Bannon Will Meet With Mueller And House Intel Committee Next Week

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon is in for a busy time next week.

While his former boss's lawyers are urging their client to refuse an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller for fear that the president might accidentally perjure himself, Bannon is finally meeting with the special counsel and the House Intel Committee next week, according to PBS and CNN.

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According to PBS's anonymous sources, Bannon is planning to tell investigators "everything he knows.

That’s according to two people familiar with Bannon’s interview. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record about details of the interview.

One of the people says Bannon plans to tell Mueller “everything” he knows.

Bannon is expected to face questions about key events during his time in the White House, including Trump’s firings of former National Security adviser Michael Flynn and former FBI Director James Comey.

The confirmation of Bannon’s meeting with Mueller comes as Bannon’s closed-door interview set for Tuesday with the House intelligence committee was postponed.

Bannon was initially scheduled to meet with the House Intel Committee today, but his legal team asked for a postponement, CNN reported. However, the committee has decided to allow him another week to appear in person and answer their questions - though this isn't the first time Bannon, who was subpoenaed by the committee, has bailed on a scheduled meeting to the Intel committee, much to members' chagrin.

The House Intelligence Committee confirmed Tuesday it was giving Bannon another week to comply with its subpoena.

"The House Intelligence Committee's interview with Stephen Bannon has been postponed at the Committee's initiative until next week," Emily Hytha, spokeswoman for Rep. Mike Conaway, the Republican running the committee's Russia probe, said in a statement. "We look forward to having him before the Committee once we can assure that he will be able to thoroughly answer all our questions without concerns regarding the scope of executive privilege."

This is not the first time the committee has pushed back its subpoena as it has negotiated with Bannon over answering questions about the transition and his time in the White House, which he did not answer when he was interviewed last month.

Bannon famously refused to answer certain questions about his time in the White House during a previous meeting with the Intel Committee in January, invoking executive privilege to avoid providing details about his interactions with the president. This controversial move angered committee members, including some Republicans.

Mike Conaway, the nominal leader of the Intel Committee's probe since Devin Nunes recused himself, told reporters Monday evening he expected Bannon to comply with the subpoena demands of the committee and was unaware of any deal to limit the answers he would provide to the panel.

Mueller's push to interview senior administration officials - including the president - has been widely interpreted as a sign that his investigation is nearing its conclusion.

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Predictably, Intel Committee ranking member Adam Schiff blasted Bannon for delaying his testimony again, claiming that the committee is "united" in its belief that Bannon cannot use "executive privilege" to avoid the subpoena, threatening to hold him in contempt if he doesn't comply.

Comments

Theta_Burn Feb 6, 2018 1:39 PM Permalink

Will he be allowed to have his (and a Trump) attorney/s present? Will he be granted immunity as a condition for showing up at all? Will most of the interview be "off" the record, so as to avoid incriminating others? WILL there be (Irish)coffee and donuts afterwords?

Whats good for the Dems, should be as good with Bannon.

 

ZENDOG Feb 6, 2018 1:40 PM Permalink

Bannon should be a true Patriot and go in there with a couple of 45's just blazin away........but he won't.

So we are left with Treason in our Gov.

Sid Davis Feb 6, 2018 1:42 PM Permalink

Bannon displays his lack of judgment by meeting with Mueller.  Mueller is looking to trap him with some procedural crime like a lie, and then turn him for a lighter sentence.

Didn't he ever hear of the 5th Amendment?

z530 Sid Davis Feb 6, 2018 2:12 PM Permalink

I don't know why any of these people are talking. They're all targets and are just being setup to perjure themselves. I would tell them to eat a bag of dicks and just subpoena me, where I would then assert my Fifth amendment privileges.

 

I'm honestly trying to figure out what the legal strategy is here...do they really think they're talking themselves out of being a target?

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Mzhen Feb 6, 2018 1:48 PM Permalink

Mueller needs Bannon dirt to derail Flynn's attempt to get all charges dropped.  Bannon is so far gone into decrepitude that he will probably continue trying to tie his nemesis Kushner to some kind of money laundering.

