i m yasmin vossoughian in for another busy hour. this morning we re tracking major developments in each of the three yes three separate investigations related to the 2020 election and the big lie spread by the former president and his allies. first in the justice department investigation. a source telling nbc news mark short, former chief of staff to mike pence appeared before a federal grand jury on friday to discuss what? we ll get into that. second n the house january 6th committee investigation, the panel revealing in crucial deposition clips how the former president was reluctant to condemn the capitol rioters the day after the attack. third, the investigation in fulton county, georgia and the setback for the da probing the former president and his allies attempts to overturn the 2020 election. we want to bring in nbc knew capitol hill correspondent ali vitali is joining us, michael schmidt, msnbc contributor, and glenn kirschner, msnbc legal analyst. glenn, let me
and the thing that is remarkable, is how many times the fbi and the national archives went back to the trump organization and said, hey, we know you have documents, turn them over. and then we learned from the article last night not only with president trump personally involved in reviewing what was sent back to the government but there were still documents left afterwards. i think that is why we saw this search warrant. it sounds like they tries every measure possible to get the documents back under their control and the cia and nsa and fbi, this wasn t some mistaken taking of boxes from the white house. this was cherry picked information across all agencies. highly classified and compartmentalized and it really speaks to why. why keep these when you know that the fbi and national archives have been to your place different times, why go to such length and that makes the last tranche of documents particularly interesting after the other reviews and submissions back to the gov
president, take me to the capital now. to which bobby responded sir, we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm and said so you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we are going back to the west wing. we are not going to the capital. and mr. trump then used his free hand to lunch towards bobby engel and went he recounted the story to me he had motioned towards his clavicles. and was mr. engel in the room as he told you this story? he was. did mr. engel correct or disagree with any part of this story? mr. engel did not correct or disagree with any part of the story. did they ever after that tell you that what he just said was untrue? neither mr. engel or the other told me it was ever untrue. now that officer with dc metropolitan police department who was right there in the motorcade firsthand witness is corroborating details of what cassidy hutchi
role to organize the electors in his state and coordinated the efforts with the former president s campaign. more in a moment. the revelation comes the same day that the january 6 committee delayed hearings. the reason is one of his members, raskin, had a deluge of new evidence. he would not elaborate but said the new information was what we learned yesterday and beyond. the former president and his family recorded this before and after january 6th. those recordings have been turned over to the committee. a subpoena has, over also. the testimony of the republican party member, mcdaniel. that links to the presidents reply. he turned the call over to mr. eastman who proceeded to talk about the importance of the rnc helping the campaign gather these contingent electors in case there are legal challenges that were ongoing to change the result in any state. more helping them reach out and assemble them. my understanding, the campaign did not take the lead. we were just helping t
capitol since the war of 1812. meanwhile, the committee is debating whether or not to rerve the former president trump to the justice department for criminal prosecution. last hour we spoke with a member of the committee, congressman adam kinzinger who seemed open to that idea. i can t do the doj s job. as a nonlawyer, there is all kinds of threshold questions. but my belief is this. we never want to get to a position in a country where we prosecute last administrations because that is what failed republicans, failed democracies do. but if a failed coup and an obvious coup attempt and a president that didn t just choose not to act, but willfully watched to see where the mob would go for three hours on january 6, if he is not held accountable through law, i actually fear that that is a far worse president far worse precedent, to make the determination, if they can and should indictment. if we just wash this under the rug and say for the sake of the country, let s put thi