developments in the investigation to uncover what exactly happened that day. republican congressman scott perry of pennsylvania says he will not comply with a request to hand over relevant information to the january 6th committee. and former national security adviser to president trump, michael flynn, is no surprise is now suing the committee to politic its subpoenas. joining me now, capitol hill correspondent, league ann caldwell, and joyce vance, a msnbc legal analyst and former attorney in alabama. joyce, war the next steps? how is this showdown going to play out between a member of congress and his colleagues that he has to see every single day. that s a great question, steph. and the committee has not said yet what it s going to do. but it says it has options and it s going to keep those options open. the committee thinks that representative perry is instrumental into their investigation. he was a person who worked with the administration to try to implement jeffrey clark, a doj
at a dramatic, three-hour oval office meeting on january 3rd, trump said he wanted to fire rosen and make clark acting attorney general. rosen told the committee trump said to him, quote, one thing we know is you, rosen, aren t going to do anything to overturn the election. at the meeting, trump was told that every senior doj official other than clark would resign if he went through with his plan. white house counsel pat cipollone said he would resign, too. and with that, trump reluctantly backed down. there is certainly more to come on this story as democrats vow to investigation. as senator durbin said today, we were so close to a constitutional crisis at that moment that it bears continued investigation and disclose sure. david? all right, jonathan karl tonight, thank you. overseas tonight and a powerful magnitude 5.9 earthquake rocking tokyo. the shaking captured on a camera
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conspiracy theories that clark was pushing at the doj, in support of the outgoing president. one of the theories clark was spreading we re not making this up was that chinese intelligence used special kinds of thermometers to change results in voting machines. again, i m not making that up. meanwhile, tonight, cnn has learned that another, former high-ranking doj official, former-acting deputy attorney general, richard donoghue, testified before the senate judiciary committee, today. donoghue, according to his own notes, previously, provided to congress, resisted pressure from trump to interfere with the election results. democratic senator, mazie hirono, sits on the judiciary committee. i spoke with her, just before air. senator, hirono, i know you, of course, cannot divulge into details of the private testimony of richard donoghue before the judiciary committee today. but but in general terms, how much closer do you believe congress is to learning the full scope of what then-pr