here is a little bit of what was written to mark meadows., had communications with the president and others on january 6 regarding events at the capitol and are a witness regarding activities of that day. moreover, it has been reported that you engaged in multiple elements of the planning and preparation of effort to contest the presidential election and delay the counting of electoral votes in addition according to documents provided by the department of justice while you were the president's chief of staff, you directly communicated with the highest officials at the department of justice requesting investigations into election fraud matters in several states. "we understand in the weeks after the november 2020 election, you contacted several state officials to encourage investigation of election fraud even after such allegations had been dismissed by state and federal courts. they add that more than one press report indicates you were in communication with organizers, organizers of the january 6th rally including they name amy cramer of wo

every single person from kevin mccarthy to steve bannons to mark meadows needs to be held accountablet thought about it in the 9/11 terms that you just presented there, but that's powerful. asdown donald trump is talking about invoking executive privilege. my question is is that a legit defense? does that hold water now that he is a former president? wouldn't executive privilege apply if he were currently president, felt that there were things that shouldn't be put out there in the grand ether, for the security of the country, for the position of the office, that doesn't hold any longer. >> well, you just laid out very logical and substantive arguments, alex, and that's not really donald trump's m.o. so whatever his lawyers argue in a court in terms of executive privilege, that will be decided by the judges in those cases. i don't necessarily think in this context, though, he has, you know, say as strong of an argument as he did during the two impeachment trials, for example. and i think that in this case, the house committee in this moment is basically the only entity looking into se

we saw mark meadows with the president on january 6th and scavino.he folks who have been part of his inner circle. will they comply or more likely has chairman benny thompson put it be rekals trint? >> well, i think there's no doubt. you've seen this from the republican party's posture on investigating the entire insurrection is they want nothing to do with this. they're going to delay. they won't participate. they'll do all these things, but i think your previous guest talked about they're likely be compelled to deliver some testimony. while i think steve bannon is maybe the most exciting name there, i'm -- to me the most interesting one is the former chief of staff mark meadows. it is unimaginable that mark meadows wouldn't know everything that happened that day, every movement that donald trump made and every update that was coming in or request from the pentagon or from the fbi would have been funneled into the white house through the chief of staff's office, so he would note everything there was to know about that day and i think he's going to b

scavino had eyes on him and constant contact with mark meadows. and when you read these subpoena letters, accompanying letters, this committee already knows an awful lot about what these people were up to on january 6 and before. >> yes, lawrence. and, you know, literally no one in the white house in some ways is closer to donald trump than dan scavino. you think about the twitter feed as being the purest expression of trump's messaging and his politics and in many ways his psyche. dan scavino the only person in the white house who trump would trust to tweet for him without always dictating the language. dan scavino was his voice, his boswell, so to speak, his twitter boswell. no one closer to trump than capitol hill than mark meadows and inside the white house chief of staff. and no one on the outside who for all of the misreporting and misunderstanding about steve bannon being cast out, which was true for a period of time, but there was a lot more communication between bannon and trump throughout the fall than is widely known now. we're starting

mark meadows having phone calls in an effort to over turn the electoral results.sites things the committee is interested in learning about which is why they are saying they are targeting these specific individuals who have specific information. it still remains to be seen whether they will cooperate. what we saw is the individuals, the white house at the time fighting subpoenas over and over from democrats. will they fight these? it's different now. they are no longer in office. this current white house may not protect those former white house officials so this still has to play out but no doubt about i, a big move by the committee which is investigating the events. we'll see how the trump officials respond. >> manu, i'm so glad you lay out so much of this in terms of whether they will cooperate and whether it's different now that they are not the actual team in white house. i want to follow up on that. first i want to you one other thing as people try to understand the scope of this committee and what they are doing. is it a strategy they will do some after a tim

