We saw congresswoman, one of the committee members, democrat from virginia, say that merrick garland, the attorney general, needed to do his job, so they could do theirs. whether or not the justice department acts on this again remains to be seen, but you know, we see this frustration, from committee members, who worry that they continue to make these referrals and that people might defy their subpoena, anyway, if they don t think there will be any consequence to them. and of course steve bannon, one of the first people that the committee referred for contempt of congress is facing justice department prosecution right now. thank you very much. and i m certainly going to be speaking with you again soon as the investigation proceeds. still ahead, organizing efforts at a tech giant and inflation comes for the big mac. we re diving into the morning s business headlines next on way too early.
Matter what we do know. and they re not gonna cooperate no matter what we do. so we need to use every tool possible and that is why the january six investigation looks different than many, many other investigations that we ve seen. so there s great reporting the new law today, there s also one big asterisks in which you say the committee s aggressive approach carries with an obvious risk, that it could fail to turn up compelling new information about mr. trump s efforts to hold on to power after his defeat or to make a persuasive case for a justice department prosecution. after all, mr. trump survived years of scrutiny by the special counsel and the russian investigation. robert as mueller the third and two impeachments. despite a swirl of new investigation since he left office the former president remains the dominant force in republican politics. in fairness, we are learning new things that we didn t know during the impeachment. what s the point here, that
They re gonna come after us matter what we do know. and they re not gonna cooperate no matter what we do. so we need to use every tool possible and that is why the january six investigation looks different than many, many other investigations that we ve seen. so there s great reporting the new law today, there s also one big asterisks in which you say the committee s aggressive approach carries with an obvious risk, that it could fail to turn up compelling new information about mr. trump s efforts to hold on to power after his defeat or to make a persuasive case for a justice department prosecution. after all, mr. trump survived years of scrutiny by the special counsel and the russian investigation. robert as mueller the third and two impeachments. despite a swirl of new investigation since he left office the former president remains the dominant force in republican politics. in fairness, we are learning new things that we didn t know during the impeachment.
Of this is liz cheney, who wants to use the most aggressive techniques possible. she s considered on the committee to be the most aggressive member. she said we re going to get criticized, no matter what we do, they re going to come after us no matter what we do, and they re not going to cooperate no matter what we do. so we have to use every tool possible. and that is why the january 6th investigation looks different than many, many, many other investigations that we ve seen come out of congress. so there is great reporting that you ve got today but there is also one big asterisk, in which you say the committee s aggressive approach carries with it another obvious risk, that it could fail to turn up compelling new information about mr. trump s efforts to hold on to power after his defeat, or to make a persuasive case for a justice department prosecution. after all, mr. trump survived years of scrutiny by the special counsel in the russia investigation, and robert s. muller iii and t
0 tomorrow. oh thanks you at home for drove-ing us for this next hour. rachel s on hiatus, but as she told you before she left she will be here in a few weeks for the state of the union address. and that is scheduled for march 1st. it will be joe biden s very first state of the union address as president. not to be confused with the address last year which was made to a joint session of congress. and that s because when a new president gives a speech to a joint session of congress, shortly after taking off, it s technically not a state of the it s technically not a state of the union address. so next month will be his first state of the union address. as president. obviously, it s not going to be the first one he s attended. in addition to being in congress for decades, as vice president, he sat behind president obama for seven state of the union addresses so he is very familiar with the view from up on the dais. and the most memorable thing about the president obama memorable state of