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not a fishing expedition. it is up to them to be able to share with the american public that logic behind what they did, the fact that they had, what caused them. releasing the affidavit would be important. >> we also have new information on a personal message donald trump reportedly sent to merrick garland. back to the fbi top secret documents from his home. we're gonna talk about this in a moment with january six committees members. the this hour, the last stand for another january 6th committee member, liz, cheney facing a tuesday primary. it could spell the end of her time in con...

Somebody caught in the middle of it, and that does not excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, we have talked about abuse of power and bribery when we started, we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with a high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think that there is more than enough. As i mentioned in my statement, i just really underscore this. The third article of impeachment, approved ...

Think has said on fox news that he only testified before the 1-6 committee because he was subpoenaed and had to. he stops well short of getting into any sort of fulsome explanations about what was going on between pence and trump of which he clearly knew. he knew so much that on january 5th, he called in pence's secret service detail and said hey, our guy is in trouble tomorrow. he is in danger. talk about what unlocking marc short to go beyond where he went with congress would mean for the investigation into trump. >> sure. and so i think it's precarious to read docket sheets, but i think tha...

The main thing they want to do is push back on the continuing refrain, that trump has done throughout the 20 months saying this is executive privilege material. it's not for three different reasons. everybody in the legal system, the federal courts have said so. all that special master can do here is to look at the few attorney/client privilege material. but as evan pointed out, they've been searched already by a taint team. and there's a procedure in the last paragraph of the affidavit, to serve it up, not to judge canon, who trump just tried to pull into things, but the magistrate judge to c...

Say, we're going to segregate these privilege materials, and then we're going to share the rest with the negligentive team. heres with it isn't even attorney/client privilege that seems to be the issue, but executive privilege material. which is just a nonstarter when it is the very executive branch that holds the privilege that wants these documents back. i just don't think that donald trump has made the case as to why a special master is needed in this case. it may be that the judge out of an abundance of caution and optics wants to do this, just to avoid the kinds of political arguments tha...