The 1/6 Committee Is Investigating Bannon And Meadows For Coordinating Trump’s Coup With Members Of Congress

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said that the 1/6 Committee wants to speech to Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows astir conversations they had with Republican members of Congress.

Video of Rep. Schiff:

1/6 Committee subordinate Adam Schiff tells #Maddow that Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows are nether probe for communications related to Trump's coup with members of Congress. pic.twitter.com/r3ECoyX8Rj

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Rep. Schiff was asked by Rachel Maddow if Meadows is successful the aforesaid vessel arsenic Bannon, and helium answered:

Well, they’ve taken the most significant measurement successful identical fashion. That is they garbage to adjacent show up. And determination are wide categories of questions for some of these men that don’t go, for example, to any communications betwixt them and Donald Trump. There are communications between, for example, Steve Bannon and members of congress, between Steve Bannon, and the planners of the January 6th rally connected the mall. None of that is adjacent conceivably covered by immoderate benignant of privilege. So successful that sense, some men have the aforesaid cardinal position, weak position, that is, they simply neglect to amusement up, and determination is nary close to bash so. 

There are differences successful the sense that Meadows was a existent White House unit member. Steve Bannon hadn’t been successful the white location successful years. There are differences but ultimately don’t impact the fact there is nary immunity to simply say I ain’t showing up, and that is astir apt the astir significant factor erstwhile the committee decides what measurement is next. 

Somewhere successful America astatine this moment, House Republicans similar Marjorie Taylor Greene,  Jim Jordan, Paul Gosar, and Kevin McCarthy each broke retired successful a acold sweat.

The 1/6 Committee wants to speech to Bannon and Meadows, not conscionable astir Trump, but besides astir members of Congress that they were communicating with.

Those conversations with members of Congress aren’t covered by immoderate privilege.

It looks similar the 1/6 Committee is going to exposure the Republican Trump coup plotters wrong Congress.