not even an ex-president claiming executive privilege is above the law. following the committee s vote, a vote will be put to the full house floor to refer steve bannon to the justice department for criminal contempt and though joe biden has signalled his full support for prosecution of bannon, the justice department will have discretion over what happen next and how bannon will be held accountable for refusing to cooperate. overnight, the committee put out a report detailing the legal case against steve bannon. and underscoring his role in the events leading up to the january 7 insurrection. from that report, quote, in short, bannon appears to have played a multifaceted role in the events of january 6. the american people are entitled to his his testimony. the select committee expects such testimony will be directly relevant to its report and its recommend days for legislative and other action. they add that mr. bannon s reported basis for noncompliance is without merit and
More. look, i, like you, am an independent who votes for the democrats. i have voted straight party line not over a single policy but over the preservation of our democracy, and i worry about your side. i worry about the democratic party who right now controls the house, controls the senate, controls the white house, and seems like a deer on a frozen pond about what to do about the filibuster when it comes to federal voting rights legislation. and i hear your conviction of purpose, but i do not hear a strategy for getting the bill through the senate. is there one that has consensus? there is not one that has consensus. there is a lot of discussion going on about how could the rule be modified that would maintain the protections for the minority, and that s really what it s all about. at the same time, not be a tool of just stone cold obstruction. and there are those discussions going on. jeff merkley, for example, from
Capitol. we know that donald trump told mike pence to do the right thing. donald trump pressured mike pence not to count the votes of the georgia rally i think two days before january 6th. donald trump committed his attempt to overturn the election result in public on recorded phone lines, on calls for which there were notes taken, and bannon seems to be very unwilling to have this contempt vote go down. i just want to share with our viewers the latest developments. bannon s attorney requested a delay of tonight s meeting and tonight s vote citing trump s lawsuit against the committee. the committee responded that because trump s lawsuit is related to an archives question and not bannon s testimony, they would deny that. the white house has also weighed in to bannon s attorney today saying this, as you are aware, bannon s tenure as white house employee ended in 2017. to the extent any privileges could apply to bannon s conversations with the former president and white house staff after
Point for the select committee. one thing that s important to keep an eye on is what kash patel and mark meadows do. if they, both of whom were very much trump insiders, decide they re going to play ball with the committee and follow through on these discussions they re having, then that will send an important signal to other witnesses that say, maybe we re not all standing together. maybe there s some penguins jumping off the iceberg and it s not the worst thing in the world to cooperate with this committee and it certainly is preferable to going to prison. so those two folks are key figures to keep an eye on. there s that. there isn t a money train. there isn t a train and there isn t any money on it. trump doesn t pay his lawyer and he s in real legal peril in real trials in real courtrooms giving real depositions that will be
The states, senator? as this goes into this crucial week. yes. and i wish i could tell you that, you know, we ve got it s going to be a, b, c, d. i can t tell you that because there are members of the democratic caucus who are very concerned, and i have been one of them, about undoing the filibuster on policy matters. but to me, this is a whole different category, and if i have to choose between democracy and a senate rule, that s a pretty easy call, i think. and even understanding that it could come back to bite us, it could come back to bite me on something that i m deeply concerned about in the future, but i think this issue is so transcendent that it deserves a solution, because otherwise, you know, we re sunk. this democracy is fragile, and it s under attack. and it s our fundamental