congress s power to investigate or the former president why is this important that republicans vote to hold him in contempt you would think that if they take an oath to protect and defend the constitution they would vote for the system of checks and balances an invalid subpoena issuing invalid subpoena weakens our power, not if somebody votes against it. reporter: and, garrett, there is more tough news for president biden today in his mission to unite democrats around his spending plans. yeah, that s right, lester key moderate senator joe manchin said he doesn t expect to see a breakthrough any time soon and his fellow holdout kyrsten sinema saw five members publically resign today calling her one of the principal obstacles to progress. lester garrett haake at the capital, thank you. we need to get to new developments to haiti. in a video, the head of the gang holding those 17 members of a missionary group threatening to kill them if his demands are not yet.