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Meeting. they are voting tonight on a measure to defer criminal charges. trumps social media advisor dan and trade secretary peter navarro. both witnesses violated subpoenas that refusing to sit for depositions and both were deeply involved in the scheme to subvert the results of a democratic election and paul off the first american coup. in the 34-page contempt report, the committee says he was likely with trump on january 6th and 5th and say they have reason to believe he may have had advanced...

Thats me saying that. i will tell you this very point is also in the new contempt report from the house committee, which states, quote, navarro appeared on national television discussing subjects that were the focus of the subpoena which he is defying, and that statement, footnotes and cites his february 10 appearance in the beat on nbc. that was about his sweep but also noting he simply would not comply with the committee requests even if, as i raised it in the question, he might face possible ...

Relevant details on tv and podcasts and in its own book, he also stone walled us. the contempt report published last night gets into the weeds on this but broadly, mr. scavino and mr. navarro are making similar executions. theyre claiming that the information we want from them is shielded by executive privilege. to remind everyone executive privilege is a power of the president to make sure officials with information and conversations in private. its a privilege used to protect the presidency an...

Witnesses, certainly documentary evidence does indicate some involvement from some, our colleagues. we have asked several of them to come in and talk to us. we have not yet issued subpoenas and actually there are other individuals that it is becoming clear have information that will be helpful to our investigation. so we have that determination has not been made, although, we are willing to pursue anything that gets us closest to the truth. >> can you offer any thoughts and im not specific once ...

At helpfosterchildren.com breaking news in our politics lead. sources confirming to cnn the house select committee investigating the capitol insurrection plans to send a letter to fox host sean hannity asking him to cooperate with its probe into the deadly attack. this was first reported by axios. lets get straight to ryan nobles on capitol hill. we know hannity is a close trump ally. what might he reveal? >> the committee wants to know specifically what conversations he might have had with ei...

Privileged. now he says he cant answer any questions about them because theyre privileged. you already admitted they werent. you have to answer questions about them. also, his privilege claims are undermined by the publication of his recent book last week which includes descriptions of and quotes from lots of conversations with president trump. you cant sell a book based on your conversations with the president and then claim you cannot talk about those conversations with the president when subp...

I mean, here is how those interactions are described in the contempt report. this is from the transcript of the deposition that meadows didnt show up to. he didnt show up but the rest of the committee showed up and the lead counsel for the investigation laid out for the record all the questions they would have asked mark meadows had he bothered to appear. quote, we would have asked mr. meadows about text messages sent to and from members of congress, including text messages received from a membe...

Bannon should be referred for prosecution, it was about three weeks later that a federal grand jury in fact handed down the indictment of bannon on those contempt charges. what the investigation was actually voting on tonight, what the house will be voting on tomorrow is a contempt report that investigators prepared on mark meadows. in that report, they laid out all the ways in which mark meadows failed to comply with their subpoenas, all the reasons he has to comply with their subpoenas, but al...

Process, mediated through the free and fair elections held in jurisdictions throughout the country and through the statutory and constitutional processes set up to confirm and validate the results. in the case of the 2020 presidential election the january 6th electoral college vote count occurred following a series of efforts in the preceding weeks by trump and his supporters to challenge the legitimacy of disrupt, delay, and overturn the election results. the upshot of the contempt report on ma...

Jeffrey clark as his attorney general to fulfill that and it seems mark meadows was on the receiving end of some communication or had insight into that plan by the former president. >> even in the 51-page contempt report and presentation last night during the committees contempt hearing, these pieces of information were not yet released to the public. but it is news that there was a lawmaker working with mr. clark and that mark meadows was closely aligned with clark as well, which we did know. b...