shelves last week than the week before. when cnn pressed the white house on what federal agency had answers or who worried parents should call if they can t find baby formula, this was the white house response. we would certainly encourage any parent who has concerns about their child s health or well-being to call their doctor or pediatrician. peter pitts is joining us. good morning, sir, so nice to see you. we ve seen recalls of formula before, but this is really a perfect storm because at the same time you already had a really tangled supply chain. tell us what is happening here and who is responsible. that is a great question because it really isn t a supply chain issue like gasoline. this is an issue because the baby formula business is a consolidated industry. there aren t a lot of players here. so when you take abbott out, not surprisingly, you have shortages. who is to blame? i think the blame is placed squarely on abbott which is the company, fda inspected th
how do you opponent gets tonight s last word, the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. 11t hour with stephani e tonight, an unprecedented move from the january 6th committee. subpoenas issued to five of their own, including the house as top republican. it is all too little too late. and escalating threats from the kremlin, what it all could mean for the war in ukraine. plus, the inside story of last years gamestop surge. we created the new msnbc documentary on how real life players took on wall street as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. 180 days from the midterm elections. and just hours ago, the january six committee did something never before done. less than a month before public hearings on the investigation, the committee today issued subpoenas to their own house colleagues, requesting that they come and testify about the insurrection. the five subpoenaed republicans include caucus leader kevin mcca
these people will ever testify on tv, or under oath. i get it, you are mad. i met. look at the committee of done differently? well, started much earlier. it took six months to form this committee. it took one week, after the john kennedy assassination, to form that committee. they should ve issued subpoenas immediately, instead of issuing invitations. what s an invitation? what is a courtesy meeting? why are we bringing people in behind closed doors and telling them we re asking them, please talk to us, please talk to us? when we saw them committing crimes. it s ridiculous. now we re 16 months into this thing, and we re just now issuing subpoenas. how are we going to enforce the subpoenas, stephanie? so, do you think democrats are being naive when they talk about moral obligations.
i feel every reason to believe that people who are receiving subpoenas today will comply with their legal duty, and i would say moral duty to cooperate with an investigation. we have information from other sources that lead us to believe that each one of these individuals who are our colleagues have information the committee needs to tell the full story. could there be more subpoenas for other members of the house and or a senate? it is possible. well, trump s allies and congress are battling january six investigators. he himself may have another legal fight on his hands. this one concerns those classified white house records that ended up, guess where? mar-a-lago. the new york times reporting federal prosecutors have begun a grand
someone s head when the issue a subpoena. if you talk to some of the witnesses that have gone for the january 6th committee that did not want to go, they all say i did not have $10, 000, or $100, 000, i don t have enough money to have a criminal charge. so i went and i testified, and they gave them whatever emails, and texts i had, and that was that. so, that same threat does know exist for the members of congress who have received these subpoenas. now, they have a little bit of a better argument than just a random witness because there are certain protections and the constitution for members of congress, especially for hauling them into court over their official actions, but a lot of these things that they have participated in was not official actions, and it is hard to see how necessarily the protections in the speech and debate clause would protect those, so i do think that if it comes to it, we could be facing a showdown here if these republican members of congress do not show up f