wait it out. maybe i ll go ahead and violate this law. maybe i ll go to jail and i ll just take it because he s operating under the same crazy fox news world assumption that he can just wait it out, thug it out, go to jail and donald trump will magically come back into power or come back into power because they steal the election and pardon him. if he s thinking that, would he be crazy to think that? you know, well, the short answer is all of this is a stalling tactic. i mean, as you said, there is no executive privilege here and there is no defense for steve bannon, but the point is they re trying to run out the clock and this will go through a judicial process and the wheels of justice can turn too slowly when we have the kind of election cycle we re looking at right now and that is exactly what they re banking on. they re not banking on legal arguments that hold any water. frankly, they re just banking on
we have channing phillips who i worked with for decades. he is also a very good strong prosecutor. the dcus attorney s office will be in good hands but joy, all of those names you just ran through, people that steve bannon can provide incriminating information about is what makes steve bannon a big ticket witness and if there is any good news with this criminal contempt referral and likely indictment of steve bannon, once the grand jury is invest gating steve bannon s criminal contempt, you know what else they have to investigate that goes along with every criminal investigation in the grand jury? motive. why might he be willing to suffer a contempt charge rather than testify before congress? simple. he doesn t want to incriminate donald trump. why? in part because donald trump was the one who saved him by giving him a pardon after he stole money with his bogus rebuild the wall foundation. donald trump pardoned him.
played golf. so i think that s what frustrates people you also have convention he had a convention he had a national convention on the white house lawn. to just add to your list. and he has a body count of more than a half a million americans right now in brazil charges of mass homicide for doing exactly what trump did here. so i wonder, i think people at this point don t think the institutions are capable of rating someone like him in. what do you think? it s frustrating but the best constraint on donald trump is the law and the law moves not nearly at the pace of trump s corruption. that is what is frustrating. i got a lawsuit against donald trump. many capitol police officers have lawsuits against donald trump. we re moving toward a big ruling on that lawsuit and we hope he ll face the deposition and discovery requests as he faced earlier this week and so i think you re going to see pretty soon
prosecutor glenn. you can see this meeting starting to get ready to take place. curt, this is a familiar location for you because you were staffed for awhile in the congress. we re watching this meeting start to take place. give us a sense in your mind how important is this day as we kind of reflect on where we are since january 1st. how important it is that we publicly see this happening and see congress trying to hold at least one of these january 6th actors to account? i think this is going to be an important chapter in the story of the defense of our democracy and the effort to restore actual checks and balances to our country s process, checks and balances completely wrecked by four years of donald trump. and i m going to be really interested to hear what the members say, both people like jamie raskin, people like bennie thompson, people like liz cheney, what their remarks will be as they prepare to take this very important and really
well, there is one key difference, donald trump was president. he is no longer president right now so i think to glen s point, it does make a difference if he starts to get implicated in something that is an existing grand jury as is a regular ol person walking up and down the street. now, i think the other critical point here is he is absolutely going to get scrutiny, if, if this committee continues to be aggressive. because frankly, there is no reason they cannot subpoena him. and remember that executive privilege is the weakest privilege there is. meaning, it is we don t know what the supreme court would do but i d love to see the litigation party that would happen around subpoenaing donald trump. so look, i think what is critical here is the democrats have to go hard and they have to do it in the interest of protecting the institution. let s read what the white house said about this idea of suing the january 6th committee,