crime making it illegal to corruptly impede or obstruct an official proceeding, which includes proceedings before congress. if he had the power to stop that riot from happening and to permit the vote to go forward, his failure to do that could be that effort to corruptly obstruct the official proceeding. and it may be, you know, we ve got this 187 minutes when he sat and did nothing despite the fact that he knew that this violence and description was occurring. is it because it was all part of a larger plan, so i think in addition to that obstruction statute that congresswoman cheney has mentioned, i think we could also look at conspiracy to defraud the united states, that just means trying to impede the normal functioning of government all the way up to seditious conspiracy. i think all of those potential crimes are in play. pete, is it unlikely that doj is looking into any of this until they see what the
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asked about that on meet the press . do you think you re going to have to subpoena a sitting member of congress? well, i think there s some questions of whether we have the authority to do it. we re looking at it. if the authorities are there, there will be no reluctance on our. joining us now, pete williams, and barbara mcquade. let s first talk about this fight over trump white house records that are now being held by the national archives. so the supreme court is expected to rule on this or have arguments on this? talk to me about their schedule. reporter: the question is will the supreme court take the case. that s what the president is asking the court to do because he lost in the two lower courts, the district court and the court of appeals both said that, yes, the president does have some residual executive privilege, but it has to yield to the greater need from these for these documents from the january 6th committee investigating after all the worst attack on the co