ms. cheney, against chairman thompson and the committee. this notion of destroying records is a complete fabrication. every official report of the select committee was maintained. the videos of witness interviews are not the official record. the official record of those interviews is the transcript. those were all maintained. a handful of those involved national security officials, secret service agents, aides in very sensitive positions in the white house and the biden white house as a condition of our access to them said we could not make those interviews public. we had to return them and i believe congressman loudermilk ultimately got those transcripts himself. there's just been no hiding of information and the agoization against accusation against ms. cheney about somehow witness tampering, there's no way we would have had as much success in accessing people like cassidy hutchinson or bill barr or mark milley if it had not been for ms. cheney's credibility as a long time republican and she simply received the information from ms. hutchi

ms. cheney coached ms. hutchinson to lie.as every legal and constitutional right to change her mind and decide she needs a new lawyer, so you have that. it's a 128-page gop report and in it claims the house january 6th committee destroyed records and blamed them for this january 6th capitol attack. >> it does contain essentially a criminal referral. it does suggest ms. cheney and the committee should be investigated. it normally, and i emphasize normally takes some sort of evidentiary threshold, some violation of federal criminal law to launch an investigation. again, i don't know what that is here. and if the fbi is consist to its historical practice, requires some threshold showing that, hey, there might be something here, then there shouldn't be any follow-up investigation. this notion, alex, of the destroyed evidence, if i could to respond to that, again no foundation. the select committee meticulously archived official records, and the official records of all the witness interviews were the transcript, the verbatim word

ms. cheney's credibility as a long time republican, and she certainly retained the information from ms.he explained the reason for that. she did not come forward, because she was afraid to, and not until she had independent counsel that she did. ms. cheney did not make that up, but she was reporting what we heard from a very important witness. and so the report that says she should be referred for criminal conduct allegations is not founded. >> and what about the fact that cassidy hutchinson and liz cheney are being the subject of allegations. >> well, ms. cheney was a very visible person of the committee, and she attention. she is a very good lawyer, and asks very good question, and she is involved in the day-to-day work of the committee. she is a public servant, and she did her very best to try to get the facts and circumstances of what informed the attack on the capital. but because of how been, she isg rod. >> everyone stay tuned the, because we will look at who the trump administration has described as the enemy within, and what the effort is to protect those people. >>> also, what

ms. cheney has been a very outspoken critic of the president. very, very visible as the vice chair of our committee. as a result, she attracts a lot of attention. there is no question she was vitally involved in our investigation. she is a good lawyer. she asked good questions and she was personally very involved in the day-to-day work of the committee. that is what we should expect from a public servant. she did the right thing by doing her best to try to get the facts and circumstances that informed the attack on the capitol but because of her high profile and how persuasive, i think, she has been, she is a lightning rod. ♪ ♪ >>> thank you so much for having this conversation with us. >>> a comeback, more evidence of a strong economy but with donald trump's threatening tariffs and mass deportations, the big question on wall street now is, how long will it last. we will have that conversation next. ♪ ♪ next. ♪ ♪ power outages can be unpredictable, inconvenient, and disruptive to your life, posing a real threat to your family's comfort and safet

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ms. cheney should go to jail? >> for what they did -- >> reporter: everybody on the committee, using should go to jail? >> are you going to direct your fbi director and attorney general to send them to jail? >> no, not at all. i think you will have to look at that, but i'm going to focus on drill, baby, drill. >> reporter: when you say that, though, you have tapped these people to lead the justice department and fbi. >> they can do whatever they want. >> "they can do whatever they want." what, just to be clear, here is what i want, is what donald trump is basically saying. donald trump is openly advertising that he wants leaders at the doj to do his bidding. and he may have found them in pam bondi, his attorney general pick, and cache patel, his pick to run the fbi, a dangerously unqualified political ally who already has a reputation for selective leaks, and has already promised that the new trump administration will go after journalists it does not like. so, even as we are still learning about the depths of the

ms. cheney said there is nothing to substantiate any allegation of misconduct by the january 6th committee was destroyed or hidden is just unfounded. everl single interview in its entirety but for a handful of national security interviews which were in the possession of the white house and still exist, were made public and remain available. there is just nothing there, nicole. while there may be investigations and questions asked, the underlying facts have to be present for there to be a legal consequence and they just don't exist here just like they have not ever existed in the big lie of election fraud. >> can i play -- actually, let me play what adam kinzinger had to say on cnn. i want to step back and say even trump isn't alleging that any crimes were committed so i want to be careful in repeating the language of the trump side about throwing people in jail. in this country, so far, you don't go jail unless you're charged with a crime and convicted of the crime by a jury of your peers. so, again, i don't want to just repeat what they are saying over and over again. but let me play adam

ms. cheney of witness tampering and calls for an fbi investigation of her regarding the testimony of cassidyson. "it is unusual and potentially unethical for a member of congress conducting an investigation to contact a witness if an individual knows -- if the member knows that the individual is represented by legal counsel." she was advised by her first lord or to tell of the panel she did not know much about the day's events but later doing about-face when she was -- when she switched lawyers. she blasted the call for an fbi investigation is a flimsy stretch. "no rep ebola lawyer, legislator or a judge would take this seriously." going to teresa from pennsylvania. go ahead. caller: good morning, the reason i am calling, your previous guest about social security and cuts. and he had several different reforms, so he said. the best way to fund social security forever is to remove the fica tax, remove the income cap or significantly raise it and social security and medicare would be good forever. and republicans never bring that up. and i would like to know why they would want to cut it on tho

hutchinson's attorney telling nbc news, that the plane that hutchinson colluded with liz cheney, is quote, preposterous. quote, ms. hutchinson made independent decision to part ways with her donald trump funded lawyer, freeing her to provide candid, truthful, and honorable testimony to the january 6th committee about the attack on the capitol. alongside dozens of republican witnesses, and law enforcement officers. liz cheney, released a blistering statement of her own, in this report against these accusations. to and full. it says this, quote, january 6th showed donald trump for who he really is. a cruel and vindictive man who allowed violent attacks to continue against our capitol, and law enforcement officers, while he watched on television, and refused for hours to instruct his supporters to stand down and leave. the january 6th committee's hearings and report, featured scores of republican witnesses, including many of the most senior officials from donald trump's own white house, his campaign, and administration. all of this testimony was painstakingly set out in thousands of pages of transcript, made public

resolution that said if you had a subpoena to hold o&ms correct me if i'm wrong could block it president trump wait a minute going to shield liz cheneyhe january 6 commission some say she destroyed evidence, and that you know, trump is going to want to see emails why should congress be able to politic that? why in a continuing resolution? . they should not, absolutely was inappropriate i don't know how it got in what the circumstances were caught i wasn't involved in negotiations taking place that is the thing that american public sees, and it really just -- with a disgrace people look at christmas trees come together right before christmas extreme pressure hand text over within hours of having to vote on it, we get into it find things like this jammed in something thank president trump was right to call out, what he and elon team worked on much more narrow seemed much more powerful taking care of continuing resolution would have taken care of disaster relief and would have gotten us to a place we could have dressed debt ceiling issue would have runaway he meaning president trump and team to begin to deliver on the successes american