Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson acknowledged in a statement Monday that Navarro, a former trade adviser, and Scavino, a former deputy chief of staff and member of the White House communications team, “are not known names,” but said they were “so important for our research “.
“In short: these two men played a key role in the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election,” Thompson said. “The Selection Committee called them for records and testimony to learn more about their roles and what they knew.”
Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro AP / Andrew Harnik, AP / Alex Brandon
Thompson said Scavino “misled us for months before making it clear he believed he was above the law.” Navarro, Thompson said, shared “relevant details about television and podcasts in his own book,” but “turned us on.”
Vice President Liz Cheney, one of the two Republicans on the committee, said Monday that the committee “has already thwarted President Trump’s attempt to hide some White House files behind a shield of executive privileges” and “the same conclusion should be reached. This also applies to Mr Scavino and Mr Navarro. “
“In the coming months, our committee will convene a series of hearings,” Cheney said. “The American people will hear from our fellow citizens who have been loyal to our constitution and to the rule of law – who have refused to bow to President Trump.”
Monday’s vote comes after the commission released a 34-page report alleging allegations of contempt on Sunday night.
“The contempt report that was published last night addresses this issue, but in general, Mr Scavino and Mr Navarro make a similar excuse,” Thompson said. “They claim that the information we want from them is protected by executive privileges.”
The committee referred the matter to the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, which will decide to schedule a vote on whether to hand over the matter to the Justice Department.
Navarro, along with other Trump allies who have been summoned, have said they can not prevent Trump from invoking executive privilege. President Biden, meanwhile, has denied allegations of executive privilege.
“My position remains that it is not my executive prerogative to resign and the committee should negotiate this issue with President Trump,” Navarro said in a statement. “If he relinquishes the privilege, I will be happy to comply; but I do not see any attempt by the commission to clarify this issue with President Trump, which is bad faith and bad law.”
Scavino, who noted that he had a dual role as a White House official and a key supporter of Trump’s stolen election theory on social media, was first summoned in September to provide documents to the committee and sit down with him to testify. former head of the White House. Mark Meadows’s staff, former Trump Chief of Staff Steve Bannon and Pentagon Chief of Staff Kashyap Patel. Sunday night’s report said Scavino had been summoned to Mar-a-Lago for the first time, but the commission was due to issue a second summons in October after the first was challenged.
The commission is seeking information from Scavino because, according to Sunday’s report, he “allegedly attended meetings in November 2020, where then-President Trump consulted with outside advisers on ways to challenge the results of the 2020 election” and because have “reason to believe that Mr. Scavino was with then-President Trump on Jan. 5 and 6 and was involved in discussions about plans to challenge, interrupt, or obstruct formal congressional proceedings.”
The commission said Trump and Scavino spoke several times over the phone on Jan. 6 and argued that Scavino may have warned of the violence in advance because he was following websites discussing the attack. The report details Scavino’s activities on The_Donald subreddit and TheDonald.win.
Rejecting Scavino’s claims of executive privilege, Biden said he “does not extend to discussions involving non-governmental enterprises or between individuals.”
The committee also rejected Navarro’s claim of executive privilege, writing in the report that “the Selection Committee does not seek documents or testimony from Mr Navarro regarding his official duties as a federal official. “Navarro was not involved in advising President Trump on the 2020 presidential election or the roles and responsibilities of Congress and the Vice President during the joint congressional session on January 6, 2021.”
The commission issued a summons in February to Navarro, who served as Trump’s trade adviser, claiming he had developed plans to change the outcome of the election. Instead of responding to the summons, the report said that Navarro “predicted that his interactions with the Selection Committee would be judged by the Supreme Court, where this case is located”.
According to Sunday’s report, Navarro worked with “Bannon and others to develop and implement a plan to delay congressional ratification and ultimately change the outcome of the November 2020 presidential election.”
The report also states that Navarro described in his November 2021 book “In Trump Time” this plan, called the “Green Bay Sweep”. Navarro described this as “the last, best opportunity to snatch a stolen election from the jaws of the Democrats.” In a later interview for the book, Navarro said Trump “agreed with the strategy.”
The Jan. 6 Select Committee has already formally proposed to the U.S. House of Representatives that he formally refer Banos and Mentoes for contempt of congressional prosecution. The House, with a majority of nine Republicans, voted in favor of the referral.
Weeks later, the Justice Department indicted Bannon, who surrendered to the authorities and pleaded not guilty. He is scheduled to stand trial in late July in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Defense attorney told CBS News that the defense expects to file a motion to dismiss the charge on April 8.
The Department of Justice has not commented on the nature or outcome of its review of possible criminal charges against Meadows. The U.S. House of Representatives, by a majority of only two Republicans, approved Mendow’s referral for possible charges in mid-December. Three months later, no case has been filed.
Lawmaker Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the committee, told Face the Nation on Sunday morning that he was “not sure that Mendous has given up everything.”
“He worked with us for a while and then, in an effort to make Donald Trump happy, he stopped working,” Kinzinger said. “We gave him plenty of space to come back and repeat it. He has not.”
Last week, CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post received texts between Mintow and Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice also the committee of the House of Representatives of January 6. In the texts, Ginni Thomas pushed the Meadows to overthrow the 2020 elections.
Nikole Killion, Ellis Kim, Sara Cook and Zak Hudak contributed to this report.
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Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson acknowledged in a statement Monday that Navarro, a former trade adviser, and Scavino, a former deputy chief of staff and member of the White House communications team, “are not known names,” but said they were “so important for our research “.
