people who have insurrection fatigue. i think there are also a lot of people who feel that accountability is more critical now than ever and that sense of urgency builds the closer and closer we get to the midterm elections. we ve yet to see the house move to subpoena members of congress kevin mccarthy, jim jordan, scott perry have all refused to assuming the committee believes these members have such information germane to the events of january 6th, the real question is whether the house has the political will to impose available punitive sanctions for the willful refusal to comply with lawful subpoenas. eugene, do they have that political will? yeah. i mean we don t know right now, right? that is they have said over and over, though, that everything is on the table. you know, from talking to donald trump, trying to subpoena possibly donald trump, to maybe subpoenaing members of congress.
well, we don t know exactly because manafort may have information that s germane to investigations that have nothing to do with the president, or he may have information germane to things going on with the central question of the inquiry of course, was there collusion with russia which is so far unproven, alleged but unproven. even bob woodward said he looked hard for two years, found no evidence of russian collusion. it would be difficult to speculate what manafort will do. obviously his choosing to cooperate must be worry some for the white house, but he was with the campaign a short period of time, connected to things that have nothing to do with the campaign. i think before we go down the road of speculating that manafort will bring down the president, it is important to remember, he may say things about people and other situations, lobbying situations, for instance, that are completely unconnected to donald trump. right. in that sense we had this other mueller investigation ta