{"id":347118,"date":"2018-02-07T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-bannon-will-not-testify-before-house-committee\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T03:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T02:00:32","slug":"presstv-bannon-will-not-testify-before-house-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-bannon-will-not-testify-before-house-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Bannon \u2018will not testify\u2019 before House committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>Former White House strategist, Steve Bannon, will reportedly refuse to testify before the intelligence committee of the US House of Representatives on Tuesday despite a bipartisan congressional subpoena requiring him to appear for a probe of alleged ties between Moscow and Washington in the US 2016 presidential campaign.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Two sources familiar with the case said a day earlier that Bannon would not testify due to a lack of agreement between White House attorneys and the Intelligence Committee over the scope of the panel&#8217;s questioning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">One of the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the White House had not authorized Bannon to answer committee questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Another source said that Bannon would instead answer next week all the questions set to be asked by US Justice Department&#8217;s Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The House Intelligence Committee confirmed on Tuesday it was giving Bannon another week to comply&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/02\/07\/551512\/Steve-Bannon-US-House-subpoena-Russia-probe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White House strategist, Steve Bannon, will reportedly refuse to testify before the intelligence committee of the US House of Representatives on Tuesday despite a bipartisan congressional subpoena requiring him to appear for a probe of alleged ties between Moscow and Washington in the US 2016 presidential campaign. Two sources familiar with the case said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-347118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}