indeed, hold somebody in contempt and then fine them as long as they remained in contempt and it could get quite expensive for somebody who didn t comply. i m not sure, pam, why the house isn t getting its act together and making these things very effective when they do subpoena them. that was cnn contributor and former nixon white house counsel john dean speaking with our pam brown. u.s. health experts are cautiously optimistic that the country may be turning a corner on the pandemic. hospitalizations, cases and deaths are all declining nationwide. the country is now averaging fewer than 100,000 new cases a day. some of the lowest numbers we ve seen in weeks. vaccinations continue to tick up. 66% of eligible americans are fully vaccinated. that s over 187 million people. meanwhile, brazil s covid death toll has topped 600,000.
for somebody who didn t comply. i m not sure, pam, why the house isn t getting its act together and making these things very effective. when they do subpoena them. i m curious, because they the committee, house committee, did speak to some of the trump former doj officials who were able to speak to his efforts to overturn the election results, his failed attempts to do so. in that case, trump did not invoke executive privilege. in this case, he is. does it weaken his case that he didn t do that before for other officials that were in his administration? the what happened is the present attorney general said he would not invoke executive privilege for these department of justice employees. they did have, however, a career person that attended those hearings and indeed was ready to invoke it if they thought it went in an area that they should invoke privilege. that didn t arise. they steered clear of those