i think rather than complaining about the pipeline, which is i don t like what has happened, but we have to put the foot on the accelerator of energy independence with our nato allies and push russia out of ukraine. let me ask you, one issue at home, of course, is redistricting and gerrymandering. it is one of the reasons we have such a divided congress, right, the districts are drawn in such a way that it is easy to elect, not easy to elect moderates and by the way, your district under the new ohio map, has become a lot less friendly for democrats here. by the way, democrats and states they control have not been innocent of this sort of thing as well. are you concerned that both parties are worsening the divisions with this kind of redistricting? there is no question about it. it is one of the reasons when the country is unrepresented here in the congress because of the way the lines are drawn, it helps to fuel more conflict and ohio, we will in the next congress have 15 seats b
timeline here, right? pushing this out. can we expect if meadows does get a referral here to be able to push this out as well? it seems to serve the interests of the accused here more than the investigators. yeah. it does, jim. i think it also demonstrates how upl utterly toothless congress is in its ability to enforce subpoena powers. a prosecutor presenting a case to the grand jury, if that witness doesn t show up you send police detectives to pick him up, he s told before the judge, you don t testify before the grand jury you will remain in jail until you do. if the witness says i m not testifying, he s hauled off to jail. sometimes we have seen cases in the past where witnesses have been locked up for as much as a year refusing to testify before a grand jury. now, compare that to congress. congress has to have a vote of the entire congress on the contempt citation, the speaker of the house or the president of
privilege. we know documents have been turned over already to the committee. this book was just out yesterday. how do you square those two? it is hard to square it because meadows on the one hand was thought to be someone who had been turned by the action against bannon and was fearful of a criminal contempt indictment and suddenly became cooperative. but now he s withdrawn his level of cooperation. so it is really hard to figure where he stands. but what we do know is that he has produced literally thousands of documents that are being reviewed by the committee, and there may be substantive information in those documents that may be helpful to the investigation i don t think they re going to get anything helpful from him testifying before congress. so steve bannon was charged by the justice department, but his trial is not going to be until july, notably four months before midterm elections when it is possible republicans take over congress. a lot of this does seem to be deliberat
limit with no republican support and national defense bill. the $770 billion defense bill includes military pay raises and policy changes. it will likely get a vote in the senate later this week. also more money there to help ukraine and defend against china. lawmakers passed a bill that will allow senate democrats to raise the debt limit with a simple majority rather than 60 votes. that bill now moves to the senate where the minority leader mitch mcconnell expects to have the republican votes needed. this despite pushback from some in his own party. once that bill passes, senate democrats will vote on a separate measure to raise the debt limit but without any republican votes. congress has until november december 15th to avoid financial catastrophe and address the debt limit. didn t that break the filibuster rule then there? well, you know, things do get interesting, don t they? yes, they do. just for a moment, but they did. there you go. progressive democrats also now
before you are considered fully vaccinated and that s it. it is not like you re giving a yearly shot after that. or maybe a booster years down the line. we ll see how that sort of plays out and how durable the booster is. all right. you ll be right there to walk us through it, which we appreciate every time. sanjay, thank you. turning our attention now to capitol hill, the stage is set for the former white house chief of staff to be held in contempt of congress. mark meadows is expected to skip his deposition. his attorney says meadows will no longer cooperate because of what he cites as overreach by investigators. former member of congress, meadows, defying congress. all this as former trump associate and chief strategist steve bannon has a trial date set for his own contempt case. but have to wait a few months for that. whitney wild has been following the story. whitney what do we expect to see