Rudy Giuliani

On Wednesday, CNN reported that the House January 6 Committee's subpoena for Rudy Giuliani requires him to hand over any evidence he purported to have for his claims about the 2020 presidential election being stolen — as well as information about his fees to push these claims in his capacity as an attorney.

"Congressional investigators are demanding information from former President Donald Trump's onetime lawyer Rudy Giuliani about contacts with members of Congress and state election officials, his fee arrangements and any evidence to back up bogus and sometimes outlandish claims of voter fraud," reported Paula Reid. "The subpoena also seeks information about Giuliani's failed attempt to use unfounded conspiracies to justify seizing voting machines and about meetings he participated in at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, where several Trump allies set up a 'command center' to discuss options for overturning the election results."

On Tuesday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explained the significance of new revelations that the House January 6 Committee has subpoenaed several top allies of former President Donald Trump and obtained the phone records of Eric Trump.

"Let's get back to the new subpoenas for Rudy Giuliani and others who were at the heart of Trump's failed effort to overturn the 2020 election," said anchor Wolf Blitzer. "Just how essential are they in ... putting the pieces together of this attempted coup?"

On CNN Tuesday, former federal prosecutor Laura Coates reacted to the new subpoenas from the House January 6 Committee targeting pro-Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, and Boris Epshteyn.

"People are probably wondering to themselves, what took so long?" said Coates. "These were people that were prominent in the media for their role in promoting the Big Lie which, in part, developed into the January 6th insurrection. But the timing of it is so critical here because it's the end of the investigation, toward the end of more than 300 witnesses at this point in time by the committee. I'm assuming they've had all those people to lay the foundational bricks to corroborate in anticipation of their testimony. And as a prosecutor, why you do that is because you want to have all of your I's dotted and T's crossed to compare their statements against other statements and build enough evidence to decipher truth from fiction."

CNN is reporting that the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots has subpoenaed and obtained phone records from both Eric Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle.

The records obtained by the committee include call logs that show whom Trump and Guilfoyle had been talking with and the duration of their calls. The records do not contain any details about the contents of their phone calls and text messages, however.

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots his issued subpoenas to several attorneys who issued legal challenges aimed at blocking President Joe Biden's win, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis.

Giuliani notoriously filed dozens of lawsuits aimed at blocking key swing states from certifying their election results, only to lose every single one.

Mike Lindell is knowingly spreading lies about the 2020 election "for the noble purpose of selling his pillows," according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by Smartmatic.

The voting machine company's complaint accuses the MyPillow CEO of defamation and deceptive trade practices, Forbes reported.

Republicans in Arizona are refusing to detail who organized the phony slate of electors that was sent to the National Archives.

The Arizona Republic spoke to multiple Republicans who signed the document and reported "none would detail exactly how they and the other official Trump electors came to sign a document that was sent to Congress with a false avowal that they constituted Arizona’s official vote in the Electoral College. That document, and recent revelations from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, raise new questions about how the group was organized and how the false document came to exist."

On January 5, the day before the one-year anniversary of the January 6, 2021 insurrection, Attorney General Merrick Garland declared that the U.S. Department of Justice is committed “to holding all January 6 perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law — whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.” Harvard University law professor Laurence H. Tribe and former federal prosecutor Dennis Aftergut applaud that speech in an op-ed published by the Boston Globe on January 11, but they also express skepticism about Garland’s commitment to following through.

“Garland’s well-crafted words told Americans what they needed to hear,” Tribe and Aftergut write. “We maintain hope that he will swiftly investigate the leaders behind the violent January 6, 2021 Capitol attack by a pro-Trump mob that sought to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 Electoral College vote. But he must also spearhead an investigation into the earlier, bloodless coup attempt that failed to overturn the election and thus made force the only option to interrupt the transfer of power. Unfortunately, little in the attorney general’s words provided any firm basis for that hope.”

The foundation belonging to anti-public school activist and former Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her husband, is handing a right wing group, The Claremont Institute, $640,000.

“The Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation donated $240,000 to Claremont in 2020 and approved another $400,000 to be paid out in the future, tax records show,” Rolling Stone reports in an article titled, “Revealed: The Billionaires Funding the Coup’s Brain Trust.”

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots wants to speak to Rudy Giuliani, who served as President Donald Trump's lawyer during the over 60 failed lawsuits against the 2020 election results.

Giuliani is likely to claim that he can't testify about anything because he was serving in a legal capacity for Trump. However, Giuliani did say that he worked for Trump "for free" because Trump ordered him to.

On Monday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," correspondent Ryan Nobles walked through how a federal court hearing put pro-Trump attorneys in the hot seat on whether the former president and his allies can face civil litigation over the January 6 attack.

"It's very important, because what this judge is trying to decide is whether or not this civil litigation can move forward against not only President Trump, but a group of people very close to him," said Nobles. "That group is arguing that this case cannot move forward because the individuals all have First Amendment rights — basically, allowed them to say whatever they wanted on January 6th and really had nothing to do with inciting the riot that took place here on Capitol Hill. Obviously ... these litigators believe differently."

District Judge Amit P. Mehta on Monday ripped a major hole in former President Donald Trump's claim that he never intended to incite violence at the United States Capitol building.

During a hearing dealing with multiple civil lawsuits filed against Trump and his allies for their roles in inciting the riots, Mehta questioned lawyer Joseph Sibley, who is representing defendant Rudy Giuliani, about why Trump didn't act sooner to call off the rioters if he didn't approve of their actions.