Protecting ongoing matters and even the perception that our efforts are influenced by anything other than the laws on the facts, and do you believe that anything that confirms the existence of an investigation or gets to some of the questions about those investigations should be off limits for the house? well, they have legitimate concerns about grand jury material, about ongoing investigations and improper influence or revelations concerning those. so, it is really more important as to where it goes from here, and there needs to be a conversation. there needs to be a sense of cooperation from the justice department to provide congress their oversight responsibility, and enough information to address it, as one of the previous guests said, it is appropriate to ask questions about process, and how did you get from point a-to-b, and did you follow the rules or the existing department of justice guidelines.
Of course they control the white house. and so the one thing house republicans have is their oversight responsibility and they plan to use it in many different ways. almost every committee that the house of representatives has about be engaged in some overnight and much directed at the biden administration. as soon as the he had of this month we could see hearings begin on wide range of things, you including the covid virus, the role china is playing on a global stage and a variety of other things. and we re waiting to see exactly how this republican majority uses its subpoena power. for instance, the oversight committee which, power without the approval of the members of the other committee.
Legally this is in a different category, right? the department of justice is in a different category that the january 6th house committee. does mike pence have to answer doj prosecutors? he could stall it. he could prevent it. i think there will come a time where he will answer questions, so let s talk about the distinction. when you have a house committee of course congress has oversight responsibility and they re investigating for that purpose. we re talking about the department of justice we re talking about a department involved in criminality. when you re doing that the only effective way not to testify is assert some privilege or give an indication you shouldn t testify. i don t think the privilege i don t think he s looking to assert privilege. i don t think it necessarily applies here and i think there will come a time he does speak. i think there s reasons to negotiate his testimony. the justice department always wants a motivated witness, a calm witness, a cooperative wit
And scott jennings, great to have you here. so joe, legally this isn t a different category. and the twin category that the january six house committee. does mike pence have to answer doj prosecutors? he could stall. he could prevent it. i think there will come a time when he will answer questions. so let us talk about the distinction. when you have a house, committee congress has an oversight responsibility and are investigating for that purpose. but we are talking about the department involved in criminality not themselves. so when you are doing that, the only effective way to not testify is to assert privilege. or otherwise give the indication allison that you should not testify. i do not think that the privilege will carry the day. i don t think he is looking to assert privilege. i don t think it necessarily applies here. and i think that there will come a point in time when he does speak. i do think there are reasons to negotiate s testimony.
Accountable. every congressional committee has an oversight responsibility and we intend to finally get the answers the american people deserve. the gop reportedly has identified 42 officials from president biden s administration to testify next year after republicans take control of the house of representatives in january. former speech writer for george w. bush and conservative columnist tweeted so voters just stopped the gop red wave because they thought republicans were too extreme. as soon as they win a razor thin majority, the first thing they announce they re doing is investigating hunter biden, not addressing inflation, crime or the border, absolutely nuts writes mark thiessen. it s going to be about hunter biden, impeachment hearings as soon as they sit down. it begins in late january. and guess what, no plan. i mean, inflation, no idea. no plans.