capabilities was found by fbi agents. it s not clear what the document is and what the country is but the list is small there s eight other countries besides the u.s. with nuclear capabilities. the post also reports, some of the seized documents detail top secret operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president, members of the cabinet or near cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to know these details of the special access programs. this reporting has not been confirmed yet by nbc news and the justice department declined to comment but what the president s spokesman is saying about it. and troubles for a top trump ally. nearly two years after being pardoned, steve bannon is expected to face a new criminal indictment in new york and turn himself in tomorrow. details on that case. and this afternoon, a reunion at the white house. former president barack obama and first
beef up the man in the white house. interesting, important context there. we can talk about this the rest of the show so i want to get to the steve bannon news. he s expected to face a new criminal indictment and surrender tomorrow. he released a statement saying the da has decided to proceed with what he calls phony charges. we know the manhattan da s office conducted their own state investigation after trump pardoned him. what more can you tell us about? that was the we build the wall campaign, which was supposedly, according to its founders in their public statement, a completely nonprofit, volunteer effort, where they said they wouldn t take a dime of any contribution, that all the money would go to privately building the southern border wall to try to contain immigration. that s what they said, that s what they proffered, federal prosecutors in indicting bannon said that wasn t true, bannon
isn t this the same office that brought forward charges against paul manafort that were dismissed by a state court? yes, that s true. but the circumstances are different. paul manafort had been found guilty or pleaded guilty to a number of charges similar to the state charges. that never happened to bannon here. this involves the border wall effort. he put a statement out last night, a statement i am never going to stop fighting, in fact, i have not yet begun to fight they will have to kill me first. doesn t sound like somebody who, as many people reached out to me on twitter last night, that wondered whether or not he might quote/unquote flip or turn against former president trump. i would say that s unlikely in this case. charles, last comment to you. what kind of legal fight is bannon in for here? for a serious legal fight. i think the only reason he s not
most powerful appointed job in the white house, the type of person merrick garland has been professionally would suggest that he would have more pause about that than indicting bannon. i think ultimately both are equally culpable. i think that meadows has a better claim for executive privilege because he actually worked in the white house. but the privilege falls when it s not related to the job of the president. and i don t think there s anyone who will argue with a straight face that planning a coup, planning to undermine congress from doing its duty as required by law is part of the president s job. so if the conversations that we would be asking about of meadows pertain to that, then executive privilege doesn t apply. if there s no executive privilege, he has no grounds for