from your article, but this is a very important point to people that don't know amy cramer or ali alexander. some of the women for america first organizers have recounted in interviews with news organizations that they and amy cramer sought to warn their white house contacts that alexander's promotion of a march on the capitol was a violation of their permit. so this makes is very interesting. they're actually looking for trump allies and supporters who were saying don't do this, this is bad. this is dangerous. >> right, and ali, you did read the absolute money grab of that story, and i appreciate it. i also want to stress what are the two main questions? what did the president know and when did he know it? two questions in one and then the second question is, well, if president knew and his aides knew that their own allies were afraid of an illegal march on the capitol and a chance for chaos, what did they do with that information? what actions did they take to prevent that violence and chaos? >> one of the -- i want to carry on from that graph that i was reading because there's more about

these are questions that congress and this committee are going to have for people like ali alexander.hink he's -- you know, one of the things that's really interesting about everyone kind of involved with the stop the steal rally and the people that were trying to get people to the capitol, you know, they talked a big -- kind of talked how donald trump talks about things, right? this is going to be the biggest. we have to do this. all of these people are involved and they're interested. we don't know that they actually were. we don't know how much these involvement representatives had with the actual planning or the support of this. so, now that is when we're going to get some insight into who was involved. and then from there, you know, if congressional member was doing something and having a lot of conversations, the committee's going to want to talk to them too, i would assume. >> jamil, that brings me back to where we started which is there are the legal consequences of this and the political consequences. i think you do have to wonder at this point if you have republican members

. >> reporter: the committee firing off another round of subpoenas today aimed at ali alexander.he democrat-led senate judiciary committee releasing its 400 page report delving into trump's pressure campaign on the justice department to overturn the 2020 presidential election. >> we were a half step away from a constitutional crisis, a full blown constitutional crisis. >> reporter: the report reveals trump directly asked the justice department nine times to undercut the election results. and it runs through the ways trump and some of his top advisers relentlessly tried to use the justice department to elevate false election fraud conspiracies. >> they were trying to get investigations, mark meadows was calling for them, the president was calling for them of claims it had already been completely discredited. >> reporter: the report base ond interviews with top justice department officials shows how trump eventually backed down from his plan amid threats of mass resignations. today republicans leapt to trump's defense. >> the president rejected it. the president did the right thing

further the subpoena points out that ali alexander had been claiming to work with multiple members ofs, biggs, brooks, gosar, so i think what they're trying to drill down on here is in what way were these members communicating with these organizers of the stop the steal rally. what did they know, what did they intend to do with this stop the steal movement and then subsequently what connection that may have had to the events that eventually played out on capitol complex grounds. back to you. >> search for answers continues. whitney wile, appreciate it, thank you. let's bring in asha rangappa. i want to go back to this renewed discussion of executive privilege since we're having it a lot. in this specific instance, right, because the former president is no longer in office, joe biden is now, we talk about executive privilege, does that work here? >> so, the exact parameters of executive privilege aren't completely clear. but it is generally accepted that the privilege is held by the sitting president. so, you know, trump is on very weak ground as a former president trying to invoke thi

ali alexander is a fringe member. so was steve bannon. he's also on that subpoena list. talk about how this ends up playing out. because republicans have already gotten away with defying subpoenas. they did it before. what now? >> we spent the better part of four years of the trump presidency watching republicans any time a subpoena was issued by the democratic majority, we don't care. they would literally call them fake subpoenas. they would say we don't have to address these at all and they ran out the clock successfully. all the while they were here rows. these same republicans, by the way, who spent eight years issuing subpoenas, thumping their chest every single time about america's right to know. we have oversight responsibilities. the path to truth runs through the oversight committee. that was the standard that they set. now that the shoe is on the other foot, republicans are assuming that democrats won't do the things that glen was talking about, that they won't invoke the inherent powers they have to rightfully and lawfully get to the truth. democrats, if you d

