she decided to try to help out her daughter who was trying to do the right thing and help outlet during an election. unbelievable. betsey, the gop it s not just vocalizing these, not just talking about them. we learned a republican running to replace a democrat in the statehouse can you only run if you re running on the big lie? we ll know within a couple of months as these primary contests are coming up and as these elections play out. it s certainly something that seems to be beneficial to many of these candidates. if it weren t, they wouldn t be betting and running on this fabrication, this dangerous fabrication is something that makes sense for them to do. one thing involving this specific georgia case that s important to note. i obtained internal e-mails from the justice department a few months ago showing that specifically in this incident involving these two women the
subpoena deadlines as i mentioned today, yesterday, coming up down the road. and is the committee going to go through this process with every single one of them while at the same time as ken mentioned, they have spoken with over 200 people behind the scenes, 200 people that we don t yet know about. and they are hinting at the information they ve already gathered in these subpoena requests to these individuals saying they ve obtained some of this information through their own investigation. and there s a big question if this is just the subpoenas are just to prove a point, to put these names out in the media to know that they are topics of interest or to actually get information, hallie. betsey, yet you re reporting i know today in politico that the bannon actions that the committee has taken against steve bannon seem to have done very little at least so far in resolving these standoffs so to speak with others in former president trump s in circle who have also been subpoenaed.
committee doesn t expect to get very much out of all of these people. i spoke to a congressional staffer about this yesterday, and he reminded me, look, we re sending out all these subpoenas to people we may not expect much cooperation from. but, they, the committee, has interviewed more than 200 witnesses. so they re getting information from sources we have no yooitd idea about. they have to do the subpoenas because they have to be comprehensive but they re also on a political clock. they re trying to be comprehensive, and it d be nice to have some of this stuff but i don t think they re counting on it. mark, talk about the political piece of this. as betsey noted this is apparently seems to be a demonstration of the breadth of the january 6th select committee and what they re going after. yeah. and hally, i think what they re really trying to get after with these new subpoenas is the coordination.
information not only through public reporting but also in previous interviews with other people they are talking to relating to their investigation. and we know this is a new batch of subpoenas on the heels of a batch that went out just yesterday as well. and also there are some deadlines today for some of the previous subpoenas including for people like bill steppian, jason miller, stephen miller, some top advisers to the former president, hally. betsey, let me go to you on this because i know you cover the ins and outs of this. let s go through the organizations and people subpoenaed here. and what s interestingthal chairman of the proud bois on january 6th was not actually in washington at the time. apparently he was not able to get into the city, but the committee says he was involved, they say, for the proud bois preparation for what happened at the capital.
they re going about getting that information from some of the organizations that were most volved. so whether it s organizations or individuals, they re collecting the testimony needing to participate that full picture of what happened. would you encourage those colleagues to move forward with further action if, in fact, some of these individual and groups do not cooperate with the subpoenas? i don t know if you heard the discussion we were just having with betsey, leigh ann and others. yes, we ve got to enforce the law. congress has the right to enforce subpoena, and none of these organizations can claim executive privilege as others know. and even people like steve bannon have no executive privilege claim. i hope the courts will move quickly to resolve those issues, because it s important the committee get to the bottom of this, and we need the testimony to do that. what signal do you think