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Legislators of the state look into this. >> reporter: beyond the doj probe, a separate criminal investigation into trump and his allies is escalating in georgia, where investigators subpoenaed key trump allies, including rudy giuliani and south carolina senator lindsey graham. the district attorney there says more subpoenas may soon be headed to trump's inner circle. >> we're going to do our due diligence. >> reporter: at a separate congressional investigation unearthing new details, like trump's eggeagerness to go to t capitol january 6th. >> mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, ple...

Be very forceful, one of the most forceful, essentially calling him out on multiple meetings. >> the other witnesses have said that he was there to tell the then president of the united states, this is wrong, this is illegal. including cassidy hutchinson, her conversation with cipollone, thing that the president wanted to go to the capitol. >> mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure that we do not go to the capitol, cassidy. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable, if we make that movement happen. >> powerfully, cipollone said he told the president, if w...

This is no time to wait. we can almost guarantee there are some critically important questions being asked right now behind closed doors, the witness pat cipollone, the former white house counsel to president trump, testifying and being videotaped before the house january 6 committee. there you can see our cameras catching him arriving this morning. cipollone previously met with the committee back in april but that was an informal interview with house investigators. the urgency behind his appearance today intensified of course after former white house aide cassidy hutchinson testified public...

Does it mean answering, or does it mean being forthcoming and helpful? what we do know is that cipollone had to decide whether to defend his former boss or defend democracy. the same democracy and its rituals that he so forcefully championed in that first impeachment trial that is, as with all things trump, on tape. aaron blake of the "washington post" points this out, "it would be one thing if pat cipollone was a true believer who might believe the former president did have the election stolen from him via a different method, as trump has falsely claimed, but the evidence is that cipollone di...

To cassidy hutchinson. >> i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out that morning. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure that we don't go to the capitol, cassidy, keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. >> joining us now is daniel goldman, the former house majority counsel for the first impeachment trial of donald trump, he is a former assistant journey -- and he is now running as a democrat for new york's tenth congressional district. also joining our discussion is democratic georgia state sen...