if people actually believe that it s all political, how will we survive? how will the court survive? a surprise announcement from jeffrey clark as the january 6 committee makes a move toward a second contempt referral. the damning implications of new reports that the former president had covid way longer than we knew, including at the debate. tonight is an example, everybody had a test. you have had social distancing. why the current president has a compelling case, the economy is actually doing pretty well. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. today we find ourselves in a moment in american history where it appears we about to move backwards. poised for regression on basic fundamental rights. poised to watch a space of freedom and autonomy shut down that had been protected. most of the story of american history is told as one of progress. there s a case for that. the expanding of rights that protect people in larger circle circl
Fifth. to be clear, pleading the fifth means that you are trying to protect yourself against criminal charges. so what the committee did is that we proceeded with efforts to hold him in contempt. what i think that anybody who has been called before this committee and the american people should understand from both the bannon contempt, as well as the initiating the clark contempt proceedings is that we will allow no one to be above the law and no one to stall the investigations of this committee. and so that is why we are moving forward to preposition. we will allow him an opportunity this weekend to appear before us again. and if we, and if we let see what he does before our committee this weekend. whether he s had a change of heart about whether or not he s going to cooperate and do his patriotic duty.
Fifth. to be clear, pleading the fifth means that you are trying to protect yourself against criminal charges. so what the committee did is that we proceeded with the efforts to hold him in contempt. what i think that anybody who has been called before this committee and the american people should understand from the bannon contempt as well as initiating the clark contempt proceedings is that we will allow no one to be above the law and no one to stall the investigations of this committee. so that s why we are moving forward to pre-position. we will allow him an opportunity this weekend to appear before us again. if we let s see what he does before our committee this weekend, whether he had a change of heart about whether he will cooperate and do his patriotic duty. my understanding is the