Not just a friend, just a good guy, a friend for a very long time. Thats what the president said. And the two of course do seem particularly close in photo after photo. Here they are greeting the tesla ceo, elon musk, in the state dining room as trump signs an Executive Order about the oil pipeline industry. And this, trump speaking on the phone with vladimir putin, and who is there . Steve bannon. And then when they worked together in the white house, check this out, their offices, steps apart. In fact the only person who sat closer to the president of the United States than bannon was President Trumps soninlaw, jared kushner. Even the official chief of staff, reince priebus, sat farther away from President Trump. And of course as trump knows well from his real estate days, power is all about location, location, location. Slamming bannon, though, was only part of the white house operation today. The Press Secretary tried to rip the book itself and its author, Michael Wolff. Could you
that, the ones not hiding. well, the only thing i can say is the committee will probably to those who don t agree to come in voluntarily, we ll do criminal referrals and let that process work out. and so while i put up a list of the 15 total subpoenas that that are out there, can you explain how that would work? let s say there are criminal referrals against let s say steve bannon or cash patel says he s not showing up and the criminal referral happens. can you walk us through what that process looks like? i m not certain if the chair man decided what we ll do but there is a process for getting criminal contempt turning information over for the district of colombia and getting the department of justice to demand that these people appear in court and be jailed until the point at which they cooperate with the congressional subpoena. it could be civil contempt or it also could be inherent contempt
presidential election will face its first real test from the orange piper. four of trump s closest aides and associates mark meadows and deputy and cash patel and former strategist steve bannon are facing a subpoena deadline to turnover emails, call records and documents related to the capitol attack and been instructed to appear for depositions next week. the former president has been thumping his chest saying to invoke executive privilege and prevent aids from giving information to the committee. this should come as no surprise to anyone as past administration defied subpoena after subpoena while squatting in the white house hiding behind executive privilege. only the current president can decide what is protected by executive privilege making that defense as worthless as a degree from trump university. joining me now is a member of the january 6th select committee congressman jamie raskin. thank you for being here. i have to start with the
and important people in this administration, people already chewed up and spat out barely one year into the president being in office. we have a bigger wall. that made me laugh last night. rachel got a bigger wall. the resignation of hope hicks was another in the staggering number of high-profile departures from this 13-month-old administration. from of the 23 senior staff members who took the oath two days after the trump inauguration, 13 have left or announced exit. hicks said she s done with washington. but washington and robert mueller may not be done with her. the washington post out this morning with new details from her nine-hour meeting with house intel, the meeting that took place just one day before she resigned. lawmakers say they refused to tell, quote, whether she had been asked to lie by white house aides and trump s family members, including jared kushner, ivanka trump and donald trump jr. former white house adviser, steve bannon and cory
what his motives are let not speculate. let s just say they did it. we are going to punish it, and we re not going to let it happen again. h.r. mcmaster has the job that you had. we are hearing that he may be gone by the end of the month. are you hearing anything on that front? and would steve make a suitable replacement? h.r. mcmaster is one of the best generals of his generation. he is doing a fine job. i have no idea about his future in that job. i hope he stays. he s really good. steve biegun worked for me. he s an outstanding person. he is an expert in foreign policy and, of course, spent time in the private sector. obviously he d be very good. let s wait and see. h.r. mcmaster is in the job and he s doing a fine job. when communications people from the bush era call me and ask if they should go interviews in the coms department, i advise them not to. if steve called and asked if he should go, would you advise him to take the job? i think people need to serve.