two months after the attack in which he defended the capitol rioters. and video of then vice president mike pence reacting in realtime to congressional calls for him to invoke the 25th amendment to remove donald trump from office just days after the insurrection. also featured interviews with ivanka trump and jared kushner including the first daughter claiming that her father s goal was to have every vote counted, even as he was trying to do the exact opposite, trying to overturn the e results of the 2020 election and throw out votes from people who might not have voted for him. alex holder had extensive access to the 2020 trump campaign for this documentary that s going to air later this summer on the streaming service discovery plus which we should know shares the same parent company as cnn. discovery provided the clips to cnn. let s look now at the first clip from alex holder s documentary. you re going to see part of an interview with then vice president mike pence on jan
role of being partisan. with the general election ahead of them. the doj has the problem of trying to get enough in and done before they have to stop, because they re so close to an election. there is protocol that says we can t muddy our hands because it might persuade the electors. to chris s point, i don t think you can interpret the lack of visible action until now to mean that there was nothing happening. i think certainly i ve heard over the period of months that there was some kind of investigation. we don t know exactly what is being investigated. we don t know about the possible crime they re looking at here. but they ve had to look at documents. they ve had to look at talk to witnesses. they have a number of people who they ve talked to before they can take an extraordinary step like this. also can we talk about who jeffrey clark was? two years ago no one would have expected this to be the story that was wrib about jeffrey clark. that there was a raid conducted on his h
investigating the january 6 attack on the capitol. and joining me now is msnbc daily columnist and editor hayes brown. his latest piece is titled doj official jeffrey clark pushed trump s coup from the inside. we need to know why. welcome, my friend. let s get into this. walk us through who jeffrey clark is and why he s so crucial to the january 6 committee investigation. so jeffrey clark is not the kind of person you would have expected to be backing trump s coup at the start of things. he was a republican lawyer. he was at doj for a while, two years running their environmental division. just your typical run of the mill governmental bureaucratic lawyer. he became the head of the civil division of doj last september. and by the time the election had passed, especially by december, he had become someone who was convinced that there were weird irregularities and fraud in the 2020 presidential election. all the things that trump was pushing. and as a lawyer inside doj, he
two trump loyalists steve bannon and carb patel are expected to ignore their subpoenas and not testify today before the house committee investigate the capitol insurrection. members of that panel say they will pursue criminal contempt charges against anyone who won t cooperate. also, the committee has now subpoenaed this man, a former high ranking justice department attorney who became known as quote trump s big lie lawyer, jeffrey clark, allegedly drafted a letter falsely claiming that the doj found voting irregularities affecting the election in several states. it was part of an effort to overtrump trump s lie. whitney wild is tracking these developments. steve bannon won t comply and patel is still engaging with the committee despite today s deadline so what happens next. reporter: right now the committee is fully prepared to move forward with criminal contempt and what that could
to the house select committee which will make the timeline even longer which could set up a lengthy legal fight. keep us posted what happens here this afternoon. now to the new subpoena. thanks, whitney. investigators want to talk to jeffrey clark, the man congress a.m. investigators have labeled trump s big lie lawyer. cnn s tom foreman is joining us now. for more on this, tom, there were a lot of people pushing trump s big lie. clark was allegedly a big part of this. yeah, a really key part of it or could have been. let s look at first of all the general picture of who he is, former trump department of justice official. he supported the election fraud conspiracies of donald trump and importantly he did this at a time when trump kept going back to the top people of the department and saying, come on, come on. you have to say there was a problem with the election. you have to announce that something is wrong, that you re investigating it and then i ll take care of everything else.