we hold our hearings next month we wish to provide members the opportunity to discuss these matters with the committee voluntarily. regrettably, the individuals receiving subpoenas today have refused and we are forced to take this step to make sure the committee uncovers facts concerning january 6th. we urge our colleagues to comply with the law and do their patriotic duty and cooperate with our investigation as hundreds of other witnesses have done, and the committee lays out in clear detail just why they need the testimony of these five congressmen pointing to their roles in multiple aspects of the trump coup plot. the committee writes this about jim jordan, representative jim jordan was in communication with trump on january 6th and participated in meetings and discussions throughout late 2020 and early 2021 about strategies for overturning the 2020 election. regarding scott perry, the committee says, he was, quote, directly involved with efforts to corrupt the department
constitution or the code permit what president trump asks, period. so you ve got mo brooks for woman january 6 wasn t a deadly insurrection, maybe, but it was also, quote, the final election contest verdict, whatever that means. would said bafta, enough, donald trump wants many me to resigned, and maybe they come in and say, all right, the joke is up. here is what i know. but it doesn t look that way, doesn t it? it didn t look that way at all. and to the conversation that you were having with your other guests, i think the lawmakers will decide whether they want to hang together or separately and i think the politics is clear. they ve going to hang together and not show up and i think the ball ends up very uncomfortable in merrick garland s court if democrats take this to the logical conclusion of trying to hold members in context when they don t show up. you could find yourself in a situation come midsummer where members of congress voting to hold other members of congress in conte