The overreach of this WH is absolutely insane! Acting more authoritarian each day!

Well that's going to end. Strip search each person before they enter the interrogation room.
Interrogation should take place in a wifi-free environment.

All wrapped up in a pretty package.

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And they did it for a Congressional audience.

Desperate measures for desperate times. Unless they really thought no one would notice.

by Republicans.

working feverishly to normalize all the bizarre behavior. The Trumpster's remaining base supporters will make excuses for just about anything.

For the rest of us? Not so much. Because this behavior isn't getting better; it's getting worse.

But as you said, the Republicans have turned into the Pod People.

If the person doing it is a republican, no, if it is a democrat, not only is it obstruction but they would be drummed out of politics day one.

We know republicans do not have to nor do they play by the rules.

Probably be pretty easy to get the device the messages were being sent to. I don't even think they would have to know who had the device or what kind it was.

And only his money.

Are they just going to argue executive priviledge here? I dont know what kind of argument you have to stand on where you say he cant talk about something to an investigation. November cant get here fast enough so we can get these sham committees to hopefully do their job. As it is they're doing nothing but wasting tax payer dollars to assist in a cover up by the white house.

I wonder if anyone on the House Intelligence Committee noticed that Bannon's attorney was furiously messaging someone and that the answers to questions were held up for a little while until the attorney got a response? Is this courtesy commonly extended to everyone appearing before the committee? Because it seems a smidgen odd that people not in the room for a closed session of the committee would have not just knowledge of what was going on, but input on the proceedings.

or understand that they are no longer dealing with a county commissioner or zoning committee that can be strong armed to get something they want...

The sheer idiocy of the current POTUS is staggering, and he MUST be held to account for it all...that which is currently doing and that which was done in pursuit of the office he holds and also that which was done prior to the election.

Trump is filthy, not merely tainted or dirty. He needs to go down in epic and public fashion, NOW!

...he should have been cuffed right then and there for talking to the subject of an investigation...

Maybe I don't know the law that well, but DUH!

Which is also a crime, right??

Our nation appears to be helpless against the criminal takeover of the white house. How can this be? If Trump murdered someone in the white house, they'd just debate it, I guess.

who can then do the same thing.

Makes you look like you are trying to avoid answering questions, and also wastes the time of the members of the grand jury. Not a way to win friends and influence people.

Book em Mueller!!!

There is too much hand-wringing in this thread. Geez.

If the Congressional committee doesn't like Bannon's refusals to answer questions and they accept his claim of executive privilege, then it is up to Congress to enforce its rules. They could declare Bannon in contempt of Congress and have him taken into custody until he answers their questions.

Not this Congress. They are toothless. More importantly, they don't want the truth to come out since so many of them are complicit with Trump's corruption.

Regardless, the Congressional investigations are meaningless because they are being directed, by Grassley and Nunes, down rabbit holes of nothingness.

Let's see what Robert Mueller comes up with. He isn't tainted by Trump's stank and he's clearly smarter than all of these other idiots. I truly believe he will reveal the length and breadth of Trump's corruption and illegalities. In those exposures, I also believe many others, mostly Republicans, will be exposed as traitorous scum.

Let's not worry. The truth will be made public. It will be ugly and divisive. It will cause a lot of trouble that will take time to heal. But it will be the only way to purge our system of the corrupting rot of this band of miscreants.

Transparent?

Yeah, they're not even trying to make it look like anything other than witness tampering and obstruction of justice.

Clear as can be.