A third principle is judicial review. Here i would just remind the committee about the supreme courts decision in trump versus mazar. The court said about this committee that in fact it has to conduct the investigation for a legitimate purpose. A Fishing Expedition is not a legitimate purpose. Moreover, the court in the trump case it is not a legitimate purpose for the house or House Committee to be conducting the function of law enforcement. I heard many references here to criminal misbehavior, to whether or not somebody should be thrown in jail. Criticisms of a prosecutor, mr. Weiss. That sounds to me like an attempt to really substitute for the properly legitimate proceedings of the house. Two other safeguards real quickly. One is that these proceedings should be based on principle, not partisanship. I fear that what were hearing today, which can be traced back to 2019, and accusations made against mr. Biden are driven bipartisan animus more than principle. A final safeguard is for
Tamara keith, White House Correspondent for npr. And ken vogel political reporter for the New York Times. Thank you all for being with us especially as part of our Leadoff Panel tonight. Ken, ill lead off with you. What do you make of this bank subpoena, if true, is it a big deal . What else does it speak of . Absolutely. We always kind of knew that this was a possibility that mueller would start looking into Donald Trumps finances and this subpoena, again, if it is accurate that Deutsche Bank has been subpoenaed, would indicate that he is fully going down that route. Deutsche bank is significant because donald trump it has at least 130 million worth of Donald Trumps debt and it sold some of that debt or could have sold some of that debt to russian banks. That could potentially give these russian banks some leverage over donald trump. And so you have the combination here potentially of Donald Trumps finances as well as his
dealings with russia and how those two things intertwine. So ev
subpoenaed the bank records of at least one trump campaign official. the bank subpoena was actually revealed in a desperate christmas eve lawsuit filed by donald trump s spokesman trying to block the committee from getting his financial records. that lawsuit also revealed that trump s spokesman has been cooperating with the investigation, handing over 1,700 pages of documents and testifying for four hours. but the committee says it actually wants to know more about hundreds of thousands of dollars that trump s spokesman allegedly arranged for a social media and radio advertising campaign encouraging people to attend trump s rally on january 6th. now, even as the committee pushes ahead on uncovering the funding behind the events of january 6th, it is also still pursuing records from the trump white house about that day. now, after donald trump last week asked the supreme court to step in and block the january 6th investigation from getting access to his white house
subpoenaed the bank records of at least one trump campaign official. the bank subpoena was actually revealed in a desperate christmas eve lawsuit filed by donald trump s spokesman trying to block the committee from getting his financial records. that lawsuit also revealed that trump s spokesman has been cooperating with the investigation, handing over 1,700 pages of documents and testifying for four hours. but the committee says it actually wants to know more about hundreds of thousands of dollars that trump s spokesman allegedly arranged for a social media and radio advertising campaign encouraging people to attend trump s rally on january 6th. now, even as the committee pushes ahead on uncovering the funding behind the events of january 6th, it is also still pursuing records from the trump white house about that day. now, after donald trump last week asked the supreme court to step in and block the january 6th investigation from getting access to his white house records, the committe
now, before the holidays there was a flurry of developments in this investigation. in fact, the january 6th committee for the first time turned its sights on fellow ts members of congress, requesting documents and testimony from two republicans, scott perry of pennsylvania and jim jordan of ohio.anbl leading up to the january 6th insurrection, both congressmen were deeply involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results and, in fact, keep president trump in power. now, we also learned just before christmas that the committee had subpoenaed the bank records of at least one trump campaign official.soma the bank subpoena was actually b revealed in a desperate christmas eve lawsuit filed by donald trump s spokesman trying to block the committee from getting his financial records. that lawsuit also revealed that trump s spokesman has been cooperating with the investigation, handing over in 1,700 pages of documents and testifying for four hours.ge but the committee says it co actual