A lawyer for Bannon said he prefers to testify at a public hearing.
that he is willing to testify, an about-face after he refused to comply with the panel's subpoena late last year and was indicted after defying the demand.
Robert Costello, an attorney for Bannon, told committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson in a letter Saturday that the former White House chief strategist"is willing to, indeed prefers, to testify at your public hearing." "While Mr. Bannon has been steadfast in his convictions, circumstances have now changed," Costello wrote in the letter obtained by CBS News. Bannon's lawyer said that while former President Donald Trump invoked executive privilege over his testimony and documents, the former president"has decided that it would be in the best interests of the American people to waive executive privilege for" Bannon, allowing him to comply with the select committee's subpoena.
Trump sent a letter, also obtained by CBS News, to Costello and Bannon on Saturday, in which he said he would waive executive privilege if Bannon and the committee reached an agreement"on a time and place for your testimony."Former White House strategist Steve Bannon speaks to the media outside of the U.S. District Court in Washington, November 15, 2021.While Trump claimed he invoked executive privilege, U.S.
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