January 6 Committee Issues Subpoenas To 5 House Republicans

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas to five Republican lawmakers, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Reps. Jim Jordan, Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs and Scott Perry. All have previously rejected the panel’s requests to voluntarily cooperate. CNN Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash joins AC360 to discuss what happens if they don’t comply. Plus, New York Times photojournalist Lynsey Addario has been with Ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines in East Ukraine. She tells Anderson Cooper what she’s witnessed and the danger these troops are facing every day.Guests: Dana Bash, Lynsey Addario.Airdate: May 12, 2022 To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, less than a month before public hearings on the January 6 attack are scheduled
0:04.5	to begin.
0:05.5	The panel charged with investigating the efforts by the president and his allies to overturn
0:09.5	the 2020 election has made an unprecedented move.
0:13.1	The committee issued subpoenas for five sitting Republican congressmen.
0:16.9	They include House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, as well as someone he actually tried
0:20.9	to appoint to the committee congressman Jim Jordan.
0:24.5	In response, McCarthy said the committee's investigation was not legitimate.
0:28.4	From the others included calling the subpoenas a witch hunt and a charade, none said whether
0:32.9	they would comply or not.
0:34.3	As mentioned, the move is unprecedented, so it gets into uncharted waters constitutionally,
0:39.8	which we'll get to in a moment with famed White House attorney during the Watergate hearings,
0:43.8	John Dean.
0:44.8	Just as a refresher, here's what some of the congressmen who were subpoenas were saying
0:48.4	leading up to in on January 6.
0:52.6	Americans instinctively know there was something wrong with this election.
0:56.4	And Trump won this election.
0:58.1	They changed the rules.
0:59.7	They changed the election law and they did it in an unconstitutional fashion.
1:03.6	Republicans will not back down.
1:05.6	We will not wait to four years for now to change this.
1:08.8	It was just six states who violated the constitution.
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