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every legal recommend dip is exhausted, a tone different than she reported in her interview before the january 6th panel. >> and the temperature yesterday underscored how ugly and scary it was to be an elections worker or public official who either came under donald trumps scrutiny or refused to bow to his pressure to overturn the results. arizona house speaker republican rusty bowers described the hoards of people, some with weapon, who would show up at his home. and pole workers shea...

Advancing their efforts and military cooperation. Coming up, the warning details about what kind of weaponry and intelligence theyre talking about and what it could mean for the rest of the world. But we start in washington, d. C. , where as we speak, two of Donald Trumps allies in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election are facing justice. Not just on the same day, but in the very same courthouse. In just one hour, Enrique Tarrio will be sentenced, the former proud boys leader convicted of se...

fani willis wrote a scathing letter to jim jordan. >> trumps lawyers are signaling they may ask to move his case to federal court. >> a federal trial wouldnt have the press and media transparency. that would be a more broad jury pool. >> he was convicted on contempt of congress. >> this is not a landmark case. there was no indication of executive privilege. >> the manhunt for the escaped murder is heating up. they are confirming another sighting of danelo cavalcante. >> they did tell e...

Easi easily. I completely agree on the delassification like that. The sources and that set a new precedent. It will be different for the investigation, turning over materials to congress. You turned over thousands of pages, in the middle of the investigation, now that it is closed you cant tell me you have any reason to hang on to that similar information. So good news and bad news for you. Were not going anywhere. Thats the bad news, the good news is it is your table now. Well, is that what hap...

Sara tell us more whats going on. the judge had previously said that mark meadows, who is the former white house chief of staff, and a handful of other trump administration officials and advisers, had to go to the grand jury and testify and had to answer certain questions that the trump team said should have been covered by executive privilege. so now what were seeing, according to sources telling me and my colleagues at cohen is that the trump team is trying to appeal that ruling, so this certa...

Been out there and youre gonna now have plenty of information and folks who had otherwise been reluctant to testify, coming forward. what is the timeline here? because a number of these folks here theyre not. you know , they dont. theyre not just looking for the cover of this right? they really they dont want to share information with the special counsel. theyre going to do everything they can to not do this, so this will continue with an appeals process. whats the timeline? what are the next st...

Donald trump is responsible, history is going to judge him for this but at the same time saying i cant speak to jack smith because the speak or debate clause donald trump is also trying to stop him from doing so i know these comments were made in a private setting but do these comments do anything to the case for or against mike pence actually sitting with the special counsel? >> i dont think so. mike pence is trying to thread a political needle here. putting his finger up into the wind to asses...

Them and he does manage to drag things out. donald trump has got two big problems with his executive privilege argument here, the first one is that this is a criminal grand jury subpoena and courts tend to honor and uphold grand jury subpoenas not automatically, but typically a grand jury subpoena will overcome a claim of executive privilege. the second problem is donald trump is not president anymore. he is a former president. again, its possible that a former president can bring an executive p...

To their legislative duties. with us now to discuss is cnn legal analyst and former white house ethics czar norm eisen who served as a house judiciary special counsel in president trumps first impeachment trial. what do you make of this rather novel strategy from the former vice president and his lawyers? >> the executive privilege argument to resist testifying has failed so they are pulling another arrow from the quiver of constitutional defenses but it is not going to work because there is no ...

Politico was first to report that pence plans to argue legislative privilege citing his former role as president of the senate. that is according to a source familiar with his plans. joining me now nbc news senior congressional correspondent garrett haake. it is not executive privilege, it is legislative privilege. explain this argument and how it relates to his former role in the senate. >> we may see both arguments used. we reported last week that former president trump wants to try to make an...