like press. he s boasting his own media channel every day, which is his first amendment right, but then not participating with a lawful probe. when you look at the other doj official i mentioned who may have played a significant role, but is not the same household name as bannon, does that case also matter and what do you make of his claim, the veteran of the same department you worked in, that what he was doing within doj might have afforded him privilege. most americans don t know the name of jeffrey clark but i think they soon will. it looks like the evidence suggests that mr. clark used his justice department position to try and launch a coup. and he angled to even replace the acting attorney general. clark was a relatively low-level person but he tried to angle with trump to replace and run the justice department, and indeed so much so that it said that the entire senior leadership of the justice
asian americans. - the da s office is in complete turmoil at this point. - for chesa boudin to intervene in so many cases is both bad management and dangerous for the city of san francisco. - we are for criminal justice reform. chesa s not it. recall chesa boudin now. gearing up for a major move, preparing to hold jeffrey clark in criminal contempt. that is big. he was a senior justice department official trying to help trump overturn results, refusing to answer questions claiming a type of privilege. he s not a lawyer for the president and the committee s view is he has no right to that. congressman schiff says soon
department voted for him to resign because of clark and what he was trying to do and steal the election. so when you look at madison and the federalist paper, about how men aren t angels, there s a picture of jeff clark. i mean, this is someone who has really got to go and tell the truth about what happened because his role looks really, really serious and it s certainly not something protected by executive privilege. and then there s the structural questions. do you see anything coming out from all of this that suggests there should be some more concrete reform so that the doj is not as contactable, persuadable from a tyrant who wants to use it? there is a structural set of rules and one of my first jobs at the justice department was to draft those rules, and they
they will make contempt decisions about charges. two weeks ago you said that the january 6th committee would move very quickly to refer former white house chief of staffmark meadows for criminal contempt charges after he defied a subpoena. is that still likely going to happen, and if so, when? i think we will probably make a decision this week. we are moving with anyone who obstructs the committee and that was certainly the case with mr. bannon and it will be the case with mr. meadows, mr. clark for any others. schiff s reference there shows that he means business, because the committee has exercised its powers to a degree that has upended bannon s life.