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Trumpists out there. i wouldnt expect him to be particularly cooperative. this one i think is probably more of the stall tactic. >> jennifer rogers, wouldnt be the first stall tactic weve seen in this investigation. thanks very much. coming up next, touching, moving tributes to the victims in the oxford, michigan school shooting. how the detroit lions and the university of michigan honored their memories. happy holidays from lexus. get $1500 lease cash toward a 2022 rx 350. ♪

When he testified before the committee. he at least appeared for this deposition on november 5th. so, if this isnt said simply as a stall tactic, i think this will keep the heat on him and forces him totally show up and go through question by question that issues on which hes going to plead the fifth amendment. >> peter, back over to your the. hard as it is to believe, life in this white house and for this administration has changed once again in the past 24 to 40 hours, with the arrival of this...

>> i guess the real question here is that, you know, theres the law and then theres whether you can count to five on the supreme court, which is another way of saying the law. not to be overly cynical or a legal realist on this. but it just seems to me that transparently the play here by the trump attorneys is get to the supreme court where they think they can count to five, meaning they can get to five justices to go along with them, and/or delay as long as possible. >> yeah. i think delay is t...

Justice to go along with them. and ignore delay along as possible. >> yes, i think delay is the first part of the tactic here. because there is a real clock ticking here, and that is the midterm election. if the republicans should take control of the house, then they can shut down this whole investigation. so, i think that is the real stall tactic. and there is some hope that the supreme court has this conservative for majority, might be friendly to president trump. maybe those who got their sea...

Political reporter for axio. good morning. >> good morning. >> obviously its a deliberate stall tactic. hes been going on forever. do we have any sense the republicans have indicated how long mccarthy will go? how does it play out? how does it impact the vote and proceedings on the rest of friday? >> well, minority leader leader mccarthy said i only have to go a certain amount of time, sort of alluding to the fact that he would break speaker pelosis floor speech. hes broken that and still going....

Conversations on january 6th have no bearing on the investigation? these are about who the president was talking to as people were breaking windows and climbing into the capitol. if these documents are released, barbara, how bad could that end up being for trump? and should we expect his lawyers to continue to fight to slow this investigation down despite that excerpt i read there from the judge? >> i think stall tactic is always the m.o. weve seen by trump from the duration of his administratio...

Conversations on january 6th have no bearing on the investigation? these are about who the president was talking to as people were breaking windows and climbing into the capitol. if these documents are released, barbara, how bad could that end up being for trump? and should we expect his lawyers to continue to fight to slow this investigation down despite that excerpt i read there from the judge? >> i think stall tactic is always the m.o. weve seen by trump from the duration of his administratio...

Its very difficult to predict whether a court is going to summarily just dismiss these claims, find them meritless, you know, for example, the president argues that there is no legislative purpose to the congresss investigation. but actually, there is. there are bills that are being considered now, including one thats called the protecting our democracy act, that even includes provisions about strengthening congresss ability to enforce its subpoenas. so, there are things that congress is conside...

Capitol hill where a house committee of january 6 is set to hold a contempt referral vote for steve bannon. joining us now are "washington post" national reporter and co-author of "i alone can fix it" and donya perry. hello to both of you. one of the things in donald trumps life is he uses video to press issues. he is now suing the national archives to block the release of his white house records. what might he be trying to keep out of public view? >> first off, jeff, youre absolutely right abou...

Committee will decide whether to hold trump ally steve bannon in contempt for defying its subpoena and refer the matter this sets in motion a process which really hasnt been used in decades. now, bannon is hanging his defiance on a claim of executive privilege, but thats something the current white house vigorously opposes. cnn has obtained a letter from white house deputy counsel that states the biden administration will not support any attempt by bannon to refuse cooperation with the house com...