it is unimaginable that mark meadows wouldn't know everything that have been that day.at donald trump made. and every update that was coming in or request from the pentagon, or from the fbi, would've been funneled into the fbi through this chief of staff office. so he would know everything there was to know about that day. and i think he is going to be the most interesting witness. >> some we michael steele have a couple pieces of breaking news that i want to ask you about. we just got a tweet from county, and we were expecting this report on the review, whatever we want to call it, in arizona. here is what they tweeted, their official account >> the arizona draft report from cyber ninjas conforms the counties canvas of the 2020 general election was accurate and the candidates certify as the winner did, in fact, when. >> all simultaneously report in the washington post that just mentioned it, that the texas secretary of state offices announcing an audit of the 2020 election results after trump called for one. i don't think we need to remind people, he won that state. >>

mark meadows was right. don't believe me?ten to jen psaki earlier today defending the administration, calling the taliban "businesslike." >> reporter: can you explain why the white house and the statement is calling the taliban businesslike and professional? >> i would note in that statement what we were announcing was the fact that an airlines flight successfully landed -- >> reporter: you are saying the taliban is businesslike and professional and he is an fbi wanted poster, $10 million bounty on his head. what is the business? >> we are here to celebrate the return of american citizens who wanted to leave afghanistan. we had to work with some members of the taliban to press them and to work in a businesslike manner to get them out. >> sean: biden said tonight, transcends borders, wide open, leaving americans stranded abroad in afghanistan. the grim reality of taliban rule is undeniable as ever. look at your screen, take a look at that because that is new footage showing afghan women getting the hill beaten out of them at a

it's been reported that he and mark meadows and mike pompeo began holding morning calls for what was called the landing the plane exercise. now, that may have been one of those situations you mentioned a moment ago where milley said he spoke with meadows and pompeo, i don't know. but i was sure he was in regular contact with them and i think that was simply a very prudent thing to do. >> after hearing his testimony and the reporting, do you have any question as to whether he followed the proper protocols and bringing people in the loop and otherwise? >> if somebody has different evidence, let him bring it forward. i haven't heard anything from anybody who knows how this works at that level, and there are a lot of people talking about it who obviously don't have the slightest idea how it works. i haven't heard anybody say anything to the contrary. one key point mentioned apparently in woodward and costa's book, then secretary of state defense, motivated by intelligence reports that the chinese leadership worried that in this kind of chaotic environment they saw, they might be subject

committee, and the subpoenas that went out tonight to steve bannon, white house chief of staff mark meadows mark, daniel scavino who was a communications to the president and kashyap patel who ended up at the highest levels of the pentagon in late stages of the trump administration, those subpoenas from the january six investigation to represent a sort of acceleration, taking up of the intestine sea of your investigation. i want to ask if we should expect those to be the first of many subpoenas. are these four really at the center of the bull's-eye in terms of who you're hoping to hear from? >> no i think that you will find that there will be other subpoenas were coming, we're collecting a lot of information from emails, facebook posting, twitter postings, we have millions of pieces of evidence that have already flowed into. and a lot of this was televised in recorded. and so if any of these people think that we're somehow going to escape undetected, big got something else coming. and they really should cooperate at this point of our investigation by giving us all of the information they ha

former chief of staff mark meadows is in that as well. they want to ask him about his involvement to contest the election. and also if you look on the screen there's also the communications guy, dan scavino. they want to find out what he knows about videos -- check it out -- like this one. >> go home. we love you. you're very special. you see what happens. you see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. i know how you feel. >> and there's also steve bannon. remember he told the then-president to kill the biden administration in the crib. also cash patel, they want to ask him about reports he was talking nonstop to mark meadows on january 6th. now, the committee is investigating efforts that the trump white house took to potentially overturn our free and fair election and how the big lie fueled the violence that exploded into the capitol insurrection. a lot more to come on that in just a moment so make sure you stay tuned. meanwhile there is this crisis -- this ongoing crisis on the border. the biden administration ramping

mark meadows, steve kavino, steve bannon and kash patel. i want to bring in cnn capitol hill reporter melanie zanona and eli honig, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. melanie, let me start with you with the reporting. what do we know about the four people who have been subpoenaed and what the committee is seeking? >> well, these subpoenas are to the highest ranking staffers in the trump white house, and the committee is not only seeking documents, but they also want depositions so they want these people to come up here for the commit. on that list is mark meadows, trump's loyal chief of staff. we know he went to great lengths to overturn the election results. he reportedly pressured the doj to investigate false claims of voter fraud so the committee will want to know exactly whether he was working at trump's request and what he was doing. the subpoena was sent to the deputy chief of staff as well as steve bannon, a trump veras and had the president's ear and was -- and he also said on january 5th all hell is going t

