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Increasingly desperate. what would be needed for a privilege claim to stand up or is eastman just trying to run off the clock until after the midterms? >> probably the latter, but i think eastman faces a real problem, because today chris, a federal judge issued an order -- basically said i'm not buying a lot of these delays about your claims of privilege and so he insisted that john eastman just a week or so explain the basis for each of his claims of privilege. he has to document that he was actually acting as an attorney, showing engagement letters with a client and stuff like that. eastman ...

Most fundamentally, neither the incumbent nor the former president has asserted privilege regarding mr. navarro's testimony or document production to the committee. and mr. navarro has no unilateral authority to assert privilege himself. beyond that foundational flaw, his privilege claim, since the election, he has spoken and written widely above the precise subjects that are the focus of our subpoena. clearly, mr. navarro is eager to tell his story as he sees it, so long as he can do so on his own terms. for example, in 2020 and in 2021, mr. navarro published a three-part report on his websit...

Arguments on these excuses, if you adopt these excuses as your own to explain why you won't take action, then you're a part of that cover-up too. >> mr. meadows received numerous text meadows which he has produced without any privilege claim. indeed, some of those text messages, madam speaker, came from members in the chamber right now. >> one of the texts to meadows on january 3rd came from an unknown caller and referred to efforts to replace the leadership of the department of justice and said the following -- "i heard jeff clark is getting put in on monday. that's amazing. it will make a lo...

Obstruct the congressional vote. that's the crime. that's obstruction of justice. and if you listened to her last night and you listened to her today again, she keeps repeating that phrase. >> yep. >> corruptly interfering with the house count. that's the law. >> yeah. we're going to actually play a little of that sound today. eric boehlert and jennifer rubin, thank you. you at home stay with us. as the house prepares to vote on holding donald trump's former chief of staff mark meadows in contempt, how much has the january 6th select committee learned from the documents he's already turned ove...

According to the fda, they may approve this pill within the next few days. that means people who need it could be getting it by the end of the year. again, it has been a heck of a year. but that little piece of good news about that anti-viral from pfizer today is something to hope for. that's going to do it for us tonight. "way too early" is up next. when you produce records, you are expected to come in and answer questions about those records. and because not even mr. meadows was asserting any privilege claimed over these records, there's no possible justification for wholesale refusing to ...