GOP House leader subpoenaed

A House panel has issued subpoenas to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other GOP lawmakers in its probe into the violent January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol – an extraordinary step that has little precedent and is certain to further inflame partisan tensions over the attack. The panel is investigating McCarthy’s conversations with then-President Donald Trump the day of the attack, and meetings the four other lawmakers had with the White House beforehand as Trump and his aides worked to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The panel has already interviewed nearly 1000 witnesses and collected more than 100,000 documents as it investigates the worst attack on the Capitol in two centuries. Themove is not without risk, as Republicans