Sunny Hostin Offers to Subpoena Steve Bannon on ‘The View’: “Snatch Him Up!”

On today’s episode of The View, the ABC talk show’s hosts decried Steve Bannon‘s continued attempts to defy a Congressional subpoena after a judge ruled he must release his records from the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection — and Sunny Hostin even offered to take matters into her own hands.

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg pointed out that if any of the hosts ignored a subpoena, “the sheriff will drive up to the house and snatch your behind.”

“Maybe they just need to snatch him up from the sheriff’s, because I don’t know what they’re waiting for,” she added. Hostin pointed out that when she was a federal prosecutor, she sent law enforcement out to pick up people who ignored subpoenas, “because if you don’t do that, then people will do exactly what Bannon has done.”

Joy Behar chimed in, joking, “Maybe Sunny should subpoena him!” Hostin laughed, replying, “I would like to do that!”

She noted that Congress has already found Bannon in contempt, so a charge should then be sent to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, prosecutors can bring the case in front of a grand jury, and the grand jury can decided to indict. “When you’re looking at a criminal indictment, you start cooperating real quickly,” Hostin said. “But they haven’t done anything. Where is [Attorney General] Merrick Garland? He is in the position to make sure that happens, and I hope that he does.”

“The law hasn’t limited Steve Bannon thus far, why would it limit him now?” Sara Haines asked.

Hostin added that she thinks Bannon is an “anarchist” who’s choosing to ignore the Congressional subpoena.

“I think he’s just like, ‘I’m not gonna pay attention to this, I’m not gonna listen,’ and I think he’s exactly the type of person that you need to send the sheriff or the U.S. Marshall out there,” she said. “He’s exactly the type of person you make an example of.”

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