Top Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro has been indicted by a federal grand jury for contempt for Congress for ignoring valid and legal subpoenas.
Navarro appeared on MSNBC Thursday evening and spoke very freely about his actions, so much so that host Ari Melber, the network’s chief legal correspondent, warned him that investigators on the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack “can hear you when you talk on TV.”
“This is the first indictment of someone this close to the President and it suggests that the Justice Dept. has resolved any lingering concerns it may have had about executive privilege,” law professor Joyce Vance, an MSNBC and NBC News legal analyst and former U.S. Attorney, said on MSNBC just past noon of Friday.
CBS News Congressional Correspondent:
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