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And theyve shown us that theyre not here just to be played. theyve learned the lessons of how congress was slow-walked in the past. what theyre doing here is less being conciliatory to these witnesses than setting these witnesses up to be accountable. bannon was easy, he had utter contempt for the subpoena, did nothing, and thats what doj relates in the criminal indictment. so now congress is being careful when they engage with these witnesses. jake is right, theyre playing toward compliance, an...

Questions on a number of topics of deep interest to the committee. he will be required to identify as to each question the basis of any refusal to testify. now, he has given us in his prior appearance before the committee a litany of reasons, i think all bogus, as to why he would not answer our questions. interestingly, joy, at that prior appearance before the committee, he never suggested that his answers would incriminate him, and that was the basis he was refusing. that was new. that was some...

Meadows, donald trumps former chief of staff is now cooperating, at least reportedly with the committee. lets just say that each of these men come in, and their version of cooperation is to come in and all plead the fifth. what then? what recourse will this committee have to get to the truth if people walk in and like some of them have done just walk back out or plead the fifth and do not give you the information that the committee needs to get to the truth? >> well, there are a range of potenti...

Makeup of the committee he says makes it invalid and doesnt need to cooperate. what do you say to that? >> well, that was a frivolous argument. if he uses that as a basis to refuse to answer questions he will be in the contempt of the committee and simple and straightforward. so well be seeing with each witness, with meadows, with clarke, eastman and others whether theyre properly invoking a privilege or to stall and delay for the former president and will make the judgment as to what the reperc...

Book. 1/6 committee is going to hear in a matter of speaking from this jeffrey clark unless he changes his mind. he has telegraphed that he is going to take the fifth. how is that likely to go? did he really want criminal contempt as the top line in his résumé? and remind us his degree of exposure here. >> look, i think its very important to remember the context here. this is jeffrey clark, who was one of the senior officials at the justice department in environmental law, the environmental di...

Repu reputation, but very expensive to defend yourself in a criminal proceeding. as former chief staff, he has more potential privilege protections than any other witnesses, but so far, the committee nor biden house appear willing to assert those or raise those or defend those. its an ongoing investigation. i have a lot of questions about emails he has been sharing so far. what does he have that the archives doesnt have? anything thats material to january 6th should be in possession of the archi...

Official jeff clark in contempt for refusing to cooperate with the investigation. we also told you he plans to take the fifth amendment when deposed in the committee. in the rules committee they said they will hold off on making that referral to the justice department or not until after clark has his deposition and opportunity to plead the fifth this weekend. well tell you one other thing, though, happened at that meeting that was not expected. also announced by liz cheney at that meeting, she s...

Did you talk to the former president about delaying or stopping the certification of the election or schemes to do so and he says no, does that fall in your view into the parameters of something that he couldnt say? because just asking what you spoke to somebody doesnt sound like youre implicating them in a crime necessarily. >> well, im not sure precisely what basis mr. clark will be asserting the fifth that is what crimes does he think that he may have been involved in that if he testified tru...

All right. so we worked it out and we have the congressman back. congressman, you there? >> yes, i sure am. >> okay, good. first question again. so jeffrey clark is intending to take the fifth when he meets with your committee on saturday. when he does that, will the full house still vote to hold him in contempt or not? he is, you know, a justice official. i mean its remarkable really. >> it is remarkable. this was a senior justice department official who is now telling us that if he were to tes...

Waived those legal protections. so meadows is in a very perilous spot here and a critically important witness as this 1/6 committee is doing such a good job of driving forward every day pushing towards the truth to make sure that these kinds of activities, these apparent election fraud conspiracies, cant happen again. >> paula, we know meadows has agreed to an initial deposition by the committee after a long tame of back and forth. what have the expectations of how forthcoming he may be? >> the ...