congressional subpoenas. you re going to see that, you know, some of the subpoenas we have outstanding and working on for months, you know, aren t going to be effective before the end of this session. donald trump knew that. his allies knew that. they knew they could delay and essentially delay justice enough to deny it. we need reforms that will strengthen and speed congressional accountability as well as many other reforms. congressman schiff, it is simone sanders townsend. the ethics committee referrals that were detailed today in the summary. what is going to happen with those ethics committee referrals in less than 16 days, republicans will be in the majority in the house of representatives effectively in charge of the ethnics committee and have to wonder if they of nose republicans will hold kevin mccarthy or jim jordan or others named accountable?
majority in the house of representatives effectively in charge of the ethnics committee and have to wonder if they of nose republicans will hold kevin mccarthy or jim jordan or others named accountable? we were wrestling with what s the proper remedy that violate their oohs and not willing to give up when given a lawful subpoena in a legitimate investigation and we waged should we refer them to the justice department? you know, we did refer some of these people to the justice department for prosecution. we held them in criminal contempt and when we did that and here i m talking not members of congress but others, we were only batting 50/50 with the justice department. it looked like that would be a potentially problematic remedy and what s more from the perspective of the separation of powers, it ought to be congress enforcing discipline among its own members. now, the ethics committee is the one committee in congress equally divided between the
we don t know if they re 40% of the electorates or 50% or 27% of the electorate. what about i don t want to project this on you, but what about the conservatives that held their nose and voted trump the last time because the alternative was hillary clinton, what do they do this time? because trump is still president the day after the election too. is this an easier vote to punish the president if you want to punish him on behaver? i don t think the punishment is hold your nose republicans. the question is whether they would come out. i think this week what happened starting with the pipe bombs and what happened on saturday, this is a very depressing week, depressing, sad week. and it s one thing to say, i got to go to the polls to punish trump. that s what i want to do. that s what i wanted to do from 2017. but i better all things consider go to the polls because the democrats, maybe they re a little too liberal and stuff