调查1月6日国会大厦骚乱的众议院特别委员会周二采取行动，惩罚特朗普的顾问史蒂夫·班农，建议众议院全体议员以藐视国会罪拘留他，因为他拒绝配合索要记录和证词的传票。

九人小组周二晚间一致投票，向众议院全体议员提交了一份建议藐视法庭指控的报告。如果最快本周获得全院批准，此事将提交司法部决定是否提起刑事诉讼。

“我们的目标很简单:我们希望班农先生回答我们的问题，”D-Miss董事长本尼·汤普森说。，在会上说。“我们希望他交出他掌握的与特别委员会调查有关的任何记录。今天摆在我们面前的问题是我们完成工作的能力。”

司法部拒绝就如何处理班农或其他可能被判藐视法庭的人的刑事案件发表评论。

在美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)最近表示司法部应该起诉班农(Bannon)后，白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基(Jen Psaki)试图让白宫与这一行动保持距离，他周一告诉记者，拜登“认为这是一个独立的决定，应该由司法部做出。”

此事可能需要几个月甚至几年的时间才能提起诉讼，并可能导致最高10万美元的罚款和最高一年的监禁。

班农的律师罗伯特·科斯特洛(Robert Costello)告诉委员会成员，鉴于特朗普对行政特权的担忧，或者没有法院命令，他的当事人不会配合调查。

汤普森和R-Wyo副主席利兹·切尼(Liz Cheney)在本月早些时候的一份声明中表示:“尽管特别委员会欢迎与寻求配合我们调查的证人真诚接触，但我们不会允许任何证人无视合法传票或试图超时，我们将迅速考虑推进藐视国会的刑事移交。

汤普森说，班农“独自站在他的完全蔑视”委员会。

“我们已经联系了几十名证人。我们正在接收成千上万页的记录。我们正在稳定地进行采访，”他说。

委员会的报告认为，委员会向班农寻求信息的努力是合理的，因为他“在1月6日计划的事件发生之前就已经有了具体的了解。”

针对特朗普的特权主张，该小组在报告中写道:“班农在相关时期是一名普通公民，特别委员会要求的证词和文件不涉及与总统及其直接顾问讨论官方政府事务。

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前白宫首席策略师史蒂夫·班农退出曼哈顿联邦法院

委员会中的两名共和党人之一切尼表示，班农和特朗普的特权主张“表明特朗普总统亲自参与了1月6日的计划和执行。”

她还警告共和党人，特朗普关于广泛选举欺诈的持续谎言是“国家自我毁灭的处方。”

“你知道，没有证据表明广泛的选举舞弊足以推翻选举;你知道自治领投票机没有被外国势力腐蚀。你知道那些说法是假的。然而，特朗普总统几乎每天都在重复这些话，”她说。

“美国人民一定知道发生了什么。他们必须知道真相。我们所有当选的官员都必须尽我们的责任来防止法治的瓦解，并确保不会再发生像一月份那黑暗的一天，”切尼说。

特朗普的其他几位前助手和助手，包括前白宫办公厅主任马克·梅多斯和曾担任五角大楼高级官员的卡什亚普·帕特尔，在收到传票后继续与委员会就合作问题进行谈判。

尚不清楚特朗普任期最长的助手之一丹·斯卡维诺(Dan Scavino)是否会配合该小组的调查。

周一，这位前总统宣布，他将起诉该委员会以及国家档案馆，以阻止议员接收特朗普的白宫记录。

白宫法律顾问达纳·雷穆斯在给国家档案馆的一封信中写道，拜登政府驳斥了特朗普声称的行政特权，称这一援引“不符合美国的最佳利益”。

因此，美国国家档案馆(National Archives)上周通知特朗普的律师，计划在11月12日向委员会移交数十份记录，“没有任何干预的法院命令。”

Jan. 6 committee recommends holding Bannon in contempt

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Tuesday moved to punish Trump adviser Steve Bannon, recommending the full House hold him in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a subpoena for records and testimony.

The nine-member panel voted unanimously Tuesday evening to send a report recommending contempt charges to the full House. If approved by the full chamber as soon as this week, the matter would then be referred to the Justice Department to decide whether to pursue criminal charges.

"Our goal is simple: we want Mr. Bannon to answer our questions," Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said in the meeting. "We want him to turn over whatever records he possesses that are relevant to the select committee’s investigation. The issue in front of us today is our ability to do our job."

The Justice Department has declined to comment on how it might act on a criminal referral for Bannon or others who may be held in contempt.

After President Joe Biden said recently that the Justice Department should prosecute Bannon, White House press secretary Jen Psaki attempted to distance the White House from that action, telling reporters on Monday that Biden "believes it's an independent decision that should be made by the Department of Justice."

The matter could take months, if not years, to litigate, and could result in a fine of up to $100,000 and up to one year in prison.

Robert Costello, Bannon's attorney, told committee members that his client would not cooperate with the probe given Trump's executive privilege concerns, or without a court order to do so.

"Though the Select Committee welcomes good-faith engagement with witnesses seeking to cooperate with our investigation, we will not allow any witness to defy a lawful subpoena or attempt to run out the clock, and we will swiftly consider advancing a criminal contempt of Congress referral," Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said in a statement earlier this month.

Thompson said Bannon "stands alone in his complete defiance" of the committee.

"We have reached out to dozens of witnesses. We are taking in thousands of pages of records. We are conducting interviews on a steady basis," he said.

The committee's report argues that the committee's efforts to seek information from Bannon are justified because he "had specific knowledge about the events planned for January 6th before they occurred."

"Mr. Bannon was a private citizen during the relevant time period and the testimony and documents the Select Committee is demanding do not concern discussion of official government matters with the President and his immediate advisors," the panel wrote in the report, in response to Trump's claims of privilege.

Cheney, one of two Republicans on the committee, said that Bannon and Trump's claims of privilege "suggest that President Trump was personally involved in the planning and execution of January 6th."

She also warned Republicans that Trump's continued lies about widespread election fraud are "a prescription for national self-destruction."

"You know that there is no evidence of widespread election fraud sufficient to overturn the election; you know that the Dominion voting machines were not corrupted by a foreign power. You know those claims are false. Yet President Trump repeats them almost daily," she said.

"The American people must know what happened. They must know the truth. All of us who are elected officials must do our duty to prevent the dismantling of the rule of law, and to ensure nothing like that dark day in January ever happens again," Cheney said.

Several other former Trump aides and associates, including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Kashyap Patel, who served as a senior Pentagon official, continue to negotiate with the committee over cooperation after receiving subpoenas.

It's not clear if Dan Scavino, one of Trump's longest-serving aides, will cooperate with the panel's investigation.

On Monday, the former president announced he was suing the committee, as well as the National Archives, to block lawmakers from receiving Trump White House records.

The Biden administration had refuted Trump's of claim executive privilege, saying that the invocation "is not in the best interests of the United States," White House counsel Dana Remus wrote in a letter to the National Archives.

As a result, the National Archives notified Trump's attorney last week that it planned to turn over dozens of records to the committee on Nov. 12, "absent any intervening court order."