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Dramatic january 6th testimony up on capitol hill. the committee detailed a very heated and profane oval office showdown between white house attorneys and outside trump advisers pushing baseless claims of election fraud. watch this. >> i opened the door and i walked in. i saw general flynn. i saw sidney powell sitting there. i dont think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. >> was the meeting tense? >> oh, yeah. it was not a casual meeting. at times there were peopl...

When he wasnt working for the president. this is the point, he has always, always been contempt. even if donald trump said, well, i think i can invoke executive privilege, it wouldnt have applied here. so just adding the fact that he didnt is just another nail in the coffin that steve bannon was always going to lie -- >> youve got to wonder, maya, if anyone looking at this case for bannon who considered not working with the january 6th committee might be rethinking how they proceed. >> possible,...

>> do you recall whether he raised to ms. powell the fact that she in the campaign had lost all of the 16 cases they had brought in litigation? >> yes, he raised that. >> and what was the response? >> i dont remember what she said. i dont think it was a good response. >> cipollone and herschmann and whoever the other guy was showed nothing but contempt and disdain of the president. >> i remember the three of them were really sort of forcefully attacking me, you know, verbally. we were pushing ba...

>> yes, sir. >> was the meeting tense? >> oh, yeah. it was not a casual meeting. >> explain. >> i mean, at times there were people shouting at each other, hurting insults at each other. it wasnt just sort of people sitting around on a couch like chitchatting. >> do you recall the fact that she and the campaign had lost all the 60 case thas brought in litigation? >> yes. >> what was in response? >> i dont remember. i dont think it was a good response. >> cipollone and whoever the other gal was sh...

Here. the fraud is not there. were done, right? who is convincing him about a potential violent plot and why does he say its going to be wild? why does he know he has to march people by the thousands to the capitol? so i would start approaching many of the people, of course, who the commit has already got ahold of. im more interested in people who dont want to talk. steve bannon, his trial starts next week for contempt. hes not talking. he claims he wants to volunteer to cooperate with the commi...

0 inflation. >> really? wow. >> and add that to the people who are complaining about his policies, its what, 65%? >> yes. >> two-thirds. >> done. >> when you said wave, i thought beach and got kind of excited. 119 days to the midterm elections, we are counting. right now, "america reports." >> harris, thank you. welcome to fox news special coverage of the january 6th committee hearings. lawmakers are set to hold their seventh public hearing in just a moment now, the focus is going to be on forme...

You meet my conditions. >> no no no. ryan uses this analogy. if you assault someone and beat them up and then bring them band-aids the next day, its like well i didnt assault you, this doesnt change that the underlying crime happened. what happened is that he was held in contempt for not submitting documents and not appearing for testimony. even if he shows up to a hearing, there are still those documents. sir, this is all a stunt to trick people who do not know about public process and the law....

Im not sure... i mean, i give the sun. great credit, obviously, for reporting the story- a little under a week ago, but im not sure they would i have necessarily anticipated it would lead to his downfall, his likely downfall, - in less than a week. the thing that has done i that is that borisjohnson was already in the l last chance saloon. he was already on his final warning, if you like, - and he just handled it cataclysmically over. the weekend. and the trigger was that he started sending out,...

I hope this isnt too nerdy, between civil contempt and criminal contempt. because civil contempt is basically when they lock you up until you agree to do something. you know, lock you up until you agree to do something and once you agree, let is, lets say, agree to testify when the civil contempt is over. thats not what this case is about. this case is criminal contempt which means he is being charged for defying the grand jury -- the congressional subpoena he received earlier this year. when he...

Herring for his trial, which is due to start a week from today. they say contempt of congress is unlike normal contempt. it is not intended to cause someone to testify. it is intestate intended to punish them for past misbehavior. they cited a case from the second circuit that says criminal contempt punishes retrospectively for a completed act of disobedience and you cant avoid a trial by later complying. in other words, they say lets get on with the trial. this is just a red herring and he shou...