hope that steve bannon is going to magically show up and say something or tell the truth. which you can t count on. but they could get the phone records and who donald trump was talking to from the white house that day and they need to do as good of a job as they can and not do too much. if it is tied up in litigation, that is life i suppose. but paul, bannon was fired by the white house a long time ago. this is all what he did as a private citizen. trump is exerting executive linl because he was president trump at the time leading up to the insurrection and the weeks after. but bannon wasn t. no, there is no insurrectionist privilege. mr. bannon was a private citizen. i believe in executive privilege. bill and i both worked in white house s. presidents have to have the right to communicate in confidence with the closest aides about policy. it s been eroded too much. we don t subpoena supreme court clerks and i think reporters should have some privileges. that said, it can t extend