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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 effe...

Reason he does that, or does not do that, is because he doesn't want anything incriminating to be in writing. instead, he speaks very subtly. and michael cohen said that he would never tell you directly what to do, but he would say it in a way that you knew exactly what to do. but here is why i think he is too cute by half. this is the guy that we are now starting to see probably thinks that he is bulletproof, shielded, invincible, and he's talking to his lawyers. and now we are seeing, time after time, that the special counsel's going after the lawyers and finding that that may indeed be wher...

This is different, this is what is called at least asserting executive privilege somehow that being a former president his papers or documents are things cannot be made available to other areas of the government. it's an odd argument. needless to say, even if he had a point here, and even if you are correct on this executive privilege point, the justice department has had this document since august 8th. they have been filing them, collating, them whatever maybe. any request for some other party to come in and start segregating documents and taking them apart is moot, because the justice alread...

Is not donald trump's private attorney. he is counsel for the presidency as a whole, and he clearly is doing the right thing, i think, in coming forth and providing additional information. i think it is wrong for anyone to assume he's going to provide anything different than what he has said in the past. he will continue to acknowledge the information and the advice and counsel he gave to the president, and if nothing else, i think it will corroborate some of the testimony we heard from cassidy hutchinson. but i don't think we'll see a smoking gun tomorrow. >> elliot, what do you think? >> ali...

It seems like a plain reading of the law and it's not surprising that the attorney would fund that way and direct contradiction of the government right now. >> yeah. oh, what a web we weave. congress under the constitution has very broad power to get information and one of the jobs is legislating again. it's not for the executive to say we don't believe you have demonstrated to us. >> that's not how it works. >> the second thing it ignores is frankly, there are a lot of significant issues about whether or not donald trump who does not have a blind trust, who knows what his business transaction...