CNN CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto June 4, 2024 13:23:00
Lawmaker. if you look at the speech and debate clause of the constitution article i section 6 says for any speech or debate in either house, they, meaning the lawmaker, shall not be questioned in any other place. but that's in civil suits. would that hold up here, do you think, in this grand jury probe? >> yeah, it's sort of like everybody's kind of right on this, and it's a complicated legal issue. look, the debate clause really does protect much of what members of congress do. it was started or put in place to prevent members of congress from being sued for things like defamation, for things...