Chuck Rosenberg: Meadows Contempt Case ‘Much More Difficult’ than Bannon

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ROSENBERG: "But first, Meadows. I think this is a much more difficult case than the contempt case against Steve Bannon. Let me explain why. Bannon just refused to cooperate at all. He just snubbed the committee and walked away. Meadows not only negotiated with the committee but provided thousands of documents to the committee. And where he refused to cooperate, it was based on his invocation of whatever residual executive privilege remains in former President Trump. Now, based on my reading of the law, I don’t think there is any valid residual executive privilege that Trump possesses, but the courts have not fully resolved that issue. So it strikes me that Meadows can do two things. He can cooperate to some extent, provide documents, and maintain that there are certain questions he can answer. And those two facts, I think, make it much more difficult for the Department of Justice to file criminal charges against him, much more difficult."