the trailer also shows a man named ali alexander.s been called a white nationalist even though he is not white. he is a right wing opportunist who latched onto the post election stop the steal mantra. he was central to the creation of a rally on the capitol grounds on january 6th. according the social media he was willing to give his life for the fight against imaginary voter fraud. these aren't even real freedom fighters, aren't even real people with courage in their convictions. they are fake identify logs fighting a fake war based on fake fraud. what is going on? >> some of them are fake, some are grifters. some are both in a way. i haven't seen this documentary but based on the clips and those descriptions to have ali alexander who was a lead planner of the protest that then became the riot forn a document purporting that the whole thing was a false flag and set up by the fbi would be spectacular and crazy. look, there are dozens and dozens of people who are on trial right now for their crimes of participating in that riot. they

leader kevin mccarthy, jim jordan, people like paul gosar, mo brooks, who were in contact with ali alexander, the organizer of the stop the steal rally. alexander himself has said he was in touch with them in order to plan some of the events around the rallies that preceded the january 6th insurrection. and so those are names that we have not seen in subpoena yet. it is quite possible that they are maybe quietly cooperating with the select committee. we've been told by chairwoman thompson and cheney that they have been surprised by the amount of people who have come forward voluntarily to provide information. they've already been conducting closed door interviews. we've also been told to expect a slew of other subpoenas, actually witnesses who were in touch with president trump on january 6th and leading up to that day. >> phil rucker, i'm reminded that orwell's "1984" opens up with the clock striking 13 o'clock. i lay that out as a predicate for this question. you've covered a lot of donald trump. you've coauthored two books about him. is the effort to change history, the effort to get us t

one request for documents and deposition went to ali alexander the leader of stop the steal which as its name might imply a prominent organization pushing the big lie. the panel cited reports that say alexander referenced possible use of violence to achief the goals and in touch with the white house and members of congress. there is also stunning new information about the shear intensity of the effort to cling to power. senate judiciary committee today release add nearly 400-page report titled subverting justice, how the former president and allies pressured the department of justice to overturn the 2020 election. says it right there in the title. among the unknown rev lags trump asked the doj to investigate baseless claims of voter fraud. and a photo with leadership on december 31st and three days before the insurrection in which trump pressured the then acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and others. trump discussed replacing rosen with another justice official who promised to pursue the election lies. only backed down after rosen, deputy and white house counsel pat cipollone thr

we're dealing with people like steve bannon and roger stone and ali alexander and this spectrum of peopleg regularly. they have three months. they've done almost nothing. and the fact they've got a few witnesses who are going to kind of sort of think about sitting down with them is nothing until we hold to account people who are defying them. unless you put steve bannon in the hot seat, unless you put steve bannon in an orange jump suit, strip him of his polos, this guy is going to run rampant. he is out the other side essentially telling his followers that trump will be reinstated. he is one of the architects and masterminds of an insurgency in this country that needs a response more than the traditional washington let's go slow, let's take it incrementally. this requires a set of policies from congress. they're saying we're going to wait until thanks giving to a vote on the house floor about referring steve bannon to the justice department. this man does damage every second he walks around in this country, and they need to pick up the pace. i want them to prove me wrong, brian. i want t

. >> now you the part of the t trailer we did not show included a clip from ali alexander, one of thethe so-called stop the steal rally which formed the backbone of the mob that attacked the capitol. but this isn't really about tucker carlsson, it's really about the empire that he works for that continues to pump poison into the media ecosystem. poison that is at times violent and potential deadly consequences. brian sicknick died in the wake of what he went through. this is what that misinformation got another officer named michael fanone. >> i was dragged from line of officers and into the crowd. i heard someone scream, i got one. they began the beat me with their fists and with what felt like hard metal objects. at one point, i came face-to-face with an attacker who repeatedly lunged for me and attempted to remove my firearm. i heard chanting from some in the crowd. get his gun and kill him with his own gun. >> in a moment, another officer, harry dunn, joins us. and shortly, you'll hear from a florida lawmaker, a cancer patient with a compromised immune system who is now getting de

