jarrett. so, mccarthy says if these telecom companies comply, they will be violating federal law. is that true? it s not even clear what he s talking about because as melanie said, cnn has asked his spokes men and they re just not replying, which is i think is pretty telling. the truth of the matter, jim, there is no law on point against what he s talking about. there s no case on point. this would actually be a novel situation if one member of congress used a subpoena to try to subpoena another member of congress s records. now, there s present of state and federal regulations that regulate the telecom industry, right. the telecom industry can t just go disclosing its users and customers data willy-nilly. what we re talking about a duly authorized member of congress, a congressional body here that does have subpoena power. and the real effect here i think is a chilling one. it s the idea that you actually want to prevent these telecom
it s unclear what law kevin mccarthy is referring to claiming that they re in violation of. we have asked his office for clarification and they have not got back to us. this is a duly authorized investigation. and panels have used their subpoena power in the past to obtain private information from companies. and second of all, the committee has not even requested technically these records yet. they re just asking that they be preserved in case they want to request them down the line. okay. but i think what it really shows is that republicans led from the top are trying to throw as much sand in the gears of this investigation as possible. and donald trump himself has also said he s going to exert executive privilege when he can to block access for other documents and records requests. and ethics experts are already questioning whether mccarthy s threat is in violation of ethics law. it is unclear at this point do we know what he was threatening by a republican majority will not
the committee pursues in depth as you get started? first of all, i can confirm that we will miss you. all the best to you. thank you. but, you know, what i ve said about general milley is that he s certainly someone that we should consider. we haven t made any decisions yet on witnesses, apart from our first hearing, which your reporters are quite accurate, we intend to go forward, whether mccarthy appoint peoples or he doesn t. we have seven democrats and one republican who have been named by the speaker. it s already bipartisan, and we hope that he will appoint people who are serious about the task. but i suspect his decision will be driven by whatever donald trump wants. but in terms of the allegations in the books that are coming out about general milley and others, we want to find out what went on in the run-up to january 6th. we want to find out what happened on january 6th. we want to know what was going on in the white house and the
the capitol insurrection. sources say that mccarthy does plan to put republicans on this high profile panel to appoint some himself and cnn s melanie is joining us now with more. this is quite the about face because initially there was this debate about whether mccarthy would appoint republicans to this panel and it seemed like he was leaning very much against doing so. yeah. i did some digging on this the last few days. what my sources are telling me is that ultimately republicans feel like they want to be in a position where they can push back on democrats and potentially write their own minority report, lay defense for trump and launch a counternarrative to what s coming out of this panel. it feels weird to talk about in terms of strategy and politicizing this, but that s exactly what the prism through which republicans are viewing this committee is. do we have any idea who he is thinking of appointing here? well, i m sure there s going to be some trusted trump allies, people
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Being in the minority in the House of Representatives is like riding in the back of a bicycle-built-for-two. You always have to peddle, you never get to steer, and the view never changes.
Kiss Pelosi s butt, Kevin McCarthy.
Speaker Pelosi shuts down a question about Kevin McCarthy s threats: I m not responding to him. We re making our presentation here. Go ask him about what he says, OK?
The January 6 commission was put together in consultation with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, which means the Speaker adjusted her suit jacket while Kevin suggested Jim Jordan sit on the committee. Kevin had threats in his pocket, too.