we have this other subpoena involving sidney powell. we have a texas investigation.hat's a significant change. and that's why if i had a client, i would be talking about the fifth amendment, not this other nonsense, not the mishegas. >> john flannery, not the mishegas, we consider you the juristprudential equivalent of a bowl of granola. it's dense, it's intellectually nutritious, and i feel like we learned a lot from you. good to see you, i wish you a good weekend, sir. >> you too, nice to see you. >>> coming up, the video i promised you. matt gaetz. steve bannon. why? we'll get into it. >>> and later, a special conversation getting into vaccines and truth. hallie jackson, our friend, is here, along whether "the daily show"'s roy wood jr. feel stuck with student loan debt? move to sofi and feel what it's like to get your money right. ♪ ♪ move your student loan debt to sofi— you could save with low rates and no fees. earn a $1,000 bonus when you refi— and get your money right. ♪ who's on it with jardiance? and get your money right. we're 25 million prescriptions stro

we have lin wood accurately, apparently, predicting that it would soon be revealed that sidney powell is under federal investigation. okay. now we have wisconsin. a taxpayer funded review of the 2020 election results was ordered by republicans in the state legislature there, it's been getting lots of bad press lately because it's turning out to be a cockamamie nonsense machine. the former judge they hired to run this election review who is himself a stop the steal proponent, who has said publicly he believes that trump won the 2020 election, that's who's running the review, he has shelled out thousands of wisconsin taxpayer dollars to a guy who pledged last year that there would be no peaceful transition of power in this country unless there was a forensic audit of the election results in every state. he said it was statistically impossible for joe biden to have won. i'm sure that guy's expertise is very welcome for this totally objective and above the board election review in wisconsin. aren't you happy, wisconsin taxpayers, that's who your money is going to? this crack election team

certainly there are cases against giuliani and sidney powell.ses to defend because they were putting all this stuff out here -- >> wild things. >> totally wild things. and you know, reckless disregard for the truth, as john said, is the standard. but i don't see how you can look at what giuliani and powell did and now what fox did without concluding it was reckless disregard. >> john, now that mark meadows has been officially referred to the justice department for criminal contempt of congress, his fate is essentially in the hands of attorney general merrick garland. what do you think the justice department's next move is? because they haven't been exactly quick in all of this. >> well, you know, after the steve bannon case it's very difficult to believe that they're not going to proceed with a criminal prosecution. there really is no difference between what bannon did and what's happening right here with meadows. meadows has got this fuzzy connection of executive privilege. that isn't what they held him in contempt over. they held him in contem

president biden's election when in michigan frivolous, united states, district judge has ordered sidney powell and other trump, lawyers to pay $175000.00 and penalties. the judge said plaintiffs attorneys filed this lawsuit without conducting the required degree of diligence as to the truth of the allegations made or the merits of the legal claims asserted. a madeline define abuse of process, which i understand is a tort. and is this that why you're correct? a base or process is a toward it, but it is a fairly unusual cause of action and, and arises in very specific situations. the exact elements of it do very state to state. but the main idea is that a visa process occurs when the person has an all period motive and is miss applying the judicial process in order to achieve that motive. so an easy example is if somebody's taking a deposition and a lawsuit with the information they're trying to get isn't related to the lawsuit, they're trying to maybe blackmail or extort the other party. that would be a visa process. so in this case, i do believe we have some facts to support and it be a proces

undermine confidence, passing along election fraud information to advisers like mike flynn and sidney powellwas doing it at trump's behest. meadows' attorney did not respond to cnn for comment on this story. you can read all of our stories on cnn.com. >> thanks for sharing that report are us. let's bring the conversation in the room. elliot williams joins us. mark meadows has cut a deal to cooperate with some caveats with the committee. when you hearing in like this, he's going to claim he has some privilege. he probably has grounds to negotiate over certain documents, but when details like this become public, how does it afect his case of how much he's going to have to share? >> when he's talking government officials and not the white house, any claim for executive privilege is going to fall aapartment they would say we were asking about foreign elections and china. that's what his lawyers will say. >> even if his source is rudy giuliani? >> that's why you put him under oath, where did you get the information, what did you do with it, and so on. any argument he has got, this privilege, it's

election results, passing along election fraud information from outside advisers like mike flynn and sidney powellnot respond to cnn for the story. you can read the full story on cnn.com. >> fascinating. paula, stick around. i want to get perspective from normizen who was special counsel to the democrats in the former president's first impeachment trial. eisen, do you think this puts him in any kind of legal jeopardy? >> anderson, i do think it puts him in legal jeopardy. we have lost in the united states against election fraud, and that is the apparent activity that is at least alleged here, and the january 6th committee is driving forward to get to the bottom of i it. you know, you can't act as a go-between. on the one hand, outside groups that are pushing patently fraudulent claims and government officials who have the responsibility to make decisions about these matters. so i think some of the worst possible conduct we've seen since white house chief of staff for richard nixon, h h.r.halderman. we all know what happened to him. >> schiff who's one of the nine member of the committee, said if m