they're seeking information from right wing provocateur ali alexander, the leader of the stop the stealtative for a permanent rally on the grounds. they're to produce records by october 21st and testify by deposition at the end of the month. joining us now, eugene daniels. he's also an msnbc contributor. eugene, thank you so much for being here today. any word on the white house reaction to this report and any possible plans to have the current doj, the biden doj take up these findings for an investigation of its own particularly in light that it may make criminal referrals. >> i mean that's the thing. i think they're waiting to see if there's going to be criminal referrals because this is the white house that has wanted to depoliticize the doj as we've seen and as you've just outlined, jon, just how much donald trump tried to use politics in dealing with the doj, trying to make them do things on his behalf not as president but as candidate of a presidential race, and so at this point, the white house is trying to stay if not this far back, pretty far back when it comes to just exactly

one of the subpoenas is to the stop the steal group leader ali alexander who actually previously claimed he worked closely with republican congressmen planning the rally and communicated with the white house. of course all of those major points of interest for the select committee moving forward. >> thanks so much. let's bring in democratic senator dick durbin of illinois the senate majority whip and chairman of the judiciary committee that just released this report. thanks for joining us. i'll get to your report in a moment but i want your reaction to the breaking news from "the washington post" that former president trump is telling his aides to not comply with the house's special committee investigating the january 6th insurrection which subpoenaed those four aides. clearly this shouldn't prisurpr you. i'm sure it doesn't. do you think this is ground for charges against trump and these aides of obstruction of congress? >> take it one step at a time. i don't think mr. trump's aides are ever going to ask me for advice but i would suggest modestly follow the law instead of the ravings of

one of the subpoenas is to the stop the steal group leader ali alexander.ly previously claimed that he worked closely with republican congressmen planning the rally, and that he communicated with the white house, all of course major points of interest for the select committee. erin? >> all right, thanks very much, jessica. i want to go now to one of the members of the january 6 select committee, democratic congresswoman zoe lofgren. congresswoman, i appreciate your time tonight. so "the washington post" reports former president trump's lawyer has told the four men who have supposed to provide all that information tonight to not comply with your subpoenas. said absolutely not, don't do it. so what are you going to do about it? >> first, they have until midnight tonight to comply, and we hope that they will. the former president doesn't have the authority to order them not to comply. that itself is a violation of law. i hope that these four individuals will do the responsible thing, which is to respond to the subpoena. if not, we're prepared to take any and a

one of the subpoenas is to the stop the steal group leader ali alexander. he previously claimed that he worked closely with republican congressmen planning the rally and that he communicated with the white house. all of those major points of interest for the select committee. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >>> now, the u.s. and mexico are getting ready for talks on border security today. secretary of state anthony blinken is leading the us is delegation. the two countries are hoping to find new ways to cooperate on the migrant crisis, and the fight against human trafficking, drug smuggling as well as organized crime. a senior u.s. official said it is important for both sides to address the causes of those security causes. of course we'll stay on top that of story for you. >>> now the collapse of an enormous scaffold at a high rise in hong kong a few hours ago has had tragic consequence. a fema worker died. she was rushed to the hospital where she passed away. the entangled mess as hong kong was under cyclone warning. the city was being buffeted by gust

in particular who they're looking for documents from and in an interview and deposition of is ali alexander and nathan martin. now, alexander in particular is an interesting figure. he was very popular on the conservative far right internet, and he is someone who also has publicly boasted about his direct and personal connections with three members of congress, among them paul gosar, mo brooks, and the man you were just talking about, andy biggs, who had been longper pechtors of the big lie, also people that voted to object to the election results and played some role in that stop the steal rally ahead of what happened here on january 6th. so this does give us some insight into what the committee is looking for. they're looking for coordination, planning and organization around that rally and then how it could have enabled or led to the violence and chaos here at the capitol on that day. >> so what exactly is the former president telling his allies to do in regard to these subpoenas? >> well, this is an interesting development today, anderson. and there's no doubt that the committee felt th

