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Legislators of the state look into this. >> reporter: beyond the doj probe, a separate criminal investigation into trump and his allies is escalating in georgia, where investigators subpoenaed key trump allies, including rudy giuliani and south carolina senator lindsey graham. the district attorney there says more subpoenas may soon be headed to trumps inner circle. >> were going to do our due diligence. >> reporter: at a separate congressional investigation unearthing new details, like trumps e...

Be very forceful, one of the most forceful, essentially calling him out on multiple meetings. >> the other witnesses have said that he was there to tell the then president of the united states, this is wrong, this is illegal. including cassidy hutchinson, her conversation with cipollone, thing that the president wanted to go to the capitol. >> mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure that we do not go to the capitol, cassidy. we are going to get charged with every crime im...

This is no time to wait. we can almost guarantee there are some critically important questions being asked right now behind closed doors, the witness pat cipollone, the former white house counsel to president trump, testifying and being videotaped before the house january 6 committee. there you can see our cameras catching him arriving this morning. cipollone previously met with the committee back in april but that was an informal interview with house investigators. the urgency behind his appe...

Does it mean answering, or does it mean being forthcoming and helpful? what we do know is that cipollone had to decide whether to defend his former boss or defend democracy. the same democracy and its rituals that he so forcefully championed in that first impeachment trial that is, as with all things trump, on tape. aaron blake of the "washington post" points this out, "it would be one thing if pat cipollone was a true believer who might believe the former president did have the election stolen ...

To cassidy hutchinson. >> i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out that morning. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure that we dont go to the capitol, cassidy, keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. >> joining us now is daniel goldman, the former house majority counsel for the first impeachment trial of donald trump, he is a former assistant journey -- and he is now running as a democrat for n...

Capitol with the mob he incited, the mob he knew was armed. >> mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we dont go up to the capitol, cassidy, keep in touch with me, were going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. >> multiple sources tell cnn that cipollone will give a transcribed interview behind closed doors this friday. two of the sources telling us the interview will be on video, as well. spokesperson for the committee declined to...

Deal with the committee for a transcribed interview behind closed doors but its happening this friday. oh, and its going to be on video. a lawyer is telling cnn the interview will be limited to specific topics to avoid privilege issues. he was of course the white house counsel. the committee has called him, quote, uniquely positioned to testify. i mean, the understatement of the year. think of what he knows. think about how many times you out there even heard his name from other witnesses during...

I walked out that morning. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we dont go up to the capitol, cassidy, keep in touch with me. were going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. >> do you remember which crimes mr. cipollone was concerned with? >> in the days leading up to the six, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. >> now, even though cipollone appears to be on the right side ...

That is what i hope doj is dedicated to doing right now. >> so, as we talk about potential criminal content from the former president, the committee is now subpoenaed former white house official pat cipollone. here is with some of the witnesses have said so far beau cipollone. >> jarred, are you aware offenses where pat cipollone threaten to resign? >> humidity were always saying, oh were gonna resign, were not gonna be hurt this happens, if that happens. so i kind of took it to just be winding,...

We have serious legal concerns if he goes to the capitol that day. then he urged me to continue relaying that to mr. meadows, because his men were saying mr. cipollone thought mr. meadows was pushing this along with the president. >> and we understand, miss hutchinson, that you also spoke to mr. cipollone on the more morning of the sixth, as you were about to go to the rally on the ellipse. mr. cipollone said something to you like, make sure the movement to the capitol does not happen. is that c...