Subpoena
Documents the FBI sought with a search warrant were "sensitive in nature, and related to national security," sources told The New York Times.
The “idea that he’d be allowed to skate, wouldn’t have to face any accountability for spurning a subpoena, it defies reason,” but he believed it, said Joshua Green.
McCarthy's attorney argues in letter that the committee cannot issue subpoenas to the lawmakers under House rules.
Two of Donald Trump’s children along with their father have been subpoenaed in a civil probe by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Trump's newest claim doesn't look good in light of his past comments.
Trump and others "engaged in a concerted effort to ... direct rally participants to storm the Capitol, enter the grounds, ‘fight like hell,’" argues the Jan. 6 case brief.
The committee also sent demand letters to two former Trump campaign advisers who allegedly helped plan the rally.
The former White House chief of staff could be the third person in Trump's circle to get hit with criminal charges for disobeying a congressional subpoena.
Former Donald Trump associates John Eastman, Bill Stepien, Jason Miller and Michael Flynn are among those subpoenaed.
The Biden White House offers a rationale that says attempts to "subvert" the Constitution shouldn't be protected by a constitutional "executive privilege" idea.