committee wants to ask giuliani about. but the committee covers areas that will involve state crimes. they say, kim park, quote, he purported claims that the 2020 election was stolen and had to between mid november 2020 and january six 2021. he actively promoted claims of election fraud and we have the former election he took steps to overturn the election results according to witness testimony and public results. he encouraged president trump to direct the seizure of voting machines after being told that they had no lawful authority to do so.
certainly the documents months be sent in. there is no fifth amendment privilege protecting the documents unless reducing them themselves would be a crime. we hope they will come in and answer their questions. we have a lot of questions. there is some obvious, with raleigh giuliani, to start with ham, there is obviously a zone of fifth amendment protection that he would want in facing these questions. he is already known to be subject to a criminal investigation. he is already been disbarred for some of the conduct that you are talking about. so i assume the committee, in your discussions, have anticipated the possibility, that rudy giuliani might just show up and take the fifth edmund meant for every question that is addressed. well the state of law is, if you think that you would incriminate yourself criminally, and want to be protected by the
these subpoenas that that the committee issued today? very, very important, lawrence. you know, some legal teams win buckets of jury verdicts and others like donald trumps win buckets of subpoenas that and i m glad to see the committee do this. it s honoring truth seeking function. it s rare to subpoena a lawyer. i would be uncomfortable if these folks were acting truly as lawyers but a law degree doesn t shield your inquiry if you re a co-conspirator or plotter or have on going criminal activity so i think for these lawyers, you know, like rudy giuliani, this attorney client privilege they re starting to advance now is a double edged sword because on the one hand, these four folks hope to keep their shield their actions from public scrutiny but on the other, they have to defend what they were doing as bonefied legal advice and if you have any doubt about
definitions. the committee participates in them every day. the committee meets at least once or twice a week. going through wet we found, and next steps. it s a very active piece of work. it is one of the most intense endeavors i ve been involved in in my years in congress. congresswoman zoe lofgren thank you very much for starting off our discussion tonight. thank you. thank you. and thanks to the congresswoman for that for fix said way too neal katyal. a former acting u.s. general and neil, with that set up, we have to go straight to you for the supreme court schedule for the question a donald trump s documents. question unless the supreme court acts
said that they are going to go public. they said they are going to maybe be in january of this month. what can you tell us about the public schedule of the committee? i m going to let the chairman make that announcement. but we are gonna have hearings when we are ready. the full picture, probably, will be a series of hearings and not just one. some of what the timing relates to is how soon the court deny search to the former presidents request, unleashing, we hope soon, documents from the national archives. we expect that to fill in a lot of questions and allow us to separate this we are working very hard. there are depositions that begin early, multiple