Welcome to Talking Feds. A round table that brings together prominent former federal

officials and special guests for a dynamic discussion of the most important political

and legal topics of the day. I'm Harry Littman. It was a week when Republicans wouldn't

take yes for an answer. First, Kevin McCarthy in the House and then Mitch McConnell in the

Senate came out in opposition to a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection of

January 6th. The proposal included all the features McCarthy had demanded, but he still rejected

it with a series of tissue thin excuses that left few endowed that politics and politics alone

lay behind the resistance. The Democrats seemed left with two unappealing options. Form a select

committee from their ranks alone or pushed through a bipartisan commission by eliminating the

filibuster in the Senate. The week also brought increased legal pressure for both former president

Trump and his family and the longtime CFO of the Trump Organization, Alan Weiselberg. New York

Attorney General Latisha James announced that her civil probe of the organization had evolved

into a criminal investigation that she was pursuing in partnership with New York DA Cyrus

Vance Jr. James's obvious strategy put maximum pressure on Weiselberg to make him cooperate

and provide evidence against Trump and family. And the week saw plenty of action involving

the Supreme Court, starting with the Court's own decision to hear a case from Mrs. Cippy

that might well sound the death now for Roe vs. Wade and Planned Parenthood vs. Casing.

Later in the week, the Blue Ribbon Commission convened by President Biden started its work,

although there was little public expectation that it would lead to any reform of the high court

selection process that has so roiled the country in the last 40 years. To break down these stories

and more, we welcome a fantastic panel of expert guests. And they are. First,

Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlan, representing Pennsylvania's fifth congressional district.

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