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Officials in arizona. now he is suddenly pleading the fifth in the investigation. that is the same case that lawyer jeff clark reportedly tried to make to state officials in georgia. jeff clark is suddenly pleading the fifth in the investigation. in the case of clark and what clark drafted to send to georgia officials, the january 6th investigators say they have evidence that what hean did the in trying to use the justice department to pressure a state into flipping its results, according to the...

All the information here. so its a matter of putting all the pieces together as best we can, but we do believe that both clark and eastman have information that the committee needs. they have a right, if they think theyre going to be prosecuted on a case by case, question by question basis to assert their fifth amendment right against testifying against themselves. the committee will then have to make a judgment on whether to allow immunity so we can get the testimony, and thats something that w...

Case. its why we have been watching, why we have been checking this with the prosecutors office almost on an hourly basis in anticipation of this. i think it is clear there were charges coming in. in terms of the miscommunication there, i dont know what else is there. but it is clear the charges were coming in, there is a question why these parents werent under some sorm of sursurveillance, i thats allowed. >> we will have an opportunity to put that question to karen mcdonald in the next hour. t...

Safety and are on their way back. if true, frank, then what? >> look, we -- in the same vein of what you just said, we must assume that, law enforcement must assume they are still fugitives and treat them as such. nothing can be believed at this point. the way to do this is for their attorney to say they are at this rest stop right now on the highway. you can come get them now so there is no question that this is being handled safely and securely. otherwise, this can get quite ugly. so thats the...

Undermine government functions. that statute makes sense to me. i used it myself as a prosecutor. it makes sense to me that people may have violated that statute. even if john eastman doesnt think he did it, there may be others who have evidence that he did. i think he has a valid fifth amendment assertion. it doesnt mean hes going to be charged. it doesnt mean hes going to be prosecuted. it doesnt mean hes going to be convicted. but it strikes me that he has a valid fifth amendment privilege se...

Rof and bill barr couldnt find. if you belief it. why do you think you would incriminate yourself if it is something you allegedly believe in. >> it could be pli for immunity. that said, a person can assert their fifth amendment privilege to refuse to answer any question if a truthful answer would tend to incriminate them. therefore, even if he thinks he has a defense, even if he believed in good faith, which is sort of hard to believe, of all the nonsense that was coming out of that camp in the...

Official who worked with the former president in his capacity at the department of justice could decide, if he decides to plead the fifth for a specific question then the committee can decide, okay, we are going the provide him immunity in order to answer this question in a more forth coming way. there are some major caveats here, though. there are witnesses in the past who have received immunity in congressional investigations and have never the less been criminally prosecuted. it remains to be...

Gone. and it could also affect whatever sentence they receive at the end of the day. bad decisions to this point, bad decisions now. running is a terrible idea. and it works in the movie, but not in real life. >> want to, with you and frank turn to the case in this really stunning sort of stop in your tracks and watch everything you can find about it on social media press conference from the prosecutor. and i know, chuck, you have some experience in this category. but i do want to ask one more q...

They will need to see what will happen on saturday for next steps. >> democrat congresswoman zoe lofgren, and lets pick up right there. if jeffrey clark picks back up, exercising the 5th amendment rights, what happens then? >> he would be in contempt. the fifth amendment is an important right, and it says no plern be a witness against himself into apparently they think they have done something that might be resulting in a criminal prosecution. that is pretty extraordinary. he has a right to take...

Trump are privileged, he says. that fails for at least three reasons. number one, he was not an advisory of the president. and so his political advice to the president is not privileged by definition. number two, even if it is, joe biden, the current president, gets to decide whether the privilege should yield and he says it should. despite those things, he has has to show up and assert privilege on a question by question basis. i think it is an important step to pursue charges criminally, even ...