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If he knew violence was planned for january 6th. >> its a couple of different. thanks the contempt proceeding whos just with respect to not showing up in the documents. this is if he knew about violence. this december 18th your hearing about and you are talking about and the last document. where there are a number of people meeting in trumps immediate orbit. there is this question of the extent to which the president knew there would be violence the next. a and close advisers, like steve bannon,...

Process, force them to come in and testify. thats a very unusual act, and it has ramifications now. will there be litigation or contempt findings? if the republicans taken control of congress, will they turn around and subpoena members who they seek information from? so this is a very tough decision but it is a right decision, laura. these five men have key information about the insurrection, about an assault on our country and attempted coop. >> duoug, you kind of smirked o that issue. if repub...

Amount already in the public record on jeffrey clark, mostly through public proceedings in the senate. and in the senate proceedings it became clear that at the various very highest levels of the justice department, there was an effort spearheaded by mr. clark to miss use that department to promulgated false claims about fraud, to try to discourage georgia from sending a slate of electors or to encourage them to send an alternate slate. and to replace the leadership that resisted his efforts. an...

Various very highest levels of the justice department, there was an effort spearheaded by mr. clark to miss use that department to promulgated false claims about fraud, to try to discourage georgia from sending a slate of electors or to encourage them to send an alternate slate. and to replace the leadership that resisted his efforts. and -- himself. these are shocking things. and lawrence, when we had a contempt proceeding earlier, despite him invoking the fifth, and that is specter for someone...

>> i didnt hear a yesterday. viewers and listeners can decide what they heard. he was struggling to to why they would have a power to overrule elections. he was laboring to claim it wasnt the overruling, but to send the votes back to the state for some re-re-recount. the vast majority of people contacted by congress in the january 6th probe have cooperated, providing testimony and documents. this is actually the fourth time the handle has said someone is so uncooperative theyre moving toward the...

From last night. we went through the contempt proceeding and theres more than one issue on the table, but we also heard several members of committee really implore doj to act, and congressman schiff was just speaking about that and then theres those who have like bannon. basically members of this committee who are generally aligned or at least sympathetic to attorney general garland or the administration turning up the heat. take a look. >> this committee is doing its job. the department of just...

Forward with contempt and if the justice department follows through with charges, mark meadows would become the first former chief of staff to face prosecution since h.r. of the nixon administration. the problem for meadows in this contempt proceeding is he snitched on his team before he clammed up. he has turned over roughly 9,000 pages of documents that he himself claimed were not privileged but hes now refusing to answer questions about those very documents in defiance of a congressional subp...

We dont take it lightly, we hoped we would not have to be here at all. as the chairman noted, weve engaged in weeks and weeks of discussions with mr. counsel. we worked diligently to reach an agreement on cooperation. we scheduled a deposition at a time and day of mr. meadows choosing. shortly before the deposition was to occur, mr. meadows walked away from his commitment to appear and hehe informed us he would no longer cooperate. we think mr. meadows is improperly asserting executive and other...

0 defense. the court yesterday appointed a guardian to represent their son. they have seemingly abandoned him. have had no contact with him. have not seen him or spoken to him. obviously what lies ahead for their case, its going to be a difficult one for prosecutors after they charge them with four counts of involuntary manslaughter arguing that they gave him the gun as a gift, but also saying that they did nothing to prevent him from unleashing this shooting, this attack. prosecutors saying the...

Even more vulnerable to pressure tactics for moscow. until reversal of a deal made last week with the january 6th select committee, former chief of staff to donald trump mark meadows announced that he would not appear today for his scheduled deposition. committee members immediately threatened to hold meadows in contempt of congress, arguing that he has no intention to speak to the panel as he writes a book. a joint statement by cheney and thompson reads, if indeed mr. meadows refuses to appear,...