republican line. caller: it's ironic that liz cheney, whose father was a shill for halliburton and lied about weapons of mass destruction. he probably did more to hurt this country than anyone else. she runs into the arms of speaker pelosi so she could be used for political purposes for a sham committee. this is typical of the cheney's and typical of the way they operate. mccarthy should be commended for holding party discipline and stripping her of her assignments. if she wants to get assignments from the democratic speaker, she might as will become a democrat. host: thanks for the call. this is from rick in washington sending us a text message. this should not be a democrat or republican political tug-of-war. serving on the commission would be a patriotic duty. the truth will set us free from the manipulations of the gop. pelosi appoints liz cheney to the house select committee investigating january 6. nancy pelosi announcing yesterday that liz cheney is one of eight members that she selected to ser

republican. host: republican line. this is reggie next up. good morning. caller: yes. thanks for taking my call. yes. i feel it was righteous yesterday what pelosi did. i thank god we have liz cheney on the committee. i hope the committee can go ahead and do their work. i feel good we have released the woman, the republican, from wyoming, i wish she could get one or two more republicans if she can. i hope the committee can get the truth and i hope the americans can accept the truth. and accept joe biden as their president. and try to work this thing out with voting laws. i think some of the things are crazy and taken the rights that i would say, yes, my people, my fellow americans, had over 40, 50 years ago. we had to get right to vote and now they want to take them away. host: we'll let you go there. reminder, call on the line that best reflects your point of view. democrats, 202-478-8000. republicans, 202-748-80 to 01. linda in marks, mississippi. democrats line. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: yes, we can. you're on the air. caller: all right. thank you

house republicans did not support that. senate republicans blocked it through the filibuster. so we are going to have this investigation a little bit more under house speaker nancy pelosi's terms then we might otherwise have had -- and then might have otherwise have had it. we will have to see what they come up with. host: eight chosen by nancy pelosi, five yet to be determined by the house committee. talk about lynn cheney. why is she put in place but -- liz cheney. why is she put in place by the democrats? guest: i think liz cheney has become the primary republican voice who is critical in terms of president trump in terms of how he handled the election, his continued casting of doubt on the election results, accusations of voter fraud, things of that nature. she was among the 10 house republicans who voted to impeach then president trump on the basis of inciting the january 6 riot. and then she ultimately lost her position in the house republican leadership. she was the chairwoman of the house republican conference, the third ranking republican in the house. the perception

those are republicans.age, whatever you want to call it, is softening. >> it's a clear attempt to rewrite history and it's dangerous. but the numbers are exactly why this investigation that's going on on capitol hill is important. republicans killed this outside commission. they clearly did not want the truth to come out in an election year, and they were afraid of what that would mean for him politically. now there's this really ugly and nasty fight going on on capitol hill about how they are going to do the select committee. it's important this committee reach those people who are still having their minds changed. it used to be just a small segment of the republican party. it's growing. it's still growing because of the big lie, and that's danger. that's why this committee needs to have some sort of impact beyond just democrats. it's got to reach across the aisle. >> how? how do they do that? a sense that the speaker was clear today. we're going to try to lay out facts. we're going to try to explain why i

how do you feel about that, republicans and republican leadership? how do you feel about using the same arguments that were used by some of the arch segregationists to stop voting rights in the senate in the 1960's? last month, as i said, the vote represented the starting gun, not the finish line, in the fight to protecting voting rights. as majority leader, i reserve the right to bring back voting rights and democracy reform for another vote on the senate floor. now, on another issue. infrastructure. climate. over the past few weeks, we have seen an awful heat wave hit oregon and washington. those states in the beautiful northwest, always known for their cool summer breezes, had temperatures like 115 degrees. it was just astounding. not just a little temperature bump. dramatically unusual. temperatures in the pacific northwest climbed so high that power cables melted and roadways cracked in two. at the same time, in the american southwest, the lack of rainfall and depleted reservoirs have led to a historic lack of water. according to the national dr

and actually, you know, those 2 republicans are the only 2 republicans on this committee. and a lot of republicans are having a lot of problems with that lives cheney with throughout the hearing was very matter of fact adam can thing or as you mentioned, very emotional. take a listen. you hear the former president, trump say quote, it was a loving crowd. there was a lot of love in the crowd. how does that make you feel is subsiding? is a, a better excuse for his behavior, for something that he himself help to create this monstrosity. democracy is or not defined. by our bad days. we're defined by how we come back from bang the bad days, how we take accountability for that now, and the conclusion of the hearing, adam kinsey was asked of how fellow republicans want to remove him from a number of the committees that he sits on here. what's his response to that? all i have to say to that is we had a big attack on january 2nd. we heard very emotional testimony today. and that's what's on the forefront of my mind. and if people want to get petty, that's fine. i think that reflect