dan scavino was ever present with donald trump and mark meadows was in the office.likelihood is even if executive privilege is not granted, i still think you're going to see efforts to try to block the testimony in court. >> one person who would have no prif sledge mr. bannon who had long since left the white house when this happens but he acknowledged on january 5th, the day before, that he did, that he did have a conversation with the former president. listen. >> steve bannon on the phone, he,s telling steve bannon over at the willard hotel we need to kilt biden presidency in the crib. that the phrase based on our reporting in that conversation. >> yeah, because just let go with this illegitimate regime is doing it. killed itself, okay, but we told you from the very beginning, just expose. it just expose it. never back down, never give up and this thing will implode. >> now in the back half there, maggie, he's talking about the big lie essentially. he's still calling president biden illegitimate based on his belief or his alleged belief in the big lie, but in the

mark meadows, dan scavino, cash patel and steve bannon, who is one of his closest advisors during his presidential campaign and then also served in a counselor roll during the early portion of the trump administration. these are a group of men that not only had trump's ear on a regular basis but also were around him and in conversations with those planning the rally that took place in front of the white house that served as the prelude to the january 6 capitol insurrection. it's clear just what the thinking is of this committee in terms of what they are looking for, that they are starting with this group to ask serious questions about what they knew in the events leading up to january 6 and the reaction and response to it. >> do they shed light on where the investigation is headed? >> it does. when you read the requests that they sent to these four men about what they are looking for in terms of records. the reason that they are asking for the records and for these private interviews. will read from the letter to dan scavino, who is the former president's deputy chief of staff. the se

arguably, no one knows more about the tick-tock of what happened with is mark meadows. kash patel's view is different. between the two, there is not much information you will miss. the two together really have exhausted understanding of how the day went and how and why the president said what he said. the rally itself. what was going at the white house and the pentagon during the violence we saw. they really hold the keys to the kingdom. a huge, pressing question for the biden white house. will they green light meadows participation. there was a weird episode where jen psaki said the president waived executive privilege and stepped back to get the materials. however, the statement from the white house said not exactly. leaving open the door to the possibility that biden could step in and keep some of the people and douments from getting to the committee. the white house oddly introduced suspense here. that is a huge question going forward. one other person i would note about the subpoenas who is really important is dan scavino. he has never had a big public profile. he

first up let's talk about mark meadows, dan scavino, steve bannon, kash patel. where does that tell you about where this investigation is headed? >> don, it tells me the committee is looking directly at the white house here. we already knew the committee of course was focused on what happened inside the capitol january 6th. this is a really important development because it tells us they want to know what was at the heart of this, behind this. and when you look at this lineup here, meadows is an obvious person to subpoena. he was the president's chief of staff, by his side throughout january 6. the other three tell us that the committee is looking at the planning, the communication strategy. that's scavino, bannon. and what was the response over at defense department? that's where kash patel comes out. they're taking a holistic look here but they're looking at the people behind all this. >> let's look at the time line here. the committee says all document requests are due by october 7th. they want patel and bannon to appear before the committee on october 14th an

the committee is seeking information from former white house chief of staff mark meadows. dan skavino, steve bannon and defense department official kash patel. the senior adviser of investigations for the house intelligence committee. a former federal prosecutor and he joins me now. dan, this is skipping past the request phase. we saw some document requests go out. what's the significance of these four subpoenas to your mind? >> well, there are several things. the first is as the committee advised this week, they were going to go directly to subpoena for people, individuals or entities who either have not been cooperative, they don't expect to be cooperative. obviously these four, they do not expect to be cooperative and that likely means litigation. the bigger thing for me, chris, is not that they're going straight to subpoenas, they're going straight to the critical witnesses. rather than in many investigations where you would start with lower level people and try to work your way up so you have a better sense of what the role is of the higher level people, but there's n

