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4:00 in new york. happy friday. it is a very busy day of news here with the disgraced twice impeached ex-president subpoenaed today, and donald trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election that he lost. also in the news today, trump ally steve bannon has been sentenced to four months in prison behind bars for his refusal to comply with the subpoena from the january 6th select committee. a member of the committee, democratic congresswoman zoe lofgren will join us in a few moments. we begin with an incredible brand new piece of reporting from the "washington post" that makes it crys...

want him to show up because he has to testify under oath, but i don't think he'll show up. i don't think he's man enough. we'll see. >> okay. i guess she said that. >> nancy pelosi challenges the former president, doubting he will give any testimony to the january 6th committee. >> i don't know if you heard, but at one point, she didn't think he was man enough to show up. >> we'll go through the time line in that investigation in just a moment. meanwhile, alarming details about what the fbi found at trump's country club, documents so sensitive they could endanger the lives of people ...

elliott, let's talk about these documents. these are the same documents that meadows turned over to the january 6th select committee. what is the significance of them now being shared with the doj? what's the big picture view here? >> yeah, i think the big picture view, don, is number one, most people actually comply with subpoenas. so much focus has been on who hasn't been complying. at the end of the day, there's a tremendous risk that someone takes by not doing so. i don't know what mark meadows calculation was here, but clearly, the risk of prosecution is pretty great. by not com...

>> just shows you they're working behind the scenes when most people don't know it. elliott, let's talk about these documents because these are the same documents i believe that meadows turned over to the january 6th select committee. what is the significance of them now being shared with the doj? what's the big picture? >> yeah, the big picture, don, number one, most people actually comply with subpoenas. so much focus has been on who hasn't been complying but at the end of the day there's a tremendous risk for those that don't. i don't know what his calculation was but the risk of ...

is the witness who vice chair liz cheney name checked at the end of one of those recent investigative hearings, which was itself a powerful move because there's rangling that goes on over time, so tub lick -- publicly calling out a witness is a last resort, but that's what congresswoman liz cheney did to name and shame a trump white house lawyer who she said was not fully cooperating at the time. you probably heard his name, pat cipollone. he had talked to the committee once, so he was not total by defying them like steve bannon or peter navarro. he didn't get to the point of recomme...