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So there are new developments out of the house select committee investigating the january 6 riots. republican congressman scott perry is refusing to sit down and answer the panels questions. plus, the committee is not ruling out criminal referrals for former president trump, and of course, his allies. lets dig in with elliott williams. elliott, good to see you. a lot to get to tonight. perry is now slamming the comm committee, calling it illegitimate, almost like hes daring them to subpoena him....

Official, to replace the acting attorney general, so that they could try to overturn these election results, or at least put out a statement saying that the results were, in fact, wrong. of course, those are all false statements. but, you know, were waiting to see. this committee has some options. they can do like they did with mark meadows and steve bannon and refer criminal contempt charges to the department of justice. but because theyre a member of congress, they perhaps have some other opti...

Or coprayed in any way and then the committee might consider taking legal action against them. do you try to hold a fellow member of congress in contempt? these are all remarkable things that could happen with this january 6th committee. and you are right, they are watching the clock. they are thinking about november of 2022. if they lose the house, democrats, then it would be likely kevin mccarthy as the next speaker would disband or sideline this committee and they might not get to the answer ...

Only reason i think is to give it to trump and give it to trumps base. trump is going to take something like this and run with it as he announced his january 6th press conference at mar-a-lago. hes looking for another counterstunt from everything the committee is unearthing. >> a judge denied a request to block the january 6th subpoenas saying there is no basis to conclude that flynn will face immediate and irreparable harm. your take, joyce. >> so flynn found that he could not get an injunction...

Thats suspect -- and in my opinion, any of these people to voted -- that refused to certify the election -- is inherently a little bit suspect with the evidence here is even more. but they should be held accountable and they should come testify as to what happened. >> you know, gloria, this -- perry is the first known sitting member of congress asked to come before the commit yetee. it would be an extraordinary move if the committee is considering, you know, investigating him in this way. where ...

The facts that rapid tests are no longer available, these things should have been available to us in june of 2020. and because of donald trumps opposition and contempt for protesting, we didnt. this is a year and a half later. we are well into the biden administration of the way into his term. and we have terrible testing capacity. this is the kind of thing that is going to help americans navigate during holiday season. to navigate the variant as transmissible as omicron. this is something that ...

Texts or speaking with former president trump. perry is someone involved in the senate report with the doj effort to get involved. he has material information. as for the tools available to compel testimony, it is not clear what steps the committee can take. whether subpoena is the way to go. it will be hard to hold another member in contempt or threaten him with the other punishments like losing committee assignments. i dont think that is the kind of things they would buy into. we are wandering...

He thinks his answers may incriminate him granted hes a sitting member of congress, that would be fraught to do that. if he defies the committee and says no, im not cooperating, the committee has to decide whether they hold him in contempt. this is a colleague of theirs. this is a sitting member of congress. well see if they have the political backbone to do that. >> meadows is a former colleague. they saw him thumb their nose and again, as we know, the idea of trying to assert a privilege is no...

For contempt. >> speaking of actual prosecutions that have gone forward, we have three really big trials going on this week alone. youve got kim potter, youve got maxwell, youve got elizabeth holmes, as well. i want to go to kim potter who mistook her firearm for her taser and fatally shot doaunte wright just 20 years old. this happened in the middle of the derek chauvin trial out of minnesota and the jury is now deliberating. so how is this going to play out in your mind? shes got an interestin...

Done? hes in contempt not talking and the other hand, doj and jeffrey clark is taking the fifth. hes not talking. clark -- so excuse me, perry is the obvious person for the committee to look at. he can send a thank you note to mark meadows and jeffrey clark for his what may soon become a subpoena. >> he unlike mark meadows wont have the most direct climb, not a valid one but privilege. he has a different scenario at hand. they sent a letter to perry saying they are aware of multiple texts and ot...