your reporting about guiliani and the trump legal team.t can you tell us about this call to a michigan prosecutor? >> yes, and the credit, the heavy lifting goes to my colleagues emma brown and john train who have been working tirelessly on this story. rudy guiliani and other legal advisers to the former president explicitly asked a former prosecutor in antrim, michigan to get ahold of the county voting machines and pass them to trump's team after this investigation was flagged to the former president's team by some local, again, prosecutors in antrim county. it is a fairly shocking development. the antrim county prosecutor went on the record in an interview to say guiliani and his colleagues made this request during a phone call after the county misreported their election results. the inaccurate tallies had showed that joe biden appeared to have beaten trump by 3,000 votes in a county that is usually very red, a republican stronghold, and it was soon found to be an error in antrim county but spawned a litany of conspiracy theories, hence

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to show up, but in talking to the committee about people like peter navarro, steve bannon, rudy guiliani, dan so i hascovi. they don't expect them to come. for the record they're putting out there that they should come. >> jeffrey -- >> if i can just make a point about this. the idea that peter navarro and mark meadows can write books about their interactions with drunk, they disclose freely and for profit, oh, by the way, in response to a subpoena, i'm not going to answer those questions. it is just outrageous and also a matter of the clock ticking. there is just not time to have a legal fight with these people. steve bannon, remember he is actually under indictment. but that case is on a slow boat to nowhere. the committee just doesn't have the time or the resources to force recalcitrant witnesses at this point. >> thank you all very much. >>> we have more breaking news tonight. it comes from the inwith theer olympics in beijing when the figure skating team ceremony is on hold and a gold for russia is in jeopardy. cnn sports analyst, christine brennan, one of the premier figure skating

the same tasks, even though according to all reporting a top dhs official told trump attorney rudy guilianihat dhs didn't have that power. while neither memo was issued, it shows the length the trump advisers were willing to go to as a part of a broader effort to undermine the election results. >> thank you very much. i want to bring in mathew travis. he served in the trump administration as deputy texter of the cyber security infrastructure agency which, of course, is a lead federal agency responsible for elections security and our chief political analyst gloria borger. two draft executive orders to seize voting machines. first they try the pentagon. then the dhs. clearly, there were a lot of efforts made. is there any possible way to get this done? is there anyway this wasn't a big point looking at this, an intended coup for all intents and purposes or is it possible trump truly believed all of this stuff about the voting machines? >> erin, good to be with you again. i think he must have believed a lot to go this far to have executive orders drafted. i haven't seen the dhs version. if it'

interestingly, this judge actually did throw out the charges or the suit that's been filed against rudy guiliani trump jr. so the judge seemed to draw a distinction and said what the former president did was different and worse than what even some other wrong doers did. bigger picture, don, the message the judge is sending here is what the former president did was as you said a call to action and he is not immune from civil lawsuit for anything that he did as the former president. that is a big legal principle. >> we now know trump was keeping classified documents at his resort and the national archives says they are consulting doj. does this open up a new avenue of legal issues for the former president? can this go beyond just this? >> it really should if doj is doing its job. at an absolute minimum this requires the justice department to do an investigation. it is a federal crime to destroy or remove classified documents. if it is done knowingly and intentionally. if these documents are marked as classified according to the reporting, the archives, then anyone who saw them would know they were

then there is of course rudy guiliani who always seems to be behind the wheel of the clown car of crazy "the washington post" reporting he asked a michigan prosecutor to give voting machines to trump's team in a county where mistakes were found and corrected, a county trump ended up winning by more than 3,000 votes. and in the face of all of this, all of the investigations, all of the evidence, it seems the one thing that's got republicans at odds is the rnc's censure resolution and those three words. these three words will live in infamy. you're going to hear them a lot especially during campaign season. you know them. legitimate political discourse. mitch mcconnell just last night smacked down the rnc when he called what happened on january 6th a violent insurrection. and then there's ted cruz. ted cruz who repeatedly called what happened on january 6th a violent terrorist attack until he had to grovel before tucker carlson for the cardinal sin of actually telling the truth. now he says this. >> the word insurrection is politically charged propaganda. it is happily used by democrats a

that six weeks after the 2020 election, former president donald trump directed his attorney, rudy guilianiepartment of homeland security if it could take possession of voting machines in key swing states. now, this is just the latest in a string of revelations about the former president's aggressive efforts to overturn the election he lost. it is also at the heart of what the january 6 committee is investigating, says democratic congressman jamie raskin: >> this president clearly tried to overthrow a presidential election. he's the first president in american history to do it. so, our committee is charged with telling america the truth, and we're going to get that truth out there in very vivid and fine-grained detail, so america understands exactly what happened. >> reporter: to walk us through all of this, i'm joined by one of the "new york times" reporters who broke the story. luke broadwater, "new york times" congressional correspondent. luke, it's great to have you with us. help us understand how this new reporting advances our knowledge about the former president's adprezzive efforts

can you tell us the lawsuit filed yesterday against donald trump, jr., rudy guiliani and two allies fornatural relations where i'm comfortable. i am very happy to talk about this. frankly this lawsuit is about accountability. it's about holding accountable corrupt officials related to or key figures in the trump administration in that the frankly the trump network now and that have acted with impunity. they have attacked officials. they do that right now with regard to investigations by the january 6th committee, by the courts and the attorneys in georgia. in my case, i was serving as an official on the u.s. government. i was cast to with certain responsibilities and obligations. i have reported wrong-doing behind closed doors through official channels. at that point i became the target of a conpier is trees attack my character to vilify me. to undermine this the most brave of activities. an impeachment of the president of the united states. it was a campaign of intimidation against an official. it has a chilling everything on other officials on whistle blowers. it's intended to undermi

jewelry, or taking a cvs -- david: well and i thought we learned that lesson from years ago when guiliani the broken window theory. you stop the small crimes and eventually the big crimes go away as well, but we're going exactly the opposite direction, except the mayor, eric adams when he was running for mayor he's a former cop. he talked tough on crime. he was saying the right things, but a lot of people are saying he's not acting tough right now, and that he is mayor. what do you think? >> i think that he's, as i said to you last time, david, well intentioned and trying but if they don't prosecute somebody who jumps over the turnstyle, then the cops arrest and then go stick their finger in the face of the cop who arrested them earlier in the day. the model was out there. you just said it, david. it was called the broken windows of policy and the model is there we watched it work, right in front of our eyes, and now we're watching it break, again, but it's not the window. it's the system that's breaking. the entire system, and it's crazy. it's crazy a city like new york city that this gu