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United states congress and subpoenas from the united states congress to say this will not stand. there is a lot of frustration that members of this committee are hearing that why isnt it going quicker, why is it taking so long? the reason is what paul said. its not unprecedented, but its incredibly rare for people to have the gumption or frankly lack of shame to just ignore subpoenas like this. and so finding their way legally and going through the process and doing it properly is really importa...

Garland is vaguely conservative and a lot of his institutionalist decisions but i think the are so strong in favour of holding bannon in criminal contempt going after him in criminal contempt going after him in criminal contempt because it is absolutely clear given the fact before the select committee and why they want to be her from before the select committee and why they want to be herfrom bannon before the select committee and why they want to be her from bannon that they have the authority ...

Key details what have trump was doing or not doing, theres still a lot of questions. >> a lot of questions, and if you look at the report that the committee put out last night detailing its efforts to get bannon to cooperate, you see just how extensive and how broad their requests are. now trump is, of course, attacking the requests as being too broad, but its interesting in talking to sources over the past few weeks, i found that a lot of people in trumps orbit have hoped that the biden adminis...

President Xi Jinping has underlined further promoting whole-process democracy that enables the Chinese people to be broadly involved in national governance

Congressman, i want to go back to the idea that one of the other schools of thought here is if you do everything but for less time, you potentially set up cliffs and votes where you dare future congresses to let popular programs expire. if we operate under the historical framework where the next congress is possible, if not likely, to be republican-controlled, how risky is that gamble if democrats were to go that route and say, all right, were going to settle these things up and dare a 2023 repu...

By previous congresses and previous presidents and parties, we have to pay for it. raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking, and it should be. thats what is in the happening today. >> we will have more on the president in just a moment, but with our panel, but i want to first bring in the anchor of this hour, nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. its great to see you. you are in paris ahead of secretary blinkens arrival there for some critical meetings. what...

By previous congresses and previous presidents and parties, we have to pay for it. social security benefits, the american people are promised salaries for service men and women, benefits for veterans. were going to have to raise the debt limit if were going to meet those obligations. and raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking. and it should be. thats what is not happening today. the reason we have to raise the debt limit is in part because of the reckless tax and spending pol...

To borrow what and when needed. and in that case, were able to borrow because we always pay our debt. we always pay what we owe. we never fail. thats america. thats who we are. thats whats called for. its called full faith in credit of the united states. its rock solid. its the best in the world. heres the deal. theres a cap on what we can borrow called the debt limit. and only congress can raise or lower that debt limit, so let me be really clear. this is really important to know. raising the d...

So if we are going to make good on whats already been approved by previous congresses and previous presidents and parties, we have to pay for it. if social security benefits, american people are promised salaries for servicemen and women. benefits for veterans. where going to have to raise the debt limit if were going to meet these obligations. raising the debt limit is usually of bipartisan undertaking and it should be. thats whats not happening today. the reason we have to raise the debt limit...

Membersup of both parties those policies tend to last. they dont get attacked in future congresses or altered. we have other lessons like the aca in 2010 and the republican tax cut bill in 2017. those are bills that have been under assault since the time they were passed and that cost democrats their t majorities in 2010 elections and republicans their housect majority in 2018. so i think kyrsten sinema is actually doing her party a favor here by moderating some of these policies and actually gi...