Bannon testifies - or does he?

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Thursday complied with a subpoena from the House Intelligence Committee to appear before the committee Thursday and testify about Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

Bannon faced a deadline to comply with a subpoena last week, but when he failed to show up for the closed-door interview, the Republican-led committee extended it until this week.

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Last week, Rep. Adam Schiff, the committee’s ranking Democrat, said the White House wanted Bannon to answer a set of 14 yes-or-no pre-approved questions.

  Washington Examiner

What? Why not just a set of discovery questions on legal paper then?

I don't know what's going on here.

Seems like Bannon may have been the one person in the Trump White House who understood what was happening, but I have no idea what the House Intel Committee - that most worthless of worthless investigations - wants to ask him.

The Trump presidency’s first six months were the most incompetent and least accomplished in modern history. And its very survival was clouded by the gathering storm of the special prosecutor’s probe.

When it came to Mueller’s investigation, Priebus insisted he personally had nothing to worry about. But Bannon warned that the hounds had been loosed. “You’ve got Mueller’s team, which has got 19 killers who are all experts in wire fraud, money-laundering, and tax evasion,” Bannon said. “Doesn’t sound like collusion to me. But they’ve got unlimited budgets and subpoena power. And here’s what we’ve got on our side: two guys who’ve got legal pads and Post-Its.

“It’s like [certain members of the administration think that] no one took down the Gambino family,” Bannon continued. “Mueller’s doing a roll-up just like he did with the Gambinos. [Former campaign manager Paul] Manafort’s the caporegime, right? And [Rick] Gates [Manafort’s deputy] is a made man! [George] Papadopoulos is equivalent to a wiseguy out in a social club in Brooklyn. This is like a Wagner opera. In the overture you get all the strands of the music you’re going to hear for three hours. Well, Mueller opened with a bang. He totally caught these guys by surprise. So if you’re not going to fight, you’re going to get rolled over.”

  Vanity Fair

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

I've also seen a couple of accounts saying Bannon has been spending time with Mueller's team this week.