can do about it. in fact, there is something that can be done about it. they can be prosecuted and go to jail about it. . they are looking to compel testimony any way they can. as for the friday witnesses, we know the former chief of staff mark