semicooperative or cooperative fashion. i ll explain all that and where there s room for skepticism, but all this speaks to what is shaping up is one of the committee s most decisive legal victories as white house veteran and 2016 campaign chair steve bannon makes this move at an attempted partial legal surrender. he is offering a type of last-minute bid to try to cut a deal and cooperate with the january 6th committee. he is saying he wants to testify before this committee. he s sighing that now he will deal with them. he will talk, and if he did so under oath that s a new legal obligation, and he ll do so despite the defiance. a letter from trump himself attempts to explain the reversal. if nothing else, the pressure got to bannon. congress did not negotiate or weight on bannon. the committee made an assertive decision, unusual for democrat-run probes to immediately hold wanten in contempt when he defied, to immediately push for the doj to indict him, which it did. there
on. listen, he said basically what i was thinking, the curtain has been pulled back. do you think more people will see the light, like stockman? do you think the fever has broken or no? you know, i think the fact that the committee hearings were televised is a huge watershed moment, and may, indeed, be history altering. they need to continue doing that. again, as i said earlier, there are some people who will never see it, because they re only watching fox news sorry, i shouldn t say fox news. they re watching fox or oan or news max. however, the more information that comes out, the less it s going to be possible for people to ignore it, because it s just going to seep into the main stream cob snsciousness, right? so i do hope more people like that will come to their senses and realize not just that it
to get away wit. let alone members of congress. so i think they continue to bet on the side of doing what donald has been doing his entire life, brazening through it and getting away with it in the end. uh-huh. listen, cnn spoke with one of the organizers of the january 6 rally who met with the select committee. his name is dustin stockman. this is what he said about the rioters. they were absolutely looking for his twitter account for guidance. i mean, they were looking to hear instructions from the president. and they weren t getting it, so they continued to do what they were doing, it seemed like. man, it that was the point for me it feels like when you get conned, right? like when you finally realize and the shade is pulled from your eyes and you just look back at all the different warning signs you should have picked up
who smoke and think that it s never going to catch up with them. you know, they re going to be the one person who, who is always the one who gets away with it. let s be honest. a lot of people have still gotten away with it, bannon and donald s children and many, many other people actually in the executive branch continue to get away with it, let alone members of congress. so i think they continue to bet on the side of doing what donald has been doing his entire life, brazening through it and getting away with it in the end. listen, whitney wild of cnn spoke with one of the organizers of the january 6th rally who met with the select committee, dustin stockman. this is what he said about the rioters. they were absolutely looking for his twitter account for guidance. i mean, they were looking to
presidential document. that same logic it would seem would apply to the testimony of his former aides. that s why i say i think this will be a tough one for the justice department, unlike the bannon decision, which seems straightforward. nicholas, as we re talking about this contempt of congress vote, again, to set the stage here for folks watching and listening, about 25, 23 minutes from now we expect that debate to begin and we ll dip in live as news warrants and we know as we look ahead to what else the committee is doing, trying to get more depositions from people in the trump orbit. the attorney for one of the rally organizers on january 6th, dustin stockman, said this, we thought was interesting, watch. vigilantes, insurrectionists, masters of a lawless mob, conspired against the district of columbia, its law enforcement officers and resident, by