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The New York attorney general filed a motion to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court over not complying with a subpoena.

Answering questions but didnt describe her as particularly, quote, chatty was the word that he used. so, you know, its going to be really interesting to see what we can find out about what the committee learned from ivanka yesterday. >> yeah. its interesting, you know, him saying im not aware of when asked if trump was citing the fifth amendment protection of self-incrimination or any other type of privilege. it sounds like she was forthcoming. what happens remains to be seen. want to ask you th...

Group to initially make this referral. so these two trump aides are peter navorro, whos trumps one-time trade adviser and dan s scavino who was trumps former chief of staff and theyre being held in contempt. peter navorro has talked publicly about his efforts to try to subvert the 2020 election and working with trump to do so but he has claimed executive privilege when the committee has tried to ask him to answer the same questions that hes talked about publicly. dan scavino has used a number of...

The threat of subpoena, for the threat of a contempt referral and perhaps prosecution to work, doj has to do their part of it, and these democrats, many of them are starting to argue quite publicly for that, which has been a change in strategy from the beginning of this. but they know they need the department of justice to back them up and they know they cant wait any longer. thats the bottom line. the timeline gets more condensed by the day. and if theyre going to have any hope of generating --...

Representatives really demonstrates just how much republicans are attempting to stand in the way of this january 6th select committee investigation. at one point, republicans lined up and attempted to put on the floor a unanimous consent order that had nothing to do with the january 6th select committee. it was an issue related to border security. democrats were forced the turn that back. then the house minority leader himself took to the lek urn to hammer the committee calling it a partisan wit...

Today, neal, if you could help us unpack a legal blow. the judge in that case said the reporting from my colleagues pete williams and daniel barns, a judge had a criminal contempt of congress charge and said that he cannot argue at the trial that he is not guilty that he acted on the advice of his lawyer. that was going to be the centerpiece of the defense so it is a blow to him. you said this, i think before bannon tried to argue it, there is no executive privilege. how did bannon think that wa...

Trump adviser steve bannon. a federal judge has just come out with a ruling that undercuts the central claim that he was trying to make. peter williams is back with us. explain this. what is going on. >> this is the claim that bannon made that his lawyer gave him the advice that he should not testify and not respond to the subpoena because of the presidents invocation of executive privilege and bannon has made it clear and his lawyers have made it clear they wanted to rely on what is known as th...

Contempt charges for former trump advisors dan scavino and navaro. give us the latest. >> if you talk to committee members, both were asked to hand over documents related to the january 6 investigation. they were asked to sit for depositions. both rejected those invitations from the select committee. both claiming that they were protected und prot protected under executive privilege. the committee believe the current white house are the ones to decide whether or not there is a privilege claim. t...

All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. It was a big day for the future of american democracy. We will get to that significant action in a moment, but before we do, just give me a second to go back to the context of what happened in the last election. I think it has been obscured by the sabotage and disinformation and violent insurrection unlike anything weve seen in the history of the country stoked by the former president. Remember this, last november, right, once ...