for documents. how the panel could respond to his defiance. a near total abortion ban. looser gun laws and political stands that cost millions of dollars to taxpayers. why republican policies are failing taxpayers. all of this and more is coming up. a good saturday morning to all of you. i am katie fang. let s start with a fact. i hope none of you will have to put this to use. caskets for children come in four different sizes and 11 different paint colors for the exterior. there s only one company that makes them in the united states. sadly, they have had a busy week. the company knee, cherokee caskets of georgia, is covering the cost of the cascades for all of the uvalde shooting victims. it is 30 $400 each. the ceo told the daily beast quote, when we have sandy hook, that was a crazy day. we are tired. we are tired of doing these things. i am beyond tired. i am exhausted and overwhelmed by the death and tragedy of lives lost. as the days tick by in uvalde, there seems to be
wins the white house? his allies are telling us. time for red state ags and d.a.s to get busy said republican congressman mike collins. every facet of the republican party s politics and power has to be used right now to go toe to toe with the democrats, said his former white house adviser stephen miller. go after biden and his entire crime family, said congressman ronny jackson. time to fight fire with fire, said senator marco rubio. who nbc news now reports is on the short list for trump ears vp. in other words, i think you can sum it up as revenge. in fact, that is the very word the candidate himself is using most on his truth social app. revenge. he s even all but saying the word out loud. here is an interview he did last night with news max, regarding a potential political prosecution of hillary clinton. hillary, with the hammering of her cell phones and all of the things she did, but wouldn t it be terrible to throw the president s wife and the former secretary of state
at that time. there s a long way to go in the trial, katy. we re expected to hear more testimony, particularly from haley biden, the widow of beau biden, hunter biden s late brother. he and haley biden had a romantic relationship. she actually took the gun from his car and attempted to throw it away. that s how this whole entire saga started. so her testimony could be key to putting this all together and putting it in the hands of the jury here in the next couple of days. we got a note from the hill. representatives comer, jordan, smith, have referred hunter and james biden to the doj for criminal prosecution. what are they talking about? reporter: yeah, well, this is an outcrop of the impeachment inquiry that these various house republican committees have been spearheading over the past couple of months. their goal was to file
favors the administration. so i think that that s why i think administration still has those five votes. but the question is whether roberts will feel given the closeness of the earlier vote, given the ruling by the texas judge, maybe i should let my colleagues take a look at this. martha: jonathan, thank you. good to see you. thanks. martha: all right, also breaking today, the january 6 committee ended 18 months of investigation with criminal referrals against former president trump. chad pergram is live with the very latest on capitol hill. hi, chad. the committee s last meeting was all about former president trump. an unprecedented move referring him to the doj for criminal prosecution. as the country, we remain in strange and unchartered waters. we ve never had a president of the united states stir up a violent attempt to block the
will respond to their subpoenas. all this comes as political reports then chief of staff, mark meadows, a burned papers in his office after meeting with a house republican who is working to challenge the 2020 election. this is according to a former employee who spoke to the committee. for more and all of this, we re joined by legal analyst, kirschner, who host a podcast called justice matters. it is a treat to have you again. let s start with the mccarthy news. it seems hardly surprising that mccarthy will say he will likely defy the subpoena from the january six committee. should the committee and will the committee, refer him to the doj for criminal prosecution? we have seen what happens with phil get referred. it is not a lot. how can the committee not refer him to a criminal prosecution? you cannot investigate crimes, including crimes by high government officials, if people