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expect tomorrow. >> cnn has learned that january six committee is planning to zero in on a key link. the extremist groups ties to trump associates, roger stone and michael flynn. the hearing comes as another key trump ally, steve bannon, is changing his tune. telling the committee, he would be willing to testify but only in a live public setting. its a move prosecutors believe as a stunt to try and wiggle out from his criminal contempt charges but a federal judge on monday declined his...

>> reporter: cnn has learned that the january 6th committee is planning to zero in on a healing. extremist groups that are tied to roger stone and michael flynn. the hearing comes as another trump ally, steve bennett, changes his tomb. telling the committee he would be willing to testify in a live setting. they believe it is a stunt to try to wiggle out of his criminal contempt charges. a judge on monday declined to postpone his. the committee has already revealed a bevy of information...

>> jake, that call that was on full display today during this hearing was, of course, the hour-long phone call that then-president trump had in january with these election officials in the state of georgia. mainly the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who you heard from today. and im told that despite what you saw today, which was the committee playing clips of that call with claims from trump saying thousands of ballots had been shredded or thousands of dead people had voted, an...

To everyone that you speak to, but nevertheless, even to take it further if alvin bragg has truly exceeded the bounds of his job and really stepped in it and gone far the way to do it, as the new york state legislature can investigate him and impeach him, if its really that they did it to a governor, were about to do it to a governor just a year and a half ago, so the idea that congress in washington is the party to do it is simply incorrect. caitlin there are punch of other legal developments i...

Relationship and the jobs they had. so certainly, there was an open question as to whether any statements they would have made would have been protected. look, a court has looked at it and said you cant just have a blanket privilege merely by having worked in the white house. by virtue of those jobs, they would have been privy to any number of very sensitive matters that could be quite useful to this investigation. so certainly you dont get the sense that if these two come in that theyll stonewa...

So there was no privilege to waive. there was no letter from the former president that was necessary. but we found out, from the justice department today, that what had happened was two weeks ago the fbi interviewed trump lawyer and found out that there was no blanket privilege that was extended to sleep at it. that blew a hole and his defense. so that is what happened today at court. the judge made it clear that bannon has no defense. he cant come in there and present that he was a depending on...

Found out, there was no blanket privilege that was extended to steve bannon. that blue oval in his offense with us what happened today incorporate a judge made it clear that bannon has no defense that he cant present that he was defending on some executive privilege as some reason that he ignored the subpoena. keep in mind, he is facing two counts. one of them, failure to respond to the subpoena from the committee. secondly, for refusing to turn over documents treaties offering to do the hearing...

Those were going into circulation. so a wide range of questions for clark who is, of course, a lawyer, who appreciates the fact that he cant just exert a blanket privilege and must show up and answer questions individually, the big outstanding question is whether this was a cooperative session and hes decided to share the truth with investigators or whether this amounted to a lot of i dont remember and im taking the fifth amendment. >> maya, the panel alleges clark stoked fear and election misin...

And theyve shown us that theyre not here just to be played. theyve learned the lessons of how congress was slow-walked in the past. what theyre doing here is less being conciliatory to these witnesses than setting these witnesses up to be accountable. bannon was easy, he had utter contempt for the subpoena, did nothing, and thats what doj relates in the criminal indictment. so now congress is being careful when they engage with these witnesses. jake is right, theyre playing toward compliance, an...