Bennie Thompson

If former President Trump thinks he can get away with what happened on January 6, by being cute with his press releases, then he has another thing coming. Nobody is off limits to a subpoena from this committee.

We think Steve Bannon has information that’s germane to what happened on January 6, and if he refuses the subpoena, like we expect him to continue to do, then we’re left with no other choice.

We will put this before the United States House of Representatives, asks for a criminal referral. If we get the votes, the speaker will then transmit that document to Merrick Garland. And he has to do his job.

Look, January 6th, Joy, was awful. It was not a movie. People saw it in real time. They saw it with their own eyes. And so, we have been tasked with the responsibility of crafting a solution. Merrick Garland has to do his job in a timely…

Given the time frame that we are dealing with, joy, we hope that the attorney general sees the importance of moving ahead with this indictment, moving ahead with locking Steve Bannon up, moving ahead with clearing the air that you can’t…

It is my wish for the attorney general to decide to expedite the process and the document that we sent. Clearly, the law says he has to receive it, present it to a grand jury, indict Mr. Bannon, and so he needs to do his job.

The select committee will not tolerate defiance of our subpoenas so we must move forward with proceedings to refer Mr. Bannon for criminal contempt.

January 6th, Joy, was awful. It was not a movement. People saw it in real-time. They saw it with their own eyes.

Nobody is off limits to a subpoena from this committee.

Merrick Garland has to do his job in a timely manner in order for us to make sure that this doesn`t happen again.

Steve Bannon and anyone else can`t flout the law and expect nothing to happen.

Well it`s my wishes, Joy, for the attorney general to decide to expedite the process and the document that we said. Clearly, the law says he has to receive it, present it to a grand jury, indict Mr. Bannon.

Mr. Bannon has indicated he will try to hide behind vague references to privileges of the former president. We will not allow any witness to defy a lawful subpoena or attempt to run out the clock and we will swiftly consider advancing a…

The chair of the investigation, Congressman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, has been threatening from the very beginning that the January 6th investigation is not going to just let people defy its subpoenas.

There are a lot of ways you can go after say, Steve Bannon.

We need to get that testimony in front of Congress. We need to get the contemporaneous documents.

I'm frustrated that the Committee hasn't subpoenaed more people because I think every lawyer who touched this in the White House should be telling the American people, hey, we warned him that this was unconstitutional, that it was illegal…

Twenty years ago, on 9/11, we suffered the deadliest terrorist attack in our Nation's history.

The Honorable Bennie G. Thompson, a Representative in Congress From the State of Mississippi, and Chairman, Committee on Homeland Security:

We started questioning something of the voluntary witnesses today and we`ll continue that process. We`ll have other subpoenas that scheduled to come out. For those who don`t agree to come in voluntarily, we`ll do criminal referrals and let…

Well, the only thing I can say is, the committee will probably, to those who don`t agree to come in voluntarily, we will do criminal referrals and let that process work out.

The committee will probably, to those who don`t agree to come in voluntarily, we will do criminal referrals and let that process work out.

We did 11 subpoenas this week, we started questioning some of the volunteer witnesses today. And we`ll continue that process.

The committee will probably, for those who don`t agree to come in voluntarily, we`ll do criminal referrals and let that process work out.

I have no more speakers, and I am prepared to close after the gentleman from Mississippi closes. I reserve the balance of my time.