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If he knew violence was planned for january 6th. >> it's a couple of different. thanks the contempt proceeding who's just with respect to not showing up in the documents. this is if he knew about violence. this december 18th your hearing about and you are talking about and the last document. where there are a number of people meeting in trump's immediate orbit. there is this question of the extent to which the president knew there would be violence the next. a and close advisers, like steve bannon, might have been aware of it. they might've pass it information on the committee. the genesis com...

Process, force them to come in and testify. that's a very unusual act, and it has ramifications now. will there be litigation or contempt findings? if the republicans taken control of congress, will they turn around and subpoena members who they seek information from? so this is a very tough decision but it is a right decision, laura. these five men have key information about the insurrection, about an assault on our country and attempted coop. >> duoug, you kind of smirked o that issue. if republicans were in control and had some power, what would they do? you were involved in the contempt pr...

Amount already in the public record on jeffrey clark, mostly through public proceedings in the senate. and in the senate proceedings it became clear that at the various very highest levels of the justice department, there was an effort spearheaded by mr. clark to miss use that department to promulgated false claims about fraud, to try to discourage georgia from sending a slate of electors or to encourage them to send an alternate slate. and to replace the leadership that resisted his efforts. and -- himself. these are shocking things. and lawrence, when we had a contempt proceeding earlier, de...

Various very highest levels of the justice department, there was an effort spearheaded by mr. clark to miss use that department to promulgated false claims about fraud, to try to discourage georgia from sending a slate of electors or to encourage them to send an alternate slate. and to replace the leadership that resisted his efforts. and -- himself. these are shocking things. and lawrence, when we had a contempt proceeding earlier, despite him invoking the fifth, and that is specter for someone at the top of the justice department, as indicated previously by his attorney, who may not be able ...

>> i didn't hear a yesterday. viewers and listeners can decide what they heard. he was struggling to to why they would have a power to overrule elections. he was laboring to claim it wasn't the overruling, but to send the votes back to the state for some re-re-recount. the vast majority of people contacted by congress in the january 6th probe have cooperated, providing testimony and documents. this is actually the fourth time the handle has said someone is so uncooperative they're moving toward the very severe contempt proceeding. they did that for trump ally steve bannon, mark meadows, and je...