world. it is friday, october 14th. i m christine romans. we begin this morning with the january 6th house committee escalating its showdown with donald trump. our institutions only hold when men and women of good faith make them hold. committee vice chair liz cheney closing down the hearing calling for them to subpoena the former president. trump is not expected to comply. jamie raskin tells cnn s jake tapper, if he s innocent, he should. but even if he thinks that it was a righteous manifestation of pro trump sentiment, then he should come forward if he really wants to be the musi linnie of a mass right wing populus movement. he should come forward and explain that. cnn s jessica schneider has more from the hearing. we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. an extraordinary move. those in favor will say aye. aye. reporter: unanimously voting to subpoena former president donald trump for testimony and documents in the
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has formed a panel to conduct a "parallel" probe into the death of a first-year B.Tech student amid allegations of caste bias and has urged its students to come forward if they have "relevant" information.
meanwhile, we ve learned the committee is fully cooperating with the justice department. the panel has already started handing over documents and transcripts to the doj. that is a change. joining us now, former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor barbara mcquade. barbara, thank you again for being with us this morning. so, what are you looking for later today when we get the final report, the committee has been working on it for about a year? and what are the implications for the justice department which, as we know, is conducting its own parallel probe into january 6? well, i think some of the things that didn t make it into the executive summary, you know, it was clearly very focused on the referral of crimes. and it was focused on the conduct of donald trump and those close to him. i m curious to read about the other things, you know. we know that the committee had divided itself into teams, there was the red team, the purple team, all of these different teams. and some of what th
i don t know about a potential indictment. i don t know if that s necessary when you show at such a high level all the folks that were initially on trump s side, if you will, that changed their own mind. i think that was the point of the committee. if these people can change their mind knowing all of this, then certainly i think that sends a strong message to the electiorae in general. there was so much in the january 6th committee and then you zoom out and there are around the trump orbit some 7 different probes going on. this parallel probe, do you think they did enough to bring charges against trump at this point? i think that there s a big calculation that would have to be made if they re trying to move forward in a criminal way. a criminal loss will be very, very devastating. i think the committee has done an outstanding job in demonstrating how reprehensible his behavior was. whether it crossed the line into