prevent donald trump from trying to tie us up in legal knots so we can t get what we need? the committee s trying to move fast so we re going to find out very quickly how serious they are about really doing battle on all these fronts and in trying to win some of these fights. if they deny these subpoenas, kyle, you basically are right, it is putting the committee in a very tricky position. what do you mean by that? so, you know, they want to get this report done by the spring, and so they can t afford to engage in what donald trump has done for years, which is tie them up in courts forever, and so what they really need is, again, an assist from the justice department, the biden justice department, which they re hopeful will be helpful to them, and they need to potentially decide which fights are worth having and which are not because we re not going to win nearly fast enough to make this worth it. barbara mcquade, want to read for you a little bit from steve bannon s attorney, an
the $1 million question today is, what does this say about the republican party s dedication to donald trump? not only the way in which they voted when it came to reconciliation, right, over last week, but also what we re seeing when it comes to the january 6th committee. and abiding by these subpoenas. well, so, look, this is a party that s still bends at the knee of donald trump, and a lot of that is because of the political reality for the political actors that will be on the ballot, you risk your own political future by crossing donald trump. that s why you saw you see the activity of so many doubters of members of congress of the election results, because they have a party now that s somewhere between 50% and two-thirds of the party believe that the election was rigged and therefore, any activity to confront that rigged election now in trump world is justified. so, you have republicans who are living in this very republican
break the filibuster, to raise the debt limit, right? the american people largely, if you look at national polling, don t particularly care about debt as an issue, unfortunately, i think, but what they do care about is economic instability and economic downturns, and so if chuck schumer and joe biden and the democrats say, look, if mcconnell s not going to play ball, we have to break the filibuster to save the american economy, perhaps mcconnell s made that case easier for chuck schumer. i think bigger picture is democrats have to realize you just might not have the votes for the full biden agenda, so how do you take pieces of it and declare a win? they just passed a bipartisan trillion dollar infrastructure bill that donald trump couldn t get done. it got 69 votes, including with mitch mcconnell s support. biden and the democrats might want to take a victory lap on that and reset this narrative, showing how democrats really have been able to govern this year. okay, so, let s bring a
were there at the capitol that day, and they have a very different view than what you saw with your own eyes and many of our colleagues saw with their own eyes. here s what they had to say. when we got back to our hotel room on january 6th and turned the tv on, the stories we were seeing were no resemblance at all to what we saw. we wondered if it was made up. i m in total belief it was a big set-up. i am. it was it s all a political scheme. everything is a political scheme anymore. they can investigate all they want. there was nothing that i saw that was wrong happening there. reporter: so, you get a sense of where voters heads are here, many of them firmly believe joe biden did not win the 2020 election and many of them do want donald trump to one again in 2024. some of the names that are coming up as possible running mates include florida governor ron desantis and south dakota
privilege isn t for the benefit of any one president. it is for the benefit of the presidency, and so it is the current elected president who gets to decide that. the prior president can make a recommendation, but only the current president can invoke the privilege, and so steve bannon is right now in contempt of this order. now, what he seems to be saying to me is, i m not going to do this until i hear from a judge in court. and so i imagine that if the justice department were tried to enforce this criminally, then steve bannon would raise some kind of defense before a court on executive privilege, and it could be a stall tactic to buy him some time before we get him to appear. but ultimately, he s got to respond to the and answer these questions. before i move on to david, barbara, i want to read from your op-ed that you wrote with chuck rosenberg. you write, it s difficult to imagine any sitting president of either party, trump aside, believing that invocation of the privilege h