The House January 6 committee has officially subpoenaed Donald Trump for his testimony about the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year.
Margaret Brennan, host of Face the Nation on CBS, joined KMOX to talk about what this means and how the committee came to their decision.
"The actual implications of it are yet to be determined, because the chances of former President responding positively to a congressional subpoena are pretty low," Brennan said.
If Trump does defy the subpoena, there are ways the Justice Department and law enforcement can take action, she added. But a lot of it depends on the midterm elections.
"If Republicans take the majority, which, based on our polling they are poised to do, a new Congress would take power in January, and Republicans could choose to dismiss that subpoena," she said. "But the bottom line here is it's an exclamation point at the end of the sentence, in that the committee publicly laid out what they say is a compelling argument that the planning for January 6, and the violent attack, went back far in advance of that day, and that it went straight to the Oval Office."
Hear more analysis on the January 6 committee's decision:
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