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we let the nation know we can cooperate. what's really important -- >> the governor is a deep red tr trump-supporting republican. what could change, others might do what these two did today, what they did was their jobs. how about that? the news continues with "cuomo primetime." >> as we learn, you may want to be harsh with your kids, but it doesn't change their behavior, rewarding them for doing it right gets kids where they want to be. maybe it would work for politicians as well. maybe a little bit of a social experiment started by j.b. any way you slice it, this is not a good night for donald trump. and i'll tell you why. we now have the unsealed charges in this charging document known
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as an indictment, right? they are against the trump organization and its main money man. and they tell quite a story. most troubling for the former president isn't what's in these pages, it's that these stories read like it's one chapter and there could be more to come. in fact, the new york attorney general basically told us as much today. so here's what we know now. the trump organization effectively is donald trump, okay? it is charged with ten felonies, a scheme starting back in 2005 to defraud federal, state and city tax collectors, okay? 15 years' worth, equating to 15 felony counts against the trump organization cfo allen weisselberg, both for what he allowed himself to receive, allegedly wrongly, and what he paid out to others. the question is, did weisselberg sign the checks? the answer is no.
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so, therefore, what did the man who did sign them, donald trump, know? who would know the answer to that? allen weisselberg. that now draws attention to the main question. can prosecutors put enough pressure on mr. weisselberg to have him tell the truth about donald trump that he hasn't told already, if the truth is, in fact, illegal, conspiracy, grand larceny, falsifying business records, criminal tax fraud. no joke. but i will be straight with you. these charges on their face don't blow me away. any time in prison is something that would scare any of us and rightly so. but even in the first degree, this isn't what some expected two years of ernest effort from the new york da and the attorney general to yield. but, again, it may not be the whole story. in the main, prosecutors accuse
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the trump organization of giving weisselberg some $1.67 million in untaxed compensation, meaning he cheated the government at different levels out of about 900,000. and falsely claimed more than 133,000 refunds he wasn't entitled to. he also allowed himself to be paid in this alleged scheme off the books as a self-employed person by different trump entities. this gets a little bit into the weeds. i think it's worth explaining it to you so you can kind of get your arms around how dedicated prosecutors believe trump folk were to avoiding the law, which is, you know what a keogh plan is, it's named after this lawmaker from the '70s. he came up with the idea of letting self-employed people and businesses that aren't incorporated have their own benefit programs, contribution
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benefit programs, retirement programs. weisselberg, they say, was allowing himself to be paid by certain entities connected to the trump organization as self-employed, even though he wasn't. and that enabled him to exempt certain amounts of money that he could put into his retirement plan. that extended to him and, quote, other executives. what other executives? remember the trump family? trump himself? we don't know, they're not named. we know that weisselberg's kids are involved, because they're explained as family. if the kids are brought into play, what will that mean for weisselberg in terms of what he's willing to speak about? weisselberg and the trump organization pleaded not guilty. so some of the questions, where does it go? we're not going to know. it's really hard to suggest from this and even if you look at different cases of this nature, it's hard to tell where the path
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will go. letitia james, the attorney general of new york, says we'll go with the facts lead us. unindicted co-conspirator number one, who is that? also implicated in the allege scheme. a source tells cnn it's trump organization comptroller who testified before the grand jury in new york. those who testify before a grand jury get transactional immunity. you won't get prosecuted for your testimony, unless you lie. if you lie, the immunity deal goes away. what is trump's response? no response. he doesn't discuss the merits. he doesn't give any plausibility deniability. he goes right to division. these are democrats. it's a witch-hunt, it's about dividing the country. but think about it, if he didn't do any of this, if he didn't know anything about this, why
