also significant, and we re going to have more on these moving developments in a moment. but first, trump announcing today that he is now officially a target in the investigation into the 2020 election. and sources tell cnn that this target letter caught trump s team off guard. they actually got a formal letter, it s called a target letter from the doj. they say they had not been anticipating charges against trump at all, never mind expecting a target letter now. this target letter comes in the face of an enormous amount of recent news in that case. we ve learned the grand jury has heard from a long list of trump confidants and inner circle members including the former vice president, mike pence, the chief of staff mark meadows, his son of law jared kushner and many others who were behind closed doors with the president privy to what he said privately and not publicly. and we have learned prosecutors have interviewed election officials in the seven battleground states where trump s tea
thank you for the privilege of your time. the greatest of the greatest picks up with more news right now, katy tur. i miss you. good to be with you on this day before thanksgiving. thanksgiving, excuse me. the committee investigating january 6th is widening its search for information about the attack on the capitol, issuing another round of subpoenas yesterday to leaders of right wing groups involved in the insurrection, including the proud boys and the oath keepers. those asks are now in addition to subpoenas for, among others, trump confidants alex jones and roger stone. neither have given any indication they will cooperate with investigators. meanwhile, steve bannon, the only witness to face a criminal indictment so far at least will remain a free man this
thanksgiving. while witnesses continue to stone wall investigators, the committee may soon have access to key documents regarding january 6th from the trump administration. documents the president has fought to shield. they should prepare to justify why the court even has the authority to hear the dispute in the first place with arguments in that case set for next tuesday. trump sought to assert executive privilege to block the committee from obtaining documents from the national archive regarding the attack on the capitol. joining me now is garrett haak, national reporter and msnbc contributor carol lenok, and american university professor cynthia miller. everybody, welcome. so more than 40 subpoenas so far, garrett. they have 200 interviews. they re trying to go broad and
it s not a it s not a small six degrees of separation. it s zero degrees of separation. the people that they re seeking information for their membership were directly charged and accused with planning this attack and also being in regular communication with one of former president trump s most sort of controversial and loyal supporters, a self-described dirty trickster who did bad deeds for political gains. carroll, what s bewildering to me is how this has gotten so bipartisan. it s mostly democrats and republicans broadly in congress have painted it as a witch hunt. there is an effort underway to repaint what happened on january 6th as not that bad or completely conflated by the media or democrats or in some cases a false flag operation. i wonder in your conversations
now the appellate court has said maybe we shouldn t be looking at this. maybe it should be up to the president and the national archives, and they have asked for briefing on whether or not they should even issue an opinion. so my guess is that shortly after the arguments next week the records are going to be released to congress or the trump people will try to stall some more and see if they can get the supreme court to issue a stay and they can brief it then because, after all, the general play book for the trump team is to just stall and try to hold it over until the congressional investigation is is over or is shut down by the republicans. you bring me to my next question. this is for cynthia miller. in the delay tactics, trump has used delay for pretty much every lawsuit that he s been involved in. is there a way that he can stretch this out and wait until