virginia, david, mcauliffe has tried hard to tie youngkin to trump. his message has been anti-trump and making that his focus i wonder did he lose sight of specific issues that a lot of voters care about? aprila, i think it s a great question and one that the voters will answer for us today because we re going to learn in the exit polls what virginia voters say is their top issue. what was their driving force? what other factors were there in their thinking in casting their ballot, and so it is clear that terry mcauliffe, you are right has just relied heavily on this trump, anti-trump message to try to motor voight and generate enthusiasm among democrats, but you also see he s not entirely sold on that mess am and he s had 11 different messages on the air and his messages have been much more multi-facetted. when you were playing glen
it a little bit of time. they are moving quickly, but this decision is so momentous. let s see how the next couple of weeks go and then make the call. my own judgment, yes, we must hear from the insurrectionist in chief, the one who threatened our elections and our democracy and, aprila, he s still spreading the big lie with all the damage that it does. yeah, yeah, he is. so why wait is my question because you know that trump has a history of stonewalling, of trying to make sure this gets up in litigation. the delay tactic has worked for him so why wait? well, i have the bruise from running into that stonewall over and over again while i was co-counsel on the impeachment, but when you when you subpoena a president, such a momentous decision, you need to be able to enforce the subpoena which means you ve got to be ready to go to court.
they very publicly step out and say no, we don t support this. no, this is wrong. this is in fact some version of a coup. that was the concern, but that s who jeffrey clark, is and that s why the committee wants to talk to him because they think he was trump s back door to try to overturn the department of justice and steal the election. tom foreman, thank you. you re welcome. now you re up to speed with where this investigation stands. let s break down where it s headed with cnn legal an light elie honig and cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. elie first, defying subpoenas, steve bannon wasn t working in the white house or anywhere close to the 2020 election. trump is no longer president so it seems this executive privilege argument is moot. where do things go from here? the big question, aprila, is how much of this defiance and foot-dragging is congress willing to take. they set these dead lyons.
reporting. our other story this hour, the nfl facing growing pressure to release documents from the documents that led to the investigation of jon gruden s resignation. leaked e-mails showed misogynistic to other league insiders. the league wants and others want the e-mails to be made public. the probe was launched after dozens of women accused the club of fostering an abusive and toxic workplace and besides crude language the new york times said they discovered e-mails of naked pictures of washington cheerleaders. joining us now is melanie coburn, former squad director for the washington football team. thanks so much for being here. aprila, thanks for having me. there s been growing pressure for the nfl to be more transparent and release their documents in the investigation.
steps should look like, aprila, but this is all coming as we have just learned that a key moderate senator, keithin sinema, from arizona is back in arizona. she has a doctor s office, and she is now negotiating remotely with the white house. of course, that could be potentially problematic because she s seen as somebody that has to get on the same page as some of these progressives who want to make sure that manchin and sinema actually agree to some kind of framework on this bigger social safety net package before they move ahead with the bipartisan infrastructure bill. there are a ton of moving parts here, and i think the question is will something come to the floor today? right now it doesn t look like that would be possible or if it did come to the floor would likely fail, but i think that we are still trying to get consensus within the democratic caucus of what their next steps are going to be and, of course, we expect another meeting later this afternoon perhaps giving more clarit