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with the committee and that is according to reporting by abc and cnn. then you have mike pompeo confirm today that he is in talks with the committee. abc news reporting this about the state of the negotiations with the panel saying in part, quote, the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol is in active discussions with former secretary of state mike pompeo for his testimony behind closed doors. sources familiar with the matter telling abc news. ...

eastman. one day after, january 7th, eastman was still talk at trying the get some way to overthrow then president-elect bidens incoming administration, preserving information out of georgia. this is the new testimony. >> eastman -- i dont remember why he called me, or he texted me or called me, wanted to talk with me, and he said he couldnt reach others. and he started to ask me about something dealing with georgia, preserving something potentially for appeal. and i said to him, are y...

families by an average of $1,500 a year, put medicare and social security, medicaid -- excuse me, social security and medicaid, on the chopping block every five years. in other words, every five years, theyre going to no longer exist unless they vote them back into existence. i disagree with that. what in gods name are they doing? ill work with anyone, democrat, republican, independent, who have real solutions and savings for the american people. not take money out of their pockets. th...

the wider public through the right wing media concocting with that man, steve bannon, they called "the green bay sweep" involved persuading members of congress to challenge the college electoral results setting off a chain reaction by their theory also by their cockamamie theory lead to stage legislators appointing trump elengthers. months after the january 6th committee made a criminal reseveral navarro to the department of justice, turn over records including communications with dona...

peers, is here to discuss the most famous role in american theater. would it -- were a black salesman trying to navigate in a white capitalist world? ♪ ♪ ♪ welcome to the show. im mehdi hassan. we start with that big news from the january six committee. they have finally issued subpoenas to their house republican colleagues, including the top house republican, kevin mccarthy. you know, the one who said he would urge donald trump to step down because of his role in inciting the ri...

The other -- from the other direction. but i think with respect to criminal referrals that they may make im looking mostly at thinking that theyll go towards obstruction, individuals that obstructed the congressional certification and obstruction of the congressional inquiry itself so i do wonder whether we will see maybe more contempt referrals or referrals with respect to how the congress was conducting its inquiry itself. >> big week ahead next week. up next for us new strategies in the abort...

And speak to them. its a different investigation and the nature of it is different. theres also the hanging threads about subpoenas they put out to sitting members of congress on the republican side, five of them, who ignored the subpoenas and now are going to be in the position of wanting to do their own investigations with their own subpoenas. you sort of end up in a situation where the shoe is on the other foot. its why several republican members initially voted for contempt referrals for peo...

And they rr cooperating and weve seen cases where there are contempt referrals as we saw with steve bannon who was prosecuted and convicted for that, so thats going to be a really big question before the committee among many others that they need to consider in the coming weeks this month coming up in august. >> katty, final question to you, bringing in donald trump or mike pence would be an incredibly charged political moment for the country to see them before the committee? what is the calcula...

The world of the committee and it account open doors, as well. >> what do they have to say about where it lands? is there a consensus among the committee members about some of these pressing issues? >> not quite. i also talked to chairman tofrm son about that today, and he mentioned nothing is off the table on the gop members that were subpoenaed and this includes gop leader kevin mccarthy. that includes contempt referrals and committee members need to come to a consensus. theyre not quite there...