Zorba's idea Feb 6, 2018 1:49 PM Permalink

perhaps Bannon should knock down a fifth of Makers Mark before this BS interview...then repeat..."I can't recall" "I can't recall" "I can't recall nuffin." If that doesn't work do the Dave Chappelle skit..."I plead the (((fifth)))...1,2,3,4,5...(((fifth)))

To Hell In A H… Feb 6, 2018 1:52 PM Permalink

"Killary is going to jail I tell ya. She's definitely going down this time!" lol

It's been over 1 year Trumptards and all your delusional opinions on future events regarding Killary have been wrong. Even a broken clock is correct twice a day, but you jokers? Your not even that accurate.

I continually curse you morons for lacking the ability to extrapolate. When Killary is concerned, projection of your own views get confused with what is the probability of x, or y likely to happen.

Killary is a Deep State actor and simply knows too much, about too many things about too many super wealthy people. If I was a Deep State player and involved in her pay-2-play schemes, I'm using my influence to derail anything that could expose my name.

The killer MEMO, that wasn't so killer after all is already lining paper for the rabbit hutch. Killary and her ilk are laughing at us all. To even think in today's world, the little man could take down somebody of the stature of Killary, was stark raving mad. Killary is a big-time-swamp-player. We might not like her, but we should at least acknowledge reality. They have power, we have none and if voting really changed things, they would make it illegal.

Miss Expectations steve2241 Feb 6, 2018 2:18 PM Permalink

Have you watched this Carter Page interview with Ingraham yesterday?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNj-xYiZ2XI

There is something really off about the guy. I think he knew that the FBI was going to use him as a Patsy (spy) to get to everyone on the Trump campaign, plus anyone who had contact with the Trump campaign (and on and on and on), which explains why he seems so carefree. He was NEVER a target, it was his exponential reach that was so important. The FBI put him there, then got a FISA warrant to track everyone around him.

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Mzhen Miss Expectations Feb 6, 2018 2:25 PM Permalink

Bannon was planted in the Trump administration by Robert and Rebekah Mercer.  Plus Bannon is playing footsie with a Chinese guy.  Still no evidence Carter Page was a plant.  Papadopoulos is so fishy he probably was somebody's plant, maybe even Britain.  Manafort played a vital role in securing delegates during his time on the campaign.  He was a strategic choice.  And he has had the intestinal fortitude to fight back against Mueller.

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Mike Masr Feb 6, 2018 2:01 PM Permalink

This is all eerily similar to March 1950 and the rise of McCarthyism.

Today Adam Schiff is the new Joe McCarthy!

These investigations are all bullshit and a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars. 

If you don't accept the Democrats paranoid Russophobic narrative you fall under a cloud of suspicion that

you are somehow a stooge or an agent of Vladimir Putin. 

 

Watch the 2 minute video below and see the similiarities for yourself.

Enemies Within: Joe McCarthy - Spreading Lies and Ruining Lives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB_CBb6zhaA

 

Endgame Napoleon aliens is here Feb 6, 2018 2:52 PM Permalink

His ability to pick kings is not why Deplorables liked Bannon. They liked his economic-nationalist policy agenda, like how he pointed out that American multinational companies “created a middle class in Asia” or his stance on wage-reducing, welfare-buttressed, illegal immigration, which was actually more in line with that Brooks guy than with Moore. Deplorables are not lemmings. They choose for themselves, although they are rarely given a Deplorables First economic-policy agenda to choose from that puts citizens ahead of wage-cutting, welfare-aided noncitizens and off-shored workers. Not that Swampians do what they say they will do—they don’t.

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wmbz Feb 6, 2018 2:09 PM Permalink

Mueller: Mr. Bannon, Is there any reason we should not believe that you are being dishonest in your answers?

Mr. Bannon, That depends on what your definition of "is" is.