televised hearings next week. ryan noble at the capitol with us for the very latest. what are two contempt charges he is facing . reporter: so these are reled to the defiance of the subpoena sent to him via the january 6th committee, one has to do with his refusal to hand over documents the committee is interested in as part of their investigation, the other is his refusal to sit in deposition for interview with the committee, both could result in serious jail time and a hefty fine, so far he has been defiant as he was pri was prior to the subpoena issued, he claimed he had executive privilege protection extended to him by the former president donald trump, obviously the committee felt different as did the department of justice. so what happened in court next. reporter: there were some the theatrics, complained about the way the fbi knocked down on his door, complained about the way they arrested him at the airport in washington as opposed to asking him to come in and s
time 8:00 eastern. ryan nobles is at the capital for us with the very latest. what r are the two contempt charges? reporter: these are two felony charges both related to peter navarro s defiance of the subpoena sent to him by the january 6th select committee. one has to do with his refusal to hand over documents that the committee is interested as part of their investigation. the other has to do with his refusal to sit for a deposition and interview with the committee. both are serious charges that could result in significant jail time and a hefty fine. so far navarro has been very defiant, just as he was prior to the subpoena being issued. what s interesting about his situation, he did not engage with the committee at all. he claimed that he had an executive privilege protection that was extended to him by the former president donald trump. obviously the committee felt differently as did the department of justice. hence the reason that he s under indictment tonight. what
tweet that he sent out telling everybody to come on january 6th at 1:00 p.m., at the exact time that the constitution called for the house and senate to be meeting in joint session. and we have been able to show in the hearings and we re going to be able to show in a lot manufacture vivid and striking detail in our report precisely how donald trump put the whole plan together and those people who were materially assisting him along the way. liz cheney, i believe, first read from the criminal code last december or january in the statute of obstructing an official proceeding. the committee has more than established that that crime was committed by donald trump. is that the most likely criminal referral the committee will make? well, i don t want to enter
trump, if he is indicted and prosecuted, gets to put on their own defense, and the government must sustain the burden of proving beyond a reasonable doubt that every element of the offense has been met, which is what the government had to show in the oath keepers case. but just to go back to the point that you made before. donald trump, from the standpoint of democracy, set all of these events into motion. the groups that were planning to protest biden were calling for protests either on january 20th, the day of inauguration, or after january 20th, when i think the women for america first group had gotten its permits. and then, trump and his forces got everybody to move the protests up to january 6th, at 1:00 p.m., at the capitol, and that s when he began to mobilize
trump, excuse me, pence would be the target. so i think it was a good move by short. and carl, how big a deal do you think it is, this navarro indictment? well, i think it s a big deal in that it indicates the defiance of all of the people around donald trump to tell the story of what happened and especially the story of attempting to keep joe biden from succeeding to the presidency. everything that bob and don have just been talking about goes to january 6th, goes to 1:00 p.m., january 6th, which is the only time specified in the law in which the president of the united states can be formally elected. and everything that trump did, everything that steve bannon advocated, everything that the lawyers around trump tried to set up was to prevent that election from occurring on january 6th at 1:00 p.m. and