in play it off as a witch hunt. but, the committee has to come with a hammer, if they re prepared to do that, this could get interesting. well, let s talk about that, barbara. we re in an interesting legal constitutional territory. you get subpoenaed in a criminal case, or you get a subpoena for a document production, or deposition in a civil case, you comply, generally. it s rare not to. this is, a, a voluntary ask for compliance. the question is, well, what do you do if not. that answer, to me, the legal and constitutional questions. what do you think? i agree with you, chris. the phrase, unprecedented, as you used too much in our current culture. this is a situation that is unprecedented. congress serving a subpoena on one of his own members. we don t really know how that can shake out.
rhodes has also attracted attention of the january 6th committee which subpoenaed him back in november. today the panel also issued a subpoena to the parent companies of google, reddit, twitter, and facebook. the committee says it wants to know how the spread of misinformation and violent extremism on their platforms may have contributed to the capitol riot. my sense frankly from the document production of these companies is they are sharing with us what they think we already have or already know but we know there is other material out there. and we ve lost patience and we re now going to require them to provide it. tonight alphabet which owns google says it has been actively cooperating with the panel and that it enforced policies against content inciting violence ahead of the riot. the 1-6 committee now in a stand-off with house republican leader kevin mccarthy, he is refusing to cooperate with the committee s request for a
if it they re prepared to do that this could get interesting real quick. well, let s talk about that, barbara. we re in interesting legal and constitutional territory. you know, you get subpoenaed in it a criminal case or you get, you know, subpoena for a document production or deposition in a civil case. you comply. generally. very rare not to. this is a voluntary ask for compliance. and then the question is, well, what do you do if not? and that answer to me is not the legal and constitutional questions here do not seem to me settled or resolved. what do you think? i agree with you, chris. the phrase unprecedented is maybe overused from time to time in our current culture. but this really is a situation that is unprecedented. congress serving a subpoena on one of the own members. and so we don t really know how that can shake out.
is the testimony of bernie kerik, a long-time ally of rudy giuliani s and a person who worked as an investigator on giuliani s legal team. kerik, of course, gave a massive document production to the select committee on new year s eve of this year and he sat for an interview with investigators on that panel. the reason that kerik was able to do this was because trump signed a privilege waiver, said that he was not going to assert any attorney-client privilege to block kerik from participating. now, trump and kerik said the reason they wanted him to participate was because they believed he d be able to reveal the truth about voter fraud but any participation is helpful participation and they now have a voice from within the legal team already as well as documents from within the legal team already, and that s something that s invaluable when it comes to trying to make sense of how lawyers make litigation strategy, how they make
the committee says it wants to know how the spread of misinformation in violent extremism on their platforms, may have contributed to the capitol riot. my sense, frankly from a document production of these companies, they re sharing with us where we already have, or what they think we already know. but, we know there s other material out there. we ve lost it and we re now going to require them to provide. it tonight, alphabet, which owns google, says it has been actively cooperating with the panel. that, in for his policies with the ahead of the riot. meanwhile, the one six committee, now in a standoff with house republican leader, kevin mccarthy. he s refusing to cooperate with the committee s request for a voluntary interview, about his conversations with trump on january 6th. today, mccarthy was asked about, that and those comments he made about trump, shortly after the insurrection. you said that he should have immediately denounced the mob.