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doesn't he say that, why doesn't he argue the merits? why doesn't he tell you what the government is getting wrong? his attorneys allege that this has never happened before, nobody has ever gone after anybody like this. listen -- >> these charges are unprecedented. these cases are always resolved in the civil context. the irs has never made a case like this. if the name of the company was something else, i don't think these charges would have been brought. >> true-ish. what does that mean? it's about degree. cases like this, not paying taxes, are often settled or often held to the civil and pled out, you come up with a deal, you settle it. what about when you refuse to? what about when you refuse to work with the government? the irs or the da has never gone after people for tax fraud? of course they have, especially when they're noncompliant as is the case here. you're going to hear from someone tonight who helped
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prosecutors bring these series charges. one angle is, somebody who prosecuted trump before at the ag level. what does he see in this in the thinking and pattern of behavior? then we have someone who worked at the trump organization. do these charges sound familiar and what did she know about who know what about these schemes, as alleged. and then we have the ex-wife of one of the weisselberg sons. what does she remember about how benefits to her family were explained. much better minds. let's start with former assistant new york attorney general, tristan snell. led the investigation of trump university. he's joined by norm eisen, counsel to democrats in trump's first impeachment trial. when you read this indictment, what is your reaction about whether or not this is the beginning or the end and what
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the depth of concern should be for those named and unnamed? >> oh, there are a lot of interesting little bits to this that -- they've gotten some attention. they should get more. i think the one that leapt out at me the most, there was the discussion of altering documents, but it was what document it was. it was the donald j. trump detailed general ledger they reference in this indictment. what is that? what is that? does this mean that he had his own special set of books that then he reviewed with weisselberg? if so, that's potentially an absolutely critical document in this whole case. that's just one thing to start with. i have other thoughts beyond that. but that's one of the ones that i'm really fixating on right now. i want to see what the heck is in that ledger. >> i'm going to come back to you
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in a second. two years, this is all you got, is that the guy didn't pay some taxes, 900 grand worth of taxes? i'm not impressed. what do you say? >> well, chris, i say, 15, 15, 15. you have 15 felony counts in this indictment. you have a scheme that went on for 15 years. and you have a potential maximum penalty for these charges for mr. weisselberg of 15 years. we talked about this earlier in the week. i thought it was going to be more serious than people believe. this is a very deeply detailed, it will be very compelling to a jury. it's a story of a greedy cfo who profited over $1.7 million, big city new york apartments, luxury cars and mercedes-benz, private
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school tuition, and a thoroughly corrupt company. the indictment is full of tidbits. one of my favorites was -- and this is what the da fought so hard for, twice to the supreme court, chris, we often talked about it. the trump organization tracked and treated these fringe benefits as part of weisselberg's annual compensation, this is on page 13. and the corporate defendants falsified other records. two sets of books. this is going to be a devastating jury case and i think weisselberg is flinching and he's going to have to rethink whether it's time for him to start cooperating. donald trump's worst nightmare. >> tristan, what is the best-case scenario for how the former president would be implicated in this when you know the defense? weisselberg did what he did, i don't know, i signed the checks.
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i'm not keeping the books. that was him. whatever happened wrong is on him. >> i think the kicker there -- it's going to be a whole puzzle that you have to put together. you can get a lot more of the pieces of the puzzle dumped onto the table at once if weisselberg cooperates. if he doesn't, the rest of it comes down to this ledger, all of the different versions of it. in this indictment, just this little bit of the broader case we've now gotten a glimpse of this where they doctored it. there was a notation in there and weisselberg asked that it be taken out. but all of those little edits that you make to a document, all of that metadata is stuff that gets recorded. you know when documents were created. you can see emails and how they reflect on a meeting. someone taking notes during a meeting, and you know what date that document was created, you know it was created during the meeting. if it was created during the
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meeting, it's potentially admissible as evidence. there's a lot of things you can do here to piece this together that doesn't necessarily involve weisselberg flipping. although weisselberg flipping makes it easier. >> norm, do you think it's fair? the president didn't say, how dare that weisselberg, or i didn't know anything about this? he went right to the politics. and the flip play from his lawyer is, no one has been prosecuted for something like this before. these cases are always settled. this is political. your take on that? >> well, chris, in our big brookings report we laid out all of the defenses. we predicted the president and those around him would go there. my take is, it's a devastating indictment. now the evidence will have to be proved up before the judge and a jury, but if it's proved up and the company is unrepentent and donald trump is attacking this, refusing to admit anything is wrong, that is going to be
