contempt referal? or is there a reason to think that he is being subpoenaed as part of the broader justice department investigation of january the 6th? i gotta tell, you if, and i don t know the answer, ordinarily you would not have a target of an investigation subpoenaed with a grand jury subpoena. and there s no question he is a target of the criminal contempt because that was referred, he was referred by congress to the department of justice. for potential prosecution for contempt of congress. but, on the other hand, that is a very unusual charge. the department of justice may want to get to the bottom of whether or not donald trump did instruct him not to testify based on the executive privilege. which is donald trump s privilege, not peter navarro s privilege. of course it is a bogus claim of privilege, but peter navarro is not necessarily in a place or in a position where he can
for potential prosecution. of course, that s exactly what happened with steve bannon who is now being prosecuted by the justice department. and potentially with mark meadows. doj is now looking at whether to charge him for coming up in a month. and we have conflicts looming not just with the vice president but with perry and jordan. so the question is will the committee just sort of say, okay, hey, we tried, thanks for thinking about it, or will they go to court and fight to get that testimony? right. and another viewer wants to know, could the department of justice prosecute trump or others close to him for crimes relating to january 6th? how likely is that to happen? i mean, that is the big gazillion-dollar question in all of this. it sure is, and it was very much on people s minds this week. i absolutely see potential crimes here, election interference, obstruction of congress with the more clear-cut ones, arguably incitement and
your day, we re done with you. that would show real weakness. option two, to issue the subpoena. we saw the clip of liz cheney saying that s not off the table. they need to be thinking more than one step ahead, because if they issue that subpoena, you can bet kevin mccarthy and jim jordan in all likelihood will continue to defy and the question then is whether the committee s ready, willing and able to take that next step of potentially voting to hold them in contempt and send them over to doj for potential prosecution. it is what the committee did with steve bannon, it is what the committee did with mark meadows. we ll see whether their own congressional colleagues have to play by the same rules. a member of congress defying potentially a congressional subpoena is something to behold. elie, thank you so much. thanks, brianna and john. breaking moments ago, president biden is set to announce plans to deploy military medical teams to michigan, new york, rhode island, ohio, new jer
to other local or federal law enforcement agencies. in other words, that s the federal investigators on the beat at the national archives saying we re starting a federal investigation into this matter, we need to know if there is a state investigation, too, so we can deconflict, so we don t step on each other s toes. governor doocy s office responded to that. saying it is our understanding that the secretary of state s office has notified the appropriate authorities. then the secretary of state s office chimed in. yes, we are referring it to the arizona attorney general s office. for potential prosecution. quote, for enforcement as to the unauthorized use of the state seal, and any other potential violations of state law. and indeed, they made that formal referral. here s the letter. arizona secretary of state writing to the person who sent in that fake elector s document saying number one stop using the state seal, it s illegal and number two we re referring to you the attorney genera
in new york to prosecutors in washington. it all starts with mueller. mueller refers it for potential prosecution and sdn kbrrks keeps ahold for the pr firms and they enter into a non-prosecution agreement with the law firm, but when it comes to gregory craig, when it comes to obama s former white house counsel, that has been handed to other prosecutors in washington. i don t know if that s the u.s. attorney s office in d.c. or potentially prosecutors working out of maine justice at the security division or somewhere else. according to people familiar with the case, the times reports that prosecutors are moving quickly towards a decision about an indictment of gregory craig about whether to prosecute him is expected in coming weeks. and on top of all of that, propublica broke this scoop.