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Capitol attack panel to weigh criminal contempt against Bannon as Trump sues – live - The Guardian

Capitol attack panel to weigh criminal contempt against Bannon as Trump sues – live - The Guardian

Capitol attack panel to weigh criminal contempt against Bannon as Trump sues – live - The Guardian
Oct 19, 2021 3 mins, 47 secs

The moderate senators’ criticism once again raises the question of how the reconciliation package could seriously curb greenhouse gas emissions, after Joe Manchin said he would not support Joe Biden’s proposed Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP).

The possibility of a carbon tax had been discussed after Manchin indicated he would not support Joe Biden’s Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), the cornerstone of the president’s climate policy in the reconciliation package.

But it is now seeming increasingly unlikely that the final version of the reconciliation package will meet progressive lawmakers’ demands to adequately address the climate crisis, potentially imperiling the passage of the bill.

Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema has also arrived at the White House for a meeting with Joe Biden before the president’s afternoon discussions with other congressional Democrats, per CNN.

Sinema has repeatedly met with Biden at the White House to discuss the negotiations over the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package.

Like Democratic senator Joe Manchin, Sinema has indicated she will not support the reconciliation package with its current price tag of $3.5tn.

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and treasury secretary Janet Yellen will hold two meetings with congressional Democrats at 2 pm and 4:30 pm, the White House has just said.

The first meeting will be with members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and the second will be with centrist Democratic lawmakers.

Joe Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki, shared a photo from the White House as the president prepares to meet with congressional Democrats to discuss the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package.

“Beautiful brisk day for a lot of congressional meeting,” Psaki said on Twitter.

Joe Biden will hold two meetings with congressional Democrats today to discuss the negotiations over the infrastructure bill and the reconciliation package

The meetings come as Democrats remain at odds over the two bills, with centrists pushing for a smaller reconciliation package as progressives insist the current price tag of $3.5tn is the bare minimum needed to address the climate crisis and lower healthcare and childcare costs for American families

As Democrats haggle over the reconciliation package, the infrastructure bill remains in limbo in the House, as progressives have said they will not support the legislation until the reconciliation package advances as well

It looks like Donald Trump’s legal efforts to block White House documents from the House select committee’s subpoenas have just been dealt a serious blow

Members of the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection have entirely dismissed Steve Bannon’s argument that he can invoke executive privilege in response to the panel’s subpoenas

Democratic congressman Jamie Raskin, a member of the select committee and a former constitutional law professor, insisted the former Trump adviser “has no right to defy a subpoena”

The idea that 'executive privilege' would shield a private citizen from turning over evidence about a violent insurrection against the govt because he knows a twice-impeached former president is farcical and insulting

The legal jeopardy for Steve Bannon is anticipated after it emerged in a letter to his attorney, obtained by the Guardian on Monday, that he had claimed executive privilege protections on materials unrelated to the executive branch

The House select committee chairman, Bennie Thompson, also said in the letter that even if the panel entertained the claims of executive privilege, Bannon had no basis to ignore the order since not even a president could grant him immunity from a House subpoena

The dual legal arguments in the letter, which served as Bannon’s final warning to cooperate a day before the select committee is expected to hold him in contempt of Congress, underscores the weakness of the executive privilege claim advanced by Donald Trump

The Guardian first reported that the former president would instruct his top four aides subpoenaed by the select committee – White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, his deputy Dan Scavino, defense department aide Kash Patel, as well as Bannon, his former chief strategist – to defy the orders

The House select committee investing the Capitol insurrection will meet this evening to consider whether to hold one of Donald Trump’s former top advisers, Steve Bannon, in contempt for defying the panel’s subpoenas

Meanwhile, Trump himself has filed a lawsuit in DC District Court against the committee, attempting to shield certain White House documents from being subpoenaed by claiming executive privilege

“The former President’s clear objective is to stop the Select Committee from getting to the facts about January 6th and his lawsuit is nothing more than an attempt to delay and obstruct our probe,” said Democratic chair Bennie Thompson and Republican vice-chair Liz Cheney

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