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Country they could take over steps to look into allegations of fraud. this is something the department traditionally didnt do until the votes were certified. it was absolutely seen as putting pressure on prosecutors around the country to at least say publicly or have signs that they were investigating voter fraud. bill barr was looking for it. and the truth was it just wasnt there and he eventually came to realize that. >> reporter: in an interview with the associated press bar pub luckily contr...

Surprised some, the committee subpoenaed five republican members of congress as part of its investigation into the attack. the five recipients had either had conversations with president trump that day, spoke at the rally prior to the attack, or played some role in plotting with trump officials to overthrow results of the 2020 election. all five had previously been asked for voluntary testimony. all five have declined. now, the letters announcing the subpoenas were short. they were on a single p...

Laden shouting match as the attack was unfolding. recent audio by "the new york times" journalists and first played on rachels show showed mccarthy telling the leadership team thatmc what trump did was atrocious and totally wrong. he said he would call upon trump to resign and he also told colleagues that trump acknowledged responsibility for the attack. in fact, in plain viewil of everyone, on the house floor, fiveev days after the riot, mccarthy said that trump bore responsibility for the atta...

President trump that day, spoke at the rally prior to the attack, or played some role in plotting with trump officials to overthrow results of the 2020 election. all five had previously been asked for voluntary testimony. all five have declined. now, the letters announcing the subpoenas were short. they were on a single page compelling the lawmakers to appear before the committee for a deposition by the end of the month. the most notable recipient, the top republican in the house, kevin mccarthy...

0 theyll be no reluctance on our. part at that time, the chairman committee, the chairman the garage was reluctant to issue subpoenas. i doubted, thompson told the associated press. theres no precedent to force that compliance. but, in the months since, revelations have come to life. ce revelations have come to life. because after conducting nearly a thousand witness interviews and obtaining over 100,000 documents, one thing has become clear, efforts to contest joe bidens election victory were n...

>> in an interview with the "associated press," barr publicly contradicted trumps baseless ascertains saying, quote, to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affect aid different outcome in the election. >> the president is furious. he calls barr over to meet with him, and the two of them get into a shouting match. >> barr told trump they had looked into these things trump was asked about, and there was nothing there. trump got very agitated. and barr kept saying, this is not re...

Lawyers were weak and treasonness and unwilling to fight for him. instead, they laid out this elaborate plan to commandeer the department of homeland security to go around the country and seize voting machines. this was illegal. plainly, illegal. and in the view of the white house lawyers, deranged. but this all sort of culminated in this oval office meeting on december the 18th, which was a shouting match, almost became a fistfight, as i laid out in the reporting, between michael flynn, sidney ...

Good morning. >> good morning. >> lets start with what mccarthy knows. it seems he knows quite a bit. on the day of the insurrection, listen to what he told cbs. >> you said you spoke with the president. what did the president say he would do? >> he had put a tweet out there. i told him, you need to talk with the nation. i was very clear with the president when i called him. this has to stop and hes got to go to the american public and tell them to stop this. >> now, he says he was clear with th...

Talking to each other. so, we know there are phone calls during this time. we know that he had a shouting match with kevin mccarthy during the riot. we know that he reached out and reached senator mike lee on his phone. so, why dont the white house official records reflect this? two possibilities. one, you just said. he was using a personal cell phone, which has been a huge problem since day one. or he was using personal cell phones of aides, which he did a lot. dan scavino. one of his body men,...

Be there are more records to come from the national archives. sources familiar with the investigation say while they havent drawn any final conclusions yet, this may raise the question does the committee consider more seriously going after trumps personal cell phone records. jim? >> absolutely. trying to get straight answers from the former president. jamie, how significant are the gaps to the committees work at this point? it sounds like theyve hit a very big area that needs to be explored. >> ...