who flung the gate open to this star wars bar cast of conspiracy theorists and crack pots like sidney powell and the others. and of course now we're do discovering he's up to his neck in the plot to destroy democracy. >> thatnk you. it's good to see you. >> good to be back. >> this is our breaking news. the house voting tonight to refer mark meadows to the doj for contempt of congress. that amid new revelations about who was texting whom on january 6th. the relief you need. the cash you want. i've been telling everyone... the secret to great teeth is having healthy gums. crest advanced gum restore. detoxifies below the gumline... and restores by helping heal gums in as little as 7 days. crest. the #1 toothpaste brand in america. look, serena williams... matrix... serena... matrix... serena... matrix... ♪ get your tv together with the best of live and on demand. introducing directv stream. ♪ things you start when you're 45. coaching. new workouts. and screening for colon cancer. yep. the american cancer society recommends screening starting at age 45, instead of 50, since colon cancer is incr

the lawyers including sidney powell and linwood must collectively pay more than $175,000 in fees stemming fraud lawsuit. the judge said they engaged in litigation practices that were abusive and sanctionable. >>> 14 people have been arrested in connection with a series of smash-and-grab thefts in los angeles. officials say the suspects work in groups targeting high-end clothing stores. they were involved in nearly a dozen incidents over a ten-day period in november. >>> the archbishop of paris resigning after admitting to a, quote, ambiguous relationship with a woman nearly a decade ago. the vatican says he offered to resign following a report their relationship had been intimate. but he denies anything actually happened with the woman. >>> as omicron makes its way around the united states, confirmed cases are now in five states. president biden announces his covid winter strategy. highlighting measures like expanding free at-home testing for americans, the importance of booster shots, and -- >> announcing today that all inbound international travelers must test within one day of departur

. >> also overnight, reports that sidney powell, this conspiracy theorist, took in, her organization,13 million. that's a lot of money to promote lies about the election. what does that tell you, and where is this money? >> it tells me a couple things. number one, it tells me, you know, depend on what the bylaws are about that group, she has money to pay her legal fees. she has a lot of legal fees. but there are a lot of people willing to give money, in small and large increments, to this false idea that -- i mean, she is taking it to a different place, right? you have people around donald trump who argued rules changed for covid and he suffered for that. they certainly had their chances to try to operate within those new rules. they didn't. okay. there's those people claiming widespread fraud that, you know, isn't possible on the level they're talk about. then sydidney powell was talkin about voting machines being flipped and a conspiracy involving the late hugo chavez. there are people to whom those statements appeal. >> people with money apparently. >> right. >> maggie haberman, th

i mean, we had a whole group of joke lawyers, sidney powell, rudy giuliani, lynn wood, the people representing now have good reputations in the criminal side. we'll see what happens in this civil matter. one argument i think trump may raise is you're trying to entrap me into something in this civil matter so that you can further the criminal investigation. i'd be surprised if his lawyers don't make that argument. >> professor paul butler, and david k. johnston, thank you both very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> coming up, republicans in georgia are working as fast as they can to dismantle local boards that oversee elections and remove black election officials before republicans have to run against stacey abrams and raphael warnock in november. congressman allred joins us next. n allred joins us next try centrum multigummies. ♪ baby got back by sir mix-a-lot ♪ unlimited cashback match... only from discover. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey google. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ when our daughter and her kids moved in with us... our bargain detergent couldn't keep up. turns out it's mostly water. so, we switched back to

one of the texts expresses his skepticism about the fraud allegations being made by sidney powell and others. there's a lot there and we need to follow up with him on all of these texts and other documents. and i think we should soon be getting a very large amount of material from the national archives. there may be additional things there that would stimulate the questions. so he is not the only person with information but he has a lot of information that the committee needs. >> congresswoman lofgren, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> joining us now is former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin and former nixon white house counsel john dean and chief political correspondent dana bash. so jeffrey, committee vice chair cheney said that meadows' text messages leaves no doubt that the white house knew what was happening at the capitol january 6th. given what was laid out just now by the committee, do you think she's right? >> oh, absolutely. what really jumped out at me about these text messages, particularly with the ones from the anchors at fox news and donald

how that crazy theory is now not just being propound it by crazy people like rudy giuliani and sidney powell, it's being fine-tuned by real lawyers. it's already circulating on places like fox news as a republican party talking point for the election in 2024. he explains point by point how republicans who weren't on board with those kinds of efforts to throw out the real election results in 2020, those republicans, everyone from brad raffensperger and ryan camped in georgia, to lesser known officials in michigan and across the country. those republicans who wouldn't go along with it for the 2020 election, they have been removed from office, they've been censured, they've been facing trump backed primaries if they want to stay in office. he shows the polling data. which indicates that the republican base voters, haven't cooled off or backed off from the literary revolutionary implication of which trump tried to do to overturn the election. over the past year instead, republican voters have become more militant on the subject and more likely to embrace violence as a potential solution. he says