why mark meadows and steve mnuchin, why not betsy davos, why not others?net secretaries they got secret service protection. the education department, the department of state have their own security forces that protected their cabinet officials while they were cabinet official. the secret service used to be in the treasury, the treasury secretary is one of the folks they protect. these people had secret service and trump said everybody who has it now on the last day of my presidency, extend that for another six months for free. >> do we know that it's done now, no more protection for these folks? >> it did end in july, so looking at the receipts you can see the receipts end after that. >> i love the vibe, the fast-paced rapid-fire questions. what else is the spokesperson telling you? >> mnuchin is one of seven that responded to him. everybody else i asked why didn't you say no? mark meadows declined comment, the rest didn't respond so mnuchin said something and what he said was i didn't ask for this but once i got t i didn't say no for unstated security rea

when you look at these letters to mark meadows they are specifically looking at we know or we believe that you were in the vicinity of president trump during january 6, during january 5, we believe possibly that you were in touch with january 6 organizers. so these are specific questions and i think that there are so many questions about the trump white house that we don't have answered despite what kevin mccarthy is saying. how much did the president know? who was giving access to the capitol? were there any issues in terms of coordinating with people in trump aides? there are so many questions here and these subpoenas with dates on them show you that the trump aides here are really in hot water. >> but, glenn, what executive privilege is there? when i hear trump say he's going to fight these subpoenas on executive privilege and other grounds, he is currently commander in chief of a country called in florida, nothing else. >> there's exactly zero executive privilege. that dog won't hunt. bannon, let's take him as an exam, he wasn't even a government employee so executive privilege ca

the committee is seeking testimony from mark meadows, former deputy chief of staff for communicationsavino, former defense department official cash patel and steve bannon. today we got responses to the subpoenas. "the washington post" saying i'm disappointed couple not surprised the committee tried to subpoena me through the press before seeking my voluntary cooperation. predictively, the twice-impeached former president said we will fight the subpoenas on executive privilege and other grounds for the good of our country. here's the thing. the privilege resides with the sitting, in this case, that's president joe biden. while there was speculation over what the biden white house mao might do, jen psaki answered that this afternoon. >> the president already concluded that it would it don't tell appropriate to assert executive privilege, and so we will respond promptly to these questions as they arise, and certainly as they come up from congress. >> one of those members of congress seeking records from the white house is congressman jamie raskin, democrat from maryland who serves on the

mark meadows, dan scavino, steve bannon and kash patel. all called to testify before lawmakers beginning next month. members of the committee say they want to know what trump's inner circle knew about the planning, leading up to the capitol attack and how they made decisions as the violence unfolded that day. let's begin on capitol hill with cnn capitol hill reporter melanie zanonis. what do we know about what the committee is hoping to learn from them and, i mean, are they going to challenge the subpoenas? >> yeah, well, the select committee is definitely kicking this investigation into high gear. these subpoenas are targeting some of the highest ranking staffers in the white house during trump's time in office. you have mark meadows, dan scavino, steve bannon, who had the former president's ear, and kash patel, chief of staff to the acting defense secretary. this offers a real window into the direction of the investigation. they are not only looking at the planning surrounding the efforts to overturn the election on january 6th, but also

they include his former chief of staff, mark meadows, his former close adviser steve bannon, former deputyhe us pentagon, a former official, cash patel. now, they have all been given two weeks in order to come up with documents regarding their communications with each other and with members of the white house in the days running up to the 6th ofjanuary and on the day of the riot itself. and a week after that deadline, each of the four man will then be required to give sworn testimony to congress. should they refuse to do so, and former president trump has himself said that he might cite executive privilege in an attempt to avoid giving evidence to the select committee, then it is possible they could be subject to criminal contempt charges. this committee wants to know what president trump knew in the run—up to the events onjanuary the 6th, what he was doing, whom he spoke to and so on, and it also wants to know what he and those around him did in order to try to overturn the results of last year's presidential election. david willis reporting. therapy dogs have been working to relieve stre

