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On january 6th. as you pointed out, they raise this idea that the president and his advisers have something to answer to clearly from the public information thats already been out there and from whatever information this committee is trying to get from these documents that trump is trying to hide at this point. >> let me ask you about mark meadows who they will hold formal vote of contempt. that goes through courts just like steve bannon is. i believe its july 18th he will get a day in court. th...

Young gay men was ignored, dismissed and treated with contempt. even the partner of one of the murder victims. more than a year the police made no public appeals for help and did not warn the gay community. they failed to liaise with lgbt+ organisations and they failed to alert the gay press. all of that amount to institutional homophobia, and some of these officers have got to face serious disciplinary action. but the coroner directed the jury not to reach any findings as regards homophobia and...

People to cooperate. the committee says its gotten valuable information, and liz cheney the republican on the panel said that president trump is trying to obstruct using legal tactics to do so and they wont let him do that. lets play a little bit of what one of the democrats in the committee, jamie raskin told our colleague yesterday about how it is going. >> everything is moving in our direction at this point. were getting a really fine grained image of what was taking place. all of it is becom...

Of the republican party, its on the rooter to the tooter. its from top to bottom. its mark meadows who used to a norm core congressional republican who is now facing contempt because he decides i dont believe subpoenas are real. the steve bannon is the model where i ignore the subpoena. it goes all the way down to your average, you know, what used to be a regular republican who is now a qanon. and so i think that radicalization to me also includes the court. we can throw out precedent. stare dec...

The former president failing in his claim. the court saying trump has given no legal reason to ignore president joe bidens conclusion that congress should have access to trumps white house records. that means this case is now likely headed to the supreme court. also this hour, the january 6th committee just scheduling a vote to hold trumps former chief of staffer mark meadows if criminal contempt. they have scheduled that for monday. he will be the third trump ally that the committee will vote t...

Reason why meadows is an important witness, and why were going to hold him in contempt for refuse to go appear? >> right. thats that monday vote, which is a big deal. that would put him in legally bannons position, and the doj could decide whether to indiet him. its raised lots of questions, i think youre aware of this, it referring to meadows providing documents, including a january 5, 2021 e-mail about the national guard being on standby. thats explosive if it was supporting that. of course, t...

People have. when he said 75 years until they can turn it over, that raises red flags for some folks too. thank you very much. good see you. >> thank you. >> shannon: mark meadows could face criminal contempt charges for refusing to appear before the houses january 6 committee. jim jordan is calling it a scam.

The violence at the capitol. the committee vice chair, liz cheney, said today the committees approaching 300 witness interviews, and that the investigation is currently, as she put it, firing on all cylinders. late today maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin, who also sits on that committee, offered new clues about their progress. >> everything is moving in our direction at this point. were getting a really fine grained image of what was taking place. and the money that was being raised, ...

When you read that, if a unanimous court of appeals from the d.c. circuit says what it says about executive privilege then mark meadows is on very shaky ground where he tries to retreat, hey, i dont have to cooperate because of executive privilege there is going to be a vote to hold him in contempt at the beginning of the week. hes had a bad week because clearly the president didnt like it that he told everyone he had been very sick and frankly kept it from people that threatens peoples lives. n...

Potentially, over the long run, become helpful to the republican side, to have all of these votes, because it reinforces the republican argument that this is some sort of a partisan endeavor, the investigation, if youre going to end up having party line votes on whether to hold these hostile witnesses in contempt of congress, and so its in the commits interest, you know, which is a bipartisan committee led obviously, co-chaired by the republican, liz cheney, its in their interest to use whatever...