people like what's her name, sidney powell, who used to be a respected attorney who has gone all theivities. radicalization at some point something that they can use in their own defense? >> it's not a legal defense, but it's a mitigator. in other words, it might reduce somebody's punishment or the sentence they're facing for crimes they committed, but it will not get them out from under criminal responsibility for what they did. but all of this, joy, it highlights the fact that donald trump is the one who incited it and stoked the flames with their lies about stolen votes and stolen elections. and donald trump on january 6 told people what to do. go down there and stop the steal. that's an action word. and the fact that he used the word "steal," we all me that's a lie. that provides the corrupt intent for donald trump's inciting this insurrection. that's where the responsibility needs to lie. >> yeah, we're using the right word for it. it's radicalization. no different than if it is in another country. it's still radicalization by an individual who has a self-interest and who doesn'

you got sidney powell and overstock.com dude and michael flynn. we saw it all. the cameras caught them going in with their presentation, whatever the nuttery of the day was. luke broadwater and ashley parker, both great, great pieces of reporting in today's respective papers. thank you. >>> if you watched the show last night, you saw my interview with two of the organizers of the january 6th rally at the ellipse, who are now cooperating with the house committee's investigation. now, there was a lot in that interview, but there was one specific moment i want to return to about pardons. daniel goldman is here to talk about that and the news that roger stone plans to plead the fifth. all that and more, next. oh my goodness... wow, look at all those! you get hungry for more and then you're just like, “wow, i'm learning about my family.” yeah, yep. which one, what'd you find? lorraine banks, look, county of macomb, michigan? look at grandma... hey grandma! unbelievable. everybody deserves to know who they are and where they came from. ohhh...cool. this whole journey

passing on election information from advisers like flynn and sidney powell, saying he was doing it atot respond to cnn's question for comment. you can read more on cnn.com. >> i hope people will. thanks very much to you, paula. >>> i want to go now to el elie honig, former u.s. assistant attorney to talk about this. you were here last night but we are here. you hear paula's new reporting that now we know mark meadows was calling the fbi, the cia, the pentagon and others and among other things wanted to look into an alleged plot by china to change the they remember thermostats in voting machines an change the vote totals. meadows at one point was an elected member of congress and this stuff happened. >> yeah, erin. my first reaction is just wow. as a human being, a sane, rational human being, wow, how can this be? when you step back, though, this is really why mark meadows is the single most important witness to the january 6 investigation other than trump himself, and he's never going to realistically testify. this is why meadows is so key because he was running point. he was mission

sidney powell made 18 -- $14 million off of that and she got charged $180,000 in attorneys' fees foret profit for this grift. and -- and despite the grift, despite the incredible incentives that these grifters have to continue the big lie, they have still not -- in over 400 days since the 2020 election -- they have not been able to develop or manufacture any evidence of fraud anywhere in the united states that would change the outcome. in arizona, the cyber ninjas couldn't do it in engeorgia, michigan, wisconsin we have seen it time and again. >> actually, their audit resulted in an increased margin in favor of joe biden. the ultimate irony of the whole thing but as you point out, it isn't just happening in wisconsin. it is happening across the country. right? in many states. pennsylvania, michigan, arizona, just to name a few of them. people who are grifters, as you say, people pushing trump's lies. they are run for crucial administration positions to run elections. and is it a very specific strategy. steve bannon recently talked about it. here he is. >> we are taking over the repub

me he didn't do any vetting right before the infamous press conference with fellow crazy person sidney powellg that press conference he was sweating like a guy who knew his facts might not be rock solid. [ light laughter ] my man is perspiring like he just bet his life savings on a horse called "the three-legged rocket." [ laughter ] you really don't think it's your job to verify information before yoanunu ce it to the world is this how you operated when you were mayor "thank you for coming to this press conference, everyone i have huge news for the city of new york today i received an email with the subject line 'forward, forward, forward, free boner pills for life and that's not just for me it's the life of this entire city and in return, all i had to do was give them our social security numbers but only the first nine digits." [ light laughter ] rudy seemed so tired in that deposition and i get it it's exhausting just watching someone be that crazy. i can't imagine what it's like to live it day to day. that's the thing about the moderate republican party. they just make everything exhausti

