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Are not making these decisions in a vacuum, they are listening to republican leaders. it was republicans that stormed the capitol. it was not democrats that stormed the capitol. it was not democratic-leaning activists. donald trump was responsible for january 6th. he laid the predicate for the big lie. his organization issued the invitation to come and spoke at the rally and said go to the capitol with strength, not with weakness. i will tell you i think the politics on the republican side are just getting warmed up. they want this to be a democratic-led special committee in the congress because i wouldn t be surprised if they refuse to testify. even though the committee will have subpoena power, now that it s a house committee, if kevin mccarthy is called to testify, he will invoke privileges to not be subpoenaed by a committee. who knows how that turns out. what we know from the don mcgahn testimony is this could be litigated for years. ....
This is okay. it is plainly wrong for the president of the united states to attack a career public servant, just for telling the truth as she knows it. and i yield back the balance of my time. the gentlelady yields back. mr. stanton. thank you very much, mr. chairman. and thank you to our outstanding witnesses here today. president trump has declared that he will not comply with congressional subpoenas. this blanket categorical disregard of the legislative branch began with the president s refusal to cooperate with regular congressional oversight and has now extended to the house s constitutional duty on impeachment, the reason why we are here today. this disregard has been on display for the american people. when asked if he would comply with the don mcgahn subpoena president trump said, well, we re fighting all the ....
Question briefly. thank you, mr. chairman. i i ve been a critic of of the obstruction theory behind the russia investigation because, once again, it doesn t meet what i think are the clear standards for obstruction. there were issues that mueller addressed. the only one that i think was that raised a serious issue quite frankly was the matter with don mcgahn. there s a disagreement about that. but also, the department of justice rejected the obstruction of justice claim. and it was not just the attorney general. it was also the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. the gentleman s time is well-expired. thank you, mr. chairman. and i d like to thank our witnesses for being here today. i can assure your testimony is important, not only to this body, but to america that s listening very intently on what the issues before us are. and why is it so important that all of us understand? the issues before us. ....
Way. the case that holds the keys to whether don mcgahn can or should or would come and testify before the house got a boost at the federal judge level today. what do you think the chances are that we will see don mcgahn raise his right hand and get sworn in and/or is this a game of beat the clock still and it s going to run out of time? i think there will be an attempt to run out the clock as much as possible on that sense. so i wouldn t count on seeing don mcgahn or any other former white house official anytime soon while that makes its way to the supreme court. but what this does do is add even more pressure from some democrats in the house to what bob was talking about, this idea that, hey, there is more information to be gathered. some democrats want all the facts. they want to make more of an effort to press these officials to come forward and testify, and they re saying that there is time for them to do that. ....
very traditional, brian. i don t think that it s going to capture the public s imagination and attention just because it is kind of dry constitutional law work. i mean even i and i taught constitutional law for 20 years. i tend to think this is going to be, you know, not the most exciting thing. they re going to have three people who are going to say, hey, this is an impeachable offense. they re democratic wins. one will be a republican saying this is not an impeachable offense. then i think it moves to really the ultimate question. what s the house going to do? what are those articles of impeachment going to look like if they re drafted? how many are they? are they going to include the mueller stuff? and today we had a twist in that because people like me have been saying, look, ukraine s really simple. stripped down, go fight, bring that forward as fast as you can. but a judge in d.c. today in the ....