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Suggested getting rid of the previous question motion, which allowed senators or house members currently to cut debate with a simple majority. and so, you know, in a lot of ways, i think, you know, theres a lot of misinformation about what went on, what the founders intended. they intended for a lot of deliberation, for consideration, but they did not intend, i believe, for stone walling. >> really quickly, professor, how do you counter the argument made by some republicans that -- or at least s...

For this. how important is it he is held accountable, do you think? >> its important hes held accountable because its interesting. he has the worst case of everyone here. hes not -- again, he wasnt a lawyer. he doesnt have executive privilege. didnt work in the white house at the time. hes a guy claiming because he talked to donald trump one day somehow hes immunized or insulated from ever having to testify and thats nonsense. it clear that the committee very quickly, very early on is taking a s...

One he says is off limits when it comes to who could be subpoenas that including the former guy. is this a race against time given the level of stone walling that theyre getting? >> yeah, look, if theyre going to subpoena the president they would be wise to do it soon because its going to end up in the courts. don, two things can be true at the same time. number one, the president does have a history of running the clock out on things and sort of frivolous litigation but as a former president of...

And will write back later. that could be engaging. so we dont know how serious the engagement is, but the play by these officials seems to be that theyre afraid of crossing the former president. their boss. they want to stay in trumps good graces. he has made it clear he doesnt want them cooperating with this committee. he doesnt want them speaking to investigators, sharing documentation or their accounts of what they experienced that day at the presidents side so, that appears to be why theyre ...

Realtime. donald trump still trying to sell his big lie that the 2020 election was somehow stolen from him thousand he was defeated by joe biden. its not just his rabid supporters going along with this lie, its also top establishment republicans. seven-term senator chuck grassley standing side by side with the losing ex-president on stage at a des moines rally on saturday. >> and trumps former chief strategist steve bannon is defying the house select committee investigating the january 6th elect...

Coming up. stone walling is their m.o. we have seen time and time again over the last yores and i think thats what this is all about. i think theres complicated legal issues here as laura points out and the committee wants to get to the bottom of january 6. they could go the criminal route charging the people with contempt. they could charge civil contempt als also. theres ways to figure this out. time is of the essence. the democrats know what happened in the mueller investigation. they know wh...

That. most of them have an easy time including when they dont want to say anything and there used to be 100 senators and now maybe there are only 99 who know how to speak and say nothing important at the same time. in those situations with reporters. there are a lot of options in that moment other than completely denying that there is any reason to ever say anything public to the press. >> sure. i mean, its an art form. we were all there. i mean, journalism at colombia, we have conversations abo...

>> we all have birthdays together. >> your birthday is tomorrow? >> sunday. >> okay. >> and then brian, who also works here his birthday is on monday too. >> constant cake, i love it. >> pete, we will watch you on the weekends. >> we love you, jillian. >> dana: fox news alert on the search for gabby petito. her family is pleading with her boyfriend to stop stone walling investigators and share anything about their daughters disappearance. i am dana perino and bill is off and we have john roberts...

Was high and this has to improve. to put this in context, member frustration came on top of years of stone walling by the trump administration and its refusal to engage the senate on the taliban negotiations. this is one of the examples why ive been trying to pursue on the case act to understand what are the written agreements that come between an administration and others. maybe if we had seen all of the elements of it, we would have been poised in a better position. second, im very disappointe...

In his hair, grass found in his wallet. how would that have got therein? there was clearly a argument and dispute. some of the time license dont add up. these are all things very familiar. i do want to point out you did reach out to the doj about this and i want to at least read their response when asked by a reporter whether the doj or fbi was investigating the death of jones and at least seven other black men found hangsing in mississippi a spokesperson responded we were aware of all the matte...