unwilling witnesses, we are learning a lot about their interactions between the president, with the white house, and notwithstanding their noncooperation. so we havehs getting the facts, and at the end of the day, that s the most important thing to putth that information out t we could start steps to try to protect the countryot moving forward. aside from the prospect of a referral for criminal contempt prosecution, do you feel like what we ve learned thus far might suggest criminal behavior byt members of congress? i m thinking specifically about these revelations today, in this reporting from cnn, that would indicate, in the words of one republican member of congress, marjorie taylor greene that multiple members of congress that trump should declare martial law to stay in power and she took it upon herself to convey those urgings and to
in addition to, obviously, with that would do in terms of riling up the house of representatives. we also have to consider, will the justice department go through with it? we have raised more simple cases and they have yet to act. this is what we are wrestling with. on the positive side, as with so many of these witnesses, we are learning a lot about their interactions with the president, with the white house, notwithstanding their noncooperation. we are getting the facts and i know that at the end of the day, that is the most important thing. we can put that information out to the public and we can aside from the prospect of a referral for criminal contempt prosecution, do you feel like what we have learned thus far might suggest criminal behavior by members of congress? i m thinking about these revelations today in this reporting from cnn that would
on the positive side, as with so many of these witnesses, we are learning a lot about their interactions with the president, with the white house, notwithstanding their noncooperation. we are getting the facts and i know that at the end of the day, that is the most important thing. we can put that information out to the public and we can aside from the prospect of a referral for criminal contempt prosecution, do you feel like what we have learned thus far might suggest criminal behavior by members of congress? i m thinking about these revelations today in this reporting from cnn that would indicate, in the words of one republican member of congress, marjorie taylor greene, that multiple members of congress believed that trump should declare martial law just ahead of the inauguration in order to stay in power and she took it
with the investigation. this means that if the committee doesn t hear from him, they will have to issue a subpoena to compel his testimony. today, a blistering op-ed was published they write, in part, quote, subpoena naming the minority leader would be unprecedented, but his behavior amounts to a dereliction of his oath to support and defend his constitution against all in his quest to become the next gop house speaker, mr. mccarthy has instead thrown in his lot with the enemies of democracy. so the january six committee, nonetheless, continues despite the noncooperation of key witnesses. just today, they interviewed donald trump s last defense secretary christopher miller. he was the man in charge of the
surrounding a coup against the vice president and against the congress. we ll tell the story of each dimension of this attack on american democracy. the american people have not yet seen all of the evidence laid out in this way. so we re going to have hearings for the american people, which i hope will seem somewhat like the watergate hearings did, in that they will be a daily occurrence so people can follow the unfolding narrative and we ll give america a report and congress a report about what happened and what we need to do to strengthen our resiliency against future authoritarian attacks like this. congressman, what is your committee going to do about your fellow congressmen, who are not cooperating, like kevin mccarthy or jim jordan or scott perry? are you planning to issue subpoenas? could that happen this week? how controversial will that be? well, the committee has not yet decided what to do about different levels of interference and noncooperation that we have