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Officials in arizona. now he is suddenly pleading the fifth in the investigation. that is the same case that lawyer jeff clark reportedly tried to make to state officials in georgia. jeff clark is suddenly pleading the fifth in the investigation. in the case of clark and what clark drafted to send to georgia officials, the january 6th investigators say they have evidence that what hean did the in trying to use the justice department to pressure a state into flipping its results, according to the january 6th investigation, mr. clark did not do that alone. metadata shows white house fingerprints...

All the information here. so it's a matter of putting all the pieces together as best we can, but we do believe that both clark and eastman have information that the committee needs. they have a right, if they think they're going to be prosecuted on a case by case, question by question basis to assert their fifth amendment right against testifying against themselves. the committee will then have to make a judgment on whether to allow immunity so we can get the testimony, and that's something that we'll have to consider. >> california congresswoman, member of the january 6th investigation, zoe ...

Case. it's why we have been watching, why we have been checking this with the prosecutor's office almost on an hourly basis in anticipation of this. i think it is clear there were charges coming in. in terms of the miscommunication there, i don't know what else is there. but it is clear the charges were coming in, there is a question why these parents weren't under some sorm of sursurveillance, i that's allowed. >> we will have an opportunity to put that question to karen mcdonald in the next hour. the oakland down commissioner. obviously, what happened today, the manhunt that ensued is the fu...

Safety and are on their way back. if true, frank, then what? >> look, we -- in the same vein of what you just said, we must assume that, law enforcement must assume they are still fugitives and treat them as such. nothing can be believed at this point. the way to do this is for their attorney to say they are at this rest stop right now on the highway. you can come get them now so there is no question that this is being handled safely and securely. otherwise, this can get quite ugly. so that's the way to handle this transparentally. lawyer to sheriff, parents to sheriff. this can't be done thro...

Undermine government functions. that statute makes sense to me. i used it myself as a prosecutor. it makes sense to me that people may have violated that statute. even if john eastman doesn't think he did it, there may be others who have evidence that he did. i think he has a valid fifth amendment assertion. it doesn't mean he's going to be charged. it doesn't mean he's going to be prosecuted. it doesn't mean he's going to be convicted. but it strikes me that he has a valid fifth amendment privilege selectively, as jackie said, on a question by question basis. these people did some really bad ...