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he's there with mark meadows saying hey, you know how to fight. you are fighting. he obviously knows a lot of what went on in that lead-up as do other members of the family, and certainly members of the family who knew exactly what was going on on january 6th. and from the entire time from election night until then. so it's the documents. the documents. i had -- when i did investigations, we had 120 people tang the fifth amendment or flee. and the way -- this was in the campaign finance investigation during the clinton days. the way we got many of those records out there was by subpoenaing their bank records, their business records, their phone records, their emails. and they got indicted. they had -- all their -- the faction came out at the ends of the day regardless of whether they cooperated or not. that's what the committee needs to be aggressive about. we had several contempt reports, we did, to make sure that we got ahold of those documents. and they should do the same. >> and do you see the documents and the document production next to these individuals pass

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mark meadows, for example, involved with the justice department, trying to get the justice department to put pressure on georgia to decertify the results of the election. >> so these guys could be facing a whole lot of trouble. how do you see this all playing out? >> well, i think it indicates that the commission is starting to try to narrow the focus on donald trump. what was his state of mind on the day and in the run-up to the january 6th attack on the capitol? because all these individuals have had contact, direct contact with the president that has not yet fully come to light, particularly mark meadows, the former chief of staff, who has been very tight-lipped but had unique access to the president in the oval office during the attack. i think this is a very serious ramp-up. it's very necessary. the information that continues to come out shows beyond a shadow of a doubt there was an attempt to overturn the election. that is a direct assault on our democracy. and these folks have yet to speak under oath and to give over all their information. as laura and toobin just said, the fed

most frequently, when he talks about executive privilege, his former white house chief of staff mark meadows. he gets in a tizzy about why any chief of staff would have to be six subjected to this quote unquote harassment. >> kevin mccarthy and his answer to the news program was interesting. i thought the response from thompson and johnny was also interesting. a piece about something that had vanished down the memory hole, which is that mccarthy himself had called for some kind of inquiry into january 6th. you followed up on that and found that, basically, there is no appetite for that anymore. >> chris, wouldn't shock your audience, that this wasn't the most good faith declaration? this was a situation, we are back in july, kevin mccarthy said in response to the moves that pelosi and others were making, that republicans would mount a counter investigation, to trot out another narrative that happened during the lead up and during the pro-drum riot on capitol hill. obviously, months have passed, we followed up with various sources on and around capitol hill and elsewhere in the senior ranks o

i know mark meadows reached out. and there may have been other people.ld have to really get with my team back in the office. but anything that we have, you know, we will share that with law enforcement officials, obviously. >> so there were others, though, who tried to pressure you who were called to try to get you to do something -- >> no. >> not you personally? >> not me personally. the only person i talked is senator graham and president trump. those are out there. people know we had those conversations. that's really the extent of it. i understood we had an investigation. i learned a long time ago, i was on city council, outside people shouldn't be involved in the investigation process. let the investigators do their work. let them find out what the facts are, and then bring that to the state election board or bring it to our office so we can decide what further action needs to be taken. >> mark meadows was the white house chief of staff at the time. he was also in contact with the officials? . >> yes. >> where we were today as we sit here in septemb

mark meadows, steve bannon called to testify. >> investigators want to know what the former president's inner circle knew about plans that led to the attack and what decisions were made once violence started. if they do not cooperate, here's what they told manu raju. >> criminal contempt is on the table. we discussed it. if it comes to that, there will be no reluctance to do. >> former u.s. attorney and legal affairs columnist for the "l.a. times." harry, thanks for being back with us. let's start here one step before we get to the criminal contempt. any expectation. the chairman says they're, quote, not holding the opinion that they'll cooperate. do you think that's a fair assessment, that there will be a fight from all four, including mark meadows who used to be a member of that body? >> for sure. we know trump will try as a third party. legal claims, victor, are garbage. the executive privilege, the only point they could make, that's held and decided by the current administration, that's for biden's folks to decide, they also said we're not going to claim it. the drama, the reason th

