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The prosecutor yesterday telling us that it is likely the parents will face charges. the question is does it happen today or tomorrow? we just dont know. but that would be the next significant step in this investigation, jim. >> four students are dead. shimon prokupecz, thank you very much. coming up next, the january 6th committee moves to hold a former justice department official in contempt for refusing to cooperate with their investigation. he does have one last chance to comply. also ah...

Demand that he has to appear before the committee. so that newly scheduled deposition is set for saturday. if he does not show up or if the committee is not satisfied with his answers or when he invokes the fifth, which he is expected to do, then theyll have to make a decision on if they are going to vote on that full contempt referral before the full house of representatives. >> great. somebody else gets held in contempt. does that get us any closer to getting the information to find out what i...

>> people actually believe that its all political, how will we survive? how will the court survive? >> then, a surprise announcement from jeffrey clark, as the january 6th committee makes the move towards a second contempt for. plus, the damning implications of new reports that the former president had covid way longer than we knew. including at the debate. >> tonight, is an example everybodys had attests and youve had social distancing. >> and why the current president has a compelling case. th...

Theyve reached a deal to avoid the criminal contempt which would have been catastrophic for him. so he may have some criminal exposure potentially, but hell steer clear of that and can still give the committee all kinds of valuable information ba because he was, auzs you say, a trumps shoulder in those critical days. this is cnn reporting. two people with direct knowledge told cnn this. officials reached out to the pentagon, national security officer and the office of the director of national ...

Will be held in contempt. but first he is going to meet with the committee again where he plans to take the fifth. what does that all mean for this investigation? >> well, a few things. one, he may not actually be held in contempt. if he comes in on saturday and actually provides information, they dont need to go through with the contempt vote. what this does is it puts contempt over his head and gives a greater incentive for him to testify. now what happens on saturday? they really put him in a...

Fifth. to be clear, pleading the fifth means that you are trying to protect yourself against criminal charges. so what the committee did is that we proceeded with efforts to hold him in contempt. what i think that anybody who has been called before this committee and the american people should understand from both the bannon contempt, as well as the initiating the clark contempt proceedings is that we will allow no one to be above the law and no one to stall the investigations of this committee....

They will need to see what will happen on saturday for next steps. >> democrat congresswoman zoe lofgren, and lets pick up right there. if jeffrey clark picks back up, exercising the 5th amendment rights, what happens then? >> he would be in contempt. the fifth amendment is an important right, and it says no plern be a witness against himself into apparently they think they have done something that might be resulting in a criminal prosecution. that is pretty extraordinary. he has a right to take...

That you made tonight at the proceedings, im not sure i understand what the implications of what happens next. >> the implications are we will give mr. clark his right to assert his fifth amendment before the committee should he choose. we have been negotiating since october with mr. clark. were doing everything we can to show that were not partisan. that this committee is just trying to get to the facts. as you said, we voted unanimously, tonight, to hold him in contempt. i will go before the r...

And when he appeared for a deposition on november 5th, instead of answering our questions, his lawyer presented the committee with a dozen pages of excuses for defying the law and refusing to comply with our subpoena. we heard the term contempt of congress a lot in the last few weeks. we know its serious business that can land a person in serious trouble. but it can sound a little abstract. so, if you want to know what contempt of congress really looks like, read the transcript of mr. clarks dep...

Frankly, across this country. i dont think that you can blame guns, on the one hand, for it, i dont think that you can blame a particular member of congress for that discourse. speaker pelosi stood behind the president during a state of the union address that millions of americans watched, an address thats critical to our democracy, and she ripped up the presidents speech. that certainly isnt civil discourse, that certainly doesnt. .. right, congressman, ican... ..something not violent. right, i...