it s debate week so we have james here, too. 30 second spin room then we ll let you go. since i have you both here what s key for debate night, nicolle? i just think people need to understand this has never happened before. it s a huge television event. it s a huge political event. the conversations we have every day with our viewers and brilliant people like james are not things a lot of americans going to watch in the debate are going to be tracking day to day. it s hugely important. huge opportunities for both men and huge liabilities and risks for both men. it s why people watch sports. it s why football is one of the top 20 televised large events because anything can happen and can be brutal. this is the political version of a big and important consequential football game. yeah, absolutely. i m going to get james response, but as a courtesy because i know how hard you work, two hours every day, but i m going to let you go and we ll do it on the program. nice to see
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be told your executive privilege claim is denied. you don t get to claim it. how is it possible he and donald trump seem not to understand that? i think the problem is that they do understand it, joy, but they ve learned over the years that playing a delay game with the courts serves their purposes when they re trying to avoid doing something here. that s why congressmen schiff is dead on the money here and why it will be so important if the committee makes a request to the justice department to bring a criminal contempt proceeding, that would actually be a prosecution of bannon for criminal contempt that would subject him for up to a year in prison. it would be important for doj to proceed. the madness has gone on long enough. it s time to tell trump no and in this case, it means steve bannon and other witnesses need to sit down and testify on congress. elie, what do you make of the donald trump lawsuit? he s saying executive privilege
he warned yesterday our democracy is in a death spiral. what we re seeing is congressmen schiff mention this constant erosion of confidence in the electoral system and it is ultimately anti democratic and we re frankly in a death spiral as i see it and two years, four years at the ballot box isn t good enough and there has to be other accountability measures for those that will continue to proliferate these lies. that s what makes the committee investigating january 6th so critical. and it s why the question of whether attorney general merrick garland will enforce and trying to defy the committee is a life or death question for our democracy. joining me is john brennan and olivia troy, former senior aid of the white house coronavirus task force and director of the accountability project. dr. brennan, i suffer from
an agent in the field or a line ausa in some u.s. attorney s office. that is something that would have very high level involvement and approval from the highest levels of both the fbi and doj. if the case was focused on a staffer at least initially is it odd that apple was under a prolonged gag order and that congressmen schiff and swalwell only found out just recently their records had been subpoenaed? the purpose of a gag order in a case like this, and i can tell you from my own experience supervising, overseeing many of them in the fbi, is to ensure the target of the investigation isn t notified about the investigative activity that is taking place. and that is pretty legitimate. the question here is how long did those gag orders stay maintained and renewed even after the investigation moved on and they apparently were no longer interested in this staffer? that raises serious questions of about, were they using the gag