Underway. President biden sitting down with House Democratic leaders, this is as Congress Pushes forward with his 1. 9 Trillion Covid Relief Package. Republicans so far have pushed back on the size and scope. They proposed less than a third of that value. But democrats do have the votes to pass their own bill. Putting the president s call for bipartisanship and unity to the test. We are also watching less than an hour from now, the white house covid19 team holds a Press Conference as we get new warnings on Coronavirus Variants rapidly spreading across the country. Lets begin with manu raju on the hill. John harwood joins us from the white house. Manu, it is really interesting, Jared Bernstein said, no, were still negotiating but still full steam ahead into not needing a single republican vote. It is unlikely that this bill will win over any republicans, certainly not any Senate Republicans based on the size and scope of the legislation. They are pursuing this morning, early this mornin
reporter: on the senate side, the judiciary chairman lindsey graham, close trump ally, invited rudy giuliani to testify about all of this and giuliani saying he may well do that. there is bipartisan support on capitol hill for that, brooke. democrats want giuliani under oath as well. brooke? bipartisan support. how about that? manu raju. thanks. my panel is back. and carrie, back to you. how much weight does this subpoena hold without an official house vote? do they need to hold a vote? well, i think in terms of the subpoena, enforcing subpoenas, they need to first issue the subpoena. a lot of what they re doing is making a request first then the witness isn t appearing because the administration won t let them. going forward they might want to 124i think issue the subpoena to jump-start the process and might need to go to court on it. that s where i think one. most important things the democrats can do when they re
mueller-related memos to the house judiciary committee. the judge was concerned about the fact they were redacted but some movement there to get some information as democrats demand much more. brooke? all right. manu, thank you very much. from the hill for us. michael gerhart, back to you. how much weight does the subpoena hold without an official house vote and do they need to hold a vote here? they do not need to hold a vote. just a smoke screen put up by the president s defenders. the constitution doesn t specify there has to be a vote to authorize an inquiry. makes sense to investigate, figure out the eford and consider whether or not the house judiciary committee ho formulate im formulate impeachment articles. the house is following all the rules. acting properly. the impediments are thrust by the president and his defenders anded that cause for concern. on to this impeachment poll. a huge story today, peter
activities of employees. author of government ethics and cnn contributor. how much weight does this subpoena hold for kellyanne conway? it s a serious escalation. i think we can predict the white house is going to ignore it, as they have with others. ultimately, this is going to have to be litigated in the courts. i think there s a very good chance the house is going to win this one, but unfortunately these things take time. and i think that s the broader strategy of the white house right now, is resist everything across the board and stall, stall, stall. she refused to appear on the advice of white house counsel. executive privilege has not been exercised here, right? so what s the legal what s the legal rationale for this? so the white house is asserting sort of a strange claim that white house presidential advisers have absolute immunity to any kind of a subpoena. that s not a viewpoint that