they include trump white house chief of staff mark meadows, former deputy chief of staff dan scavino, former adviser steve bannon, and cash patel, a former chief of staff to then acting secretary of defense, christopher miller. >> these are four important witnesses. they're all very close to the former president. some were in direct communication with him on january 5th, on january 6th. they are reportedly in communication about how to overturn the results of the election. >> on january 5th, bannon predicted on his podcast. >> all hell is going to break loose. >> in a letter to meadows, the committee noted he was allegedly communicating with the president on january 6th and they also want to know more about his efforts to plan and prepare to contest the presidential election and to lay accounting of electoral votes. the committee is looking for a quick turn around, and all four trump associates are directed to produce relevant documents by october 7th and appear for depositions the following week. cnn has reached out to meadows, scavino and bannon for comment. patel said in a statemen

four subpoenas to trump's four horsemen, mark meadows, steve bannon and scavino and patel

they include trump white house chief of staff mark meadows, deputy chief of staff dan ska vie know and kash patel. the committee is looking for a quick turnaround. all four associates will produce relevant documents and appear for depositions. we have reached out for comment. patel said he was disappointed but not surprised that the committee had subpoenaed him before seeking his voluntary cooperation. the committee is prepared for resistance. if folks refuse to comply, they can be referred to the justice department to try the get the matter into court. that can make some time. they believe the biden justice department will help them with contempt where it's justified >> they know they're going to get fought on this. they know these confidantes to the former president don't want to disclose information even if it isn't protected, even if they should disclose it. you accompanied law enforcement officers who were there who suffered what happened on january 6th. you accompanied them up on the hill. what do they and the american public deserve to have come out? >> well, i also in a prior l

investigating january 6th issued subpoenas to doái■ trump allies including last chief of staff mark meadows. in the new book "peril," we learned a lawyer working for president trump wrote a member outlining a way for vice president pence to invalidate the results of the election and hand the presidency back to president trump. bob woodward and robert costa join■ç me now. bob, i want to start with a big picture question which is, did you guys chronicle an aborted coup? >> there were attempts. of course, the core of trump's argument is the election was stolen and what we found in our work is two of the biggest trump allies, lindsey graham and senator lee from utah, this is■ the core of trump's support in the senate, investigated these claims and discovered that there was absolutely nothing there, and what you see trump and his lawyers doing these kind of legal somersaults, that just hold no water with trump's allies. you can't convince■ç lindsey graham and mike lee that the election was stolen or that there was some fraud means what we found, a weakness in the case, not just a weakness but ze

chief of staff mark meadows.re we recognized in nine months of the reporting, it's not just about january 6th, january 6th was the culmination of a campaign. a lot of activity on the part of president trump. what we're trying to figure out not just his reaction, watching the riot, the insurrection. but what was he do doing, especially the day before, january 5th, pressuring meek pence one-on-one. and calling in aides like scavino trying to find a way to get lawmakers to do his bidding on capitol hill. >> yeah, i thought ivanka would probably be at the top of the list because of her repeated exchanges with him. for me, the most shocking revelations from the book, john eastman and the memo. who is he? and what is the memo? >> this is so important because it's not just about grievances over the campaign and the election. that were driving the discussions ahead of january 6th. there was actual documentation. as we say in our reporting ranks, we have receipts here. there was a memo from john eastman a conservative leg

mark meadows, steve bannon, dan scavino and kash patel for the defense secretary. they compel these people to turn over documents by october 7th. and then they asked them to sit for a deposition in private the following week on october 14th. phil, certainly all of this indicating and signaling the committee is taking this investigation into a much more aggressive phase. . >> one of the big questions i think we have had, particularly of those like you and myself who lived through at least the first impeachment of former president donald trump is invoking privilege. do we have any sense now if president biden is going to invoke executive privilege related to testimony to congress? >> reporter: it's certainly a hot topic. they peppered the white house press secretary about interesting answer in that jen psaki, at first she said we take this matter seriously. the president has concluded that it would not be appropriate to assert executive privilege. but then she walked that back a bit and clarified her remarks attempting to essentially clarify that position saying they

