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Room vis-a-vis the democrats. >> let he me share a bit behind the curtain of how republicans look and see these things strategically having been in the strategic space. we know the democrats wopt act. it's not complicated, people. call their bluff. democrats won't call their bluff. on nothing. or anything. they talk. they whine, they wring their hands and it changes nothing. how do you hold them accountable? how do you force the issue? >> james you have never been above tough love for your party. that's tough love for your party. >> well, you know, i love mike he is a great guy. and i have bec...

The committee who said they needed to get to the bottom of what happened on 1/6. that was proposed, a commission. republicans voted that down. >> correct. the idea was to take this out of congress altogether, create a 9/11 style committee. they decided it would be better to do it this way so you can't say the process wasn't valid. you're hearing that from mccarthy saying the subpoena is somehow invalid. i think important to remember steve bannon is not facing this prospect of contempt for anything that he did or said ahead of the january 6 attacks. it's for not responding to congress' requests...

0 have. the question they ask is why were we so unprotected on january 6 and what has changed since then? getting to the bottom of those questions should be the top priority for all of us in this house. there are serious security vulnerabilities that have been not addressed by this house in 11 months after january 6, and this is what the majority has decided to spend its time on. holding a private citizen who wasn't even part of the administration at the time in contempt for refusing to comply with house democrat subpoenas? this is after more than 600 people have been arrested for their role i...

The president, if you let me finish, the president has directed a letter from his lawyer to the witnesses asserting privilege with respect to their communications in the oval office. that's as good as an assertion as you need. >> then why hasn't it been offered to the committee? >> it's public. the letter to the archivists is public. >> the committee said trump has not told them he will assert any privilege, that the only claim he's making is with respect to documents and vis-a-vis the archives. >> well, his lawyer has written to the witnesses and instructed them to respect his assertion of th...

The president, if you let me finish, the president has directed a letter from his lawyer to the witnesses asserting privilege with respect to their communications in the oval office. that's as good as an assertion as you need. >> then why hasn't it been offered to the committee? >> it's public. the letter to the archivists is public. >> the committee said trump has not told them he will assert any privilege, that the only claim he's making is with respect to documents and vis-a-vis the archives. >> well, his lawyer has written to the witnesses and instructed them to respect his assertion of th...