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The united states had resoundingly rejected alleged voter fraud challenges to the election results by the trump campaign and after all states certified in the election results, mr. clark propose that the department of justice sent a letter to officials to the state of georgia and other states suggesting that they call a special legislature sessions to investigate allegations of voter fraud and consider pointing new slate of electors. mister clerk also met with white house officials, including th...

Trump has this privilege even though hes no longer in office. we know the house select committee as well as now president biden disagree with that argument, president biden has waved trumps right to executive privilege, basically many people including a district court judge said that decision is up to biden. biden decides if those records should go to the house select committee. now obviously the trump side arguing against that. bidens argument here is that eventually these records are going to ...

Girlfriend and boyfriend. they were subpoenaed. they told propublica they actually were concerned that it would get violent, a last-minute march without a permit without all the metro police that usually would be there to fortify the perimeter felt unsafe. justin said these people arent there for a blanking flower contest. the sponsor and co-organizer say theyre there because theyre angry. in the subpoena request to them, that is specifically pointed out that those concerns did go up to the whit...

Contempt for refusing to cooperate with the probe. late yesterday cnn reported that former doj geoffrey clark looks to be the first trump administration official to comply with the subpoena request and will face questions next friday about his role in pushing trumps baseless election fraud claims. do you feel the select committee is making progress in exposing what really happened in those chaotic final days of the trump presidency? >> i do believe they are making progress. they probably are doi...

Contempt charge to the department of justice. if they vote to do that, then this will land at the feet of the doj, and theyll have to decide whether or not to move forward, prosecuting steve bannon for defying the subpoena request. look, congress has the power to subpoena people and information. this is one of the only tools in the toolbox to actually make sure that they comply with that. what happens here is its not even necessarily so much about the importance of prosecuting steve bannon but m...

Propensity for violence on insurrection day. what the president was aware of, what communications they may have had about it and other areas as well. i think hes one of the most important witnesses, and were determined to make sure we get answers. >> reporter: certainly bannon will be an important witness in that. his lawyer has said the reason hes not complying with the subpoena request is because of what the former president is saying about executive privilege. the committee released a stateme...

Like this. >> reporter: and congressman raskin may be oversimplifying this just a little bit. the president of the united states is more than just a citizen weighing in on the conduct of the department of justice. and president biden probably will get a level of criticism for making these remarks. but what everyones trying to do today is saying that this was just him offering an opinion and that hes not telling the department of justice what to do. >> but is he oversimplifying? i think he was we...

Criminal contempt for failing to appear today. >> he said he is not participating because the former president advised him not to. so where do things stand now? >> reporter: what stands now is the selective committee will meet on tuesday. thats where they will have an official business meeting where they will vote on criminal intent in the house of representatives. once they vote on that, it will be taken to the house to execute. this is basically the committee making good on a promise. they had...

Big lie, the former acting attorney general. >> the big question today, will any witnesses show up? the former president urged aides to ignore subpoenas. one said overnight he wont show, effectively daring lawmakers to hold him in contempt. cnns ryan nobles has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: laura, christine, thursday is a crucial day for the january 6 select committee. today is the day where they are expected to have those first round of closed door depositions from two key trump associat...

Try to exert executive privilege in a congressional investigation. and today, once again president biden smackdown that false and illegal claim by donald trump. the white house released a letter today, that was actually written last week, to the archivist of the united states, where all of the presidential records are kept, that letter says, president biden does not uphold the former presidents assertions of privilege. president bided instructed the archivist to provide the house committee with ...