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Elections should be continued to be carried out over the centuries. right? whether or not u.s. elections, u.s. small d democracy should be a tech know accuratic nonpartisan thing. today in the january 6th investigation, the investigation into the violent attack by trump supporters on the u.s. capitol in january to try and stop the election being certified. today former president trumps white house chief of staff mark meadows, he declined to appear for testimony that he had been subpoenaed to giv...

Mark, right before we came to error, congressman bennie thompson and liz cheney called your lawsuit fraud and they will continue supporting contempt charges against you. your response tonight. >> well, obviously congress is going to do what they already intended to do which is hold me in contempt. this lawsuit really goes to the heart of the fact. the fact is we have been trying for weeks and weeks to make accommodations to share on privilege -- and i want to shoot him express that -- nonprivile...

Under siege. dr. fauci is here answering your questions. also tonight the powerful testimony, the mother of daunte wright in tears on the stand at the trial of kimberly potter, the former officer accused of killing her son the defense saying potter mistook her gun for her taser. the never before seen images of jeffrey epstein and ghislaine maxwell shown at her sex trafficking trial. what they reveal. the january 6th committee moving to hold former trump chief of staff mark meadows in conte...

Killing of jamaal khashoggi suspicion of involvement of the killing ofjamaal khashoggi has been released. prosecutors say it was a case of mistaken identity. donald trump �*s former chief of staff has filed a lawsuit against the congressional committee with contempt over his refusal to testify in the investigation into the january capital riots. mark meadows specifically names the democratic leader of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi, in the suit alongside nine members. and talks on ...

I mean, the committee has them. mark meadows cannot take them back. and if you noticed in liz cheneys tweet right now, she had the little phrase, including mark meadows. shes indicating that these are serious. and as an investigator, if im on the committee, im thinking, well, ipt the rest of them. im going to fight for them. and i want to depose mark meadows. is that going to happen? probably not. their only option really now is to seek criminal contempt but it is a bit more complicated to charg...

Prosecutions not involving congress, guess what happens, you go and must comply with the season or you are held in contempt or sometimes jailed for not doing so. this is actually what youre seeing a return to normalcy. what is not normal is the continued on city nance, not just the volume of documents are at issue here. this is a former member of congress in mark meadows who is arguing that congress does not have a legitimate oversight or legislative purpose in investigating what happened on an ...

Abc news, mr. jonathan karl, also the author of "betrayal: the final act of the trump show." such a pleasure to have you on. thank you so much, sir. >> great to be here. >> meadows fiercely pushing back against the committee after earlier having some level of cooperation. we know trump cant be happy with him or his new book. is he trying to get back in the former presidents good graces? what is this all about? >> as a legal strategy it makes no sense what he was doing because, as you point out, ...

Messages that meadows sent and received as the insurrection was going on. what could they learn from those communications? >> so its important, i think, to break this whole story into three pieces. the first is the plan for the actual terrorist attack on the capitol, and we know theres over 500 people that have been in the criminal justice system and said that trump sent us there. the second is the plot to overturn the actual election results, and thats where someone like mark meadows, jeffrey c...

Stormed the capitol on january the six. the fbi felt for whatever reason the funeral of might nathan bedford forrest be a good place to find people who perhaps were in the capital on january six. yeah. the funeral, the re-burial of a confederate general and the klan founder might possibly have been an attraction to the americans from our generation who did their part to try to over four through the u.s. government by force. tonight, theres news on the investigation of the january 6th attack. for...

Negotiation with congress is the better route to go. nobody wants to be indicted unless in their estimation they conduct a balancing test and getting indicted for contempt is somehow a better outcome than whatever would happen if they turned over those documents and sat for a deposition. >> now, dan in addition, did mark meadows open himself up for a potential indictment because he started to cooperate? >> yes and no. i mean, that plus the fact that he just released a book weakens his argument a...