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something that will weigh heavily at sentencing. it won't work with a jury, chris, because they told a compelling story here. they have to prove it. these are just allegations. if they prove it, it's a story of corruption in a corporation, theft from the taxpayers, grand larceny, from the members of the jury, the new york state taxpayers, to fund these luxury benefits. over $1.7 million. i think that the prosecution has got an even better story to tell than trump's tired witch-hunt narrative. but we'll find out in court. >> very good points from you. thank you. one thing they didn't mention that will be interesting to follow, to hear the former president not go bad on weisselberg, remember what happened with michael cohen, his bagman. cohen got accused of doing these things. what did he say? cohen is not my lawyer. he's a bum. that was a coffee boy, we don't know him. not a word denigrating
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mr. weisselberg. interesting. so what do these charges look like to people who were inside trump world? one used to work at the organization. the other is a weisselberg. she lived this deal over the last 15 years and has been cooperating with prosecutors. let's get their perspective on what this means and what could happen next. ♪that you laughed about♪ ♪well, the names have all changed♪ ♪since you hung around♪ welcome back, america. it sure is good to see you. i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. with skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months, after just 2 doses. skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms such as fevers, sweats, chills, muscle aches, or coughs,
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this is an important moment. now we've seen the 15 counts in the indictment and basically they in sum total involve an alleged scheme to beat taxes, to defraud taxes. assuming prosecutors have proof that can meet their burden, can they show that donald trump had knowledge of or was part of this scheme? he is not named. he is not charged. but people who know the workings
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all say the same thing. >> the former president, donald j. trump, knew everything that was going on. >> nothing big happens at the trump organization without trump's knowledge. >> but at trial, you only know what you can show. so now that we have the details of the indictment, let's bring somebody who saw the game on the inside and somebody who lived it on the outside. we have allen weisselberg's former daughter-in-law jennifer weisselberg and barbara res. good to have you both. barbara, reading the indictment, what they say took place from 2005 for about 15 years thereafter and how it worked through weisselberg to others as well as himself, sound familiar? >> well, it does.
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what i can tell, basically, trump has always been doing this kind of thing, helping people evade taxes. back when i was -- he was paying people expense money instead of a salary. >> is that because that's how it works in that business, going after trump for this is unfair because everybody does it? do you believe that? >> sometimes it's unfair. but not in this case. nobody does that. i've never had that come up. >> second layer of it would be, yeah, okay, maybe they're right. but that's weisselberg. he had all of the control of the books. he was deciding what he gave himself and others. you don't see me getting that money in that, nobody has accused donald trump of getting anything. i just signed the checks but just signed what he put in front of me. >> i'm sure there are checks that he didn't know anything about. if there was anything major, like giving away a property or paying for someone's school or paying someone's rent, of course, that wouldn't happen without trump. trump was the one who decided
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that. he's the one who came up with it. >> jennifer, you lived it. when the tuition was paid or when the apartment bills were paid, barry, your ex-husband, did you have any sense that this was something that the former president, donald trump, knew about, was aware of, and endorsed? >> absolutely. >> feeling or fact? >> when he would come home, he would talk about every january he would meet with donald and allen and they would go over what his raise would be for the year. and it would be, i'll pay your daughter's tuition in lieu of a raise this year, i got it. or, you know, there's an apartment becoming available, i got it. it's available. >> and this was trump saying it to your ex-husband? >> yes. >> and was there an understanding by him or by you that there was something fishy
