justice department for prosecution. so we re not fooling around. we expect people to fulfill their lawful duties. if there are legitimate questions raised, we ll answer them, respond to them, we want to make sure we provide all this information to the american people and these four witnesses in particular are really in a position to know exactly what the president was doing what the response was like, why we weren t better prepared, and the role of the administration in this attack on the u.s. capitol. so engaging with meadows and patel, no more information on that. steve bannon, his team has said he s not cooperating, he s not coming. so have you already started drafting the criminal referral? i can t comment on that, but let me tell you what i think is going on with steve bannon. this is one thing i write about in the book. during the russia investigation, led at the time by a chairman devin nunes, republican, we subpoenaed bannon. and he came in with 25 questions
donald trump doesn t need to be appointed speaker if kevin mccarthy is because essentially donald trump will control whatever he does. the title of your book is how we almost lost our democracy and still could. but hasn t a lot already been lost? isn t it on the way to being lost if everything goes as you fear it might and as it looks like it might? i m going to ask that question because one thing i wanted to do in the book as well is show people the stories of courage of this period. a historian once said power doesn t corrupt as much as it reveals. it revealed kevin mccarthy and steve scalises and others, it also revealed people of great courage. liz cheney, of great courage. it revealed adam kinzinger to have great courage. it revealed dan coats and mitt romney and all kinds of people of conviction, who rose to the
ntrolling stress and emotional eating. at last, a diet pill that actually works. go to golo.com to get yours. welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian. hour two, if you re just joining us, welcome. if you re sticking with me all the way through, thank you. coming to your live here from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. so, in just a couple hours, donald trump, the former president, will be holding a rally in iowa, and we expect it to be a doozy. his first public comments since the white house rained on his parade when it comes to expectations that executive privilege would, in fact, shield him from the january 6th investigation. the president has determined that an assertion of executive privilege is not warranted for the first set of documents from
following the republican or the public opinion that has been set by donald trump. but what you also see in congressman biggs s statement is this. there are some conspiracy theorists in the gop, even in elected office, there are conspiracy theory lite, if you will, as well, but they also face the reality that the party today, nearly two-thirds, according to some polls, believes the election was rigged so their political reality requires them to aggregate a constituency of those who believe it was rigged and those who believe it wasn t, and i think the most dangerous thing that comes of this, yasmin, is the premise, then, that if the election was rigged, then anything you do to respond to that is okay, from suppressing votes among communities of color to changing the administration of elections in certain states to the events we saw on january 6th. if we tear down the integrity of our election administration system, then any response by these republican followers is therefore justified.
governor christy noah. i want to bring in my panel, everybody, barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney in michigan and an msnbc legal analyst back with us. david jolly, former member of congress, national chair of the serve america movement and an msnbc political analyst. kyle, i want to start with you on this one. i want you to give us really an update as to what s been happening so far on the january 6th committee. where are we right now? we re now at a point where the committee has to show us how serious they are about getting the information that donald trump and his close associates don t want them to get. so, as you pointed out, you know, the president is trying to invoke executive privilege. he s trying to get his aides to do the same despite some dubious legality there and the committee has to decide, are we going to hold these people in criminal contempt where we may have the justice department help us out here and are we going to, you know, go to court to fight to