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Communications that suggest the trump white house directed republican members of congress as part of a theme to stop bidens certification. off the back of that, they initially started looking at whether there was scope for a criminal referral or potential criminality by the former president in terms of obstructing a congressional proceeding. now theyre taking that a step further and it sounds like theyre looking at whether there was a connection between the political elements of that plan, of th...

>> yeah. i think it really does provide a roadmap. it tells the story of where the committee is gonna go. i dont think it is a coincidence that the committee mentions in this letter the presidents state of mind. three times. because they want to find out from mccarthy what the presidents intent was before, during, and after the insurrection. and they believe, of course, that mccarthy, having had all these conversations with the president, with his staff, can shed some light on it. but there is a...

Been willing to charter very expensive airplanes to evacuate americans with very little to no help with obstruction from our own state department. seems like now there is no way out and nobody seems to care. what does that mean for the people left behind, thousands of green card holders, americans in the hundreds, afghan allies, what does it mean for all of them? >> there is no coordinated u.s. effort to get americans edited in green card holders outcome up not that im aware of. id be happy to b...

Purpose of congress is to pass legislation to fill any gaps in existing laws. the purpose of criminal indictments is to hold accountable those who violated existing law. and the existing laws of conspiracy, for example, and obstruction are very viable for prosecution. so it would just mean there could be jail terms for any of the people involved in the conspiracies. and january 6th is completely separate and apart, of course, from the business crimes that letitia james, the attorney general of n...

Under the current republican leadership, weve seen more filibusters, more obstruction than ever in the history of the senate. nothing close to it. and if we dont change the rules to go back to a senate that truly debates and legislates an responds to the needs of america, it will be a great misfortune for this country. harry understood that. >> i want to press you on what the outlines of that kind of an agreement could look like. famously senator manchin, senator sinema are resistant to ending t...

Lest people get confused, a lot of the groundwork is being laid for potential prosecutions of people as high up the food chain as donald trump, but people critically like ivanka trump and donald trump jr. are going to be obviously within the line of sight for the 1/6 commission simply because they had direct contact with the former president on january 6th, but they are also privy to communications, text messages, et cetera, that would lay the foundation from an evidentiary standpoint to be able...

Vote." this was published as an ad in the "new york times". mrs. obama and her voting rights organization called on americans to continue engaging in democracy amid an historic attack on voting rights. joining us now to talk about this is bakari sellers, cnn political commentator and also, and were going to talk about this in a moment, an author. but an author of a new childrens book "who are your people?" its a delightful back. we will talk about that, as i said, in a moment. bakari, bringing i...

For potential prosecution. of course, thats exactly what happened with steve bannon who is now being prosecuted by the justice department. and potentially with mark meadows. doj is now looking at whether to charge him for coming up in a month. and we have conflicts looming not just with the vice president but with perry and jordan. so the question is will the committee just sort of say, okay, hey, we tried, thanks for thinking about it, or will they go to court and fight to get that testimony? >...

This next clip, but he was wearing the sporty outfits and he told reporters, scornfully, that he and sinema are working with republicans to block federal voting rights restrictions that will not hinder people from voting in the next election. that wont happen because the government wont allow it. i know you dont know what that could possibly mean. i know you think im paraphrasing him to obscure what he meant. but basically, thats what i got, thats what he said. >> what would you say to voters wh...

Really, its these groups that are continuing to fight and continuing to keep the legacy of dr. king. i dont know if our elected officials really feel comfortable or accountable to us, and im actual paraphrasing now, but you know, former president barack obama said even if certain representatives refuse to stand up for democracy, the rest of us should be able to get the job done with simple majority vote. we cant allow obstruction to be used, and so we need words put into action, and i agree at t...