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And it is pretty clear those options are as i just outlined it. Does that mean he couldnt find trump in violation of some other statute that has not been briefed before him . Nobody has also said im not going to summarily find contempt. These are things you have to bring before me. He has made it very clear. These are not summary proceedings. Unless he actually does it in front of me, im not going to do it on my own volition. We could keep going. , we shouldnt. That will do it for us for now. No...

And former acting u.s. general, he has been -- he is an nbc legal analyst. neil, i give you the floor in the reactions to the court. well >> well, i see this reaction to this. why is everyone so excited? because it is a dark time in our country. people are worried about -- and here weve got, at least for this moment, the rule of law coming back. even if ruled in a different way, i told you there are different results that the supreme court was appointed here. the executive privilege case. it is ...

Professor at georgetown university and most importantly a former acting u.s. solicitor general who has practiced before the united states supreme court repeatedly. he is an msnbc legal analyst. neal, i give you the floor in your reaction to the court. >> well, lawrence, i dont think ive seen this much excitement about a late-night literary release since the final "harry potter" book came out. and why is everyone so excited? because its a dark time in our country. people are worried about voting ...

Coin toss as to what he does. i think its going to be a 50/50 call. >> wow, interesting. and a federal appeals court ruled against former president trump as he has tried to keep his white house records from the committee. trump is now vowing to take this legal battle to the highest court. one of our viewers wants to know how likely is it that the supreme court will decide to hear the executive privilege case involving trump and the national archives? what do you think? >> yeah. so i actually thi...

That you see in their pursuing this executive privilege case and mark meadows has the strongest case as he was white house chief of staff at the time. if anybody have a case for executive privilege it would be mark meadows and one could wait for them to be a final decision but the haste you are seeing does reflect a worry that they are going to stretch this investigation into next year. it is meant ultimately to damage donald trump and the republican party but the worry is it will damage democra...

Theyre seeing. theyre gonna keep doing this kind of stuff if we dont stop them. with the speak out him a should for the next election i think its coming in the work to be willing to say time out to garbage. take principles and presidents that weve had in this country since the very first president. >> laura: the executive privilege question certain communications is a little bit murky we will see with the court goes on that. i will say this. the strategy of following liz cheney and adam kinzinge...

Country. >> its not often you see the plan. liz cheney tweeted an update yesterday. she writes this. the committee met with 300 witnesses, we hear from four more key figure in the investigation today, that was yesterday. we are consulting interviews every week. mark meadows turned over many texts from his private cell phone, we have litigated and won trumps executive privilege case in federal district court. the federal appellate court. do not be misled, president trump is trying to hide what ha...

Interested in the committees progress, the committee has already met with nearly 300 witnesses. we hear from four more key figures in the investigation today. were conducting multiple depositions and interviews every week. we have received exceptionally interesting and important documents from a number of witnesses, including mark meadows. he has turned over many texts from his private cell phone from january 6th. we have litigated and won trumps executive privilege case in federal district cour...

What happens next? does this go to court? they arrest him? grand jury indicts him? whats the process? >> the justice departments view, of course, in any prosecution is, we will take it case by case. if i had to guess, a guess, i would think this is pretty good likelihood the justice department will file charges here. look what they have done so far. they have waved executive privilege on their own former officials testifying before congress. we know what the bidens view is on the latest assertio...

Hardest executive privilege case to make of those four individuals. garrett, thank you. jane, let me move to you. id like to you try to explain what were seeing in congress today. youre following this. congress wanted to do a hearing on the sham fraud audit that took place in arizona. so explain what theyre learning from this hearing and is it surfacing anything? or is it part of some food fight? >> chuck, republicans and democrats are essentially living in different realities when it comes to t...