are dangerous, exploitative, and reckless. they particularly, aggressively market tags to appear to young people. two extremists, and they also financed them completely for them with no money down. chairwoman maloney kept her promise. this week, the committee subpoenaed smith and weston, demanding the documents for their sales of ar style weapons and internal communications regarding last week shooting. like last month, high land park massacre. where the smith and weston why full was used. they were also pressuring the company to check and monitor injuries, deaths and crimes associated with their ar-15 rifles. the team will bring you more on the story if and with, smith and wesson response to the subpoena. and coming up in the second hour of a man, arizona secretary of state katie hobbs, the democratic nominee for governor, she is here. we will discuss the race for the midterms, and the senate reconciliation bill. i have to get that word down. plus the gop s growing embrace
donald trump s orbit as the washington post is evidence states that a similar pattern, donald trump and his allies privately shower potential witnesses with flattery and attention, extending big assurances that staying loyal to donald trump would be better than crossing him, eight sentiment echoed by his former attorney, michael cohen. he says he received this behavior before he flipped on his former boss. it is a mob style scenario where you want to make sure these people stay in orbit. if you step out of the orbit, understand there are people that are going to potentially do some pretty bad things to you. you put yourself into that spot. a lot of these actions that came at me, i am sorry to say, i am sure she will experience the same. he wants it that way. i want to bring in ally on capitol hill. a national security analyst, and tim miller is a political analyst and writer at large, the author of the brand-new book, why we did it, a travelogue from the republican road
we should point out nbc news has not yet verified that reporting half what we do have this afternoon is new reaction from a spokesperson for mark meadows. joining me now, luke broad january broadwater, matt miller, and joyce vance. luke, who exactly could be picking up these legal fees for at least it seems a dozen witnesses testifying before the january 6th committee? well, there are two funds that are funding witnesses lawyers. one is the save america pac which is run directly connected to donald trump. the other is the cpac first amendment fund which its director says consults with donald trump and donald trump s allies directly to decide which witnesses it will cover. so these are they offer both free legal advice to the witnesses and then also will pay for their attorneys fees if needed. this came to a head this week when cassidy hutchinson said she had to switch attorneys because she felt only with a new attorney could she be more forthright and testify publicly a
from matt who run cpac and others involved in the planning of it said, look, viktor orban is about it, does not mean we agree with him, but he should be allowed to come here and be heard. i did not believe the efforts, but it is true, apparently, that they banned big bird and bert and ernie from attending cpac for the crime of promoting vaccines. i don t know if that is tongue-in-cheek, but there is a ban, it s their intent form. i guess my question though, there is actually real world harm to giving a platform, right? when you feature someone like that, and they get a standing ovation for saying we don t want immigrants, that is a signal to republican lawmakers, presumably that is where the verve of the party is. can you speak a little bit too deplatforming of that type of mindset within republican politics? and what it means for the political system a large? matt schlapp is a coward.
vossoughian in for katy tur. today, new legal and ethical questions about whether former president trump s political organization and his allies are trying to influence witnesses talking to the house january 6th committee. the new york times reporting the trump save america political action committee as well as the people who run cpac are covering legal costs for more than a dozen witnesses according to financial disclosures. we have one of the reporters who broke that story, straight ahead. you don t want to miss that conversation. and those developments of course after committee vice chair liz cheney revealed that at least two witnesses were contacted by people connected to the former president attempting to influence and/or intimidate them. three sources familiar with the committee s work telling cnn one of the people contacted was in fact, you see her right there, cassidy hutchinson, the former top aide torump chief of staff mark meadows who testified, i m sure many of you rememb