issuing invalid subpoena weakens their power, not if somebody votes against it. he has the right to go to the court, to see if he has executive privilege or not. i don t know if he does or not, but neither does the committee. so, they re weakening the power of congress itself by issuing invalid subpoena. just because you say the word invalid subpoena three times, does that make it invalid? why, yes, it s a little known legal rule. no, of course not, alisyn, and you know, the validity of it could not be more in question. the focus on bannon, by the way, and also next scavino shows that the committee is really interested in knowing just what trump knew and when he knew it because bannon famously is not only predicting or knowing what s happening the next day, he s in continual conversation with the then-president of the united states. so it s an obvious topic for the committee to pursue, and by the way, bannon s executive privilege claim is all wet. he wasn t even in the executive
immigration system. and making sure that we end family detention. would there be civil penalty for crossing the border? most people don t realize in the country when we talk about for instance the deportation process, that is a civil process. that is not a criminal process. so, crossing the porder would remain against the law. there would be consequences. many of the same consequences today. however, we would get rid of the law that s the tool that the trump administration or a future administration could use in order to separate children from parents. and i ll tell you, anderson, to the american people, look, if somebody elects me, somebody votes for me for president they are not electing me follow. they are electing me to lead. i m a ware it s under water. i believe we should go out there and make the case that we should lead on this. and not follow.
votes against it. this is nothing new. i can tell you from at least the state level that we would do these kind of resolution types of votes all the time to get people on the record. for a political purpose. for example, when we knew people running for congress we would you resolutions supporting or harris: so you play this game before. [laughs] i have not made it happen but i ve been there for it. harris: that s transparent! real quickly, just to double down with you if you get on the record and vote when i call present, does that count? no, we weren t allowed to set up the state level in ohio. but present is a total cop out. [laughter] frankly, i think the fact is that if somebody votes present it means that they probably would vote yes but they are afraid of the potential fallout, in my opinion. we also have to remove or that the afl-cio, the major labor union, it serves a number of unions that are critical of the green new deal. they could have an impact as well.
carefully with, traded texts or e-mails, handed them court opinions that i thought that they should read. everybody makes up their own mind. but no, we were we really were holding out hope today. and as you remember, even after somebody votes for cloture, they can still vote no on passes. john mccain did that a year plus ago on the affordable care act repeal. but it looks like today everybody s locked into their positions. again, i had reasons for coming out against judge kavanaugh a while back. but i think that the sexual assault allegations are so important. about 180 individuals, men and women from virginia, reached out to me in the last two weeks to say i ve never told anybody this story but i m telling you now. chris, some of these were people that i know, that i ve known for decades who had never shared their story of sexual assault. some were young. some were 70 or 80-year-olds. and they are so pained at the
i talked to susan collins. i talked to jeff flake over the course of the last few weeks. talked to all of them. these are people i work carefully with, traded texts or e-mails, handed them court opinions that i thought that they should read. everybody makes up their own mind. but no, we were we really were holding out hope today. and as you remember, even after somebody votes for cloture, they can still vote no on passes. john mccain did that a year plus ago on the affordable care act repeal. but it looks like today everybody s locked into their positions. again, i had reasons for coming out against judge kavanaugh a while back. but i think that the sexual assault allegations are so important. about 180 individuals, men and women from virginia, reached out to me in the last two weeks to say i ve never told anybody this story but i m telling you now. chris, some of these were people that i know, that i ve known for decades who had never shared their story of sexual assault. some were