comply with these subpoenas, i am not sure why he thinks that based on what we have seen for the last four years. but let s get to it. luke, serving subpoenas to your colleagues in congress, many people who have been asking for this for months, but it is a huge undertaking, and huge risk. why do it now? they are really out of other options. the january six committee is coming up on an important set of hearings in june. and there is a key avenue of the investigation which is basically left unexplored. and that is the role members of congress played. they have information of their sources, they have been able to compile a record of one of some of these members of congress did. so far, so has sent to a republican member of congress has been rebuffed. no one has been willing to come in voluntarily. so there was a lot of debate internally on this committee about how they should
approach this. how they can get people to come in. they did not want to have to issue subpoenas. but they really feel like they have no other choice at this point. that the only chance that they have forgetting any republican in congress to come forward and testify about what they know about january 6th is to issue a subpoena. and you are right, it is unprecedented outside of the ethics committee, at least in modern history for there to be a subpoena of a sitting member of congress by a congressional committee. but i would also note that, it is unusual also for members of congress to fight an investigation to not want to come in. if you look at some of the previous investigations carried out by republicans, democrats did participate with those investigations. hillary clinton famously sat for 18 hours on the benghazi hearings, i am sure she did not think that that was a totally above warrant investigation. yes, we are in unprecedented times. which we have been for years now. so let s
reporter for the new york times. and my dear friend, tali farhadian weinstein, a former federal and state prosecutor here in new york. she clerked for merrick garland, and justice it is 11:00 pm. i am going to try to stay as calm as i possibly can. but i warn you all, i am pretty fired up. when i hear jamie raskin say he fully believes that they will fulfill their war of duties and comply with these subpoenas, i am not sure why he thinks that based on what we have seen for the last four years. but let s get to it. luke, serving subpoenas to your colleagues in congress, many people who have been asking for this for months, but it is a huge undertaking, and huge risk. why do it now? they are really out of other options. the january six committee is coming up on an important set of hearings in june. and there is a key avenue of the investigation which is basically left unexplored. and that is the role members of congress played.
mccarthy has been heard on tape talk about how to get trump out of office shortly after the riot. he then ran off to mar-a-lago and meet up with trump. today, mccarthy was on the hill feeling questions about these new subpoenas. he and a few other republican targets were defiant and dismissive. my view on the committee has not changed. they re not conducting a legitimate investigation. it seems as though they just want to go after the fact that they sent it to the press before they sent it to the members is just prove that it s about headlines. i think this is an illegitimate committee and they do not really have the authority to issue subpoenas in my opinion. so we do not want to dignify what they are doing. this has been a witch hunt from day one. in my opinion. several federal judges have already ruled on the committee s legitimacy, and today the chairman and his colleagues made it very clear that they have the right to resort to subpoenas. i think the committee believes
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 jury investigation into whether those records were mishandled. authorities are also asking for interviews with former trump white house aides. with that, let s bring in our experts, ashley parker, bureau chief for the washington post, she has added another former teams coverage of the january 6th riot. congratulations, ashley. we also have with us luke broadwater, congressional