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Members of the House select committee investing 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”.