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Capitol insurrection. cnns sara murray is joining us live. she has been covering this. whats going on here? >> well, look, scott perry is a little known congressman. but he was a fierce alley to donald trump particularly at a time when it mattered to the president when he was trying to overturn the 2020 election results. baseless claims of election fraud. >> oftentimes they say there is not enough to overturn the election. first of all, we dont know how much there was. >> reporter: donald trump ...

Its not about president trump. its not about president biden. its about the process. >> reporter: its unclear if the committee will want to talk to scott perry. ryan nobles caught up with him on the hill. he said he doesnt like to talk to cnn. >> perry introduced him to jeffrey clark. how did he know him? >> reporter: we asked multiple times. they have not responded to our questions. even in the reports, doj officials say it was never clear how this congressman from pennsylvania had this relatio...

>> reporter: perry said hes unaware of any gop lawmakers playing a role in the capitol insurrection. >> i dont know of any. were here and open for the investigation. if people are culpable, they need to be -- justice needs to prevail in that regard. >> reporter: burr a report said trump allies, including perry, have particularly notable ties to january 6th. these ties warrant further investigation. . >> how does the president incite an attack that was preplanned and under way before his speech c...

Officials to just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the congressman. >> stop the steal. >> reporter: perry called donahue. potus asked him to call. according to donahue, perry talked up clark effectively saying jeff clark is great. hes the kind of guy that can really get in and do something about this. as for donahues emails, can i send you stuff, we have a lot of evidence? he sent a document of debunked claims like this one. . >> over 205,000 more votes were cast in pennsylvania t...

>> reporter: donald trump was laughing them up. the local officials or in scott perrys case, a federal official, had all kinds of information about fraud and problems and things that impacted the election. richard donahue told the senate judiciary committee. now the five-term congressman and army veteran is facing scrutiny as new details emerge about his role in trumps plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. >> scott perry of pennsylvania. scott, thank you. >> reporter: perry ha...

Speech concluded? >> and the house select committee investigating january 6th wants phone records of several lawmakers, including perry. >> jeff clark. >> reporter: perry admitted introducing him to jeffrey clark to led the justice department civil division. he attempted a near coup of justice department leadership. >> jeffrey clark became donald trumps big lie lawyer. >> reporter: the same day trump told doj officials to just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republi...

not anti-semitic and not homophobic. hell join me on the phone in the next segment and ask the tough questions. with one week to the way caucuses, it is an easy guess where they are today. five in fact crisscrossing the hawkeye state right now or will be later today, including perry, gingrich, bachmann and romney. on the ground right now in iowa, sanatorium at the gop headquarters in fort dodge. romney was on the stump in new hampshire this morning but is expected in iowa later today...

that the nation has been on brink of this kind of crisis. lets go straight to capitol hill, our congressional current kate bolduan baldwin is standing by. >> the ability to finally fand a way out of this impasse and to avoid this looming government shut down and how this could all come out has to do with the big focus on the fema funding. the additional funding for federal disaster relief that democrats and republicans wanted to put in this short term spending bill. fema came out today...