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To testify to some of those issues? >> i believe that grand jury subpoenas carry more weight and courts tend to give more deference to the criminal grand jury subpoena. there will be an executive privilege argument here. we saw cipollone in front of the committee in his videotaped deposition a couple of times he said im not going to answer that, im going to cite executive privilege. but it appears from our reporting that doj is not going to accept that, theyre not going to accept his assertions ...

Under oath and tell their side of the story, theyre perfectly, you know, fine to do so. im sure the committee would love to hear from them. well see if that happens. and elie, this week the committee issued a subpoena to former white house counsel pat cipollone one of the figures who is really sounding the alarm on january 6th. lets watch. >> i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out onto west exec that morning, and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure we dont go up...

That sip lonie will a in many of these meetings there were people outside the white house that were there angd it and he doesnt really have an executive privilege argument. i which he would let the american people know whats happened. >>. >> lets bring in a member of the january 6th select committee right now, democratic congresswoman stephanie murphy of florida. thank you very much for being with us. so tomorrow what should we expect? >> well, tomorrows hearing will follow look. >> to get the d...

>> well, it may constitute a waiver of the privilege if you do that, but, ana, i think its important that, you know, theres a saying, witnesses can sometimes lie. documents dont. and this is why the committee went all the way to the supreme court in an extremely rapid fashion, just over three months, to get those 700-plus trump administration documents because even if these witnesses are refusing to talk, those documents will do the talking for them. the whole executive privilege argument is bol...

Documents, thousands of pages without asserting privilege. and those documents are a legitimate basis for him to show up and testify. so based -- you dont even need to get into the executive privilege argument. now, the d.c. federal courts have also said that president trumps executive privilege claims are unavailing. so thats a weak point, too. just because his case isnt as much of a slam dunk as bannons doesnt mean he has a good one. hes at very substantial criminal risk. i think hell be prose...

Far, but there he was, again, with the president of the united states. this is why the committee wants to hear from him. and, um, it seems that, you know, they have to take this vote tonight because while he did hand over these documents and seem to be making an awful lot of progress in terms of working out some things with the committee, they could not get to yes. >> ambassador eisen, i mean if the house votes to refer meadows to the justice department, do you believe the doj would actually pro...

Last ditch effort to avoid that. but the committee is about to vote. and well see if he tries his real last card in his hand, which is going in and invoking the fifth amendment, which i think would stop the criminal contempt, but raises a host of other issues. >> laura jarrett, folks at home might wonder why mark meadows is happy to go on fox news to talk about events that day. but not speak to the committee. it is a point that the committee itself made in their report. mr. meadows has shown his...

About what those discussions were. i think there are questions we need to ask about what their plans were. what plans they were making on january 6th. what plans they were making with respect to the vice president. what plans they were making to have the vice president to get outside legal counsel to tell the vice president that he could, in fact, decide not to count certain electoral votes. the american people deserve to know all of the steps that donald trump, that those around him, that his c...

Dismantling of donald trumps executive privilege argument. this court of appeals essentially said the former president claims that as a former president, he can invoke executive privilege, but he never offers us even the beginning of any reason why that is the case. so this is a complete rejection of the executive privilege argument, and i should note also the court goes out of its way to stress the importance of the committees ongoing investigation of january 6th. they say, this isnt just impor...

And why." good evening. the appeals court again echoing this argument that trump cannot claim executive privilege, that president biden the man holding the office has waived. it is a slap at trumps fundamental argument the same one by the way that hes always trying to use. >> yes, don. some legal cases are close calls and could go either way. the law could be interpreted either way. this was not that. this is a complete and total dismantling of donald trumps executive privilege argument. this co...