“In short: these two men played a key role in the former president’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election,” Thompson said. “The Selection Committee called them for records and testimony to learn more about their roles and what they knew.”
Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro AP / Andrew Harnik, AP / Alex Brandon
Thompson said Scavino “misled us for months before making it clear he believed he was above the law.” Navarro, Thompson said, shared “relevant details about television and podcasts in his own book,” but “turned us on.”
Vice President Liz Cheney, one of the two Republicans on the committee, said Monday that the committee “has already thwarted President Trump’s attempt to hide some White House files behind a shield of executive privileges” and “the same conclusion should be reached. This also applies to Mr Scavino and Mr Navarro. “
“In the coming months, our committee will convene a series of hearings,” Cheney said. “The American people will hear from our fellow citizens who have been loyal to our constitution and to the rule of law – who have refused to bow to President Trump.”
Speaking after the vote, committee member Jamie Ruskin said: “Please leave us the silly discussions about executive privileges that are now being rejected by every court that has considered it. This is America, and there is no executive privilege here for presidents. “Especially for business advisers. to plan coups and organize uprisings against the people’s government and the people’s constitution and then conceal the evidence of their crimes. The courts do not buy it, nor do we.”
Monday’s vote comes after the commission released a 34-page report alleging allegations of contempt on Sunday night.
“The contempt report that was published last night addresses this issue, but in general, Mr Scavino and Mr Navarro make a similar excuse,” Thompson said. “They claim that the information we want from them is protected by executive privileges.”
The committee referred the matter to the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, which will decide to schedule a vote on whether to hand over the matter to the Justice Department.
Navarro, along with other Trump allies who have been summoned, have said they can not prevent Trump from invoking executive privilege. President Biden, meanwhile, has denied allegations of executive privilege.
“My position remains that it is not my executive prerogative to resign and the committee should negotiate this issue with President Trump,” Navarro said in a statement. “If he relinquishes the privilege, I will be happy to comply; but I do not see any attempt by the commission to clarify this issue with President Trump, which is bad faith and bad law.”
Scavino, who noted that he had a dual role as a White House official and a key supporter of Trump’s stolen election theory on social media, was first summoned in September to provide documents to the committee and sit down with him to testify. former head of the White House. Mark Meadows’s staff, former Trump Chief of Staff Steve Bannon and Pentagon Chief of Staff Kashyap Patel. Sunday night’s report said Scavino had been summoned to Mar-a-Lago for the first time, but the commission was due to issue a second summons in October after the first was challenged.
The commission is seeking information from Scavino because, according to Sunday’s report, he “allegedly attended meetings in November 2020, where then-President Trump consulted with outside advisers on ways to challenge the results of the 2020 election” and because have “reason to believe that Mr. Scavino was with then-President Trump on Jan. 5 and 6 and was involved in discussions about plans to challenge, interrupt, or obstruct formal congressional proceedings.”
The commission said Trump and Scavino spoke several times over the phone on Jan. 6 and argued that Scavino may have warned of the violence in advance because he was following websites discussing the attack. The report details Scavino’s activities on The_Donald subreddit and TheDonald.win.
Rejecting Scavino’s claims of executive privilege, Biden said he “does not extend to discussions involving non-governmental enterprises or between individuals.”
The committee also rejected Navarro’s claim of executive privilege, writing in the report that “the Selection Committee does not seek documents or testimony from Mr Navarro regarding his official duties as a federal official. “Navarro was not involved in advising President Trump on the 2020 presidential election or the roles and responsibilities of Congress and the Vice President during the joint congressional session on January 6, 2021.”
The commission issued a summons in February to Navarro, who served as Trump’s trade adviser, claiming he had developed plans to change the outcome of the election. Instead of responding to the summons, the report said that Navarro “predicted that his interactions with the Selection Committee would be judged by the Supreme Court, where this case is located”.
According to Sunday’s report, Navarro worked with “Bannon and others to develop and implement a plan to delay congressional ratification and ultimately change the outcome of the November 2020 presidential election.”
The report also states that Navarro described in his November 2021 book “In Trump Time” this plan, called the “Green Bay Sweep”. Navarro described this as “the last, best opportunity to snatch a stolen election from the jaws of the Democrats.” In a later interview for the book, Navarro said Trump “agreed with the strategy.”
The Jan. 6 Select Committee has already formally proposed to the U.S. House of Representatives that he formally refer Banos and Mentoes for contempt of congressional prosecution. The House, with a majority of nine Republicans, voted in favor of the referral.
Weeks later, the Justice Department indicted Bannon, who surrendered to the authorities and pleaded not guilty. He is scheduled to stand trial in late July in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Defense attorney told CBS News that the defense expects to file a motion to dismiss the charge on April 8.
The Department of Justice has not commented on the nature or outcome of its review of possible criminal charges against Meadows. The U.S. House of Representatives, by a majority of only two Republicans, approved Mendow’s referral for possible charges in mid-December. Three months later, no case has been filed.
Lawmaker Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the committee, told Face the Nation on Sunday morning that he was “not sure that Mendous has given up everything.”
“He worked with us for a while and then, in an effort to make Donald Trump happy, he stopped working,” Kinzinger said. “We gave him plenty of space to come back and repeat it. He has not.”
Last week, CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post received texts between Mintow and Virginia “Ginny” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice also the committee of the House of Representatives of January 6. In the texts, Ginni Thomas pushed the Meadows to overthrow the 2020 elections.
Nikole Killion, Ellis Kim, Sara Cook and Zak Hudak contributed to this report.
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