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Have the inherent power to arrest and also to fine people who are disobeying a lawful order of congress. somebody said to me would you really go out and start arresting executive branch officials? i think 16 or 17 of my constituents who were high school students who sat in at the office of speaker paul ryan in the last congress, they got arrested. i had to go down to the d.c. jail to get them out. so i know we ve got the power to arrest people here and we ve exercised it before. should you, then, do you support using that power to arrest those who do not show up, like the attorney general did not less than a month ago and like it appears don mcgahn will not today? i m not avers to it at all. i think we need every tool in the constitutional tool kit out on the table to deal with this crisis of presidential obstruction of congress lawful powers. now, it s better if it happens the way it did yesterday where a court said that the white house position was ridiculous and that ....