and ali alexander, one of the organizers of siege who has been subpoenaed by the january 6 committee. hiding to become a right wing media star. i am only showing you this because you need to see just how unhinged and frankly dangerous this is. especially coming from the most watched person on fox news. >> the domestic war on terror is here. it's coming after half of the country. >> i've been told that i'm a white nationalist, me. >> false flags have happened in this country. ♪ glory, glory hallelujah ♪ >> one of which may have been january 6. >> a false flag. he honestly seems to be pushing fascistic propaganda. that january 6 was government plot to target conservatives that is a lie, full stop. a lie. this special is going air on the network streaming platform. but he used the main fox news platform to promote it. and streaming online is potentially more dangerous. it can go more viral that way. fox news is basically letting him go full info wars in prime time. he is no different at this point than alex jones. tucker is the main actor teaching the right how to normalize fascism, whit

we go to ali vitali and peter alexander ke white house. sing the debt ceiling just in time. what are members there doing to make sure we don't have yet another close call in six weeks or so? >> reporter: well, look, first, they were called back, we expect a vote later this afternoon. that will be not be a vote explicitly on raising the debt ceiling. it's what's called the pass. and time is of the essence here. what this does, though in the same way that the senate did last week, officially kick the can down the road here. there are some other estimates floating around here that maybe december 3rd isn't the exact date that the debt ceiling is hit again. nevertheless, if hit a few weeks later they could decouple the two that are happening simultaneously. because on december 3rd is the day government funding runs out. what we see is congress trying to deal with both problems at once in a larger compromise package. or try to take them piecemeal which is what we saw them try to do several weeks ago and deal with the crisis then the debt ceiling.

i want to bring in to discuss, nbc chief white house correspondent peter alexander, correspondent ali vitale, andly he's been talking to joe manchin and krysten sinema. >> reporter: 24 hours from the time they're going to vote on these proposals, they're still talking about the other one that is linked hand in hand with the bipartisan infrastructure bill. you and i have been using phrases like wealth tax. that's not one we're going to use today, because as you're saying, that's not what lawmakers are trying to do here. we're looking at two tax proposals that came out overnight. we're looking at a billionaire income tax which attaches both assets and income, and then we're also looking at a corporate minimum tax. they're going to touch roughly a thousand people or about 200 corporations across country. specifically on that billionaire income tax, you're looking at a billion or more in assets or 100 or more in income over three consecutive years. those are the people who would be taxed under that plan. we should say it's not necessarily clear that people like senator joe manchin whose o

joined by january 6th committee member congressman adam schiff, but first, let's go to peter alexander and ali va tally. you have the majority leader telling house members they're going to aim to vote on both the social spending bill and the infrastructure bill next week. the house speaker told reporters everybody is on the path in an agreement toward reconciliation. but senator manchin is saying an agreement isn't going to happen any time soon. give us a level set. there's lots of momentum and optimism. where are we really in this process? >> there is both all of the momentum and also none of the momentum to get this done on a truncated timeline. it's sort of the way it's been playing out over the course of the last few weeks. everyone agrees they would like to see a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill as soon as possible. the mechanism to get there has always been for progressives and the white house to move forward on this larger social spending package. it feels like in the last few days we've seen more progress on that. and it really was underscored last night when we saw the presi

ali returned to moscow where he was arrested and sentenced to t is in jail for breaking his parole conditions. in a corruption case. we spoke with a russian representative to the o. p. c. w. alexander shogun, who gave us 1st hand information on the latest of elements ah obsidian state. there's a feeling that something else ah, that goals a driving them judge for yourself today i was not allowed to speak for more than an hour. the pretext were different. for example, the absence of the bulgarian representative who should have been great in the appeal of 45 countries, i asked the ambassadors of the united states, great britain to britney not want to hear the answer from russia. there was no desire to listen to us. apparently of the goals are being pursued, it is possible that his whole story is connected with the escalation of sanctions prussia look ah, we wanted to do a joint investigation and what do you think the technical secretariat began to drag out the whole thing? one of the excuses was that there were no similar incidents from the u. k. all the u. s. were putting forward a counter request within the same framework and expect that from sweden and the technical secretariat wil