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house panel have privately agonized over how aggressive to be in pursuing sitting members of congress, weighing their desire for information about lawmakers direct interactions with former president trump against a potential legal difficulty and political consequences of doing so. now they are wrestling with whether to subpoena mccarthy, the man who is line to be speaking if republicans retake the house this november, setting in motion a process that could potentially lead to a democratic-controlled house holing him in contempt of congress with the midterm elections looming. investigators have rarely encountered such a situation. it is a situation with hefty stakes for their institution and their investigation as well given mccarthy s many conversations and meetings with the expresident, and given that questions are mount being what was said during those interactions. just days after the insurrection, kevin mccarthy told a local california radio host in an interview he ....
sedition charge. two, it s a key charge going up the line. three, it shows an open probe escalating, not winding down, which is possibly bad news for other insurrectionists and co-plotters yet to be charged. it s big news. i m going to try to walk through it with you right now. beginning with point one. sedition. sedition makes for a significance escalation in the doj s criminal probe. over a year in, today marks the first such charge in this probe. related to sedition, a felony of acting against the united states. i m going to explain it exactly, but i can tell you how serious it is. it carries alone up to 20 years in prison. this is farther than the doj has gone against any of those several hundred january 6th defendants charged to date, and it s one of the first moves to go in the probes to go up the line to the plotters and heavy hitters. so what is this? well, let s go to it. under the law, seditious conspiracy is when people conspire to overthrow by force the gove ....
majority decision. in a separate decision that was 5-4, they allowed a vaccine mandate to stay in place for healthcare workers put in effect by the department of health and human services. so on top of all of this for you. so joining me right now, shannon bream. great to have you with us today. what is your take on this decision? what surprises you, what doesn t here? you know what? i m not surprised we got a split decision in the two opinions this afternoon. we saw from the arguments friday that there was a real concern from a majority of the justices that what osha had done, the department of labor going to private employers and workplaces saying you have to do what the federal government had been admitting. the biden administration goesn t have the power to commandeer these private employers to do a mandate but you have to. seems like there was enough friction and resistance to say why isn t congress stepped in and acted here? the, executive branch can t do this on ....
but for house republican leader kevin mccarthy, it must feel like it happens all the time to him. in his time as a republican leader in the house of representatives, it has happened three times in the past five years already, and now it looks like it might happen to him a fourth time. it s just not that often that a sitting member of congress gets indicted on multiple federal felony charges while they re serving in congress. for poor kevin mccarthy, though, now the leader of the house republicans, he keeps having to deal with this over and over again. first it was chris collins, multiple federal felony charges for insider trading and corruption and all this stuff. then it was republican congressman duncan hunter, multiple federal felony corruption charges. and, you know, it s funny, with collins and hunter, before they were both hit with multiple federal felony charges while serving in congress, which is crazy, those two had only ever shared the spotlight before for thi ....
they don t understand, or are not focused on inflation. malarkey. malarkey? promises about inflation didn t age well. promises rocketing to the highest level in 48 years increasing to a whopping 7%. but joe claims it s a process and a food and gas prices and the cost of living is a global problem. it s not just that it s costing a lot more, it s whether or not you can find what you re looking for. they are self s problem is not going way a shoppers compare with going onto the soviet union. spike that, transportation secretary pete buttigieg is doing supply chain crisis victory lap. one of the reasons why christmas was not in fact cancel is that ports like l.a. and long beach moved record levels of goods allowing an all-time record high in terms of retail sales at this holiday season. considering the pressures that this country in this community, these community to have been under complacent extremity achievement. greg: he saved christmas. congratulations to judge ....