I think that the Justice Department ought to be investigating for example as I`ve said the former president`s actions in trying to overturn the election in Georgia.

If he persists in lying then, he will be accountable under the laws of this great Nation and subject to criminal penalties for every false word he speaks.

This Committee's investigation into the violent assaults on our Capitol on January 6th is not a game.

President Trump continues to make the same false claims about a stolen election with which he has misled millions of Americans.

He was involved in discussions with the former president, with high-ranking Justice Department officials about efforts to get Georgia and other states to either withhold the appointment of electors or to send alternate slates of electors.

I think we will probably make a decision this week. We are moving with alacrity with anyone who obstructs the committee, and that was certainly the case with Mr. Bannon. It will be the case with Mr. Meadows, Mr. Clark or any others.

If they're a partisan court, if that's all that the Supreme Court has become an instrument of one party, that is the Republican Party, then all bets are off.

So will others show courage the way that Adam Kinzinger or Liz Cheney and a few others have? I don't know. But it just shows I think, the dangerous state that the Republican conferences in today will have fealty to a president who…

The circumstances are such as the President Biden has indicated, where any privilege has to give way to the public's need to know that this was a violent attack on the Capitol.

It's not up to the former president. It's up to the current president.

That's not much of an argument. But that's basically what they're saying, we will be vindictive, we will draw some false equivalence, and we will abuse our power if we're given it again.

There is so much we don’t know about what went into the pressure campaign against the vice president to try to call on him to force him to ignore his constitutional duty.

the committee would move quickly to also hold Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress.

I'm confident we will move very quickly with respect to Mr. Meadows also. But we want to make sure that we have the strongest possible case to present to the Justice Department and for the Justice Department to present to a grand jury.

He has no business being in Congress. He should have never been elected.

First of all, he has no business being in Congress. He should have never been elected. He doesn’t belong there. And, sadly, sadly, the Republican conference is now characterized by numerous kooks and dangerous cranks, which he is one.

I certainly hear someone who is urging a legislator from the state I guess in that case was it Michigan or Pennsylvania, seeking to overturn the election, implying they have an authority they don`t have.

We have subpoenaed records involved in communications between Giuliani and the White House. The fact that he is not in this group of subpoenas shouldn`t imply that we`re not interested in his testimony.

And to me that`s a far more clear indication of criminal activity, and I think had anyone else been recorded on that call, they would be under investigation by the Justice Department by now.

the whole point is delay.

You know, while I can’t confirm the timing of his testimony, I can tell you we’ll be taking his testimony.

the law is pretty clear here that where the current president finds that the national interest outweighs an assertion of privilege and the Biden administration has made that finding, that that is the dominant determinant.

the current president who really has the dominance and executive privilege.

We hope and we urge the Justice Department also move quickly on the prosecution of Steve Bannon.

Yes. We`re going to take up both bills this week and both bills will pass.