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With fox. >> obviously, congress is going to do what they were already intended to do, which is hold me in contempt. the fact is, we've been trying for weeks and weeks to make accommodations to share nonprivileged, and i want to stress that, nonprivileged information while protecting the executive privilege that president trump has claimed. we received a subpoena that went to our telecommunication carrier that was so broad that you would have to do some type of legislative contortions to find a legislative reason for that subpoena. >> all right, joining us now, cnn's senior legal analyst eli h...

Sort of playbook by the way he went about the bannon case. so i would look for a decision within a couple of weeks at most. >> eli honig and carrie cordero, thank you. i'll be back here tomorrow at 1:00. the news continues right now with alisyn and victor. hello, i'm victor blackwell, good to be with you. >> and i'm alisyn camerota. the world is waiting for answers about omicron. we know very little other than it was detected in south africa. it is a highly mutated variant that appears to spread easily and could have some vaccine resistance. but scientists say it will be a few more weeks bef...

The d.a.'s office said they were surprised to see the charges, certainly indicating that they didn't know that they were coming. and now this new letter from the d.a.'s office raises even more questions about what is going to happen with this case, jake? >> all right, mj lee, thank you so much for that update. let's bring in former federal prosecutor, eli honig. what does this tell you about the district attorney's strategy, if anything? >> two things, jake. first of all, the d.a. is trying to buy more time. we did have that looming court date of november 17th, on which the former governor wou...

May not want to proceed with them. >> what does it say about the sheriff's role in all of this? >> well, it's sort of the d.a. calling out the sheriff, because remember, the sheriff went without the d.a., went to a judge, got these charges issued. that's an unusual move to make in a high-profile case like this, where there's no time pressure. so ultimately, the sheriff is not the one who gets to decide here. the d.a. does. and i think that we're seeing the start of a sign of some sort of rift between the sheriff and the d.a. they may see this case differently. >> elie honig with the latest on ...

>> honig said he doesn't think baldwin will face charges. when asked if he'd seen anything that could change that, here's what he said. >> no, i haven't. i think as an actor, if an a.d., assistant director, hands you a gun and says, cold gun, everything i've gathered from researching this and seeing our coverage is that the actor doesn't have any obligation to then inspect the gun for himself. in fact, it would probably be dangerous to do that. so i don't think alec baldwin has potential criminal liability here. i do think he, the production company, many others, will quite likely be sued civi...