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doj dealing a blow to the january 6 committee. wanting to charge mark metal an his former deputy. this says former trump aides sa that navarro responds to what h calls unnecessarily harsh treatment at the hands of federal agents are flatly taken away in handcuffs and leg irons over his complaints of a subpoena. that plus an update on that gop senate primary race in pennsylvania where the recount continues to spike. a confession to fight. be begin with the economy where the white house reality appears to be set again with inflation, dashing any hopes of a rebound despite good data poi...

Chaos continues on College Campuses all across the country. Alexis mcadams will join us live from New York University where tonight agitators are desperately trying to regroup after many arrest today. This includes Florida University where trespassers set up tents inside an Academic Building and even unfurled their very own Giant Intifada banner over a bridge. Meanwhile on the left coast, ucla classes have been canceled after what was a brutal night of violence and widespread handtohand fighting as College Administrators looked on and did nothing. At the university of wisconsin, four Police Of...

Congress and that doj has some recent history refused to bring criminal cases against current and former officials after contempt findings from congress in 2012, the justice department declined to pursue a contempt prosecution against city attorney general eric holder wh refused to turn over some documents about the fast and furious scandal. jason, to you first. as this more or less punishment by the democrats? is this the doj run amok? what is happening here? >> the former chairman of the committee can my head unit -- unilateral authority to issue subpoenas. they are not optional. you have a ...

>> it's probably too late for the committee to force anyone to testify who does not want to tefr. if somebody defied a subpoena, you could go to court and try to get an order from a judge requiring them to testify or you could send it over to doj for a contempt prosecution to punish the person. both of these thing, either of those things will take way more than the three to four weeks we have until the hearings start. as a practical matter, the committee will have to rely on the good will and the patriotism of people it needs to hear from. >> oh, boy. yeah. we'll see. stay tuned. watch this sp...

Executive privilege or attorney-client privilege that they can assert in this regard, and they should be fully enforceable just to the same extent that steve bannon has been with a contempt prosecution if they failed to comply. nicole, the really interesting thing about this group of subpoenas that comes out today is the january 6th committee has made it very clear that they're heading straight for the heart of the big lie. and they're doubling down on their belief that if they tell the american people the truth in these public hearings later this year, that they can convince just enough ameri...