subpoena should be prosecuted by the justice department. i hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable. should they be prosecuted? yes. that is strong stuff from the president after the white house tried to distance itself from the criminal contempt referral against steve bannon and the doj says the department of justice will make its own independent decision in all prosecutions based solely on the facts and the law period full stop. that is happening as democrats on the committee are speaking out tonight holding bannon and purveyors of the big lie accountable. we re not bluffing. we ll hold people accountable and we expect people to appear before the committee as is everyone s duty before congress and we will take the next step, which is criminal referral. we want mr. bannon s cooperation. he s clearly hiding behind this privilege he doesn t hold and
that s fine. if he continues to stone wall, we ll use every means necessary including the tuesday meeting. we got those like steve bannon who are taking their lead from donald trump and think they re just above the law and they re the only citizens in the united states who don t have to respond to a subpoena from a court or from the u.s. congress. we re going to try to charge these people with criminal contempt. so, the question is now what? what happens next? will holding bannon hold him in contempt? i don t know. it s a sign maybe, just maybe the law still matters in this country. hopefully it does. that as we are learning tonight a u.s. capitol police officer, this is a big one, a u.s. capitol police officer has been arrested and charges with obstruction of justice for allegedly attempting to help a rioter cover their tracks. this is according to an indictment. michael a. riley allegedly