rapidly subpoenaing the president's closest allies, mark meadows among them. so it would be difficult for former allies to stay away and a room where they would be forced to testify what that. the political fallout continues. but this shows that was a very perfect time when trump tried to sweep under the rug the alleged misdeeds of his closest allies. >> yes. a very different doj. give may sense of how this panel is proceeding. we've already seen that. look into your crystal ball, what do you see coming? >> they'll have to be very aggressive. they have a couple of options. they have civil remedies which i think we've learned have gone nowhere with this crowd. they don't comply with subpoenas and all they do is stall. and their whole goal is to stall past the mid-terms and then have subpoenas withdrawn and not have to do anything. so they need to go forward with civil but that will go nowhere. that will lead them on criminal contempt. the way it works is if the documents are not produced as required, or they don't show up, then the house will have to vote them

just yesterday the january six committee subpoenaed for trump insiders including mark meadows, and former strategist steve bannon. this is all unfolding as the final report on the so-called audit of the 2020 vote in arizona's mayor coppa candy confirms that not only did biden win, but he won by an even wider margin than originally believed. the house oversight committee is not asking for testimony next month with the ceo of the cyber ninjas, that is the group that carried out the five month review. meanwhile the president is trying to save his domestic agenda from falling apart. he's working to keep congressional democrats together ahead of the key vote next week on a trillion dollar infrastructure bill and advantage three and a half trillion dollar plan to extend the social safety net. this follows a chaotic exit from afghanistan, the delta covid surge and the situation at the border. this morning, biden was asked about his campaign promise to bring competence to the white house. >> so what do you say to americans who say that you have not delivered on that promise? >> remember i said it

during the russia investigation and the impeachment investigation, mark meadows took as many shovelst he could find to try and bury evidence to help donald trump. he never once spoke up. he was another one where privately he would want the talk the you and joke with you. he would come and put his hand on my back when the cams weren't looking. when he had to sing for his supper for donald trump, he would sing at the top of his lungs and he's one that knew better but played to fans. to me in washington, that's worse than somebody who believes in it. it's something that wants power and fame. the one who is were heroic on that day. what do you make of the fact we have six police officers, six capitol police officers who can face discipline for taking the wrong side. this includes the guy who took the selfie with some of these insurrectionists, refusing and failure to comply with directive, improper remarks and dissemination of information to get to members of congress. >> my dad is a cop and my two brothers walk the beat every night. it really concerns me. we need to know that there is n

four subpoenas to trump's four horse mern, mark meadows, steve bannon and scavino and patel. a subpoena implies no wrongdoing on the part of any of those men. it's just a demand that they must come testify. why them? the chairman of the committee says all four had communications with the white house or were working in it or in the days leading up to the insurrection were involved and we're going to unpack what all that means. also, we're going unpack strategies afoot for all of those men to say nothing at all. we also have exclusive new details in the gabby petito case, on top of the federal arrest issued for laundrie, the fiance of petito that remains nowhere to be found. we have new details. now, first on the warrant. it was issued in wyoming, that's where petito was found dead sunday, but there are no charges in it related to her killing. the warrant is for the, quote, use of unauthorized devices related to laundrie's activities following the death of petito. he is indicted on one count of using an atm card that may have been gabby's. the indictment, frankly, is unclear at

went into the capital, has issued for subpoena, including one for former trump chief of staff mark meadows, and for steve bannon. that is a huge development, we will be covering in-depth because it shows the committee looking into whatever exactly the president and his advisers were planning for that day although we should also say, at a certain level we already know, donald trump wanted to overturn the election. for a man with a little in the way of consistency has been consistent about that. anyone that didn't want to do that is a smart enemy of his. in fact yesterday a very funny thing happened amidst new site goal dominated by the dams in disarray cycle, donald trump from his exile at his golf house in new jersey started issuing statements, like he did on twitter before he got booted, they don't capture the national attention anymore, which is all for the book good, issued statements blasting anyone in the republican party, to remind them that he is still out for blood. and while republicans are not in power now, they have a far easier job of posing rather than governing, they do conti

