capital take the unprecedented step of subpoenaing fellow members of and, did the select committee even have the authority to do it. do you think you are going to have to subpoena a sitting member of congress? i think that there is some questions of whether we have authority to do it. we are looking at it. if the charges are there, there will be no reluctance on our part. with the authorities there, there will be no reelecting from our part. at the time, benny thompson was reluctant to issue subpoenas. i doubt it, he told the associated press, there is no precedent to force that compliance. with the months since, revelations have come to light, which would force the committee to grapple with a different question. how could the committee not subpoenaed these members? because after conducting nearly 1000 witness interviews on obtaining over 100,000 documents, one thing has become clear: efforts to contest joe biden s legitimate election victory were not limited to the t
it s about overly aggressive law enforcement, a soup pine judiciary and almost comically ineffective representation. and how all of these things remain on death row who nearly everyone now agrees is innocent. even the man who prosecuted him now doubts his guilt. it s a story about the lives ruined along the way. and it s about the murder of a much like deputy that because of all this, remains unsolved. all of those aspects of the story were true three years ago and given a setback to mr. johnson s case this week one of state appeals court upheld his conviction, they remain true today. the case is far from over, though. the district attorney is trying to get a new trial. alabama s governor could pardon johnson. and the attorney general could drop the case. joining us now is readily bilk, oh he s the washington post columnist who wrote that piece for the washington post and help johnson s case corner national tension. mr. bell co-, thank you for being here tonight and thank you for bring
facts of the case that sent mr. johnson to alabama s death row where he is now spent half of his life. quote, this is a story about a wrongful conviction. it s about witnesses who were rewarded for allies and threatened for telling the truth. it s about overly aggressive law enforcement, a soup pine judiciary and almost comically ineffective representation. and how all of these things remain on death row who nearly everyone now agrees is innocent. even the man who prosecuted him now doubts his guilt. it s a story about the lives ruined along the way. and it s about the murder of a much like deputy that because of all this, remains unsolved. all of those aspects of the story were true three years ago and given a setback to mr. johnson s case this week one of state appeals court upheld his conviction, they remain true today. the case is far from over, though. the district attorney is trying to get a new trial. alabama s governor could pardon johnson. and the attorney general could