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Committee counsel, but were not going to do it in this deposition. wow, okay. i yield back. where hed 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 clark and his lawyer decide theyre concluding the deposition. theylu get up and they walk out. and, so, we can now see from what happened when he came in and refused to provide any ...

>> very, very possible. but not likely with the fifth amendment if thats what he is going to take. in fact, i think thats what clark is relying on in claiming, when he does appear, hes going to take the fifth. this is an area that you really are not likely to find any resolution of congress holding somebody in contempt for, unless its so specious and so outrageous that they -- theres no choice. but i think both will be careful enough. i think somebody ought to ask mark meadows, incidentally, to ...

More now on our top story. james and jennifer crumbley, parents of the michigan school shooting suspect were in court and each pled not guilty to four counts of involuntary manslaughter. the judge set bond for both at $500,000. four students were killed in the oxford high school shooting, seven others injured. the deposition of a former top justice official in the trump administration has been postponed. jeffrey clark was scheduled to sit for a deposition with the january 6th select committee to...

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 whos announced hes going to plead the fifth in that investigation, who has already been held in contempt by the investigation, rather than just being his work as has been described in public reporting, the investigation has discovered white house metadata on that document,...

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. thats a new defense. >> reporter: alex, the committee stands to benefit fr...

Potential federal prosecutions. that has left it to the january 6th investigation in congress. and they have been looking at that. they have been looking at the january 6th attack as part of a larger plot to overthrow the election, as just one physically violent component to a larger organized scheme. and jeff clark, this trump justice department official who reportedly drew up plans for the justice department to hold a press conference announcing that it was investigating massive fraud in the e...

The committee is satisfied its genuine. this is not yet another ruse. given his pattern of spending weeks when we were trying to get his voluntary cooperation, stringing us along, then being subpoenaed and coming in and refusing to testify and then on the eve of holding him in contempt, a new claim that hes going to invoke his fifth amendment right. that was among the many desperate claims that he made when he showed up for the deposition. he never suggested at that time he believed what he said...

That he summarized in one of the letters to the committee and asked him to describe that information. i said what possible privilege could there be that would provide that you could tell a reporter things but you cant tell the committee the same thing. it was frankly flimsy pretextual arguments for us to move to hold him in contempt. >> you held him in contempt at the committee level. that vote has not gone to the full congress. it hangs over him which appeared to be inducement for him to return...

Contempt but then postpones it. its not just clarke. kayleigh mcenanys scheduled deposition was also postponed, so whats going on here? is postponing the goal? >> so, i think that all of these trump advisors are trying to figure out how far they can push the select committee before they get held in contempt. clarke already voted to recommend his criminal prosecution if he doesnt cooperate and testify before the committee. of course, he delayed it, as you said, his deposition this morning, but he...

Reporters did not think was actually going to happen, this was just some formative stagecraft from this group of republicans. nevertheless, here we are, it has gotten done and everyone will have their weekend. >> so, john, lets go over to the reporting that was involved when going to your book. from this jeffrey clark unless he changes his mind, he has telegraphed that he will take the fifth. how is that likely to go? did he really want criminal contempt as the top line in his resume and remind ...