potentially, with mccarthy, with perry, with jordan, with other house members that we don t have with a steve bannon, for example, or mark meadows. that s because the house can control its own members, discipline its own members. so there are other options then a the criminal contempt route. we haven t decided on what options to use, but there is an ability of the house to essentially police its own that we will have to consider. steve schmidt, no one ever accused kevin mccarthy of being good at strategery. and betsy s point about whipping up opposition to the katko deal that i believe succeeded in meeting all the requirements that house republican leadership set out to meet in that bipartisan commission. they wanted joint authority bipartisan authority and sign-off over all subpoenas.
frontier here about compelling testimony from a fellow member of congress for congressional inquiry. as far as i know, that hasn t happened. we haven t seen subpoenas for that kind of thing. how do you think about it? well, this came up during the russia investigation when it was chaired by devin nunez. there were two democrats and two republicans. we asked them to come in and they said yes. now we have them failing to do their duty. we have certain remedies potentially with mccarthy, with perry, with jordan, with other house members that we don t have with a steve bannon, for example, or mark meadows. that is because the house can control and discipline its own members. there are other options than the criminal contempt route. we haven t decided on what options to use, but there is an ability of the house to
chief of staff was central to all of this, then the president was is central to all of this. absolutely. they didn t just immediately go down the criminal contempt route. once you do that, you re giving up on consequently showing it. he could show up and not answer in a way that s satisfying to the committee. i know he s a major key player in the investigation. i just find meadows to be a fascinating character. you re on the hill every day and you know what he was like in the house and his colleagues have some strong views on him. but for somebody who s trying to keep his relationship with president trump viable, he s now agreed where president trump has declared a dead letter.