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figure out the best way forward to get recalcitrant sitting lawmakers like jim jordan to comply with the committee and answer those questions. and the subpoena question is what we ve seen the committee previously resort to when it comes to recalcitrant witnesses. but that s not the only thing on the table for these discussions this time around. that is because of some of these thornier legal questions and these precedents, political precedents that the committee might want to avoid in the case that democrats lose the majority in november. that includes potentially holding things like lawmakers in suspension or censure. there are other powers of congress that go outside of that stay within congress and don t necessarily rely on the judicial process. in that response we saw from jim jordan, he referenced something called the speech and debate clause. but there are also a lot of legal experts who have said that jordan that the committee should go ahead and just issue
devastating price. senator risch, some conservative personalities, even some sitting lawmakers, they re questioning why the u.s. is helping ukraine at all. i want you to take a listen. why is it disloyal to side with russia but loyal to side with ukraine? ukraine is strategically irrelevant to the united states. he wants to keep his western border secure. that s why he wants ukraine to join nato which makes sense. senator, as one of the top republican issues in congress, what do you say to that? well, i think, first of all, when you have a country like ukraine which wants to move west and look towards western values that is a democracy, we side always with countries that are democracies. certainly there isn t going to be troops committed in that regard. i tell you, the people who are saying we shouldn t be engaged
joining us elliott williams, former deputy assistant attorney general. this is what s clear, i don t know what difference forwarding or not makes, it is the consistency. several sitting lawmakers, republicans, were communicating with the white house about a deliberate effort to reject votes from states that trump lost. right. that s what it is. based on nothing. based on absolutely nothing. and the bigger point is who is surprised at this point? we knew there were go to be members of congress, that information got revealed, and jim jordan had a consistent pattern of showing for donald trump and spewing these theories about the integrity of the election going back months. it should shock nobody. i m not surprised by it here. and it doesn t this doesn t change the underlying outcome. the question is do you get him to come into to testify or to provide more context? at this point, it doesn t matter. he has the information he forwarded. or facing legal consequences, right? yeah.
running for other office including for senate, erica. it s also notable, you know, what we ve seen, as lauren was pointing out, the backlash we ve seen for him being very vocal about, you know, pushing back obviously on president trump, pushing back on the insurrection, but jim, the fact that voice was in the republican party, i would s much more difficult for that voice to gain traction within the party at this moment. we ve talked a lot does the party belong to donald trump, right, and this is yet one more indicator that it is, because for the few sitting lawmakers who are willing to challenge him, there are consequences. kinzinger is not the first republican congressman who voted to impeach who has decided not to run for re-election, and you ve seen others paying other kinds of consequences including challenges, such as liz cheney in her home state in wyoming coming up, a very brutal primary challenge. others face other consequences.