standing ovation. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. williams sta rts now. well good evening once again, day 307 of the biden administration, the one six committee on the hill has started these new weights with five new subpoenas for trump allies. this round includes two big names. his longtime friend and advisor, roger stone. and the noted conspiracy theorists, alex jones. committee s letter to stone says that he promoted his attendance at rallies on january 5th and sixth supporting trump s false claims of election fraud. it also points out, he did speak at the january 5th rally and used members of the far-right oath keepers for security. the letter adds, quote, you have stated you were invited to lead a march to the capitol from the ellipse rally on january six, and did not end up doing. so last december trump pardons
and you have to win over the trump voters and the base is still very much beholden to trump and in a general election you have to win statewide in a blue state like illinois. that s difficult, not impossible to have statewide candidates that have won but kinzinger is very conservative. people forgot. it would be hard to win, so i think his options are pretty limited but he does want to stay in the political arena. one of the ten on the screen, one of the ten republicans who voted to impeachment trump and also on the january 6th insurrection committee. this is a little interesting piece here. this is the house future speaker perhaps kevin mccarthy. after the elections talking we re the big tent party. i believe the party is a big tent and everybody is welcome. don t be pushed to do something you don t believe in because the policies are wrong. you ve been reluctant right now, but join with us. our party is open to have other people join us. let s pop the tent back up
his business records, his tax returns even down to the legitimate legislative purpose which we re hearing in this case and we heard that when they were trying to shik loose issue subpoenas to capital one and deutsche bank. in that case it was unpersuasive. we ll see what happens with this judge. it s very much the same legal strategy we ve seen in the past but we re talking about documents that are public records. i know there s executive privilege, it s more complicated than that, but things like white house visitor logs, that s something that a lot of presidents have willingly released and the fact that they are trying to keep even something like that secret, it it you have to ask why. you mentioned the parallel to previous trump efforts to block transparency. another one is this is from the legal files. members of the committee have already decided that the former president is responsible no matter what the evidence says, recycling witch hunt. essentially what they have
already said is essentially trump s positionsy can do no wrong and anybody trying to investigate me is therefore politically motivated. right, and all of these documents he doesn t have to turn them over, but it is these documents pertain to government business, and some of these documents are typically just handed over willfully and made public by past and present administrations when trump hasn t. what s interesting also about what you brought up, john, in terms of the judge asking questions about why are you asking for such broad documentation that goes all the way back to april 2020, and what they said is because they think that trump s efforts and those surrounding trump were trying to subvert the election all the way, you know, to a year prior to january 6th. to that point, from a legal perspective, brad raffensperger, the secretary of state of georgia says his lawyers have been contacted by the committee so they want to focus on january 6th, the main thing that day,
actions on january 6th and the events surrounding it. we await this very important ruling and it s fascinating. the judge started off by being highly skeptical saying stop when they were saying congress has no right to it. that s congress house. that was the building that was attacked. if the congress has a right to investigate anything it s january 6th and the insurrection and since then they are asking house democrats you re asking for the kitchen sink, it s overly broad and it s burdensome so the judge is walking to the issues to get to a point. here are the documents the president is trying to keep secret. 700 pages from top advisers, white house visitor logs, daily schedule, phone records and handwritten memos and essentially the committee is trying to put together a history of what happened on january 6th but importantly before january 6th, and that is how you detail what did trump know on january 4th, 5th and then what did he do on the 6th? what strikes me the lawyers are