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Or are he he and dance casino out of the woods with this announcement, they wont be prosecuted for contempt to congress. >> jonathan, i hope you brought your gop to co-chairing. -- but i need to make an exception, and i want you to hear his reaction to navarros indictment today. watch this. >> if you are a republican, you cant even lie to congress, or lie to an fbi agent, or if theyre coming after you, theyre gonna bury you, theyre gonna pitch you in the d.c. jail and terrorize and torture you. ...

Mark meadows or dan scavino who were also referred for criminal charges. >> yeah, its a great question, and one the committee is also asking the department of justice. just last night in a statement after the news broke that the department of justice would not be charging scavino and meadows, the committee released a statement saying, look, we want to know why youve decided not to. mr. meadows and mr. scavino unquestionably have relevant knowledge about president trumps role in the efforts to ov...

Officials found in contempt by the january 6th panel. the house committee calls the decision not to prosecute mark meadows and dan scavino pussle. cnn national security reporter zach cohen joins us now. what more do we know about the decision? >> the committee is saying they dont fully understand how the department of justice could reach a decision not to indict dan savino and mark meadows especially because they made clear both men are key witnesses. thats something the committee reiterated aga...

There was an automatic by law recount. im not gonna give credit to dr. oz because dr. oz doesnt deserve credit because hes been spewing a whole bunch of lies. so no. who i will give credit to is mccormack, because he recognized that he wasnt going to close the gap, and he said i concede. and left it so we can have faith in our democratic process. >> all. right maya, we had many new developments this week in the investigation into january 6th. former trump advisor peter navarro was arrested yeste...

Quickly, because if navarro is being prosecuted for defying a subpoena and then the committee that issued the subpoena evaporates or is dissolved if the republicans come into power, i dont see how you continue to prosecute that case. >> reporter: navarro is the, second trump white house official charged with contempt. aisha: alex, thanks so much. bryan: [inaudible] ♪ ♪ >> day three of platinum jubilee celebrations in london odd as the nation marks 703 years of queen elizabeth iis reign. alex...

Just coming in. peter navarro has now been criminally indicted due to the justice departments criminal referral for ignoring the january 6th committee subpoena that he was issued. lets go to paula reed with more on this. paula, what do you have? >> reporter: thats right. i have the indictment here. former trump white house adviser peter navarro has been indicted on two counts of contempt related to his refusal to cooperate with the house select committees investigation into january 6th. navarro ...

They havent done anything on that case yet. >> chuck, lay out the difference here between civil contempt and the more serious charge of criminal contempt here. the distinction of why thats important. >> yeah, its a great question, hallie. so it sounds like its the same thing. contempt is contempt is contempt but not quite. in simple contempt a judge is trying to compel compliance. youll recall that donald trump is involved in a lawsuit with new york state with the attorney general up there and t...

That may explain why its taken 171 days for the justice department to decide, 171 days and counting. one other point here -- i know that ari knows this. its well to remind everybody. this is criminal contempt. so, even if the justice department prevails here and peter navarros convicted, that still doesnt mean he has to turn anything over to committee. it merely is a punishment. its unlike civil contempt where if you agree you turn the stuff over and the case goes away. this doesnt force him to ...

Judge Amit Mehta serves on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Overdue. this is im not understating the importance of this, but this is a process question. the congress says you refuse to cooperate with us. we want you held in contempt. and then theres the larger justice department investigation and potential criminal behavior between election day, the insurrection and up to inauguration day. help with context? >> yeah. so first of all, focusing on the narrow issue of peter navarro, this is bad news for peter navarro. this is serious. this is a federal indi...