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we start tonight with a late breaking news of special counsel jack smith subpoenaed former president donald trump's former chief of staff mark meadows as part of smith's investigation into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. i should say this as according to a single source, and it's being reported by cnn, msnbc has not yet independently confirmed this reporting. cnn reports tonight that meadows received a subpoena for a -- sometime in january. this comes just one week after we learned the special counsel smith subpoenaed trump's former vice president mike pence. clea...

At the nation's capital, the fever will break and it will get better. after they lose the midterms, it has to get better. but the fact is, it's not getting better. so i'm happy to see that democratic election officials and democratic officeholders are pushing back. but i think that we need to be very realistic about the threats that we face. they are persistent, they're escalating, and they are coming from one side of the aisle. >> what about, i mean, enforcing some of these? there is a question of how you enforce them, like benson's legislation making it a crime to knowingly spread misinforma...

And to redact or delete or black out sensitive information that they don't want anyone to see? >> this is an important distinction between kenneth starr, who was an independent counsel, had nothing to do with janet reno, who was the supervisor -- the attorney general at the time. he could write whatever he wanted in his report. robert mueller is an employee of the department of justice. he is a subordinate of attorney general barr who is a subordinate of president trump. the president has every right to look at this -- not only just to look at it before it goes out, but to sensor it. because h...

Changing winds around that? i'm having trouble figuring out if they understand the graty g and depth of going on and that they believe they have to do anything to fix it? >> i think they're becoming aware but i don't think they've grasped the power of it. zuckerberg created this amazing platform for people to share ideas and it was incredible, billions of people on it but the potential for ill use, for fake news, for misleading people i don't think people were fully aware of but again i don't want to sensor it, i don't think we want the government telling twitter or facebook what they can do, ...

I certainly hope we will. because any attempt to eliminate parts of that memo will be seen and probably so as attempt to sensor it. >> is there anything in it? it is ten pages as opposed to 3 and a quarter or third that the nunes memo was. is there anything in there that should be redacted for security purposes? >> i don't know. i'm not a security expert. >> but you read it. >> i'm not going to say that. i have read it. i think it's a good memo. i think it makes points. whether anything in there would give up ways i can't tell sources and methods, i can't say. >> all right. but nothing obvious...