we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. and extraordinary behind-the-scenes footage. i m going to punch him out, go to jail and i ll be happy. the january 6th committee holds its final hearing. will the man at the center of it all be held cdcable? president biden heads west as the crucial last inflation numbers before the midterms are released showing punishingly high prices, and toe to toe. that was a lie and i m not biting down. the first debate between the georgia senate candidates gets personal. my opponent has a problem with the truth. is it enough to tip the scales in this high stakes race. the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. the january 6th committee ended what could be its final hearing with a bang, a vote to subpoena former president donald trump. this afternoon, i am offering this resolution, that the committee direct the chairman
the affidavit, which would be unusual, insisting it could compromise its ongoing investigation. now this all comes as cnn has learned some allies of the former president are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of the fbi s search at mar-a-lago. his son eric trump says that will absolutely happen at the right time. plus, we re learning more about a separate probe of trump s role in the january 6th capitol attack. overnight, the new york times reporting that a federal grand jury has subpoenaed white house documents from the national archives, asking for all materials in whatever form that were handed to the january 6th committee. what is clear is the investigations are ongoing. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz in west palm beach. ruling expected today or just the consideration? reporter: it is possible there could be a consideration. the judge could rule live in court or could decide to do it at a later time. but i j
captioning when he s actually moving around. maybe he does. a lot of question marks and voters deserve better. kristen, do you have a view on whether the cruelty is going to win out or the meanness is going to win out over the argument that, like, don t mock voters? i don t know. a lot of americans i think have a loved one, a family member who has gone through something challenging where they know they ve needed special care, needed extra compassion. the fact is would that person be a good member of the united states senate. i think that s why oz thinks this is a mpotentially good message to hit on? the good message would be to focus on the transparency side. i think that s the more effective thing to say, the person wants to represent you in the senate and not necessarily being fully open with you about if and how they can do that job. what about the economy?
the public interests because of the historical nature of this. and one of the things that the media has said so far, at least in the court record is this, not since the nixon administration has the federal government yielded its power to seize records from a former president in such a public fashion. that s the perspective on the transparency side. of course, with all of this, there is a lot of politics at play in the background. there are republicans who want more transparency because they are interested in attacking law enforcement, there are calls to defund the fbi. yesterday out of the white house we said that is not going to happen, it is off the table, not something that president biden would ever want to do, defund the fbi. katelyn, what more are you learning about the new york times reporting that federal prosecutors are working to subpoena the national archives for documents that january 6 th committee already has? reporter: right. well, jim and bianna, this is something
labour said they want to partake in i hear labour witt said they want to partake in i hear labour will not, on the conservative exide labour will not, on the conservative exide there labour will not, on the conservative exide, there will be no transparency side on exide, there will be no transparency side on how exide, there will be no transparency side on how they will be chosen, i do not side on how they will be chosen, i do not think side on how they will be chosen, i do not think they will be any confidence. i think that is sad, but without confidence. i think that is sad, but without these processes being agreed on a cross without these processes being agreed on a cross party basis, there is no hope on a cross party basis, there is no hope that on a cross party basis, there is no hope that anything they come up with will he hope that anything they come up with will be accepted, and if you want an independent standards process april has confidence in, you need cr