Mark Wilson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon Tuesday after members said he refused to answer questions about his time in the Trump White House and on the Trump transition team during a roughly ten-hour-long interview behind closed doors. Schiff said the former Breitbart executive “was willing to answer our questions but under instructions from the White House not to.”

Bannon had a public falling out with Trump after he told Michael Wolff, the author of the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, that the meeting between Donald Trump Jr, the president’s eldest son, and a Russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging information on Democratic Party’s presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”. WASHINGTON — Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, was subpoenaed last week by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to testify before a grand jury as part of the investigation into possible links between Mr. Trump’s associates and Russia, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon today refused to answer a broad array of queries from the House Intelligence Committee about his time working for President Donald Trump, provoking a subpoena from the panel's Republican chairman. Special Counsel Robert Mueller III on Tuesday asked United States President Donald Trump’s former aide Steve Bannon (pictured above) to testify before a grand jury in connection with allegations about Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. On Capitol Hill, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the committee’s top Democrat, told reporters Bannon’s counsel conferred with the White House after he was served with the committee subpoena during the interview and told the panel Bannon would still not answer any questions about the transition, administration or any conversations he had with President Trump after leaving the White House last year.
The New York Times reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller subpoenaed Steve Bannon last week to testify before a grand jury. The House Intelligence Committee issues a second subpoena, via powers seldomly used by Congress, following Bannon's testimony today that, while he was willing to answer questions, the White House instructed him not to answer questions related to his White House tenure.