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Contributors. katie, your reporting for me brought jeffrey clark to light and life. tell me the significance of his now sort of being at this intersection of a 1/6 committee perfectly willing to refer him to the justice department. >> sure, so i think theres a lot of significance in this contempt vote. jeffrey clark, he was an official during this time after the election when it seemed trump was trying to overturn the results. if he has held in contempt, it will send a really strong message to t...

Former presidents do not. so meadows was looking at the same fate as trumps former adviser steve bannon, who has been criminally charged with contempt for his refusal to cooperate. he doesnt want charges, the litigation and the possible conviction on his record. he knows that theres no executive privilege grounds to withhold, so he started cooperating. >> youve said the courts are not buying the former presidents argument about executive privilege, but what if the strategy is to keep arguing abo...

Did you think? >> i cried. >> reporter: this texas mom of two flew to this denver clinic for her abortion, which could become the norm for women in other states that ban the procedure. here in texas, theyre awaiting a supreme court ruling on the ban currently in effect. any ruling by the high court is likely to result in years of new lawsuits. margaret. >> brennan: janet shamlian, thank you. there is breaking news tonight about a former justice department official who is refusing to cooperate wi...

All of these events that happened today are tied together by the simple proposition that current presidents have the power over executive privilege, over whether or not documents or testimony can be heard. former presidents do not. so meadows was looking at the same fate as trumps former adviser steve bannon, who has been criminally charged with contempt for his refusal to cooperate. he doesnt want charges, the litigation and the possible conviction on his record. he knows that theres no executi...

Today. of course it could end up in the supreme court next. >> learning some other things today. also learning tonight that the january 6th committee is planning to refer the former doj official jeffrey clark for criminal contempt tomorrow. they say he refused to answer questions at a recent deposition or produce any documents. does that help explain why they are taking clark on next? >> yeah. look, jeffrey clark should be referred for contempt, and contempt should be actually the least of jeffr...

Criminal contempt third rail that people -- some people just dont want to have that weighing over them. >> which is understandable. this is a former member of congress. nobody wants to be held in criminal contempt, much less someone who has occupied that position in the past. someone who is still not cooperating as far as we know, though, is this former d.o.j. official, jeffrey clark. the house is set to recommend criminal contempt charges over to the d.o.j. for this official. what are you watch...

And when could the former president possibly win out? the lawyer just could not answer that question. so i dont see anyway these judges rule in favor of trump having listened to that argument today and could end up in the supreme court next. >> learning other things tonight and learning that the january 6th committee is planning to refer the former doj official jeffrey clark for criminal contempt tomorrow. they say that he refused to answer questions at a recent deposition or produce documents. ...

Is critical to our democracy and she ripped up his speech, that certainly is not civil discourse and it does not... congressman, right, ican assure you we put tough questions to democrats and republicans on the show but the question for you, as a republican is if donald trump runs again and one of his key advisers jason miller says it is 99% certain that he will, are you prepared to support a man, donald trump, who clearly has nothing but disdain and contempt for americas democratic system? agai...

A fraud. so he should be held in contempt if he continues to defy the committee and he may have bigger problems, as well. >> thank you so much, sirme. appreciate it. >> thanks, don. with all of this going on, the gop is having an absolute meltdown. the qanon congresswoman publicly and repeatedly slamming a colleague in her own party for opposing hate and bigotry and from the leaders of the gop, crickets.

To hold a second official in contempt. michael, what is your view why some officials like bannon continue to defy and clark and others like meadows looking at even the risk of jail or trial, et cetera, saying no thank you. >> well, i think some of it has to do with how much they bought into trump world and trump lies for their own self preservation or just wanting to have trump like them. there was reporting, you know, at the end of last week about mark meadows and how a lot of his own members o...