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Who is the client in the attorney client privilege asserted in your letter. >> clarks lawyer were happy to engage in that dialogue of in corps with committee council but we are not doing it in this deposition, congressman. congressman rascon, wow, okay. i yield back whereupon he yields back to the chief counsel for the investigation, the top lawyer for the investigation. who then says, quote, okay, well, i can tell you that were not going to conclude this deposition. but then sure enough jeff cl...

Scheme to get georgia to flip its election results after the fact to not send biden electors to the electoral college even though biden won the state of georgia, maybe that whole effort was a crime. jeff clark was already in trouble for refusing to give testimony and refusing to give documents to this investigation when he was subpoenaed to do so. they were going to hold him in contempt and they have. the question of whether or not he will be referred for criminal prosecution in terms of that co...

Of, you know, spending weeks when we were trying to get his voluntary cooperation, stringing us along, then being subpoenaed, then coming in and refusing to testify and then on the eve of holding him in contempt, a new claim, this time, that hes going to invoke his fifth amendment right, that was among the, you know, all the many disparate claims that he made when he showed up for the deposition. he never suggested at that time that he believed what he said would incriminate him, so thats a new ...

People expressing their first amendment rights. i had mark short, vice president pences chief of staff, who was with him that day on my podcast this week. and pence and short said, you know, was really offended by that. having been in the middle of it. said this -- these werent people -- these werent patriots. this was a mob. this was a riot. thats the truth. but so, you know, maybe meadows had to turn his manuscript in before the president changed the knobs on his story. but the story now is th...

>> thats a very good question. we spoke to congressman jamie raskin after he came out of the select committees business meeting when they recommended to hold jeffrey clark in contempt and recommended the house to pursue that vote. and he said, look, he may come in, as in, clarke may come into the deposition and he may claim the fifth amendment to every single question that is of interest to the committee beyond, what is his name, when did he meet people like scott perry, so if he does, then the ...

Handing the election to president trump even though biden had won in those states. well, this week the january 6th investigation voted to hold mr. clark in contempt for not cooperating. he had refused to give testimony or provide documents. he walked out of his deposition with his lawyer. but at that deposition after he walked out one of the committee lawyers revealed that this letter clark drafted for the justice department to send to georgia state officials, the letter advising them to flip th...

You here on a friday night. appreciate you taking the time. >> happy to do it. >> the breaking news weve got exclusively that the january 6th investigation appears to have discovered that the incriminating letter that was drafted from the u.s. justice department to georgia state officials essentially inducing them to flip the election results in that state, rather than just being the product of jeffrey clark, a single justice department official, who announced he is going to plead the fifth in t...

>> well, i also think meadows delayed testifying as long as he could because he knew his book was coming out. and he wanted his testimony to be around the same time the book came out so that, you know, it would perhaps boost book sales. which im sure hes very, very concerned about. john, we also learned that this evening that john eastman, the conservative attorney who helped craft the baseless legal theory that former-vice president pence had the constitutional authority to interrupt the certif...

Learn how to read stuff, take an economics class if youre young because then youll be able to laugh at this and not get taken. >> jesse: they did this with the coronavirus. cases exploding 20%! cases went from four to six. i dont know if the democrats are dumb or they think the american people are dumb. if the democrats are dumb, that makes sense. it would explain their dumb policies. if they think the american people are so dumb that they will see this and go, joe, thank you. im so grateful, th...

Right, meadows doesnt want to be held in contempt, based on what theyve got there is very different. >> yeah, sounds like its a little bit lost in translation, but well see what comes of it. hugo, thank you so much. come see us again very soon. if you have been watching msnbc, youve probably seen it. amons promo for his new podcast, "american radical," how a shy woman from his hometown got lured into the conspiracy theory movement. im so interested. i know youre interested. were going to find ...