Ex-Trump adviser convicted, D.A. slams Rep. Jordan, manhunt day 8
Laura Coates Live
CNN
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Former Trump White House Adviser Peter Navarro is convicted of contempt of Congress for ignoring his January 6 Committee subpoena. Could this be a pivotal moment that opens the floodgates for further convictions? Plus, after the Fulton County D.A. slams GOP Rep. Jim Jordan’s investigation into her prosecution of Trump and his allies, Democratic Rep. Barbara Lee joins to discuss Republicans increasingly interfering in activities, complaints and lawsuits they don't have jurisdiction over. And, the manhunt for convicted killer Danelo Cavalcante enters day 8 in Pennsylvania, as the search perimeter for the dangerous fugitive shifts west.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, I'm Laura Coates. Welcome to CNN Tonight. You know, what I've been thinking |
| 0:11.5 | ever since Peter Navarro was found guilty of contempt of court today. Did they just open |
| 0:17.7 | Pandora's box? Not because he was convicted, because what else would you expect when someone |
| 0:22.2 | gets a congressional subpoena and then chooses to treat it like it should line a birdcage? |
| 0:27.2 | I mean, he didn't testify as he was required to do. He didn't provide any documents as he |
| 0:31.9 | was required to do. He didn't even go there and then plead the fifth like other people did. |
| 0:37.6 | But remember, we're all old enough by now, right? Even a five-year-old could be old enough by now. |
| 0:42.5 | To remember how people got away with doing just this, thumbing their nose, running out the clock |
| 0:49.0 | and hoping Congress would flip to a different party's majority, or betting that the DOJ wouldn't |
| 0:55.7 | bother to prosecute these cases. And what? The worst case scenario might be you get a knock on |
| 1:00.5 | your door from the targeted arms, maybe a slap on the wrist, best case scenario, politically, |
| 1:06.7 | you get a badge of honor that you stuck it to the man. They were really more afraid of ignoring a |
| 1:13.0 | DOJ criminal subpoena than a congressional one, and they took their chances time and time again |
| 1:19.7 | that the DOJ wouldn't prosecute you for laughing at a congressional subpoena. You know what else? |
| 1:25.5 | In the past, that very thought process paid off. But now, this conviction, well, the series of |
| 1:33.3 | convictions now puts the bite back in the DOG, because when you're facing some jail time, suddenly |
| 1:39.5 | people start to take your requests more seriously. Now that people like Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio, |
| 1:46.8 | who himself, you recall, was roundly criticized for not, shall we say, prioritizing congressional |
| 1:52.8 | subpoenas aimed at him, now he's in leadership. So the big questions, will we see the floodgates |
| 1:58.8 | begin to open? And subpoenas about everything from the highly consequential to the trivial. |
| 2:07.4 | All now, of course, having the weight of the threat of what these convictions can bring, |
| 2:12.8 | and that's now behind them. Will it then mean greater transparency, more accountability on the |
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