adviser, private citizen, meaning whatever conversations he had with trump at the time were likely not protected. ultimately this will almost certainly play out in court. you see, if the full house votes to hold bannon in contempt, speaker nancy pelosi would refer the charges to the department of justice and it will decide whether to prosecute. president biden has made clear what he would like to see happen at that point. i hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? yes. now five former trump aides and allies, none have testified. meadows and patel are engaging with the committee, whatever that means. it doesn t mean much obviously. this morning republican committee member adam kinzinger told cnn more subpoenas could be coming, including one for trump himself. if we subpoena all of a sudden the former president, we know that s going to become kind of a circus. that s not normally something we want to do up front. b
last hour, thank you. we have a lot going on this hour. the latest on a group of americans, including kids kidnapped in haiti. we are also keeping an eye on fairfax, virginia, where terry mcauliffe is set to hold a campaign event with stacey abrams in a down to the wire governors race there. how low is too low. progressives starting to choke on the reconciliation demands making joe manchin and kyrsten sinema happy. i ll ask representative brendan boyle whether there s a limit to his patience with this process. plus, the clock is ticking down to a crucial vote this week on the process of holding steve bannon in criminal contempt of congress. we re not messing around here. we re moving very expeditiously. to me this is an early sign of whether our democracy is recovering. this, you know, potential criminal contempt referral for steve bannon is the first shot over the bow. it s very real, but don t think you re going to be able to just kind of walk away and we re going to
should be prosecuted by the justice department. i hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? yes. that is strong stuff from the president after the white house tried to distance itself from the criminal contempt referral from steve bannon and the doj says the department of justice will make its own independent decision in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law period full stop. that is happening as democrats on the committee are speaking out tonight holdiing bannon and purveyors of the big lie accountable. we re not bluffing. we ll hold people accountable and we expect people to appear before the committee as is everyone s duty before congress and we will take the next step, which is criminal referral. we want mr. bannon s cooperation. he s clearly hiding behind this privilege he doesn t hold and that s fine. if he continues to stone wall, we ll use every means necessary including the tuesday meet
president biden returning to washington moments ago after spending the day in connecticut trying to sell his massive spending bill. that bill, along with much of the president s agenda, stalled tonight. yet, biden says he s still optimistic. i told you before what my neurosurgeon years ago said when i had that an eurysm. he said your problem, senator, is you re a congenital optimist. but i m convinced we re going to get this done. i m convinced we re going to get it done. we re not going to get $3.5 trillion. we ll get less than that. but we re going to get it. and we re going to come back and get the rest. well, the problem right now for the president is that these negotiations over a $3.5 trillion spending bill aren t just holding up that bill. they re actually holding up the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. a bill that passed the senate with 19 republican senators onboard. that s epic. it s amazing. and yet, they can t get the thing passed. it s a bill pro
asia and the cause of change in china. in his last year in office, clinton made expanding the chinese economy one of his most important priorities. to do that he appointed a lobbyist called steve machete and put him in charge of the project. fast forward to today, china has been a member of the world trade organization for 20 years. steve has written an even higher in democratic politics and is a top white house aide to joe biden. as for china, it has changed as bill clinton promised it would. china is now the richest country in the world, police state is far more efficient authoritarian even then it was under chairman mao. china is a much larger threat in united states and its neighbors, as far from peace in asia as we have been since 1945. the american manufacturing sector is gone, evaporated, most products are made in china theater maybe you seen the pictures of cargo ships strung out into the pacific, struggling to get to a port to unload containers. you will hear this d