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Ethics committee. this is a committee that is evenly cut between republicans, and democrats. they operate largely and secrecy, so it would be very difficult and inefficient for the committee to send these possible subpoenas, or referrals that way. the second option is to refer. i am sorry, recommend criminal referrals to the justice department. this is something we are familiar with, because we have seen this happen with several members of trump's inner circle. people like dance could be no, peter navarro, mark meadows, steve bannon. the justice department has been slow to act on the majority ...

Next month, and there's a lot to unpack. the bombshell text exchange between two gop lawmakers, and former chief of staff mark meadows. nbc has not verified these texts. the panel spent eight hours questioning stephen miller, a top advisor to former president trump. nbc's aly rafael, is live on capitol hill, with the latest. , ali thanks for being here. what are the recent developments for the committee's investigation and where it's heading? >> first off, katie, i should mention that these two gop lawmakers, senator mike lee and congressman chip roy, have reacted to these text made public, it...

Is undoubtedly a disappointment. these were supposed to begin and winter, and as i said, it made april. there's nothing officially on the books. yet the committee has said they want to finish the entire investigation before they go to public hearings, which they say should last a couple weeks, so the pressure is definitely on numbers to finish up this investigation to come to terms with what they want to include, what they don't want to include, to just get this done. >> thanks, ali raphael, live on capitol hill. we also have a record high number of migrants, attempting to cross into the u.s. ...

Bear and dig deeper. committee members have still not called on the former president or vice president pence, to come forward and answer questions, whether voluntarily or under a subpoena. and the committee's chairman has said that numbers will consider this, trump himself as even said that he would consider talking to the committee depending on what the panel asks about. there are also several other members who have been tapped to come in, speaker nancy pelosi said -- senate minority meat leader mitch mcconnell could have great insight on what happened in january six but we still don't know i...