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Good evening. tonight, we've learned that the former president is making new efforts to subvert justice and stymie the investigation into his attempt to stay in office by subverting democracy. he's reportedly doing it by invoking executive privilege in the house investigation of the attack on the capitol which he incited. we'll talk to former white house counsel john dean if he can actually do that. meantime, his allies are also still trying to undermine democracy and lay the groundwork for overturning the next election. that's the news tonight, which comes after a day that began with the sena...

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>> well, it i think anybody who listens to this has to be concerned about the future of our country. we have a democracy, a republic that has lasted for over 200 years, and to think that we would chuck that to one side for mr. trump is astonishing to me. there are people even today who are willing to look the other way. it would be very unwise. we need to find out exactly what happened, who did what when leading up to the insurrection on the 6th. not only to find out what happened, but to make sure that it can't happen again. >> so congresswoman, to get to this point, just dig down here on one...

Outlined a six-point scheme to persuade then vice president mike pence to throw out the election results on january 6. >> this has been a massive attack on the integrity of the voting system in the greatest democracy on earth. >> reporter: meanwhile, new court documents revealed rudy giuliani and other trump allies testified under oath that they did little to verify these false election fraud claims before blasting them out to the public. in a sworn deposition, giuliani acknowledged he did not have all the facts before falsely accusing a dominion voting systems executive of changing votes for ...

Surprising me would want to cast doubt on an election that he lost, by subverting democracy. i mean, that's exactly what he has done and what he planned to do. clearly in december, he was having those conversations with that in mind. >> yeah. it's still seems like more comes out every single week. i want to turn to the select co committee. you guys med yesterday, just members, you've been talking about how to walk through how this will play out. the subpoena, it's very clear they're coming. what kind of status and scope are you considering with those subpoenas? >> well, the status and scope is...