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Investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. that comes as the committee ramps up its probe issuing subpoenas to some of donald trumps closest advisers. earlier today, democratic congressman hakeem jeffries confident they will appear before his colleagues next month. >> the trump administration of course refused to enforce these subpoenas at the department of justice level. were hopeful that the biden department of justice following the rule of law will take a different approach and that...

Sanctioned financially, the exact amount that they are all going to have to pay is still being educated now. the judge also declared that each of those lawyers would be referred for discipline to the bar associations to face potential penalties up to, and including, disbarment. they may all lose their law license is for having done that. them which is, in its way, an own goal! we will show them, oh no, they showed us! this keeps happening to them. today, it happened in their biggest try yet. in ...

Accountable. thats their game plan because, as you know, the census numbers for the last ten years, we grew by 23 million people in this country. 4 million in texas we grew. nearly every single part of that growth was nonwhite. so they see the writing on the wall and their only answer to that writing on the wall is to basically break down democracy. they no longer believe in the pillars of democracy, which the main pillar is voting, and they want to do everything possible so they keep an electin...

Previously believed. which is an own goal. indeed. infuriating to those involved, hilarious to all those watching. just like it is in soccer. but despite the -- the big score here for the arizona audit, the -- the point of the so-called audit, the point of the whole turn in republican politics in fact, is not necessarily to concretely overturn the election results and reinstall donald trump as president, you know, ten months after the election is over. i dont know if that still is their day to d...

>> we will respond promptly to these questions ads they arise, and as they come up from congress, and we have been working closely with congressional committees and others as they work to get to the bottom of what happened on january six, a dark day in our democracy. >> tonight political reports quote the white house said it intends to review each request by the former president to prevent the disclosure of such records on a case by case basis. just yesterday the january six committee subpoenaed...

This happen, who authorized this recount? >> look, lawrence. bottom line is that here in texas, the governors party over the people, by passing laws and implementing bad policies in our state that once again are based on the big lie, and so its like our state is ultimately being run by the de facto government, by the twice impeached disgrace ex president that still things that he should be in the white house. the governor is doing that to a very small portion of the electorate all because he is ...

Trump fundamentally does not believe in the rule of law. and everyone who follows him and preaches about the big lie and who advocates for the so-called audits, these are bad -- this is bad faith, this is not believing in the rule of, law this is not believing in our democracy. let us not lose sight of that as we get wrapped up in the details as to what the audit says as an example. >> daniel goldman, thank you very much for joining. us i really appreciate. it >> thank you. lawrence >> coming up...

Have so many real issues that are affecting texans, and if the voters actually had a say-so and how their money was to be spent, i dont think that anyone wants their money spent on something like doing an audit for an election in which even if donald trump had not win the state of texas, it wouldnt change the outcome of anything at this point and time, because we have a president, his name is joe biden and that is that. so, i dont understand why we are wasting taxpayers dollars on this. what we ...

Wins. it makes you distrustful of your neighbors and questions their right to even be counted. thems arent the breaks. thats how democracy breaks. and thats the truth. joining me now cnn legal analyst preet bu rara and ron brownstein. happy to have both of you here. preet, i mean, look, this arizona audit it blew up in trumps face. but despite all the failed recounts and i mean all the failed recounts hes still pushing the big lie. tell me what is the point of the p propaganda? is it just to kee...

If we lose, we also must have won. and so part of this i think further your point i think youre exactly right in the opening that its setting the stage for a story telling kind of propaganda scheme so that no matter what happens you lose an election, we didnt really lose. you do an audit, the audit comes up empty even though theyre sponsored by your folks and people who wanted you to win, thats not