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They are very much still here. the infamous phone call trump once made to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger asking him to find the votes to steal the election in his favor. that phone call is now the center of a criminal investigation, what may be the biggest threat of criminal prosecution that trump currently has ever faced. in atlanta today, a special grand jury was selected for the investigation into whether trump and others illegally tried to influence the 2020 election in georgi...

Was able to do something of that matter. >> there may have been an argument that escalated. >> reporter: attorney ethan crumbley represents the walker family. >> we believe a black man shot and killed an unarmed white man, he would be arrested. >> reporter: protesters have called for charges against hash, but fayetteville police chief, gina hawkins says the investigation is still in the fact finding phase. >> individuals are not arrested immediately. so right now evidence is being collected by t...

January 6th happened from a rally perspective why didnt anyone lift a finger to help us? >> so, craig, we know the committee already was looking into what the former president was doing in those critical hours. we also know there have long been concerns about what these national archive records have in them especially when you consider the picture there are boxes of in some classes documents found and recovered frommar-a-lago. we knew there were gaps in the information. plus, in addition, as you...

High-profile figure from the trump white house, the first member of the trump family to talk with the january 6th committee and thats one of the more significant pieces of todays news, the fact that optically it looks like the committee is getting voluntary participation from someone who has regularly been at the center of the donald trump orbit from the time they got into office and frankly even well before that. in terms of the content, i think today provides a perfect example of the push and ...

Here. but the committee said that everything runs through mark meadows, that they are central to this investigation and getting back to my previous point, there is skepticism that this committee would be able to find out something new. they are just in the beginning of their fact finding phase and according to this report they have received a lot of new information including text messages to mark meadows pr okay if news anchors telling him to tell the former president to call off what is happeni...

0 swing. be vigilant and informed about your own health. that does it for us. "the reidout" with joe reid is -- joy reid is up next. hi, joy. >> have a wonderful evening. much appreciated. good evening. youre looking at the room where members of the house select committee on january 6th will soon be gathering for a special meeting. in this hour they will vote in a measure to refer criminal charges for donald trumps former chief of staff. mark meadows who defied their subpoena. theyll also be dis...

When you compare it to investigations where trump could smear everyone as a deep state actor, these are all trump people. they talked to 300 of them. what does that say to you? >> i think the question i have is, how much trump has been willing to -- or how much he has been able to enforce this kind of culture of omerta from outside the white house. look, he was very successful -- not completely successful, but very successful at keeping most of the people close to him from testifying in the prev...

Authorities investigating the deadly shooting on the set of alec baldwins movie "rust" say it will likely be late winter before they make any decisions on potential criminal charges, according to cnn sources briefed on the investigation. this comes days after alec baldwin gave his first interview since the shooting in which he said he did not pull the trigger and is not responsible for the death of cinematographer halyna hutchins. >> fred, were hearing that february is a goal for local prosecuto...

Particular the way facebook handled itself and the way its become in many cases a monopoly. there are lawmakers who want to take on privacy concerns. ones who want to take on questions of parental controls. ones who want to look at the anttrust elements of this, some folks see this as censorship or going after a successful american company. i think were in an investigative and fact finding phase in congress. meaningful regulation sees a long way off. >> randi, zuckerberg says young people will b...

So its really a great thing in some ways, but in other ways, its a disgrace. its a disgrace for our country. >> reporter: so heres the deal. the impeachment process is moving from the fact-finding phase to the prosecution or the indictment phase. and when the house voted -- when they formalized the impeachment inquiry and established rules of the road, it was known to both democrats and republicans on the hill, but also the president and his lawyers that this phase was when the white house would...