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This weekend, "the new york times" published a piece looking at how the panel is borrowing techniques used by federal prosecutors in using their power as aggressively as possible to get full story on one of the worst assaults on american democracy. with me now is up with of the people who wrote that piece, "new york times" washington correspondent, michael schmidt. michael, you are also an msnbc national security contributor. its great to see you this morning. this committee has no law enforceme...

Was becoming angrier and angrier and more detached from the election. thats affecting his impulse about whether or not to run. >> i think he, of course, is insisting on litigating 2020 when so much of the a better wants to move to 2022 where they stand a chance of winning back the house and, of course, 2024. mika, donald trump as deejay, all i have to say is i hope those in the audience real hee like elton john. >> my god. a report from "the new york times" says the january 6th committee is us...

Congressional republicans are accusing the biden administration of obstruction, a number of high-profile cases, including the investigation into hunter bidens travel records and threats to parents who complained about the school boards. congressional respondent -- chose us tonight. >> tonight, the fbis declining to comment on republican claims of stonewalling members of congress for information about the agencys involvement in school board meetings. attorney general merrick garland sent a memo t...

And donald trump may try to jump back into federal court here to slow it down. it is a play that hes run time and time again and could do here. granted, he just lost an incredibly similar case going up to the supreme court in which the courts basically said its up to biden. biden can hand these things over. so were not even at the point where the committee is like sitting there looking at these visitor logs today and trying to piece it together with the other information that we have. were still...

Sense of the word to anything substantive. a source told cnn that he could still invoke privilege. and they say they expect giuliani to, quote, cooperate fully with its subpoena. they know that may not be the case. >> it does mark a significant shift in the stonewalling of the committee. tell me everything youre learning about the negotiations for him to cooperate and what cooperate means. >> yeah. it is a great question, that they have expressed any level of cooperation with the committee but t...

Senior advisers to the vice president. we dont know what they said but in the room and theres no suggestion from anyone on that committee -- i talked to one of them yesterday. they they have been stonewalling. is this where the rubber was going to meet the road for pence? >> yeah. you know, you have seen mark short pences chief of staff testify and the counselor in the vice presidents office. theres two most important advisers as vice president come forward and by all accounts coop rating. not t...

Which is now more important than ever. ♪♪ ♪♪ hi there, everyone. its 4:00 in the east. much has been made of the obstruction and stonewalling on part of trump dead enders like steve bannon and mark meadows. even as he faces the possibility of being prosecuted for defying the congressional subpoena the thousands of documents including text messages he turned over to the committee continue to point investigators toward new avenues of evidence and potential witnesses. the documents meadow...

Committee. is this the only way to break through trump stonewalling. trump and his allies stonewalling? >> nice meeting with you. and thank you. listen, chairman thompson and his committee are doing the job they were asked to do. they are doing a phenomenal job. they are trying to make sure that this never happens again. they are trying to make sure that this democracy is secured. and what they are doing now is mounting the campaign. the agenda and tactics and strategies that they think are warr...

>> harris: a group of republicans are not backing down. they are accusing the f.b.i. of stonewalling on answers about the now infamous department of justice memo. the department green lit the f.b.i. to go after concerned parents showing up at school board meetings. congressman jim jordan of ohio is leading the charge. he called out f.b.i. director christopher wray for ignoring questions about using the nations counter terrorism resources on parents. quote, your response regrettably highlights th...

Available and willing to talk to us about election fraud. and some of the claims of privilege, they really dont have a basis when he wasnt a former employee of the u.s. government or in the administration, the executive privilege claim really does seem very weak in this case as well as employee -- attorney/client privilege. it is unclear at what point he was acting in a capacity of representing the former president but hell need to approach the committee with the information he could give us and...