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about this or was it just how they wanted to do it at the company? >> i think we have to keep coming up with something to keep giving. in lieu of a raise, i think it's difficult for somebody when you make $200,000 for 21 years. it doesn't give you a lot of control. that was difficult for us. i think that donald decided but he knew that allen was going to put that down accordingly, he planned on him doing that. >> the other thing as i've talked to you both about this separately, the idea that this is all there is, barbara, the new york attorney general today was suggestive that we're going to keep this investigation going and follow the facts. i'm not blown away by this level of charges. 15 felonies, i wouldn't want to be facing the time. but two years, all this intentionality, this is what you
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have? does it seem suspicious to you that this is all there is and does it make you think there may be more? >> i'm sure there's more. they're not saying this is all there, they're just saying, this is what we're doing now. talking heads are saying, this is it, and others say this is the tip of the iceberg. as far as i know and can tell, at least -- i don't know why they're not going after the bank for the insurance fraud stuff. i'm thinking maybe that will show up on the radar. >> the trump ledger, what does that mean to you? >> it doesn't mean much because everything was haphazard with trump when i was there. not anything that really they took good care of. >> two sets of books. is that possible? >> absolutely. of course it is. >> but let's dig at it a little bit. if it's completely unorganized, ad hoc, maybe he didn't have the
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intention to have two sets of books and be that deliberate in defrauding the government. what do you see to that? >> maybe donald didn't specifically say, i want you to keep two sets of books. he knew allen new how to handle it. he said say, we can't publicize this. >> with you, jennifer, people would like to be able to say, this is the ex-wife, you know what they mean, they had a tough divorce. of course she's going to say these things. you gave documents to prosecutors that showed these things. it wasn't i'm mad at my ex-husband, it was look at these documents. in light of that and your understanding of the situation and the family dynamic, the whole suspicion here is, is this big enough for allen weisselberg to say this is going to be bad for me and my kids, i have to work with the prosecutors even though i have a loyalty to donald trump? do you believe this is enough
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heat on him for him to give up donald trump? >> watching him in handcuffs today and seeing him walk in handcuffs, i don't think he can watch his kids do that. i just don't think he can. that was painful. i think it brought a real awareness and stark reality to it. >> what do you think? >> about whether he's going to give up trump? it's interesting that -- he's so loyal. if the man did something to break the law, which i believe -- i'm not the judge and juror. but why would you be loyal about that? loyalty shouldn't have to do with covering up bad acts. >> that's exactly what it has -- when you're in a criminal organization, if that's what's happening, that's exactly what loyalty is. >> that's the very point. you're not talking about a regular employee. you're talking about another criminal. and so in my mind, allen -- even
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though i'm sure he was involved and he knows all of these things, i look back to when he was just a regular person. friendly, have lunch, whatever, he wasn't a manafort or a michael cohen. he wasn't an animal back then. maybe he's evolved into that situation and maybe he's like got the loyalty thing kind of like a godfather thing going. from my point of view, loyalty is something you offer in terms of not working for someone else or keeping the company secrets. not covering up for a crook. >> yeah, you're seeing loyalty as a form of integrity. i think this is more about just power dynamics. he hasn't given him up yet which means one of two things, one, it wasn't worth his time to do so, or he doesn't have what prosecutors need to implicate the former president. i do know this right now, you understanding the inside and you understanding the dynamic of how these gifts were received and understood, very helpful.
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thank you very much, both. >> thank you. all right. we'll keep following the facts as the facts are laid out to us. another situation that we already know painful facts about, the voting rights movement in this country is a problem. not every law, not everywhere, but what the supreme court said today, did it just green light the republican party's complete plan to make it harder for many americans to vote? we have a key senator who really may be the bridge to getting any help on voting rights before the elections, senator joe manchin is here, the state of play on protecting voting and the state of play in his own party. next. oh! don't burn down the duplex. terminix. two out of three guys experience
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how big a deal was the supreme court ruling today about arizona? 6-3, right, party lines, that two provisions of an arizona voting law do not violate the voting rights act. i must say this, the biden administration agreed, okay, they put out a statement saying that they didn't think they did. what did the court do here? what was the net effect? did they make it harder to challenge election laws? yes. so now the attention turns to congress.
