he is probing the night the trump aides and some outside allies tried to hatch a military coup plot. again, if those words sound disturbing to think about your own american government and not something happening in some other region, buckle up. your government is investigating this with an eye on indicting potentially the people who wanted to abuse your military to take away your vote. it s a big story. i know it s summer, i know it s friday, this is a big story. the night of december 18th in the oval office where some of the most extreme trump plotters were working on tactics that allegedly even rudy giuliani warned would land them all in prison. they wanted to have soldiers seize election machines. they wanted to install one of trump s political legal operatives to try to dictate unlawful orders, both pertaining to the justice department and the military. that would be sidney powell. she had been on the campaign side, more or less, meaning arguing in court or making motions
nbc news has confirmed he s currently in custody and is set to make his first appearance in federal court just a few minutes from now. let us get to it. joining me now is nbc news nas political reporter sahil kapur, host of the beat ari melber and barbara mcquaid. pete, i want to begin with you. this is a bit tricky territory for the d.o.j., is it not? reporter: well, it didn t seem to be in his case, in the steve bannon case, though it took the justice department almost twice as long to decide whether to pull the trigger on peter navarro on two counts, one for refusing to give documents to the committee and secondly for refusing to show up and answer questions in person to the committee. he said to an e-mail in the committee that he was powerless to act here because of the executive privilege claim by president trump. one of the problems for him, it seems to me, is that six days before he sent that e-mail, the supreme court rejected president trump s legal appeal in the
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giuliani couldn t just waive attorney giant privilege. he can t disclose privileged communications he had with trump. but he can fill in factual gaps that jack smith would need or corroborate other people s testimony on things like the december 18th meeting. he can provide surrounding details where other third parties were relevant. this is, as far as i m concerned rudy giuliani s got a lot of problems, especially in georgia, but this looks to be him trying to save his own skin, trying to mitigate any potential culpability he s got at the federal probe. it s not a good sign for donald trump. what does it tell you that this aborted coup meeting led right into that announcement, as i showed? there s a biltss to history. people remember now that january 6th is a date. january 6th was, as i emphasized, never a date. certainly not for travel to d.c. before trump said, it will be a wild day to travel. does it matter that he said that while running thereother plots that were allegedly cri
looking at the footnotes, editing. reporter: the committee will lay out top line findings but place to show an executive summary. and perhaps even the pluck of the report even if it s finished in time. we have made decisions that criminal referrals will happen. the committee planning to reveal who they think should be held accountable for referrals for state bar discipline, campaign finance violation, and referrals to the department of justice for possible criminal prosecution. we have left no doubt none that donald trump led an effort to upsend american democracy that directly resulted in the violence of january 6th. lawmakers especially focused in their hearings and public appearances on trump s potential culpability. i think he s guilty of a crime. he knew what he did. we ve made that clear. he knew what was happening prior to 1kwr5e67b. reporter: while the referrals will la i a marker for