Navarro faces federal grand jury indictment for contempt of Congress
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:
\u201cInitial court appearance set for 230p\u201d— Scott MacFarlane (@Scott MacFarlane) 1654272768
\u201cNavarro indictment more: "The Select Committee.. rejected Navarro's stated reason for noncompliance with the subpoena and informed Navarro again that he could assert any objections he may have on the record, on a question-by-question basis"\u201d— Scott MacFarlane (@Scott MacFarlane) 1654271250
Updates may be provided as this story develops.
