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Ben Jacobs: As long as Democrats have control of the White House, do any of these investigations have teeth? He says Congress has real power to do things to subpoena stuff and they can also turn this into things that can become government shutdown fights. Jacobs: Some of this is certainly soaked in Trumpism, but all of American politics across the political spectrum bears the influence of Donald Trump.

They’ve got a few legislative ideas and a LOT of investigative ones. Vox’s Rachel Cohen and Ben Jacobs explain.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey and Cristian Ayala, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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