somehow sidney powell had gotten this guy's direct line, unpublished line in the pentagon.ow officials at the pentagon. by the way, the people i spoke to were convinced it was mark meadows who gave out that phone number. who knows? but, she calls and she wants him to dispatch a special operation team to germany and capture the cia director gina haskell who was there trying to seize destroy evidence of a server form that was used to switch all the votes in the election. it's nuts that we read it on the internet and we would go by and laugh at how insane it was. this idea that powell that gina haspal had been hurt in germany and got out there so widely that the cia had to issue a statement saying no, gina haspal is in her office and she's just fine. i mean it's insane. it happened at the top levels of our government. >> it is. >> jonathan, i look back over those four years and yes, as an american, i am grateful that donald is no longer there. the further we get away from it, i am just as grateful that the grifters and the third tier losers are the drags of washington, d.c. th

the grownups had all gone home after the election and trump was left with the giulianis and sidney powells and the mike al flynns of the he would be a key figure if he was in front of the committee. he may not do so. he would likely have to face the consequences but he is a close, close contact of the president's and remains to this day. >> i talked about the rogue's gallery and the mt. rushmore of them. yesterday i talked about scott perry, the pennsylvania congressman who has gotten a request for information and there is a big threat of a subpoena coming out of the 1/6 committee, they said he was a bargain basement jim jordan. i said, no, he has an esteemed military career. on the resume now we can add insurrectionist. but indulger of conspiracy theories going back long before 2020. a "washington post" story, scott perry promoted groundless theories. in the falling of 2017, perry claimed a former house aide to debbie wasserman schultz orchestrated massive data transfers that resulted in a security threat. the pakistani american staffer was later cleared of stealing government secrets. ar

freeman's case, like these other cases, i think, dominion's suit against fox and rudy giuliani and sidney powelles to account around the fact pattern. and you know, in the ruling last week, against fox, in the dominion case, the judge specifically said there is ample evidence here that fox knew that it was wrong in what it was airing about electoral fraud and chose to do so anyway. that's the entire ball game in a defamation case. that is evidence of malice. and i think one of the things we're learning from these lawsuits in a time when our institutions have all been threatened, the media, congress, and the judiciary system is with some warts and some hiccups, the judicial system has been a good venue for trying to hold trump to account and i think ruby freeman's case, in an ideal world, it will show that an individual citizen should not be subject to vague threats that become realized at his or her doorstep because the president is trying to commit electoral fraud. >> yeah, i mean, and kim, just to tie it back to the work of the 1/6 committee, which is the most sort of public-face facing invest

the group includes sidney powell who said in 2020 interviews the cases would unleash the mythical creaturesimilar misconduct in the future. they have been soliciting donations from members of the public like the one they brought in michigan. two women who were georgia's election workers in 2020 filed a defamation lawsuits against the far-right conspiracy website. the suit alleges the site and its owner knowingly publish all stories about workers that led to an unwaivering dangerous campaign of harassment that devastated their personal and professional representations and forced them to change their phone number to lead their online accounts and fear for their physical safety. the harassment started after gateway published a story that identify the workers and drew their inspiration from a misleading video presented by a voluntary trump campaign attorney that falsely shows several poll workers actively stuffing ballots from suitcases hidden under a table. the site continue to post stories about freedman. the harassment got so bad that at one point freedman says she had to leave her home for

so the more he puts it out there, you know -- sidney powell raised $14 million lying about the election. he is raising -- mika somehow got on a text list. >> i'm getting those emails too. >> she gets 12 texts a day, and they go, you're a traitor to america. you weren't giving money. think about all the old people, older senior citizens who are getting that, who are getting badgered and brutalized. they're raising tons of money, so that's another reason too. but why are we still talking about it? we're still talking about it because in this calendar year, there was an insurrection against the united states government. and we tried to have a bipartisan, bicameral investigation, and republicans on the hill blocked it. now, we're trying to have an investigation to get to the bottom of this insurrection and who is responsible. they are still blocking it. and this, willie s why we have a justice department. to pick what helene said one side further, we have one side playing checkers and the other side kickboxing. it's just not -- you know, you can go like this, but if someone kicks you in the

because sidney paul does appear to be under investigation for, essentially, fraud. from what the washington post can take from the subpoena, sydney powell appears to have made this -- into legal. which would be defrauding her donor and potentially defrauding the government if she misrepresented her organization as a particular kind of nonprofit organization when it wasn't. and, things turning sour for these pro trump figures. these guys deciding to air each other's dirty laundry. expose each other's as frauds and drifters. it is kind of a theme in today's news. and we have mike flynn currently saying that qanon is nonsense. we have linwood, accurately, apparently, predicting that it would be shown that sydney falls under investigation. now we have wisconsin. a taxpayer funded review of the 2020 election results was ordered by republicans in the state legislature. they are getting a lot of bad press lately because it is turning out to be a nonsense machine. the former judge that they hired to run the election review who is, himself, stop the steal. he believes that trump won by 2020 election. he has shout out thousands of dollars to a gu