until the midterm elections. and tonight, the january 6th committee is under pressure to figure out its next move. given the very real likelihood none of the five subpoenaed republican lawmakers will comply. earlier today, one committee member suggested it is not over yet. we have all of the options that would be available to us for someone like steve bannon, or mark meadows, and then additional options because there are members of congress. of course, bannon and meadows were held in contempt, bannon now facing criminal charges for stonewalling the investigation. as the committee waits to hear from the gop house members. politico issued this report, another subpoena has gone out to a former aide to mark meadows. cassidy hutchinson, worked with meadows during trump s final days in the white house. she has already had two conversations with the committee. and the panel now wants a third. there is no question that hutchinson from her position dealing with legislative affai
Kinds of birth control, unsure if it will be included in whatever the replacement looks like. The first question that you start out with, particularly looking at voters in this area, people really care about their healthcare. Was it a good idea to repeal and replace so quickly . Some republicans even saying lets repeal and take our time to get to the replace part. Val, youre the state official. What do you think . Yeah, well, the challenge for republicans are if they dont put in place a plan that gives people some coverage theres gonna be transitional problems with putting a new plan in place, and if they dont put something in place quickly, theyre only risking the 2018 elections of being in charge of a system that they now own thats not working. So, theres a little bit of pressure on the republicans in congress to put something together that works, and its not gonna be easy to do. Whats interesting to me is that weve had months, years to think about this, and theres not a leading plan
Second chance. But he did admit that the ethics case against him, the largest fine in the history of the ethics board, which was exacted about a month ago, did become a distraction for him, so he wont seek reelection, and he also talked about how he as an orphan, as a child, went on to become the first africanamerican District Attorney in the history of the city of philadelphia. Harold, this a big surprise to you . It is a surprise, the announcement that hes not running. Id been convinced that he would run in the next election. I didnt know how successful he would be. For all of us who remember seth running for election against Lynne Abraham the first time, the animosity between the two, because he had worked for her, and the promise and the goals that he had as a young District Attorney. And he fulfilled a lot of that promise, but ethics matter, and i noted in his announcement he tried to make a big deal of the fact that there were so many questions about the ethics mistakes as oppose
Notwithstanding the amount, which is huge, of course . Well, look, its 4. 4 billion, but a lot of it is also deferred maintenance, whether its our roads, whether our parks and Recreation Centers and all of it libraries so its important what were doing to make sure that we can focus on our infrastructure. But there are also other aspects. You know, theres one thing, which is maintenance and cleaning up the skin. Its also to exfoliate to sort of grow and generate new skin, which is the, you know do we have any stake in robotics, advanced manufacturing . Do we have any stake in any other future economy machine learning, et cetera . Which we dont. And if we dont if we have our feet grounded firmly in the wet cement of history and preservation of today, eventually that cement hardens. And you have to also think about the future, use the foundation as a jumping board for the future. And i dont think we are doing that right now. Its not the mayors fault, its just, you know, how much money do
Convicted of, will that impact the next attorney general . In other words, are people in the state of pennsylvania so disheartened by the continuing corruption issues that they will vote one way or the other based on running against corruption . What do you think . Well, i think certainly its an issue. And i think but neither of the two candidates were touched at all by the scandal. And so i dont see a direct connection between her and the two candidates who are running. So i dont think that thats going to be an issue. I do, though, want to just mention the idea that she was sentenced to jail time. I think a lot of people believe that she needed to be punished. But im still on the side of, you know, nonviolent crimes, for people going to jail for that, its still a tough decision to make. She was an interesting figure, a rising star, nelson. Four years ago, really an unheardof person outside the political realm, who was able to get a mainstream job, and many thought there would be a ste