and mr. meadows testimony will bear on another fundamental question before this committee, and that is whether donald j. trump through action or inaction corruptly sought to obstruct or impede congress s official proceeding to count electoral votes. that language, her word choice appears to be cheney signaling to the doj that she believes trump himself could be responsible for a more serious crime, obstruction of congress. take a look at this section of the law defined in part as, quote, whoever obstructs or impedes the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either house or any committee of either house or any joint committee of the congress. is that the potential end game for the committee when it comes to the former president? unclear. but for tonight, meadows should consider the case of steve bannon who now faces up to two years behind bars and up to
18 u.s. code section 1505. whoever corruptly influences, obstructs or impedes the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the united states shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than five years or if the s offense involves international or domestic terrorism imprisoned by not more than eight years. this is a federal crime that the vice chair of the investigation says it is inquiring about when it comes to mr. trump and they would like to question mr. meadows about whether or not mr. trump committed that crime.ab because if somebody if somebody corruptly obstructed or impeded congress s official count of the electoral votes that s a federal crime and crime shouldn t pay.sh so whoever did it should be caught and punished. this has basically been revealed now as the direction of the january 6th investigation. the investigators, members of the committee basically revealed last night that
provide secret information. they want to do the right thing and be the d.c. guys and don t want to put their fate into the hands of republicans who are not playing with any facts in reality. what happens if you have defiance of congress and congress wants to turn that into contempt of congress, one of the strategies here is run out clock, right. the american people will lose focus and the committee will give up after time if you need court hearing after court hearing. what s the process and how clean and clear is it? it s not very clean and clear. first of all, it s up to the committee to decide how hard they are going to play on this and whether they are really going to go after the enforcement of these so they can make criminal referrals to the justice department for contempt. if there s one of these individuals or more who is actually evading service of them, there even could be a referral for obstructs, but, you know, these individuals, on one hand, dana, you re absolutely righ
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