guest: good morning. thanks for having me on. friday, the select committee investigating january 6 issued a statement basically giving the public a little idea of the state of play of four important subpoenas with former senior trump white house officials sta nd, and those include former dod official kashyap patel, former communications director for the trump administration dance give you know, former trump advisor stephen banning, and mark meadows, former white house chief of staff. they said meadows and patel are engaging with the with the committee. they did not mention the communications director, but they did mention that in bannon was not entirely complying, and the committee, if necessary, was preparing to make it criminal contempt of congress referral to the department of justice regarding steve bannon s pushback on complying with the subpoena. right now come out of the four, we know scavino, because of reporting from cnn, scavino has been served that subpoena. ba
trump to keep documents the january 6th wants out of the committee s hands. in other words, donald trump wants the biden white house to use executive privilege to keep that stuff secret. president biden and his lawyers are saying no way. all of that developing as we are getting new word from the january 6th committee about who is engaging on the subpoenas they issued and who is not, along with what is next. and whose statement i just got from one of the people you just saw, i will read it to you live on the air. we are live with that new reporting from the white house and on capitol hill, and everything developing late this afternoon. it s a friday afternoon, gang. i am hallie jackson, and everything is breaking. leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill, and pete williams is with us, along with co founder of punchbowl news. mike, to you, you got the letter from the white house and the national archives, and before i go further i should note i am told there s an indication that t
entirety everything that we are planning on doing tonight and started a whole new series of stories. i will tell you in advance there may be a little more early really with assisting tonight s show. because so many of these stories are breaking at the last minute, and coming up as we are reporting to them. but let s just get into. it forgive me for any string into the margins. and being out of the leaves a little bit. but let me tell you what we ve been working on. first we re gonna start with arizona. back in april republicans in the state legislature in arizona s said they would start an audit, an investigation of the presidential results in that state. they hired a contractor to do that so-called audit, a guy who promoted qanon conspiracy stuff online. a guy who had never had any experience with election audits. which are actually a real thing. real companies and experts can be certified to do real election audits. he was not one of those experts, in fact he had no experie
we re going to do your deposition, really sucking them up fast. so we re eager to get to that. but rachel, i just want to, the most common question i get out there in the world, about msnbc s, how does reach will do? and i always say she s the hardest working person i know. but tonight i don t know how she did it, okay. because i am aware, let s say half aware of how hard you were working today on the arizona story, and how far down that road into the arizona sorry you were, and how late in the game you were on the road. and then your show comes on, and somewhere you made the judgment that you can t use what you found, were gonna wait 24 hours or less. and wise judgment. but then you just pulled this other show up from somewhere. that fills the whole hour of a tv show, as far as i know didn t exist about a half an hour before you went on tv. and so now i officially do not know. i have no idea how rachel does it. i just don t know. you know you re very kind, i have no idea
house on or in the days leading up to the january 6th insurrection. they have been asked to appear for depositions and turn over documents in mid october. today the committee sent a letter to each, one two former trump chief of staff mark meadows reported that he was quote, engaged in multiple elements of the planning and preparation of efforts to contest the election. and to delay the counting of electoral votes. the letter to former trump aide dan scavino, says he was, quote, with the former president on january 5th, when he and others were considering how to convince members of congress not to certify the election to joe biden. and kashyap patel served as chief of staff to acting secretary of defense christopher miller, and there is substantial reason to believe that you have additional documents relevant to understanding the role played by the department of defense and the white house in preparing for and responding to the attack on the u.s. capital. the letter to onetime