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We want to get rid of the electoral college. they have a massive agenda. every member had to be approved by policy and they are investigating the republican party and conservatives who supported trump in the various states stretching the definition of obstruction in ways we never heard of before. to leah criminal predicate to indict the former president of the united states. what do you make of that? >> that commission as they call it is shocking when you compared to the most recent 9/11 commiss...

Testimony all of the events. but the issue you zero in on so wisely, nicole, is crime. this committee is not fooling around with on the edges, side characters, possible problems. its dereliction of duty. possible evidence of obstruction of a government proceeding, congressional proceeding. all of them covered by 18 usc, right? all of them under the federal criminal code. so, i dont think theyre going to divert from their pattern, their missile pattern tomorrow. thats the most speculative i can b...

United states. he had taken false actions and theres an actual obstruction of official business which is that actual effort to stop what is happening on january 6th. the january 6th committee doesnt file criminal charges. the best they can do is make a criminal referral to the justice department. theres an interesting article who is a former prosecutor who outlined the justice department will be weary of this. they need make sure they have evidence to obtain a conviction. theres this over archin...

And if any were pardoned they could be turned around the next day and testify against president trump and plead the fifth. did he not pardon them because they would hurt him? >> the self interest really seems to be a big issue here. >> this would hurt him. >> and all of the talk about pardons, this isnt bed, bath and beyond and you cant say a pardon for all time and wrap yourself in it and the nixon example is interesting, you have to write it down, so your point, if you start writing down what ...

Knowledge isnt necessarily relevant, so if you take an obstruction of an official proceeding, charge, for example, the knowledge and intent requirement there is not necessarily one to defraud the united states, rather it is one to justice as the statute says, obstruct an official proceeding. if they took steps knowing that they wanted to impede or hinder the official electoral count act, the counting of the votes, doesnt really matter what they thought with respect to voter fraud, it just had to...

Of the doj. listen to this. >> lets take a look at another one of your notes. you also noted that mr. rosen said to mr. trump, quote, doj cant and wont snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir? >> he responded very quickly, and said, essentially, that is not what i am asking you to do. what i am asking you to do is, say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. >> it is astounding that he is saying this to a...

Play games, not delete, you can give them a subpoena. if you dont think that, thats when you go to a search warrant. >> probable cause of what? what are the possible crimes that jeffrey clark may have committed? >> we heard yesterday from jeffrey rosen and richard donoghue, donald trumps white house was all over them to find evidence of election fraud. they didnt. jeffrey clark said why dont we just say we found it? he drafted this letter, he said, quote, at this time we have identified signific...

Republican party. that has eroded such that its maybe 60%, even 56%, a 30% to 35% of the polled republicans are looking for somebody different to run for president in their party. >> but there are a lot of republicans who are not watching these hearings at all. >> thats true. a lot arent. but whats happened here, and its really significant, and these republicans, whether watching or not, a lot of them know that the earth is shaking. why is the earth shaking? because both the committee and the ju...

For his thoughts of what happened to the election wet still tried to interrupt the certification. that amounts to corrupt obstruction of criminal proceedings. one of the main defenses the department is pursuing and the second one, trying to pressure kmsing officials to interfere in the election, we saw that today, on a daily was pressuring those officials, at the point of telling them ill replace you if you dont make a statement, send this letter out to get them to decertify. >> all right, just ...

0 get paid. but, heres the thing. they should never, ever, ever get threatened for trying to do the right thing. so, as americans, lets help these two brave women. more us can help them in their mission to protect our democracy. and, on that note, i wish you all a very good night. and from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. with us. i will see you tonight on all in. >> you are asking me to do somethi...