him 41,000 hours of capitol surveillance footage. nbc s blayne alexander is in atlanta with more of her interview. nbc s ali vitali is on capitol hill with reaction, and we re also joined by tim miller, writer at large for the bulwark, and former communications director for jeb bush s 2016 campaign. blayne, i want to start with your amaing and informative interview. tell us more. yeah, this was certainly a fascinating conversation, chris. we talked for about 45 minutes. this was a very wide-ranging interview. a couple of things about emily, she s somebody who told me she didn t vote in the 2016 or 2020 elections. she volunteered to be foreperson and seemed to have a very an equal sense of duty about this, but also to be very excited by different things including meeting some of the more high profile witnesses who came before the grand jury, but as for the facts of this, i asked her certainly about the
it. so using a folder like that to block the blue light on your nightstand, we also know that a similar folder is on display at a trump bar at trump tower. it as i told the attorney it s a flippant attitude toward classified information. tim dismissed that and said this is just stationery but it speems to how the former president feels about the investigation. special counsel jack smith is firing off new subpoenas, targeting very high profile witnesses including former vice president mike pence, former national security adviser robert o brien and the trump legal team told me that, yes, in fact, they do intend to try to block some of that testimony by asserting executive privilege. it s unclear how successful they will be but that will definitely likely drag this investigation out. if there is a folder you wonder what are the contents of those folders. is there nothing else you can use to block the blue light? a lot of questions. paula, thanks so much.
obviously trump and his allies were trying to overturn the election in georgia, john. senator graham, has he said anything about his appearance today? his office did release a statement acknowledging he was there for more than two hours today. they said he answered all of the questions posed to him that was a big question, whether he was going to challenge anything that was put before him. and they said he felt like he was treated with respect and with professionalism. how close is the district attorney there from finishing this probe? what more does she need? she has some decisions to make. she has said she wants the grand jury to wrap up their investigative activity this year. but we know there are high profile witnesses, people like michael flynn, people like mark meadows the grand jury has yet to hear from. so she is going have to to decide, do we keep this grand jury going to try to get every possible witness, or does she feel like she has enough, does she move forward are
before that call and after. he was by trump s side throughout the weeks and days leading up to january 6th. they re trying to appeal the decision. could he try and hide behind executive privilege? he can and he has, but i don t think he ll succeed. i think both of his arkguments will fail. he s arguing because i live in south carolina, they can t force me to testify in the georgia special grand jury. that was rejected by the trial court judge. others have tried it and lost and with respect to executive privilege, wolf, it wouldn t apply to conversations if they had to do with wrong doing or potential criminality. that s really the gist of the d.a. s argument. what about other key witnesses? the d.a. has been very aggressive in going after high profile witnesses. not just meadows, but lindsey graham, rudy giuliani, newt gingrich and the fulton county district attorney has been winning these fights. it s been taking time.
and both investigations have expanded to former members of the trump administration. former acting chief of staff mick mulvaney, and ex treasury secretary steve mnuchin both testified before the january six committee this week. any day now, the committee could hear from former secretary of state mike pompeo. meanwhile, mike pence s former top aides, marc short and greg jacobs, testified before the federal grand jury convened by attorney general merrick garland, making them some of the highest profile witnesses to testify. they are questioning at those proceedings contributed to the news first reported by the washington post, that the doj is formally investigating trump s actions leading up to january 6th. possibly a step closer to a criminal probe of trump himself. more and more former trump officials have come forward since the january six committee s public hearings started last month, and