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Given your unique perspective. do you have a view on whether or not congress has the power to subpoena its own members for the an investigation like this. congressman jordan, perry of pennsylvania. both refused or at requests to voluntarily provide information and testimony. if you and your fellow members of the investigation decide that you want to subpoena them, do you believe you have the power to do that? its never been done before. >> without saying anything about what the committee may or ...

Potentially, with mccarthy, with perry, with jordan, with other house members that we dont have with a steve bannon, for example, or mark meadows. thats because the house can control its own members, discipline its own members. so there are other options then a the criminal contempt route. we havent decided on what options to use, but there is an ability of the house to essentially police its own that we will have to consider. >> steve schmidt, no one ever accused kevin mccarthy of being good at...

Frontier here about compelling testimony from a fellow member of congress for congressional inquiry. as far as i know, that hasnt happened. we havent seen subpoenas for that kind of thing. how do you think about it? >> well, this came up during the russia investigation when it was chaired by devin nunez. there were two democrats and two republicans. we asked them to come in and they said yes. now we have them failing to do their duty. we have certain remedies potentially with mccarthy, with perr...

Strategy, perry. in washington the presidents agenda is stalled. it doesnt look like the voting rights bill is going to pass. build back better is stuck. and the response to covid is going to stay rechlt for a while and thats going to evolve as the year goes along. in your mind, whats the best message democrats have to hit the road with right now? >> i happen to think the best message is we arent doing that well, but the other guys are crazy in trying to bend and teaching history and trying to m...

And fine grain way about what took place. to make recommendations legislative and policy. recommendations about how to avoid a future attack on american democracy. >> congressman, one last question about the investigation. again youre the only constitutional law professor in congress. and its comes in handy way more often than its comfortable to come in handy these da. but given your unique perspective on it, i wonder whether or not you have a view on congress has the power to subpoena its own m...

President donald trump is like a magic wand. on the schoolyard, youre playing tag, and you invoke some individual chill that covers you. its important to say that there has to be an actual showing of something that pertains to what the jurors -- of what the privilege is. not just to have, you cannot touch me. its important to have. perry, thank you very much. >> thanks. >> we have another round of subpoenas as were saying tonight from the biden administration investigating january 6th. two promi...

And, um, and its going to make people think, especially white america. and, yeah, and so i wrote this book -- um -- because i wanted people to see how deep rooted racism was in our family and we -- and we represent many black families around -- around the world. and i -- and i -- and i wrote this book, i talk about things that racism that happened in late 60s, the 70s, 80s, 90s, until perrys death because racism did not start with perrys death. >> you -- as you are referencing now, in this book,...

Book, what they will learn is how deeply-rooted racism is. but they also going to learn perry was a human being, that he is a human being. and they will also learn that -- they will see the -- the humility and the humbleness that came across in the book. the book is very -- i think its very emotional. its gonna take you on a roller coaster. and, um, and its going to make people think, especially white america. and, yeah, and so i wrote this book -- um -- because i wanted people to see how deep r...

And then i saw the tea party wave come in with governor perry, and then i saw a maga movement with governor abbott. every election cycle but, people say, when the blue wave gonna crash in texas? maybe not in a lifetime. -- somewhere besides texas. the only place they can run is for the border in texas. there hasnt been a statewide democrat elected since 1998. this notion that there is this democratic shift -- yeah, theres more hispanics, but guess what, a lot of those hispanics are increasingly ...

Captured by russian soldiers. right? >> thats case in area for us, if we get captured, were going to end up in a russian prison probably for the rest of our lives. worst-case theyll probably execute us on site. >> cal, perry nbc news, lviv. >> some u.s. veterans going to ukraine are not going to fight on the front lines but going to help train ukrainians to the billions. zachary bellegarde is a retired marine with resource coordination experience. he and his friend traveled to ukraine to help tr...