your stated reasons for Mr. Bannon's flat refusal to provide documents and appear at a deposition have no legal basis or support.

Mr. Bannon will comply with our investigation or he will face the consequences.

I made that clear in a letter to Mr. Costello this morning.

We are not aware of any basis for your client's refusal to appear for a deposition.

The American people must know what happened. They must know the truth.

Our goal is simple. We want Mr. Bannon to answer our questions.

no one in this country, no matter how wealthy or how powerful, is above the law.

If you're thinking of following the path Mr. Bannon has gone down, you are on notice that this is what you will face, saying there is -- there are consequences to refusing to comply.

If there is no accountability for these abuses, if there are different sets of rules for different types of people, then our democracy is in serious trouble.

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

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.

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.

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.

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…

Nobody is off limits to a subpoena from this committee.

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

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.

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.

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.