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There has been some great reporting in the times and in the post about what trump was doing. he was spell bounds. he was watching television. when kevin mccarthy reportedly talked to him, what he said to mccarthy is he said those people -- those people being insurrectionists, care more than you do. care more than you do. he had chosen a side, knew exactly what his side was doing. they were in what has been described as medieval hand-to-hand combat. and he didn't protect members of his congress. how does that line up with all the document production the committee called for, all the interview d...

In play it off as a witch hunt. but, the committee has to come with a hammer, if they're prepared to do that, this could get interesting. >> well, let's talk about that, barbara. we're in an interesting legal constitutional territory. you get subpoenaed in a criminal case, or you get a subpoena for a document production, or deposition in a civil case, you comply, generally. it's rare not to. this is, a, a voluntary ask for compliance. the question is, well, what do you do if not. that answer, to me, -- the legal and constitutional questions. what do you think? >> i agree with you, chris. the p...

Rhodes has also attracted attention of the january 6th committee which subpoenaed him back in november. today the panel also issued a subpoena to the parent companies of google, reddit, twitter, and facebook. the committee says it wants to know how the spread of misinformation and violent extremism on their platforms may have contributed to the capitol riot. >> my sense frankly from the document production of these companies is they are sharing with us what they think we already have or already know but we know there is other material out there. and we've lost patience and we're now going to r...

If it they're prepared to do that this could get interesting real quick. >> well, let's talk about that, barbara. we're in interesting legal and constitutional territory. you know, you get subpoenaed in it a criminal case or you get, you know, subpoena for a document production or deposition in a civil case. you comply. generally. very rare not to. this is a voluntary ask for compliance. and then the question is, well, what do you do if not? and that answer to me is not the legal and constitutional questions here do not seem to me settled or resolved. what do you think? >> i agree with you, ch...

Is the testimony of bernie kerik, a long-time ally of rudy giuliani's and a person who worked as an investigator on giuliani's legal team. kerik, of course, gave a massive document production to the select committee on new year's eve of this year and he sat for an interview with investigators on that panel. the reason that kerik was able to do this was because trump signed a privilege waiver, said that he was not going to assert any attorney-client privilege to block kerik from participating. now, trump and kerik said the reason they wanted him to participate was because they believed he'd be ...