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Housed thousands of migrants is clear this morning. but the diplomatic crisis over their treatment and what happens to them next is still alive. joined by one texas lawmaker pushing democratic lawmakers to publicly condemn what he called inhumane treatment of migrants. new details related to the death of gabby petito. one said she gave brian laundrie a ride to the campground. where the search for laundrie stands now. the committee investigating the january 6th insurrection will hold several ...

Seeking? >> well, i think these four individuals are going to be in a very different position than prior investigations of trump officials. because, first of all, there will not be a basis for executive privilege because this was political activity, misuse of the office by donald trump, and all of their activities are involved in the political realm. but more importantly, theres no -- the former president cannot claim executive privilege. so even though donald trump has said hes going to claim p...

Prepare to contest the presidential election and delay counting of electoral votes. the committee is looking for a quick turnaround, and all four trump associates are directed to produce relevant documents by october 7th and appear for depositions the following week. cnn has reached out to meadows, scavino, and bannon for comment. patel said in a statement late thursday that he was disappointed but not surprised that the committee had subpoenaed him before seeking voluntary cooperation. now that...

Them in contempt. the department of justice will have to prosecute it. if they dont comply theyll have to be arrested. thats the only way well get this information. heres the thing. steve bannon is not showing up for this deposition. he doesnt care that executive privilege doesnt apply. so they will stall. theyll claim executive privilege. theyll claim some other time of privilege. and theyre not playing by the same set of rules. the only way to get their attention is to go ahead and use crimina...

Attorney to begin prompt prosecution. and if you are found guilty of contempt, it is up to a $100,000 fine and up to one year in prison. i think the committee should make clear they are prepared to go that route very quickly and make an example now of any of these individuals who are important individuals whose cooperation is needed if they decide to not cooperate. . >> yeah. that speed would be night and day compared to the first impeachment. april, i was struck this week. the white house has b...

People have taken the fifth amendment before. there is very little congress can do to force them to testify. finally, john, keep an eye on the calendar here. the subpoenas have a very quick turn-around date. the committee wants documents on the 7th, two weeks from today. they want testimony from patel and bannon on the 14th. and scavino and meadows on the 15th. >> there is a twist now. . >> right. so what congress can do, if they want, is they can -- if they decide to hold these people in contem...

Look thick as thieves. congress is absolutely right to start asking these questions. they need to do so. i suspect that the answers will point toward that person at the top of the white house at the time who is no longer there, the former guy. >> barbara, i set this up with sort of a nod to your history as an incredibly competent and tough investigator. and i want to come back to you on the same question. what is it you want to know about these men individually and in terms of what ties them tog...

To that? they have two options here. one, congress can find steve bannon, if he defies subpoena, they can find him in contempt and refer that over to the justice department which has the option, it hasnt been done in the past, but has the option of bringing a criminal prosecution for contempt. the second thing that the committee can do is go to the courts and say to a federal judge, we want an order instructing steve bannon to come in and testify under penalty of criminal prosecution. so those a...

Thats held and decided by the current administration, thats for bidens folks to decide, they also said were not going to claim it. the drama, the reason theyre bringing out big guns now is the possibility of a lousy claim, a spurious claim, nevertheless as we saw in the previous administration in both the mueller investigation and the impeachments, it takes time. way too much time for a lousy claim to work its way through federal courts and thats going to be the dynamic. now, the chair said well...

Were going to get? doesnt matter how hard the committee is working if the people theyre subpoenaing do nothing. >> you should be harping on t steph, because thats the whole ball game, how will the subpoena recipients respond? because the trump administration officials used to view congressional subpoenas as party invitation that is they could just politely or not to politely decline so it raises a couple legal issues. one, will congress get serious this time using all of the tools in its toolbox...