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Power he still retains. when this commission was initially proposed, republicans said, we don't want to partisan commission. we demand the following things including, the power to equal presentation on the committee and to subpoena witnesses. the democrats say, and you could have all the things you asked for, and the republican said, no thank you. now, what they are getting, is a committee that would have subpoena power, over which they have no say. they will regret this at the end of the day. they actually should be happy they have someone like liz cheney on their, who is doing her constituti...

But we'll find out what the ig report says. i think that illegal leaks always are going to attract attention regardless of which side is doing them, if there's any kind of plightization here, i -- politicization here, i doubt it. the leaking was so apparent, so obvious, it was going to attract attention. howie: therefore, there was an investigation, but again, no charges were ever brought. the mainstream media are going crazy over this, saying it has watergate overtones. the probe did go through the legal subpoena process through the grand jury and so on. could the pundits be jumping to conclu...

Anybody. the president at the time, donald trump, the former president now, did not want don mcgahn to testify. that was the subject of back and forth. you can't just give up. you have to follow through. congress retained some of the power. congress has absolute power to compel testimony. in this case, had to follow through. there was no choice. congress couldn't back down. >> some of the reason had to do with how that subpoena power works. democrats introduced a bill that includes reforms to expedite the congressional subpoena process. now they have a democrat in the white house. do you see b...

Current republican party? >> it's ridiculous that it takes over two years to get a witness to testify, which shows we had to reform the congressional subpoena process. i introduced legislation that would allow the house to execute the power of inherent contempt, which is we can fine witnesses up to $100,000 for disobeying congressional subpoenas. that doesn't even need a vote of the senate, the house could simply pass it by majority vote and hopefully we can get that done. i also note that mcghan in his testimony, i have been briefed by judiciary staff, he repeatedly says how the former presid...

Safety and the safety of his heartened he changed course and backed off of the claim he would defy subpoenas. because that's what president trump ordered administration officials to do. just do not comply with lawfully issued congressional subpoenas. frankly, that is part of what landed him with an article of impeachment for obstructing congress. so i think we understand why joe biden reacted the way he did. i think it's good that he rethought that position, admitted that he was wrong and admitted he would comply or avail himself of the legal process to challenge any subpoena he received. >> w...