Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Friday, October 14th. I'm Naila Boudou.

Why would Americans assume that our Constitution and our institutions in our Republic are invulnerable

to another attack? Why would we assume that those institutions will not fall to next

time?

The January 6th Committee issues a final warning and a key subpoena. That's our one big thing.

So this afternoon, I am offering this resolution that the Committee direct the chairman to issue

a subpoena for relevant documents and testimony under oath from Donald John Trump in connection

with the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.

The January 6th House Committee voted unanimously yesterday to subpoena former president Donald Trump,

a dramatic end to its series of public hearings and its last meeting before the midterm elections.

Excuses managing editor for politics, Margaret Tolliv and Congressional and White House reporter

Elena Trin are here for our Friday state of play. Elena Margaret, hello.

Hi, Naila. Hello. Margaret, can you just start by explaining what the significance of this subpoena is

and what the Committee's hoping to achieve with this? Naila, there are so many threads to pull

in yesterday's hearing, but this is certainly a big deal. This is a select committee of Congress

subpoenaing a former US president for documents and for testimony in connection with the January 6th

attacks and his role in the incitement of the January 6th attacks and the chairman of the committee,

Benny Thompson, who's a Democrat, made clear that he understood the significance of that and that

that's why the Committee wanted to discuss it and sort of roll it out in plain public view so that

Americans would understand why they were taking this extraordinary step.

Elena, do we see former president Trump defying this subpoena? How in practicality will this actually work?

I think it's extremely unlikely that Donald Trump agrees to comply with the subpoena and offer

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