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So right now leadership both in the house and the senate are not deterred by manchins no at least publicly. leader schumer saying well vote on bbb very early in the new year and well keep voting until it gets done. but progressives are raging over manchin. on a call yesterday it was said it is abundantly clear we cannot trust what senator manchin said. progressives are drumming up their own ideas, their own plans for build back better. squad members presley pressing the senate for a vote now so ...

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 other communications, multiple texts and other communications with mark meadows as you point out about jeffrey clark. theyre making it really clear they have the receipts so what happens if, say, perry follows the lead of a mark meadows or a steve bannon and stone walls them? >> interesting question. so it depends how he does it. ...

How are you? >> a lot to talk about. >> you dont say. you say congressman perrys attempt to run a coup at the d.o.j, you say potentially the worst abuse of power in this entire mess. tell me why you see it that way. >> laura, because its the department of justice. it your doj, its my doj and the place we used to work and the last independence of truth and government. what these guys tried to do is run a coup to help department run a coup and steal the election. its unforgivable. scott perry was ...

Fascinating watching who at the white house was involved, who at doj, clark, if any others, and then who at capitol hill was involved and put this whole triad together that almost turned our democracy upside down. >> this talk of criminal referrals, criminal conduct is suddenly -- something we havent heard for pretty much the entirety of 2021. now its on everybodys lips partly because of what liz cheney did last week. she wasnt talking about scott perry or jim jordan, she was talking about donal...

One thing that really caught my attention as a former prosecutor is the way scott perry communicated with mark meadows was by an encrypted app signal. why would you do that unless you were trying to hide something? how does this play out from here? first of all, the committee has to decide whether it wants to issue a subpoena which is a formal command to testify, and if perry continues to defy it then the question for the committee is will they hold one of their own members in contempt? they hav...

Kaegss, trying to force him, contempt, criminal or civil contempt? >> as they said this is really uncharted waters for the select committee. it is rare to have a general investigation of a sitting congressman. and this goes to the erosion of various norms. typically where there has been a witness, in or outside of congress, there would be some negotiation, but here it seems clear there will not be negotiation, only stonewalling, and they go further than perhaps they ever have gone in trying to g...

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 not like a carte blanche that says i dont want to show up anymore. its idea of question by question assertion of privileges and saying no, i dont feel like coming in. it cant be good enough. it a valid subpoena. it cant be good enough, right? >> yeah, thats the way its supposed to work. youre not supposed to sa...

Opposition and contempt for testing, we didnt. its a year and a half later. were well into the biden administration, one fourth of the way into his term and we have terrible testing capacity. this is the kind of thing thats going to help americans navigate a holiday season, navigate a variant as transmissible as omicron. its something hes going to have to acknowledge, were not a year ago, its not as scary but people can avoid spreading this around by taking precautions but also getting tested. a...

In addition to members of his own party, meadows heard from major conservative media figures and even trumps own son, begging meadows to do everything in his power to get trump to call off his mob. fox host laura ingraham writing meadows, mark, the president needs to tell the people in the capitol to go home. this is hurting all of us. he is destroying his legacy. the house also voting to hold meadows in contempt over his refusal to answer the 1/6 committees questions about that attack. much mor...

Of the house, former chief of staff to the president was held in contempt of congress and referred to department of justice for prosecution, he is not first person in "fast and furious," a sitting attorney general was held in contempt or a document pro -- preduction dispute, but republicans and democrats have both votes for and against holding witnesses in contempt, and both republicans and democrats have ignored subpoenas and complained when the other side did the same thing, both republicans a...