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Line. >> reporter: the hearing will focus on those minutes after he gave the speech on the elipse until he finally released this video. >> go home. >> reporter: the committee is still getting information and interviewing businesses. the latest person appearing today behind closed doors for the committee. aide garrett zeigler who reportedly took credit for welcoming sydney powell, michael flynn and overstock ceo patrick burn into the white house on december 18, 2020. all three were allegedly push...

>> [inaudible] >> its kind of a broad question in the context of my life. >> luckily, nbc news producer julia jester followed byrne into the building and fine-tune that question, getting a much less playful response. >> have you been in contact with the fbi about the january 6th investigation or the doj? >> no comment. >> kyle cheney is covering the january 6th investigation as senior legal affairs reporter for politico. he joins me now. kyle, thank you so much for joining us this evening. lots ...

He needed to do that -- you had -- byrne going up to these rallies and saying, the president has the power. basically, we found where he has the power and we intend to use it. so, this was a very telling moment and i think that the january 6th committee now wants to explore a little bit deeper, exactly what he offered the president and what the presidents response was to what he offered, particularly given that the presidents counsel and his attorney general and his attorney general i told him h...

Show. before we cut to the live footage of president biden in saudi arabia, we have the chance to be able to speak with washington post political reporter, isaac -- we are good to have him come back right now. we are mentioning that patrick byrne, the former ceo of overstocked of tom, he testified for more than eight hours, isaac. i had asked you before we cutaway that most of the country did not know who burned was until this week. what is special about burn and what is going to set him apart f...

December 18th meeting that, as you described, was viewed in the white house as unhinged and was this sort of meeting as these external advisers pushing trump to do things, like embracing voting machines and declaring martial law in all these extreme acts steps to remain in power. and byrne had not spoken to him yet. he had spoken to sydney powell, who is, there and michael flynn, who pled the fifth rather than answer questions. he was one person who seemed eager to talk and could given a full ac...

There in the room for that crazy 18th of december 2020 meeting. it was between trump and these external advisers, patrick burn, sydney powell, and michael flynn. he told the former president that you could make sydney powell a special counsel, but it would be a terrible idea. passive lonely was also in the room leading up to january 6th. he told the former president at his ideas about overturning the election in trying to pressure pence to throw the election to the house, all of these things wou...

Investigation. that is all it was about. >> when asked if he is in touch with the fbi or just department about january six, byrne had no comment. he had a healthy dig into all of this. washington post national political reporter isaac -- isaac, good morning. most the country had not heard of burn until this week. what could be so special about this mans testimony? what is going to set it apart from other trump allies that we have already heard from? >> like you mentioned, katie, he was in that m...

Confusion around what happened with these messages. but, why is there so much interest? well, the key testimony from cassidy hutchinson detailed a lot of president trumps actions around the presidents and with the presence of secret service, including him angrily demanding that he be taken to the capitol, instead of back to the white house on january six. but committee is really looking for any and all testimony and documents that can help piece together what exactly happened on january 6th and ...

Through this process that they will schedule hearings should the investigation warrant. >> the investigation goes on and we have some anticipation that we were closer to the investigation right now. but the fact is, witnesses continue to come forward. so we are reserving the right to do more hearings as these but nurses come forward, and i think hopefully we will have a lot of work remaining to do. one of those witnessess patrick burn, the former ceo of overstocked.com. he testified before the c...