Minority leader Chuck Schumer. A new president about to take control. What can we expect on day one . From abc news, its this week. Here now, coanchor martha had. Good morning. Welcome to this week. The trump transition is shifting sea from the hustle and bustle of the big city to the Country Estate played the gracious host to a parade of cabinet prospects. This is not your usual transition. Years passed all the work was done behind closed doors. The interviews private, off camera. But not this time. Theres the president elect welcoming mitt romney. Discussing world affairs. Letting buy gones be bigons. Hes being talked about as secretary of state. Theres general james mattis being considered for secretary of defense making quite an impression. Just a brilliant wonderful man. What a career. Were going to see what happens. But he is the real deal. But before we get too swept away by act two, we need to press pause, rewind. Because this week we learned a lot about the next president , th
big lie, the former acting attorney general. the big question today, will any witnesses show up? the former president urged aides to ignore subpoenas. one said overnight he won t show, effectively daring lawmakers to hold him in contempt. cnn s ryan nobles has more from capitol hill. reporter: laura, christine, thursday is a crucial day for the january 6 select committee. today is the day where they are expected to have those first round of closed door depositions from two key trump associates. steve bannon and kash patel. patel the former d.o.d. official, bannon a former white house counselor, someone working outside the administration in the lead up to january 6. the big question is whether either of these men will comply with the subpoena request, and the committee has made it clear that if they don t show up, that they re ready to take serious action to force them to comply, including up to criminal contempt referral which could
the president handles these things, he would see this as a victory in the way he effectively slammed down someone who had been an ally. not going to the underpinnings of what bannon s criticisms may have been, but simply from the level of trying to get out of bannon a perceived sort of knee on the ground on the playing field. so from that point of view, i think the president would see this as a win on his side. for the president s part, he s certainly already given him an unwelcome nickname of sloppy steve. if you hear a reaction, come back on right away. joining me now, laura bassett, and alex seitz-wald, digital reporter. alex, i want to start here with the latest statement from steve bannon. why do you think he s coming out with this now? we heard kelly reporting, we talked about it with other reporters, jonathan swan of axios as well. but your thoughts on this, too. i mean, steve bannon is ultimately only as powerful as
you know. bret: hedge fund billionaire. biggest financiers of his form of nationalism that there is. and so i wouldn t be even slightly surprised if they come up with some entirely new organism for carrying this out. bret: trump tv bannon style. absolutely. look, what happened today is that the civil war moved from inside the house to outside the white house. but the war continues. bannon is very clearly going after the same list of people he found were undermining the president. that he talked about in that interview. is he going to go after them from the breitbart platform or any other. is he going to go after all the softies as he sees it on policy. you know, this is going to be really a bloody affair. i think he has been immensely strengthened. i mean, who heard of bannon a year ago? everybody has heard of
you know. bret: hedge fund billionaire. biggest financiers of his form of nationalism that there is. and so i wouldn t be even slightly surprised if they come up with some entirely new organism for carrying this out. bret: trump tv bannon style. absolutely. look, what happened today is that the civil war moved from inside the house to outside the white house. but the war continues. bannon is very clearly going after the same list of people he found were undermining the president. that he talked about in that interview. is he going to go after them from the breitbart platform or any other. is he going to go after all the softies as he sees it on policy. you know, this is going to be really a bloody affair. i think he has been immensely strengthened. i mean, who heard of bannon a year ago?