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bannon is set to go on trial for criminal contempt for refusing to comply with the committee subpoena. days before the select committee is said to hold more public hearings, let s bring in marshall cohen. does it appear likely that bannon will, indeed, testify before the panel? it is not clear yet if this is actually going to happen. it is a change of bannon s posture from where he had been over the last several months. he refused to testify and hand over any documents. he claimed that there was executive privilege. now, he says that donald trump has sent him a letter waving those claims. i just want to be very clear. the justice department does not think that those are very legitimate claims because steve bannon was not in the executive branch. he had left the white house in 2017. that led to him getting indicted for refusing to comply with the subpoena. now, donald trump says that he is waving those claims, which opens the door to steve bannon to go to the committee ....
ordinarily, we do depositions and this goes on for hour after hour. we want to get all of our questions answered and you cannot do that in a live format. right. the committee and bannon are not in the same place. they have to negotiate and work this out. you can ignore what is looming, he is supposed to go on trial this week. it could be an attempt to stave off that trial and find some accommodation with the committee. time is of the essence. a jury selection begins next week. thank you so much. to talk more about this, harry littman, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. good to see you. bannon, he was not a white house adviser on january 6th, and there are serious legal doubts that he could use executive privilege as an ....
Principle of do no harm. you can never put a guy like this on without knowing exactly what he is going to say. cassidy hutchinson had four depositions behind the scenes. they will insist on that. i think negotiations will breakdown and it really is not a bona fide offer. my prediction is this does not actually happen. why would they change the process now? deposition, on tape, that has been the circumstance of all of the witness testimony before going live to the public. let s remind people, bannon was not a member of the trump administration on january 6th but he was actively spreading false conspiracies about the 2020 election being stolen from trump. he had this to say, one day before the capital riot. take a listen. understand this. it is not going to happen like you think it is going to happen, okay? ....