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Road. what happens next, if both perry and jordan say no? >> reporter: right, and that's the thing, right now the committee is not saying that they're going to move to a subpoena, but of course that is possibly the next option. that would be an extraordinary step, not only for the fact that you have a sitting lawmaker who is a top leader for the conservatives on capitol hill, but also, you know, obviously for republicans who have said that members of their caucus are off limits to a committee that they are obviously at odds with. so we'll see whether the committee tries to take this next big m...

There are plenty of people with strong opinions here. there are plenty of people like donald trump here, there are plenty of people who don't want the government to tell them what to do. the mandates are different because people are not going to lose a paycheck over it. they're not going to not be able to go to a restaurant. if you say here are some clear rules, you want to fully participate in society, all you got to do is get vaccinated, the vast majority of people say i'm in. >> you're 11 days away from the most stringent employer mandate in the country, to play devil's advocate, i could sa...

In. >> you're 11 days away from the most stringent employer mandate in the country, to play devil's advocate, i could say city employees, teachers, restaurants, gyms, theaters were already subject to a mandate of yours. were they unsuccessful? >> no, they were, and now we're taking it to the next level because there are hundreds of thousands of businesses that were not part of those previous mandate s. a lot of retail was not covered by that. barber shops were not covered by that. we're going to reach across the spectrum in the business community, office workers and we found with restaurants i...

But also conflicts of interest. both are very serious threats. you have for instance joe manchin wielding inordinate power over the president's initiatives that would affect the environment while he has massive poll interests. we also had members of congress during the pandemic trading in stocks affected by the pandemic that they knew about before the rest of us did. so mere disclosure isn't going to solve that. in fact, even if you did have people complying with the law, we'd have no way to know what kind of insider briefings they got so we would have no way to evaluate whether they were comm...

Nats a large part of your person, right? >> it is. this past 2020 election had a lot of intention in it. people were worried about voter integrity and cheating and all of that. and i think the wrong message that we want to send is to allow noncitizens to vote in our election and create more distrust in the electoral process. >> let me, though, at least play devil's advocate. the councilman last night said these folks are not illegal. they're not undocumented, i guess, they're not illegal. they're somehow in the system with green cards. but most importantly, they're paying taxes. if they're pay...