the end of the month. mccarthy, caught on tape talking about kicking trump out of office ran to mar-a-lago weeks later. chairman bennie thompson writing, you declined voluntary cooperation, and we re left with no choice but to issue thank you subpoena. in a letter sent asking for his cooperation in january, the committee said they wanted to talk to mccarthy about his, quote, conversations with president trump before, during, and after the violent january 6th attacks. mccarthy today slamming the committee s probe. look, my view on the committee has not changed. they re not conducting a legitimate investigation. it seems as though they just want to go after their political opponents. congressman scott perry having a similar thing today. the fact that they sent it to the press before they sent it to the members proves it s all about headlines. bennie thompson saying today he hopes they all comply, and so far there have not been conversations about contempt if they don t.
The end of the month. mccarthy, caught on tape talking about kicking trump out of office ran to mar-a-lago weeks later. chairman bennie thompson writing, you declined voluntary cooperation, and we re left with no choice but to issue thank you subpoena. in a letter sent asking for his cooperation in january, the committee said they wanted to talk to mccarthy about his, quote, conversations with president trump before, during, and after the violent january 6th attacks. mccarthy today slamming the committee s probe. look, my view on the committee has not changed. they re not conducting a legitimate investigation. it seems as though they just want to go after their political opponents. congressman scott perry having a similar thing today. the fact that they sent it to the press before they sent it to the members proves it s all
Illegitimate and inflation and all that, you re still going to have to account for what happened on january 6th. that takes me back to the first point, if the commission is not prepared to the subpoena they have put on the street today, they might as well put up shop and go home, because everything after that if you don t enforce it becomes harder to prove to the american people that you re serious about get to the bottom of this. i would also add to your analysis that when you talk about january 6th as something that happened in the past, a threat that was, it misses the piece of this which is most critical and urgent, which is this is an ongoing threat. these are people in powerful decision-making decisions who still get to do their jobs. if you try to message this an a voter who has not been paying as
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neal i fully take barbara s point. i want to point out, though, these republicans have shown little concern for institutions, right? if that is supposed to be the driving motivating factor for them to comply, they haven t exactly shown a history of making that a priority. that s 100% right, and they ve always not respected precedent at all, and barbara has been absolutely brilliant in making the case for the crimes that were committed on january 6th. she wrote essentially a prosecution memo about this. the one thing i would just quibble with her on with this is there is actually precedent. the ethics committees have subpoenaed members of congress before, and some of them are even gone to court. so we have seen this, a member congressional committee subpoenaing a member of congress. she s absolutely right, given their disregard of institutions and their coup-like behavior, i expect them to fight this. the congress has two tools available to it.