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Investigation. the former white house chief of staff is now the highest ranking trump official to have responded to a subpoena in this investigation. cnn washington correspondent pamela brown joins us with more on this exclusive cnn reporting. pamela, what exactly did he turn over? >> he turned over, according to sources, jim and poppy, documents, communication, text exchanges around the election and efforts to overturn the election and january 6th, the same stuff he turned over to the january 6th committee, now turned over to doj. we do know that mark meadows was selective in what he turned...

Frankly, that's what the district judge decided. >> ken, one thing that strikes me in all of this is you have the doj appealing to the 11th circuit while at the same time both sides miraculously agreeing on someone you know, and that is former federal judge raymond deering saying they think both sides could do a good job at this should they proceed in this matter. the big question is what would they do? how big would the scope be as special master? can you speak to what you think that scope would be? >> judge durie is very experienced. i've known him for over 30 years. he served as a very dist...

Historically the executive branch follow up and follow through. now, of course, there are arguments on the other side and the courts will decide under the rule of law, but i agree with those you've referenced that it's not a good role for the courts to play. >> you mentioned arguments on the other side. what is or is there a legal argument that the classified portion of these materials should be set aside and that the doj can even continue to look into that portion of the investigation while the special master tries to divvy out anything that relates to attorney-client privilege, et cetera? is...

Trump's orbit who were trying to subvert the election or maybe even possible charges against the former president himself. so a lot of eyes on the doj especially as we inch closer toward the public hearings later this week on thursday from the select committee and wondering what will doj officials do next? >> okay. jessica, thank you for that update. we do have some details on moves the doj has taken. just in the last 24 hours. we learned new doj charges that are directly relating to the capitol insurrection involve the leader of the far right extremist group proud boys and four other members ...

Contempt. sent to it doj, and doj has now charged peter navarro with a crime. there's a message to other people who may be considering defying the committee. however, it does bear noting this makes quite clear that doj is nowhere near charging mark meadows. the mark meadows contempt referral got sent over six months ago. this one got sent about two months ago. so it raises the question will doj will charging meadows, seems like not. will doj will charging dan skavino held in contempt the same day? there's a mixed message. i think if i'm somebody thinking about well, should i comply with the su...