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Two years. we are monitoring that ceremony for you and the president as well when he takes to the podium. let s go to capitol hill behind where that s going on. that is where the select committee investigating the january 6th riots is considering criminal contempt proceedings against donald trump associate steve bannon. julie tsirkin is joining me on all of this. what s the latest on the showdown between bannon and house investigators? reporter: well, alex, it s a game of chicken. because steve bannon isn t complying with his house subpoena, the house select committee will vote on tuesday night whether to refer him for criminal contempt of congress. it s a lengthy process. on tuesday night the house select committee will meet. they will take that vote on a report essentially they put together with their recommendations of why bannon should be referred for criminal contempt, for why he didn t appear before his deposition last week and why he didn t turn over documents as requested t ....
sure. i m a little uncertain on the saturday afternoon timing. i don t know that i ll be tuning in. saturdays are pretty sacred for me, other than joining you guys in the morning. thank you. as we think about this, both president trump as well as the congressional democrats have both been operating off the same theory, which is their hand gets stronger the longer this government shut join lasts, right? president trump believed the longer the shutdown remained, the higher the political pressure will be on democrats to come to the table, and therefore the stronger his hand would be. democrats believe the same thing. look, we ve been clear, we re not going to fund the wall. and the longer it stretches out, the more the incentive is for the president to just reopen the governments right? so in many cases, it s a game of chicken, who s going to blink first. it s unclear what the democrats can offer. i think the democrats have been clear, they don t want to begin ....
Here it is. it s pretty clear a president can t be subpoenaed to a criminal proceeding about him. if he wanted to obstruct it, he d obstruct it, end it. you d all battle whether he has the legal right to do that, which i think he does. if the president is acting within his capacity as president and he fires someone, that can t be questioned. but he is not obviously going to give up his right to pardon if a mischarge mischar mischar mischarge carriage of miscarriage of justice. of course he could. collusion is not a crime. you cannot indict the president. so why do we think i threw all that out there because why do we think we re at month eight now and this is dragging on? i had saul wisenberg on and he thinks the it s a game of chicken, mueller is not 100% he d win that subpoena. the white house is not afraid of a subpoena. this is ridiculous. i m not sure rudy giuliani is ....