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doj dealing a blow to the january 6 committee. wanting to charge mark metal an his former deputy. this says former trump aides sa that navarro responds to what h calls unnecessarily harsh treatment at the hands of federal agents are flatly taken away in handcuffs and leg irons over his complaints of a subpoena. that plus an update on that gop senate primary race in pennsylvania where the recount continues to spike. a confession to fight. be begin with the economy where the white house ...

Chaos continues on College Campuses all across the country. Alexis mcadams will join us live from New York University where tonight agitators are desperately trying to regroup after many arrest today. This includes Florida University where trespassers set up tents inside an Academic Building and even unfurled their very own Giant Intifada banner over a bridge. Meanwhile on the left coast, ucla classes have been canceled after what was a brutal night of violence and widespread handtohand fighting...

Congress and that doj has some recent history refused to bring criminal cases against current and former officials after contempt findings from congress in 2012, the justice department declined to pursue a contempt prosecution against city attorney general eric holder wh refused to turn over some documents about the fast and furious scandal. jason, to you first. as this more or less punishment by the democrats? is this the doj run amok? what is happening here? >> the former chairman of the commi...

>> its probably too late for the committee to force anyone to testify who does not want to tefr. if somebody defied a subpoena, you could go to court and try to get an order from a judge requiring them to testify or you could send it over to doj for a contempt prosecution to punish the person. both of these thing, either of those things will take way more than the three to four weeks we have until the hearings start. as a practical matter, the committee will have to rely on the good will and the...

Executive privilege or attorney-client privilege that they can assert in this regard, and they should be fully enforceable just to the same extent that steve bannon has been with a contempt prosecution if they failed to comply. nicole, the really interesting thing about this group of subpoenas that comes out today is the january 6th committee has made it very clear that theyre heading straight for the heart of the big lie. and theyre doubling down on their belief that if they tell the american p...

Especially these younger folks who are new in their careers and potentially have a long career in politics ahead of them. but thats why i think the mark meadows contempt referral is going to be increasingly important, especially as merrick garland continues to be silent on it, because if you talk to lawmakers, theyll say that steve bannons contempt prosecution, the doj ultimately taking up that referral, actually had a positive effect and impact on getting other players to cooperate, and with th...

Morning. if you were on the committee, would you vote to refer scavino and navarro for contempt prosecution? how strong is their case? >> given the precedent that they did so for both bannon and mark meadows, i think i would. when you think about the factors in play, certainly, these two are probably not as bad as bannon, but worse than mark meadows in the sense that they never cooperated. they completely thumbed their nose at the committee. so to try to press their case and get this information...

By the government of defrauding trump supporters and still facing up to 40 years in prison for fraud, bannon was saved by donald trumps pardon on his last day in office. but of course, that pardon did not cover bannons role in the insurrection. todays referral now goes to the department of justice, which will decide whether or not to charge bannon with criminal contempt. now for some historical context, the last time the department of justice prosecuted someone for contempt of congress was nearl...

President biden said he expects his doj to move forward with the contempt prosecution. the spokesman for the attorney general making it clear the doj will make its own independent decisions. meanwhile, a 25-year veteran of the capitol police department will appear in court on tuesday for his arraignment on two counts of obstruction. hes accused of instructing a rioter to delete facebook posts that showed that rioter inside the capitol on january 6th. capitol police officer michael angelo reill...