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the question is, will they do anything? we discuss with a key player, senator joe manchin. thank you so much for being on prime time. >> good to be with you, chris. >> let's start with the big headline. the supreme court says arizona law changes in terms of having to show up at the right ballot place on election day or it doesn't count and limiting the number of people who can collect ballots to care workers, close family, those are not unconstitutional. you see that mitch mcconnell doesn't believe in the john lewis act. so this combination means what for the protection of voting rights in this country in your opinion? >> well, first of all, the shelby decision was back in 2013, chris. we should have been working on this and never came up to the
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point to where people would think they would have to do anything. who would do anything as outrageous as we're seeing after the 2020 elections. >> to remind the audience, because you and i are a little too read in on this. >> okay. >> so you had john roberts lead a 5-4 court majority, a narrow majority, as they say, saying there is no more need for preclearance of specific states as provided in the voting rights act. one of those states was arizona. instead he said that the legislature should craft a new solution. the new solution was obviously nothing or as you suggested preclearance for all states so that there is no bias involved. that never happened. so then you say we never saw this coming what happened after the 2020 election. is that your way of saying that
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you believe that these election fraud protests by the right are not in good faith? >> well, i think that basically when you say they're going to prohibit counting a ballot and you're a legitimate voter in the state of west virginia, you go to the wrong precinct, that's a provisional ballot. no one can deny you from voting. you might be voting out of the district where your congressperson, you might be voting out of the district for a state legislature, but the vote for the federal election should definitely count. so those are provisional. that's the way it should be done. and that's the way we intended to do it. we're going to have to rewrite the formula. john lewis voting rights act is going to be the vehicle, i believe, that we can put some guardrails back onto where people have fair elections, they're open elections and they're secure. >> not if you don't do something
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to either get republicans to vote or modify the filibuster because you can't put it through r reconciliation. and mitch mcconnell has said, no need to change anything. >> we've had ten people working with us on many different things. we've done a lot of bipartisan things, chris, which known really talks a lot about. we did the endless frontier competition with china, we did the hate crimes bill. we're working and doing things and republicans are coming forth. we have a good group of moderate republicans that want to work with us, are willing to work with us and we come up with a bipartisan infrastructure bill which we all worked with the president and took to him. so i know it can be done. we just got to find this determination, rational, people have to understand, voting is the bedrock to democracy. it makes the united states who we are. and we have got to make sure
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that that is open process. i can't believe when i was secretary of state with all the secretaries of state, all 50 of us, we used to have competition who could get the highest percentage of turnout. we did everything we could. if somebody had an idea, we said, that's good, let's try out with that. we didn't have early voting in west virginia in 2001. so we are trying things. why it's gone to the point of this -- and i think people will push back and i think when constituents push back, when corporate america pushes back, legislatures will do the right thing or they'll be gone. >> politically, inclusiveness in voting is a negative on the right now, senator. that's what these 17 states are moving as a premise. that's what election fraud, that farce, is about. we got cheated in the election. they didn't really win. and a lot of people voted who
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shouldn't have. especially those black people in the cities. that's why they're passing the laws the way they are. that's not the take on the right. why do you think they'll change and break ranks? >> let me say this, chris, if that's where we're going and there's 40 million people that voted thinking that their vote wasn't counted correctly, it was stolen for them. if we go through this democrats only, don't you think it's going to make it worse in the 2022 or 2024 election? >> maybe. >> if we don't -- i think it will. i really do. we're so divided now, chris. we've got to work a little harder, a lot harder in trying to bring the country together. i still believe when you put the facts out, which we did, voter i.d., there's nothing wrong with a voter i.d., but give people
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many alternatives. i.d.s -- when you talk to people about security, they think an i.d. is security. we want to make sure that the person lives where they say they live, they are who they are. and that's very easy. we gave many, many variations very simply to do that. and all my people on my aisle said that's not fair. >> the caveat is time. if you don't get this done before the midterms, you're going to have these laws in effect and they almost assuredly change the calculations in places that could matter. some of them won't matter because you're going to lose there anyway. but some of them might matter. if those laws are in place, you're not going to have bigger turnout. we go to your side of the ball, senator, on infrastructure. you guys put a deal together. the president likes the deal. your party doesn't like the deal. they say, we need the companion bill through reconciliation to get all the things that the bipartisan group of senators
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couldn't find. is it in your mind something that must happen, the reconciliation bill. >> nothing must happen because this is the legislature. things that we think would happen and should happen sometimes, doesn't happen. is it something that we need? absolutely. both of them we need. >> but the people on the left flank in your party say they won't give you your compromised bill on infrastructure if they don't get their bill on reconciliation. >> let me say this, if my democrat colleagues and friends walk away from the largest infrastructure -- traditional infrastructure, roads, bridges, internet services and rail services, and you name it, we did it, lead pipes, if they would walk away from that and let the perfect be the enemy of the good, shame on us. i don't know what the heck will happen in 2022 if we can't take a win. >> senator joe manchin, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> here's the problem, i have
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had more than one democratic house member say exactly that. that they are not going to get this infrastructure bill if the companion piece through reconciliation doesn't come. democratic party has some wood to chop on this to get a win. will they do it? we will see. speaker pelosi has named members for the new january 6th select committee. one name in particular has left head house republican kevin mccarthy shocked. why is he shocked? what is his problem with this commission? insights from the chairman of the new panel, next. this may look like a regular movie night. but if you're a kid with diabetes, it's more. it's the simple act of enjoying time with friends, knowing you understand your glucose levels. ♪ (upbeat music) - [narrator] this is kate. she always wanted her smile to shine. now, she uses a capful of therabreath healthy smile oral rinse
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tell me, how can someone say they support the police and not want to find out who did this and why? how can you not be curious when dozens and dozens of the capitol cops that you say matter so much and they're not going to get an investigation? the right would rather whitewash what happened. they want to say it's no worse than what happened the summers before. it was tourists. it wasn't an insurrection. they didn't have weapons. things they would never say if it wasn't to their benefit. the proof is what's left of any bipartisan means to investigate the truth. the select committee formed in the wake of that failed commission, tanked by the right, congresswoman liz cheney, the only republican on the panel, kevin mccarthy made clear what he thinks. >> i don't know in history where someone would go get their committee assignments from the speaker and except to have them from the conference as well.
