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Rof and bill barr couldn't find. if you belief it. why do you think you would incriminate yourself if it is something you allegedly believe in. >> it could be pli for immunity. that said, a person can assert their fifth amendment privilege to refuse to answer any question if a truthful answer would tend to incriminate them. therefore, even if he thinks he has a defense, even if he believed in good faith, which is sort of hard to believe, of all the nonsense that was coming out of that camp in the run-up to the election and just after it, leading to the events of january 6th, he could still ass...

Official who worked with the former president in his capacity at the department of justice could decide, if he decides to plead the fifth for a specific question then the committee can decide, okay, we are going the provide him immunity in order to answer this question in a more forth coming way. there are some major caveats here, though. there are witnesses in the past who have received immunity in congressional investigations and have never the less been criminally prosecuted. it remains to be seen just how the d.o.j. and the congressional committee are working together. sorry for being so l...

Gone. and it could also affect whatever sentence they receive at the end of the day. bad decisions to this point, bad decisions now. running is a terrible idea. and it works in the movie, but not in real life. >> want to, with you and frank turn to the case in this really stunning sort of stop in your tracks and watch everything you can find about it on social media press conference from the prosecutor. and i know, chuck, you have some experience in this category. but i do want to ask one more question about a manhunt like this. is it -- i mean, are there roadblocks? there are movie depictions...

They will need to see what will happen on saturday for next steps. >> democrat congresswoman zoe lofgren, and let's pick up right there. if jeffrey clark picks back up, exercising the 5th amendment rights, what happens then? >> he would be in contempt. the fifth amendment is an important right, and it says no plern be a witness against himself into apparently they think they have done something that might be resulting in a criminal prosecution. that is pretty extraordinary. he has a right to take the fifth, but only on a case by case and question by question

Trump are privileged, he says. that fails for at least three reasons. number one, he was not an advisory of the president. and so his political advice to the president is not privileged by definition. number two, even if it is, joe biden, the current president, gets to decide whether the privilege should yield and he says it should. despite those things, he has has to show up and assert privilege on a question by question basis. i think it is an important step to pursue charges criminally, even if it takes a long time as a deterrent to all the other people who might try to do the same thing. >...