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You can get my vote. i want you to show the american people that you re serious. here s the subpoena to representative scott perry who did not comply. here s the subpoena to jim jordan that did not supply with a subpoena. those were subpoenas issued by the 1-6 committee but it s almost unheard of for a committee to issue a subpoena for a sitting lawmaker. the house will not vote on contempt of congress until next week. neil? neil: chad, two very quick questions. why not force the issue? he s there. he come in to the committee room. look the doors. get your inquisition going right away. it s conceivable. you could ask the sergeant at arms to do that, to arrest him, to cite him for being out of compliance with that subpoena. that s not what they did. neil: they didn t do that at all. switching gears to the house freedom caucus. angry conservative members not keen on speaker johnson s cobbled together deal to keep the government lights on and ....
Of course, now has this temporary reprieve in having to testify in the investigation that s happening in georgia, and of course the major efforts there to overturn the election by former president trump and his allies. he has this temporary reprieve. do you think it s going to last, because he s kind of been arguing that he doesn t have to testify given he is a sitting lawmaker. yeah, what what lindsey graham argued in his motion to quash the subpoena, which was a subpoena to come and appear before the grand jury and answer questions about a number of things which included but weren t limited to phone calls that he made to georgia, apparently on their face to try to influence the way they were counting the votes and where they would come out, he made an argument that he had a right to have the subpoena totally quashed, which is to say basically gotten rid of. so he would not even need to show up. that argument on its face is is i would say it s actually ....
Obviously that president s long phone call to officials there in georgia, the secretary of state, et cetera, saying find the votes. senator lindsey graham is now being subpoenaed to testify, about two phone calls that he made during that time about this issue. the attorney for lindsey graham is saying this is no problem. this is constitutionally protected activity because it s legislative activity and protected by the speech and depp bait clause. c can you explain if that s a good legal argument? when it comes from a sitting lawmaker. absolutely, poppy. it s not. short answer is it s not. the speech and debate clause is not going to help lindsey graham in his effort to quash the subpoena. i would note that the fulton county district attorney, i ve always thought this is sort of the dark horse when it comes to potential criminal charges being ....
Could this just be a disagreement over how you would define a tour? yeah. exactly. the not true part, what part is not true. there s a broad spectrum of what could not be true about what is being said. this is as bad an accusation as it gets. this makes january 6th not an event of opportunity but of intention and then you have a sitting lawmaker, perhaps more, really aiding in the planning of that. i have to say back when democrats were making these claims the days after the insurrection with zero evidence, i was really disturbed by that. both the content of the claims and the fact they had no proof of it. they were just throwing it out there. i mean, like i said, it doesn t get worse than that. if you don t have evidence to back that up, i thought it was ....
Knowing about the incursion on american democracy and they re on the horns of a dilemma and loudermilk and generally. he can try to say we can cooperate and this is true of the other five, as well so they ll tell the story and he won t be able to be accurate and they sure seem confident about it, man, what an accusation against a sitting lawmaker. he actually helped people coming to invade the capitol, nowhere to go and what to do and you contrast that and juxtapose it with pence and everyone else cowering behind the doors and knowing that they facilitated that, man, oh, man, that is treacherous. it seems to cross so many red lines, harry. it seems to defy any ability to defend because it seems to reveal knowledge that the protest at the ellipse and the march to the capitol was never the plan that republican members ....