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This should not be a case they would take. i just dont have the confidence in the legitimacy and neutrality and measured approach to politically charged issues that in my many years of studying the supreme court i got used to. i just dont think that is our courtney more. >> thank you both. i appreciate it. >> thanks, don. >> thank you. i want to bring this now democratic senator elizabeth warren. good evening, senator. thank you so much for joining. >> thank you for having me. it is good to be...

To come and they are going to speak. they are not pulling any of the stuff that may deadows and bann are pulling. so a lot is at stake for pence here, whether he should be cooperate org not. >> it isnt until donald trump that people decided they could just dismiss congressional subpoenas. you know, this something that the stonewalling that started during the trump administration and now continues. we know what mike pence feels act about all of this. we know that he certified the electors. so, th...

National guard on january 6th. so, a lot of questions that are deeply relevant. in terms of what value phone records can add, without getting into any specifics about what particular phone records we might be interested in, phone records allow you to make contacts between different individuals at key moments in the chronology. who was talking to whom at what time? it doesnt give you content of the communications but if a witness tells you no, i never had a conversation with this person or that p...

First of all, this is what happens when youre no longer president. the reason donald trumps been able to drag his feet so long is because he argued, while he was in the oval office, you cant depose a sitting president. that managed to gum up the works. now he doesnt have that protection anymore. normally in this scenario, what you would do if you were donald trump or maybe anybody but donald trump, is you would take the fifth. you know youre being investigated criminally for this same thing. now...

Particular phone records we might be interested in, phone records allow you to make contacts between different individuals at key moments in the chronology. who was talking to whom at what time? it doesnt give you content of the communications but if a witness tells you no, i never had a conversation with this person or that person and you have phone records that show otherwise, then it gives you a basis to make sure that you are getting the full truth. >> does it seem to you that steve bannon h...

Stonewalling? >> theyre getting a lot. i mentioned the bread crumbs. im looking at the letter that wuft just released that whitney was reporting on. they had a 38-page powerpoint briefing made by somebody in the then white house titled election fraud, foreign interference and options for january 6th. it sounds as though they have a -- mark meadows voluntarily turned over a powerpoint presentation with a potential roadmap for overturning the election. we havent seen the specifics, we dont know wh...

Ushered out of the senate chamber as that mob attacked. so i think marc short is going to be a crucial witness here. look, the committee has put a lot of focus on its battles with bannon and jeffrey clark and soon probably michael flynn and roger stone. but lets be realistic here. those people are never going to testify fully and truthfully. its going to have to fall to people like marc short to tell us the real story here. >> charlie, short is a key figure working with the committee. there are ...

Analyst elie honig. the committee says clark did show up and his attorney handed over a letter objecting to almost all the questions that they presented -- that they wanted to ask on the grounds that then president trump is entitled to confidential legal advice, a sacred trust is how the attorney described it. is that a sound legal argument here? >> no, kate, its not. first of all, showing up and stonewalling is still stonewalling. jeffrey clark made a couple of arguments. the first one is this ...

Approach between these two parties. meadows initially engaged with the committee when the subpoena first came down but then began stonewalling them to the point where the committee threatened to move to a criminal contempt referral against meadows if he didnt comply. that seems to have been what changed the conversation in both the committee and mark meadows have found common ground where he is willing to hand over documents and answer questions about what he knows as it relates to january 6. a ...

And forth in his seat. he currently faces five counts of first degree intentional homicide as prosecutors promised a sixth, which would mean if found guilty, he would face six consecutive life sentences. omar jimenez, cnn, waukesha, wisconsin. >> now, the committee investigating the january 6 insurrection at the u.s. capitol has issued a new round of subpoenas. this time targeting right-wing extremist groups involved in the riot. thankfully the proud boys and the oath keepers who you see here mo...