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I think rather than complaining about the pipeline, which is -- i don't like what has happened, but we have to put the foot on the accelerator of energy independence with our nato allies and push russia out of ukraine. >> let me ask you, one issue at home, of course, is redistricting and gerrymandering. it is one of the reasons we have such a divided congress, right, the districts are drawn in such a way that it is easy to elect, not easy to elect moderates and by the way, your district under the new ohio map, has become a lot less friendly for democrats here. by the way, democrats and states ...

Timeline here, right? pushing this out. can we expect if meadows does get a referral here to be able to push this out as well? it seems to serve the interests of the accused here more than the investigators. >> yeah. it does, jim. i think it also demonstrates how upl utterly toothless congress is in its ability to enforce subpoena powers. a prosecutor presenting a case to the grand jury, if that witness doesn't show up you send police detectives to pick him up, he's told before the judge, you don't testify before the grand jury you will remain in jail until you do. if the witness says i'm not ...

Privilege. we know documents have been turned over already to the committee. this book was just out yesterday. how do you square those two? >> it is hard to square it because meadows on the one hand was thought to be someone who had been turned by the action against bannon and was fearful of a criminal contempt indictment and suddenly became cooperative. but now he's withdrawn his level of cooperation. so it is really hard to figure where he stands. but what we do know is that he has produced literally thousands of documents that are being reviewed by the committee, and there may be substantiv...

Limit with no republican support and national defense bill. the $770 billion defense bill includes military pay raises and policy changes. it will likely get a vote in the senate later this week. also more money there to help ukraine and defend against china. lawmakers passed a bill that will allow senate democrats to raise the debt limit with a simple majority rather than 60 votes. that bill now moves to the senate where the minority leader mitch mcconnell expects to have the republican votes needed. this despite pushback from some in his own party. once that bill passes, senate democrats w...

Before you are considered fully vaccinated and that's it. it is not like you're giving a yearly shot after that. or maybe a booster years down the line. we'll see how that sort of plays out and how durable the booster is. >> all right. you'll be right there to walk us through it, which we appreciate every time. sanjay, thank you. turning our attention now to capitol hill, the stage is set for the former white house chief of staff to be held in contempt of congress. mark meadows is expected to skip his deposition. his attorney says meadows will no longer cooperate because of what he cites as ...