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Mastriano did not answer any questions. the meeting only lasted about 15 minutes. joining me msnbc national reporter sahor kapur. >> reporter: he left less than 15 minutes after the dispute of the terms of the arrangement, the committee, mastriano and the attorney did not agree on it. notably, one thing that mastriano seems to have learned you dont blow the committee off. thats how you get a contempt charge, and bannon did that. on pompeo, hes expected to appear virtually before the committee. a...

Satisfying, it undermines congress has power to subpoena witnesses, but they looked at two sets of defendants, and targets, differently when it came to executive privilege. we had bannon and navarro with laughable privilege claims. bannon is not even in the executive branch. navarro blabbed about it in his a book and media interviews. meadows and scavino, as chief of staff and deputy chief of staff, were in the circle. they relied on the claims. even if they were ultimately wrong, as they appear...

Im in an untenable position. >> reporter: trumps former trade adviser claiming he was handcuffed at an airport gate on his way to nashville for refusing to comply with the house committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. navarro was part of trumps inner circle that pushed false claims about the 2020 election, even writing a book detailing his plan to overturn an election trump lost. lawmakers wanted him to turn over documents and testify. he refused, claiming his hands were tied, citi...

Subpoena issued by the january 6th committee. chad pergram is on capitol hill. so, chad, what are we learning about this indictment? >> chad: navarro is charged with as you say two counts of contempt of congress. he did not comply with a subpoena to testify before the committee investigating last years riot. navarro appears in federal court later today. >> if i were to go to prison for a year, which is what the contempt charge could do to me, that would be about a fourth of my remaining life and...

Touch repeatedly with trump as he tried to help him over turn the election and he is seen as key to the ecocommittee investigation. its unclear if he pled the fifth today. he is facing a contempt charge and his level of cooperation will play a big role in the committees next steps. it wasnt clear if he would show up today. >> he is a critical first hand fact witness, and hes been delaying the fact he showed up as you point out. the committee was not sure that would happen. they have been holding...

The doj is still is figuring out whether they want to charge mark meadows and were 50 days in and then there is the concern if we start subpoenaing other members of congress, could this come back on us if a year from now the republicans control congress. so that is a political consideration. but legally, they really can go ahead and do this, politically do they have the guts for it? i dont know. >> gloria, pick up that political consideration. >> they know in advance that jim jordan is not likel...

When and how he might be able to come in. thats the kind of thing that can be useful to somebody who is talking to the committee to keep away a possible, you know, contempt charge later on. by engaging at all, you leave open the possibility and you draw things out. when it comes to giuliani, hes been somebody publicly critical of the report before and takes great pains to describe him as donald trumps personal lawyer, the use of attorney/client privilege or perhaps exercising his fifth amendment...

Yet, there is eight hours a missing call logs, with no record of it. fill in the gaps. >> right, well, we dont know what we dont know. we do know that there is seven and a half hours of missing calls, here. its quite likely that donald trump was using somebody elses phone during this time. it was well known in the white house that if you want to get the trump, he often called dan scavino, who has purview used to provide any records of the january six committee, and was recently referred to for a...

Phone during this time. it was well known in the white house that if you want to get the trump, he often called dan scavino, who has purview used to provide any records of the january six committee, and was recently referred to for a contempt charge. its very possible he was using scavinos phone, or somebody elses. there is a lot of passing around of phones in the trump white house, they didnt do things by the book. that said, there are potentially other explanations as well. i dont wanna rule a...

That would involve constantly going at the next level, seeing what happens when they issue a subpoena and if he declines to come -- comply, a big part of that calculous has to be if perry gets away with refusing to comply, they have very little ability for the folks behind him. >> what do you make of the fact we reached our first member of congress who could wind up getting a contempt charge. meadows is a former member. what do you make of the fact you have this sitting republican member of cong...