occurring again, our committee needs to hear from mr. meadows. the supreme court once observed a subpoena is not a court invitation to a game of hounds when the witness must testify at the end of the cornered chase. yet, as detailed, it is clear to any reasonable observer that pl meadows has treated this request for information as if it were a game. to read the record how mr. meadows responded to the subpoena is to come away exhausted and enraged. any regular citizen that floated a court subpoena like mr. meadows would have faced serious legal challenges and consequences and rightly so. this is not a witness who has acted in good faith. generally willing to tell his side of the story while declining to disclose certain information based on clear and colorable assertion of legal privilege.
0 swing. be vigilant and informed about your own health. that does it for us. the reidout with joe reid is joy reid is up next. hi, joy. have a wonderful evening. much appreciated. good evening. you re looking at the room where members of the house select committee on january 6th will soon be gathering for a special meeting. in this hour they will vote in a measure to refer criminal charges for donald trump s former chief of staff. mark meadows who defied their subpoena. they ll also be discussing the damming new evidence they gathered that sheds light on trump s attempted coup and meadow s personal involvement. you won t want to miss this. this comes after meadows abruptly halted his cooperation last week and twice refused to show up for scheduled depositions and suing the committee in an effort to shield trump and avoid accountability. as the committee detailed in the report they re voting on tonight, it s clear that there is a lot that he is still hiding. for one, the committe
friend, i ve worked with him and testified alongside him. jonathan turley on the significance of obstruction of justice, he is forgetting that the house has the soul, s-o-l-e power of impeachment. it does not need to go to a court to get the subpoena in forest. when the president receives a subpoena, mick mulvaney, mike pompeo receive a subpoena and they throw it in a drawer. they do not comply or challenge because the president told them to, that is the act of obstruction. jonathan turley has argued that the congress needs to go to court and get in order to enforce the subpoena. in the failer to figure that court subpoena is obstruction. spilling we are going back and forth on this, talking about bribery and abuse of power with regards to a obstruction. he mentioned fast and furious and how president obama held that document.
critics, is kind of rich, given his unwillingness to answer robert mueller s questions in person or telling former white house counsel don mcgahn to defy a house subpoena or fighting one court subpoena after another to keep the financial entanglements out of the public eye or paying to finance stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. given all of that, is it any surprise the reporters asked him whether it s more about himself or the country? today the director of national intelligence issued a rare statement saying, i m confident that the attorney general will work with the ic, meaning the intelligence community, in accordance with standards to protect highly classified information that if publicly released would put our national security at risk. keeping em honest, this is the same attorney general who s now being accused of cherry picking the mueller report in his summary of it and doing it in a way that puts serving his boss above the truth. the question now, would he do the same this ti
maybe he said 100 million to nothing. but should she lose, we ll have an insurance policy and we ll get this guy out of office. and that s what they said and that s what they meant. that s treason. that s treason. well, that s the answer he gave. by the way, after being reminded by a reporter that treason can be punishable by death. and today, as former and current intelligence officials or professionals alike raise questions about the wisdom of it all and what the president s words on treason still fresh the president was asked some tough questions about his motivations. let me just tell you, it s not payback. i don t care about payback. i think it s very important for our country to find out what happened. he also said he was doing this in the name of transparency, which to his critics, is kind of rich, given his unwillingness to answer robert mueller s questions in person or telling former white house counsel don mcgahn to defy a house subpoena or fighting one court subpoena a