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joining me now is scott mcfarland, an investigative reporter for nbc 4 washington. t's good to see you, my friend. let's start first with the news about the former doj official, jeffrey clark. he say one of trump's top allies in the justice department at the time of the insurrection. do you expect him to be the second person after steve bannon to be held in contempt for not answering january 6th committee's questions? >> if there's going to be a second person, ayman, it looks like it would be jeffrey clark. charged by the u.s. attorney of december for contempt of congress, which is, by the way, a particularly rare charge by the u.s. government and in the u.s. district courthouse for d.c. it happens in an 11th hour postpone want. we were ready stake out the federal house building today. but jeffrey clark is without equivocation a pivotal figure, an active u.s. justice department official, a high ranking one on that day, on january 6th. in the hours that led up to it he's right in the wheel house of what the january 6th committee was created for and looking at. >> scot

host: scott mcfarland is a reporter for nbc keeping an eye on the january 6 investigation and capitolou for being with us here this morning. guest: my pleasure. post: that will do it for the program. washington journal back tomorrow at 7:00. we hope you are to up. next, we take you live to capitol hill, a hearing about to get underway. we will be live with the senate commerce committee momentarily, having a transportation committee meeting to consider nominees of president biden to the transportation department. that is next. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] sen. cantwell:

. >> scott mcfarland posted this exhibit released by the justice department that appears to show whats. capitol complex on january 6th. you see people throwing chairs and anything they can at police officers and as the door goes up, you see a trump flag. and some other notable revelations from those court proceedings and indiana man charged with carrying a loaded firearm to the capitol on january 6th. he was targeted house speaker nancy pelosi. according to politico, 56-year-old mark maza is the latest of about half a dozen january 6th's defendants charged with bringing a gun to the capitol. maza told investigaors that he and pelosi would hit it off. >> you remember that image. a federal judge said former vice president al gore had better standing than donald trump to challenge the outcome of the election he lost but was quot "a man" of what happened to him and he accepted it and walked away. what concerns me, sir, is that you are gullible enough to come to washington, d.c. from florida based on a lie and the person who inspired you to do what you do is still making those statements a

senators rick scott and bill hagerty, south carolina attorney general alan wilson, national border patrol council president brandon judd, former top national security official kt mcfarlandnd former utah congressman jason chaffetz. the white house battling against biden's bad poll numbers dropping now into the 30s. he is bringing back the pain of the carter era. that is what economists are warning. we have another bad read on inflation, hotter than expected. it is not transitory as the white house claims. okay, pandemics historically are deflationary? this is not good but the white house blaming the media for biden's bad poll numbers attacking as fake news higher cbo scores on their answer to fixing inflation. more government spending. they tried to claim it costs zero, remember that? and we have this? yet another court loss for the white house but a scathing rebuke by appeals court judges of biden's weak border policy now grabbing attention. the fifth circuit reinstated trump's remain in mexico policy. we've got the story. also florida governor ron desantis wants to transport illegals to the so-called not in my backyard rich play grounds like martha's vineyard. even bid