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Subpoenaed have tried to claim, plus we're getting new word of tomorrow's deposition of alex jones is being postponed. for more on this, sahil kapur has more on this. what are we hearing, appeared to what degree is the committee concerned about not getting answers from him. >> reporter: garrett, the official response is it will not comment on the stone deposition as it is prohibited from talking about it. congressional sources i have spoken to are skeptical that roger stone's broad invocation can cure him of complying with the subpoena. the economiee has talked about bennie thompson has said t...

A lot worse had it gone differentlily. lot of threads to talk about, before we get to jamie raskin, senior political reporter and news reporter as well. let's start with the alex jones news. sounds like the committee didn't get much out of him. the fact that he showed up is probably the most news worthy part of this discussion. >> alex jones saying he testified remotely yesterday and said later on on his own radio show that questions were overall pretty reasonable. he said the committee was polite but dogged, but that he was advised by his lawyers beforehand to invoex the fifth amendment, and ...

Block the subpoenas? >> there's an adage that says the government is entitled to every person's evidence by today's standards, and the only basis you have is privilege, and the trumps have that opportunity, and the idea that they don't have to show up for a deposition like everybody else would is absurd, and the judge is enforcing the subpoena that we would expect in any case. >> if all three of them just repeatedly take the fifth, as we saw with eric trump, barbara, how effective will any deposition of these three people actually be? >> it could be effective for a number of reasons. number on...

Let me ask you a question. the pace of the shutdowns, i was just looking at some of the sports accounts i follow. the pace of nba players and nfl players testing positive is so accelerated so quickly almost in the last 72 hours, is it possible omicron is already raging everywhere here and this is the omicron variant causing all these rapid positives to show up. >> good to see you too, nicole, i wish it was under more cheerful circumstances. what we're learning is that omicron is spreading faster than any previous variant and it's more infectious than any previous variant. we're also seeing bre...

Meadow's texts. >> these nonprivileged texts are more evidence of president trump's supreme dereliction of duty during those 187 minutes and mr. meadow's testimony will bear on another key question before this committee. did donald trump, through action, or inaction, corruptly seek to obstruct or impede congress's official proceedings to count electoral votes. >> though that's exactly what they've been accused of, obstructing the official proceedings. >> i think there's a real important reason why liz cheney uses the boilerplate language. did donald trump corruptly, you know, this is the key a...