the wider public through the right wing media concocting with that man, steve bannon, they called the green bay sweep involved persuading members of congress to challenge the college electoral results setting off a chain reaction by their theory also by their cockamamie theory lead to stage legislators appointing trump elengthers. months after the january 6th committee made a criminal reseveral navarro to the department of justice, turn over records including communications with donald trump. at the time navarro s contempt with congress, cited executive privilege as a reason for stonewalling the select committee even though he wrote a book and went on television to boast about his role in the insurrection and how his plan for a bloodless coup would have succeeded if it weren t for the violence on january 6th. here he is. peter navarro on this very network with our amazing colleague, ari melber. we ll see ari in a moment. on yesterday. the very same die the indictment unseal
with meadows, because they now charged him with contempt. it doesn t matter if he says, oh, i m sorry. i ll go and talk to the house. he s still going to be, the crime has been committed. there s no taking it back now. there s a cost especially to the house. he doesn t get this stuff now. meadows, now gone away. they ve got 2,000 emails, but what happens to the other 1,000? i think in doing this they re looking to deter other witnesses, but they, themselves, pretty much give up on their evidence. back to the department of justice. as you say, it s also considering a part of a broader investigation. people were titillated that the subpoena to navarro included the name donald trump. in retrospect that was about trying to get him to establish the bone feed ais why he says the communications with trump were privileged. nevertheless, there s stuff he could say and he s got a
events that began with january 6th, the actual attack and now branched out and bridged out into investigation of conspiracy amongst far-right groups including the proud boys and oath keepers to attack the capitol and we re seeing beginnings offen a investigation that leads closer to the white house with subpoenas asking about the lawyers who worked on several of the schemes that were intended to overturn the election nap is a separate matter from we ve seen today with peter navarro. a very limited indictment. katie, i ll come back to you. so many your remarks, incredibly helpful clarifying the legal directions and places i wanted fod go. first i want to bring harry litman back in a second. harry, i realize i made comments about peter navarro. i m not a lawyer. perhaps the things he said were not gibberish. i d like to know am i right in my asment saying gibberish or were have legitimacies of what
gotham city on this friday. i m john holman in for nicolle wallace. for the last time this week, at least. major development in the investigation into the january 6th insurrection. the justice department has issued a two-count indictment former trump adviser peter navarro making him the first administration official working in the white house on january 6th to be charged with a federal trial. two counts in the doj s indictment for contempt s congress. first refusing to testify to the house 1-6 select committee. second, refusing to produce documents demanded by that committee. each charge, if proven carries a maximum sentence of one year in the pokey. navarro appeared in court earlier today without a lawyer. also revealed he was arrested and taken into federal custody at the airport as he was about to leave on what he claimed was a trip. former trump adviser one of the biggest promoters of the big lying peddles conspiracy and to
selection committee investigating the january 6th insurrection, some are lawyers and constitutional experts definitely understand this. i think at this point there is not necessarily an expectation that meadows decision will be made imminently, and we heard the committee express those frustrations publicly and reported privately. we also previously reported some people on the committee investigators quietly reached out to the justice department and asked about the status of their contempt referral of mark meadows, and to actually, had been ignored. advances rebuffed by the department that has tried to maintain a firewall between the congressional investigation and the criminal investigation but the committee as doing all along worked around these road blocks and as you pointed out, john, mark meadows is a key person they ve honed in on during this investigation. he was not just a conduit to