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Subpoenaed have tried to claim, plus were getting new word of tomorrows deposition of alex jones is being postponed. for more on this, sahil kapur has more on this. what are we hearing, appeared to what degree is the committee concerned about not getting answers from him. >> reporter: garrett, the official response is it will not comment on the stone deposition as it is prohibited from talking about it. congressional sources i have spoken to are skeptical that roger stones broad invocation can c...

A lot worse had it gone differentlily. lot of threads to talk about, before we get to jamie raskin, senior political reporter and news reporter as well. lets start with the alex jones news. sounds like the committee didnt get much out of him. the fact that he showed up is probably the most news worthy part of this discussion. >> alex jones saying he testified remotely yesterday and said later on on his own radio show that questions were overall pretty reasonable. he said the committee was polite...

Block the subpoenas? >> theres an adage that says the government is entitled to every persons evidence by todays standards, and the only basis you have is privilege, and the trumps have that opportunity, and the idea that they dont have to show up for a deposition like everybody else would is absurd, and the judge is enforcing the subpoena that we would expect in any case. >> if all three of them just repeatedly take the fifth, as we saw with eric trump, barbara, how effective will any depositio...

Let me ask you a question. the pace of the shutdowns, i was just looking at some of the sports accounts i follow. the pace of nba players and nfl players testing positive is so accelerated so quickly almost in the last 72 hours, is it possible omicron is already raging everywhere here and this is the omicron variant causing all these rapid positives to show up. >> good to see you too, nicole, i wish it was under more cheerful circumstances. what were learning is that omicron is spreading faster ...

Meadows texts. >> these nonprivileged texts are more 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, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede congresss official proceedings to count electoral votes. >> though thats exactly what theyve been accused of, obstructing the official proceedings. >> i think theres a real important reason why liz ...

To "the new york times," the meeting was to discuss media strategy, not to overturn the election. the position jim jordans spokesperson has take own behalf of jim jordan is he wasnt involved in a coup. why wouldnt he call liz or adam or chairman thompson and ask to go explain that, david jolly? >> well, youre exactly right. to daniels point, there are privileges that exist with members of congress, much like the president of the united states is trying to exert executive privilege wrongly or not...

But i think what it tells us and the importance of that is to convey that mr. meadows knows a lot and that you just, you shouldnt have to buy his book for $25 in order to hear what he has to say. he has an obligation to speak before the committee. if he has privilege he wants to exert, he can do that on a question by question basis, but he should be willing to answer questions, especially on the items that he voluntarily submitted to the committee himself. thousands of text messages, documents, ...

>> a quick last word. im guessing there are zero people inside the department of just or attorneys office who want to be the stopgap after the public decides that a conspiracy is a-okay with them. that is not their function. my question is is the rock and the hard place if theres evidence of criminal activity, is ignoring it even worse? >> right. flip what david said on its head and do we want to be a country where we allow an authoritarian coup that luckily failed this time but may continue if ...

Division over the acting attorney general. but the truth is absent -- absent a lens of criminal scrutiny, theyre likely to, as dan and katie are suggesting, to defy subpoenas if theyre subpoenaed by the committee and keep on keeping on. ? very complex cultural question almost that we have elevated a political party and some of their lead actors who can flaunt our very republican -- can get rewarded for that. is that a reflection on us as the american people? is that a reflection on the republica...

Campaigning heavily on the election results. short on facts but long on conspiracy theories, not one governor there would say president joe biden freely won the 2020 election. >> did president biden win -- >> i dont know and we have to take that attitude towards 2020. i dont think theres any question that we got enough shenanigans. >> i dont think the election was fair. >> they decided they would change the rules, weaken what defenses we did have against voter integrity. >> you need a secretary ...