mark meadows was chief of staff, and the deputy chief of staff. where the investigation is focusing is what the individuals were doing the day before on insurrection evening on january 5 when the trump campaign had a series of war room meetings with external advisers, some far right activists. we also think possibly the former president. and that is where the investigation is going to go now as they try and uncouple the smoke and mirrors to try and tie the trump white house to the planning and that is why these officials are key because they knew what was going on in the oval office the night before and people like steve bannon would have known what is happening the night before at the trump campaign war rooms. >> hugo, you heard michael cohen say he doesn't think any of them will show up. is there a way for the 1-6 committee to force them to testify? >> it is a really good point and the executive privilege claim has been abused by the former president all the way through the mueller inquiry to impeachments and this is going to be a real sticking

and there's plenty of indication that mark meadows and scavino both had a lot of window into that. and of course, it's something that logically, they would have shared with the president. >> so, joyce, when you look at those four, understanding what carol just laid out for us, is donald trump the ultimate target here in your mind? >> there's no doubt that the committee is trying to figure out what role trump played on january 6th. that seems like an obvious question, that we might not need to answer, but the important thing about this investigation is that it will be detailed and proof oriented, rather than letting the two very divided factions in this country draw their own conclusion. this investigation will try to document at each step of the way what the president was doing and what he was thinking. to carol's point, these are exactly the right witnesses to start with. the chief of staff and deputy chief of staff meadows and scavino both had access to the president in the run-up to january 6th and that day. and it will be very important to hear from both steve bannon and cash p

and that includes the big guns, like steve bannon and donald trump's former top number one aide, mark meadows, who is chief of staff. "rolling stone" reporting on the massive scope of this probe. the committee has asked the national archives for all documents and communications within that trump white house on that fateful day of january 6th, 2021. what we see here is both exactly what speaker pelosi said she was going to do when she outmaneuvered republicans and barreled forward with this committee and it's also a legal escalation. we're looking now at this clash between biden and trump, something that temperamentally, the biden administration is not super interested in having, but apparently they've decided to side with congress, with the investigation with mainly democrats who have been interested in getting to the bottom of january 6th. and we're looking now at a subpoena-powered, white house cooperating effort to get down to exactly what did happen before and during the insurrection. and by the way, you've heard me say this before and i'll say it again as a journalist. if they get all th

>> reporter: it's hard to say what we'll expect because we don't know yet whether mark meadows, former president trump's chief of staff, or steve bannon, his former advisor, will show up to those subpoenas mid-october and there's also two others in trump's inner circle, patel is one of them, dan scavino, another, those first set of subpoenas, i'm told, is not the end. our team has learned with sources familiar to the committee's thinking that this is just the first in a long line of subpoenas they plan to throw down along the way. now, if the four who were subpoenaed do not comply, do not first turn over those documents by october 7th and don't show up for testimony in mid-october, i'm told that adam schiff said to reporters and other people on the committee said that they will consider holding them in criminal contempt, which as you know will drag out the investigation. lindsey? >> all right, nbc's julie tsirkin on capitol hill, thanks for target us off. >>> after more than ten months, the republican-backed review of the 2020 election results in arizona's maricopa county is finally ov

among those subpoenaed, mark meadows, steven bannon, dan scovino, and cash patel, all in contact with former contact president trump before and during the capitol riot. the committee says it's investigating the facts, circumstances, and causes of the attack. epositions nt mont government could shut down and default on its debt. the double whammy could wipe out six million jobs here in the u.s. nikole killion reports from washington, d.c. >> reporter: the federal government in limbo one week before funding is due to run out. >> a shutdown is inconceivable, abhorrent, repugnant. >> reporter: the white house officially put federal agencies on notice warning it is preparing for any contingency. the 2019 shutdown lasted 35 days and cost the economy $11 billion. but a shutdown now during a pandemic could impact the cdc and nih. >> we'll keep government open. >> reporter: congressional democrats and republicans remain deadlocked over the spending measure which includes aid for hurricane ida and afghan refugees. but the real disagreement is over a provision to suspend the debt limit so the go