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Live. liz cheney twice in the last 48 hours has described donald trumps actions as a potential crime. >> these non-privileged texts are further evidence of president trumps supreme dereliction of duty during those 187 minutes, and mr. meadows testimony will bear on another key question before this committee. did donald trump, through action or inaction, correctly seek to obstruct or impede congress official proceedings to count electoral votes? >> dont sleep on those comments. it is not a coinci...

They charged with obstruction. remember, this was more than just a riot. this was a months-long effort to overturn election results, first by pressuring republican officials in swing states not to certify results, to send trump electors to congress instead of the biden electors, and then leaning on gop members of congress to object to the certification on january 6, claiming widespread fraud, fraud we know that did not exist. joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwe...

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...

0 wrapups of either palestinian question or more pressing issue of iran, wolf. >> i suspect they talked about it privately. didnt make mention of it in the public statement. thank you very much. and to the viewers, thanks very much for watching. i am wolf blitzer in the situation room. and our out front starts right now. good evening, out front tonight we are standing by for a viewing vote. any minute members of the january 6th select committee are spec to recommend that the full house find do...

Judge Dabney Friedrich kept obstruction charges for two accused rioters because it covers a broader set of actions allegedly done by the defendants.

The white house. because what she said is its an obstruction of an official investigation, even if you are true to them, youll just want to incite violence. violence is now required. thats enough for a serious federal felony. donald trump, others in the white house, and its part of that story. >>. amidst all this, the "times" had quite a headline of something i know you care about, that we reported on, but over the weekend they were charting just how many local, smaller,

The way this select committee is operating? he calls it -- says the committee is operating seemingly like theyre doing an ordinary investigation. is that how you see it? >> no, i dont see it -- i understand the concern and, of course, it would be a speedier investigation if all of the people involved were honorable in turning over documents and complying with subpoenas. thats not the investigation we have. but they have heard from over 200 witnesses, they have collected more than 30,000 document...

Italian prosecutors are set to ask for a case against Eni and its head over alleged obstruction of justice in corruption cases in Nigeria and Algeria to be dropped after wrapping up a probe,... | December 11, 2021

You then turn about and say, well, i cant talk about these things. >> so to that point, joyce, does meadows releasing these documents actually hurt his claims of executive privilege? >> it really does because privileges arent like blankets. you dont just climb under it and protect yourself. you actually have to assert the privilege to each question as its asked, and not all questions fall within the privilege. so here by turning over this document, meadows has made this, i think, very explicit a...

Of folks they need to get through. he worked in the white house and moved to work for mccarthy. a lot of obstruction from mccarthy is he knows hes got people inside his own house and i think its note worthy. >> so these hearings that will take place on monday, well be covering them on this show and well talk a lot about that power point presentation that mark meadows is apparently turned over. 38-some odd page power point a step by step how to overturn the election and the memo he stated that th...