cnn's senior justice department correspondent evan perez joins us now with the story.ey are talking so much now about schools and what's being taught. so how is garland handling this? >> well, i think, alisyn, this has been, as you said, a relentless issue for people on the right. but this is a real issue. there are threats that are being made against school board members, against teachers, against officials on the local level because of issues like the covid restrictions, including masks and the teaching of critical race theory, for instance. and the fact that garland issued this memo on october 4th which told the fbi to have meetings with local officials, to try to figure out what to do about these threats, that has now become a political issue. it's a political issue in the gubernatorial race in virginia, for instance, and a lot of republicans see the advantage in talking about this because they know that there are a lot of frustrations among parents coming out of two years, obviously, in which schools had to deal with all of these restrictions. that's what you see

cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez is working the story for us. evan, he take it this would be the first trump administration official to appear before the committee, a trump administration official who was actually subpoenaed. >> that's right, wolf. we've had testimony from jeffrey rosen, who was then the acting attorney general in the trump administration. he appeared for about eight hours of testimony. but he appeared voluntarily. so did rich donoghue, deputy attorney general at the time. this is a big deal for this reason. jeffrey clark was having conversations with the former president and with others to try to orchestrate this coup, frankly, at the justice department. at one point they were planning to replace rosen with clark in order to carry out some of what trump wanted to do. he wanted the justice department to intervene on the side of the president, the former president, to say that there was some level of fraud, and that would give an opening on january 6 to try toc key states in the election. we expect among the things the committee w

. >> cnn's evan perez has more from washington. >> reporter: christine, attorney general merrick garland defended a memo he issued respondling to threats aimed at school officials pushing back at criticism from republicans at a senate hearing. the october 4th memo orders the fbi and prosecutors to coordinate with state and local authorities on how to deal with threats and violence directed at school officials. school board meetings around the united states in recent months have been the focus of political conflict, particularly over covid restrictions such as masks. republicans have tried to portray the garland memo as a declaration of war on parents and the issue has become a part of the gubernatorial race in virginia. but garland is standing by his memo. >> when we get reports of violence and threats of violence, we need to act very swiftly. i would have hated to have gotten this letter and then acts of violence occurred in the interim before we were able to act. >> okay, judge -- >> the only act here is assessing the circumstances. that's all there is here, and we can't wait until som

more now on all of this from cnn's evan perez, who joins us from the capitol.bout clark testifying before the committee? >> reporter: well, anderson, this is a -- he is going to be testifying as a result of the subpoena that the committee issued. his former boss is jeffrey rosen, rich donoghue, the former-attorney general and deputy attorney general at the time, they testified voluntarily. and so, this testimony which we expect to happen next week really will give this committee a window into a central character of that drama that happened in those days -- those key days, the end of december, early january -- when trump was trying to get the justice department to weigh in on his side in these baseless claims that there was fraud in various states. and so, we know that clark was having conversations with trump. one of the things the committee wants to know is who was he working with besides donald trump, himself? some of the legal things that he was trying to do, some of the legal documents that he came up with. was he working with others inside the u.s. governm

evan perez, thank you so much. let's talk about these subpoenas now. it is deadline day for the four trump loyalists. last month, the committee issued the subpoenas for mark meadows, dan scavino, steve bannon and kash patel. they're supposed to comply by the end of the day and provide documents and records. it seems they are not cooperating so far. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles joins us live from capitol hill. so, the four are also supposed to appear before this committee for closed door depositions next week. where does all of this stand? >> reporter: well, all of it is very much in doubt, victor. as you point out, the committee is anticipating, even preparing for this group of four men not to comply with the subpoena request, not only the document request that is due at midnight tonight but also that in-person deposition that is scheduled for next week. so the big question right now is if they don't get that cooperation, what steps will they take to attempt to encourage it? and the committee has been very forthright that they have a num

evan perez, thanks so much.nifer, if i could begin with you, the ongoing frustration is you see a laundry list of the former president's efforts and advisers to overturn the election at every level. state legislator, justice department, and beyond. and yet none of the ringleaders have suffered any legal consequences at this point. you had dozens storm the capitol who are in jail. but nothing's changed. is evidence like this going to lead to charges? >> it's hard to say, jim. we know the more we know, the worse it gets. i think the problem is the only way for president trump or anyone to be responsible for this in a criminal sense is for the justice department to prosecute them. we haven't seen that merrick garland has had an appetite to do that. nor has he at least that we know publicly started any investigation at all into those people for what they did in trying to overturn the results of the election, which are potential criminal offenses. so it remains to be seen. there's still more to learn. i just don't kn

evan perez joins us along with whitney wild. lse are we learning from this senate report? >> ana, every time you hear new details and you read the transcripts of what went on in those week -- week and a half at turn of the year, you are just -- you just find it astounding to see what was happening as top justice department officials were under tremendous pressure from the former president, from mark meadows, his then chief of staff to try to get the justice department to intervene and to try to get the justice department involved in some of the bogus fraud claims they were making to try to overturn election. a number of things that stood out in the report. there were at least nine times that the president himself reached out to jeffrey rosen who was then the acting attorney general, to richard donahue who was his deputy, the acting deputy attorney general to try to get them to do something, to try to say that the doj was finding some irregularities which, of course, there were none. trump was also pushing to get jeffrey clark, an

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cnn's senior justice correspondent evan perez joining us now. what more are we learning, what else is new in this senate report? >> well, erica, this report paints a picture of the white house and people at the justice department, trying to fight over what to do with president trump's demands that the justice department weigh in on the election after, of course, after he had lost. we learned from this report that mark meadows, then the chief of staff, repeatedly was calling top officials at the time at the justice department asking them to try to investigate things including the bizarre italygate conspiracy. this is something that essentially says that there was an italian contractor working with the cia to overturn votes in several states. we also learned from this report that multiple officials including pat cipollone and other lawyers at the white house threatened to resign because of what the president was trying to get the justice department to do. we know that the president was working, jeffrey clark, at the time, a low level official, nob

we have kaitlan collins and evan perez standing by with the breaking details here. i want to start, first, with you, katd lkaitlan. you are ouz the white house tonight. what else is the biden administration telling you about their logic and why they have decided they will not defend the executive privilege of the former executive? >> well, erin, it's a bold move by this white house and it's something they say they have been discussing for the last month since they first got this request from the national archives. and this is a decision that was made by the white house counsel's office. the office of legal counsel. and the justice department into going into this request. and they say simply at the end of the day, that this is an extraordinary set of circumstances because, of course, executive privilege is something that is very sensitive to any white house and any president because whatever they do affects precedent going forward for other presidents that come after them. but they say that this -- blocking these documents as former-president trump wants this white h

. >> ryan nobles and evan perez, thank you both for that.let's start with this decision from the white house. to say that they're not going to assert executive privilege. how many avenues does that cut off for former president trump and his allies. >> not all that many. it is not a surprise. they didn't assert executive privilege over the emails where it was jeff rosen and others talking about what was happening in the days after the election when trump was trying to have doj over turn the election. so i'm not surprised to say these are extraordinary events that happened and we are not going to block as an institutional matter these records fromming public and helping congress to sort out what happened here. as evan and ryan were just saying, this is all a game about running out the clock in time. so even though the documents could go over and that is going to be, i think, helpful to the committee as they try to really especially put forward the timeline of what happened on january 6, they still need testimony. they still need to find out wh