pressure. thompson says the committee will meet next week to firm up plans to ask pence to appear voluntarily. cnn senior legal analyst elie honig joins us now. this is a tantalizing story and aspect to all this, whether pence would testify. it looks like they re going to forego a formal subpoena for the former vice president. one viewer wants to know what are the legal options for the january 6th committee if it invites a witness to testify, like mike pence, but that witness refuses? i suppose a subpoena could happen, but subpoena a former vice president, that would be something else. that is the question. we ve been seeing a lot of these informal invitations to testify lately. but the question is what does the committee do when these people politely decline those informal invitations? the committee s recourse is to issue a subpoena. that is a formal command to testify, and then if people still don t testify, the committee has the option to vote to hold these folks in contempt of co
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allegation of threatening behavior from 2012. hello, ohio. reporter: and in ohio trump is backing former senior white house adviser max miller for congress. even as he faces allegations of abuse from his ex-girlfriend former white house press secretary stephanie gersham. miller has denied the abuse and filed a defamation suit against gersham. trump has endorsed several down-ballot candidates those running for secretary of state and jgeneral in statewide races as well as election posts in precinct level. trump hopings to place his allies in more prominent roles ahead of the 2024 presidential election. sun lunch serfaty, cnn, washington. new yorkers took trading political blows to a whole new level getting to fist fights on the parliament floor.