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i'm shocked that he could accept something from speaker pelosi. it would seem to me since i didn't hear from her, maybe she's closer to her than us. i don't know. >> listen, it's not about us anymore. not for him. in this binary system of these two parties, a system that i think is absolutely outlived its utility to us, he's all about opposition and you're either with opposing the democrats or you are dead to him. even if your name is cheney. democratic congressman bennie thompson leads the january 6th select committee. congressman, i got to ask you, i understand why you think the committee is the right thing. but given how much acrimony there is t do you have any concerns that the commission will actually make things worse? >> no, i don't, chris. thank you for having me, by the way. some of these jobs we do are hard. this commission that we will do
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and work with, it will be difficult work. but as you've already shown, the majority of the people in this country saw what happened on january 6th. our charge is to figure out why it happened, who made it happen, and how do we make sure it doesn't happen again. so it will require some work. it's too bad republican leadership at this point has decided not to really participate. but this is a participatory democracy. i would encourage our republican colleagues to join us. as you know, i negotiated a much better deal that i thought we had, but leader mccarthy -- we have to do this, it's for the good of this country. we can't afford to have our united states capitol overrun by
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h hoolagans on the hospice of stopping the steal. our election, chris, someone has to win, someone has to lose. losers don't tear the place up. they say, we see you next election. that's why the founding fathers put this system of government together. >> will you call trump? >> let me say this, we have a good committee. we will have professional investigators. we will have the best that we have to help us conduct this investigation and wherever the facts lead us, chris, we will follow. >> the facts will lead you to trump. will you call trump? >> if the facts lead us there, we'll look at it. i'm not a shrinking violate.
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the other eight members of this committee so far, they want to get to the bottom of what happens. i was in the gallery, chris. it was not a good day, all of the film that we show, none of it has been doctored. this is actually what occurred on that date. and so we have to make sure that we protect the citadel of democracy from this. i hope we can get bipartisan buy-in. liz cheney accepted the offer to participate on this select committee. i thank her for that. my committee, the homeland security committee, is one of the more bipartisan committees in congress. democrats and republicans on my committee work together. unfortunately, when this insurrection occurred, those folk came in wanting to hurt democrats and republicans. so it's in your best interest to fix this and as chairman i'm
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committed to making sure that happens. >> and as the anchor of this show, i'm committed to giving you this platform to tell us about what you're developing as an understanding in that committee and making the case to the american people about the same. congressman, good luck and thank you. >> thank you. we'll be right back. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months, after just 2 doses. skyrizi may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. before treatment, your doctor should check you for infections and tuberculosis. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms such as fevers, sweats, chills, muscle aches, or coughs, or if you plan to or recently received a vaccine. ♪ nothing is everything ♪ now is the time to ask your dermatologist about skyrizi.
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and to watch them and they're praying and pleading that, god, let there be a miracle. >> in a tragedy of this scale leaders have to come together, and that's what we saw. and you should all see it. president biden, democrat, republican florida governor ron desantis. they met and listened. >> you know what's good about this? the simple act of everybody doing whatever needs to be done, it really makes a difference. >> well, thank you, mr. president. and you recognize the severity of this tragedy from day one. you guys have not only been supportive at the federal level, but we've had no bureaucracy. this is the first response in florida's history outside of a hurricane where all of our search and rescue teams were
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