“Witnesses seeking to evade testimony to the Jan. 6 committee may have landed on their most potent strategy: Pleading the Fifth,” Politico reports.
“Legal experts say the committee has few options once a witness pleads the Fifth — and the choices they do have are risky or impractical.”
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