only two republicans voted with democrats to establish that. liz cheney from wyoming and a representative from illinois. this is the washington journal in our first hour today you can tell us what you think about this group to investigate the events of january 6. if you support the creation of the select committee call a set (202) 748-8000 and tell us why, if you oppose it you can call (202) 748-8001 and also tell us why. you can also text us at (202) 748-8002 -- text us at (202) 748-8003. you can also post on facebook or twitter. if you want to follow our show you can do so on instagram @cspanwj. here's what the some act -- what the select committee will look like, it will have subpoena power, 13 members, eight appointed by speaker pelosi, and five appointed after consultation with the minority leader of kevin mccarthy. as part of the select committee's work no end date has been specified. that's just some of the framework of what this committee will look like, a couple more announcement as the days go on. yesterday on the house floor a lot of

and at the same time, you had a lot of the republican party, liberal, moderate republicans. particularly from the northeast. from the west coast. the suburbs of chicago and that sort of thing. but there was a substantial overlap between the two parties. what happened in congress, what happened is conservative and to a certain extent moderate democrats, they died, they retired, they lost general elections, they lost primary elections or they switched parties. and the same thing with the liberal, to a certain extent, moderate republicans. died, switched parties, lost primaries, whatever. and then within the electorate, you have the same thing. where conservative democrats just sort of leave the party or just stop voting democratic. same thing with liberal republicans. so now our two parties are ideologically sorted so that we do have, we now have a liberal party and we have a conservative party. and you know, it is what it is. the people in each party that were the ballast that kept their parties from going off into a ditch from the left or the right, are for the most part, go

and seats all five republican nominees, republicans will not be party to their share process and will instead pursue our own investigation. this afternoon, mccarthy joined his five would be appointees to repeatedly denounced the speaker. >> this represents something that has not happened in the house before for a select committee by the historian. it's an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. it's true, it is politics by pelosi. >> it kind of went on like that, republican congresswoman liz cheney of wyoming who pelosi had already appointed to the committee and who will recently -- who until recently was third most powerful member of the republican party in the house, well today, she called out mccarthy. >> the rhetoric that we have heard from the minority leader is disingenuous. the american people deserve to know what happened. at any offer to 90, the leader has attempted to prevent the american people from knowing what happened, to block this investigation. i agree with what the speaker has done. >> mccarthy, of course, wants to become speaker next year. do y

host: republican banks. mccarthy wanted him to serve on the select committee and the speaker barred him and jim jordan from doing so. your thoughts on the select committee as they get prepared this morning to hold their first hearing into what happened that day. hot springs, arkansas, democratic caller. caller: how are you doing today? host: doing fine. caller: when they start calling witnesses, the first person i would like to see them call is pence, vice president pence. he could probably tell them more of what actually happened and more of what's going on behind the scenes than anybody else they could call. if they want to call trump, that's good, but he will lie to them and make up a bunch of phony stuff. i want to comment on one thing, that nancy pelosi knew this was going to happen. i didn't know she had a crystal ball. did you know that? host: "the washington post" editorial board has a list of questions they think committee should ask and they said at the top of the list is precisely what donald trum

republican u.s. senator james lankford because he voted to certify the election. the state republican party chairman endosing the challenger to the sitting incumbent republican u.s. senator. if you have an incumbent u.s. senator up for re-election usually you would not expect the republican party in that state and its chairman to be crusading against the incumbent senator trying to get him or her thrown out of office. usually that's how it works. for obvious reasons. but six months on from the capitol attack today what we have got now is a republican party that does that. and what we have got now are a lot of single issue republican voters and republican activists for whom, single issue, only thing that's driving them in politics is this fantasy that trump secretly won the 2020 election and the election must be overthrown so he can be reinstated. it's turned the state republican party in oklahoma against their incumbent republican senator as he faces a re-election battle. it's also animating hundreds

scott, republican line. caller: i would like to challenge the idea that illegals are not voting in the election. i have a personal experience where i was renewing my driver's license at the dmv, and i was chatting with the lady behind the counter about it, and she goes, "oh, we give it illegals drivers license because they all have to prove residency. the next question on the screen says, do you want to register to vote? she says i know for a fact there are illegals, many hundreds of thousands in americans that have come in, they get residency status, they get a drivers license, and then they also at the same time our signed up to register to vote." guest: have you personally witnessed a noncitizen vote? have you witnessed this, or is it secondhand? caller: i did not watch the vote, i watched a person sign up to vote at the dmv. guest: and you knew for sure that they were not a citizen? host: i think we lost the caller. guest: it is all hearsay. i heard this, i read this, somebody told me this or that. when

the republican-led house and the republican-led senate in texas, they're trying to pass legislation that would make it significantly harder to vote in texas in a state where it is already not that easy to vote. the ways they are trying to change the voting laws in texas would disproportionately affect voters of colors and poor voters and with disabilities in particular and so texas democrats have bolted from the state. they left texas entirely tonight in a last-ditch effort to try to stop this bill from becoming law. now, those two planes i mentioned carrying texas democrats, those two planes have just landed at dulles airport just outside washington, d.c. they've landed just in the last hour. it is 51 democrats from the texas state house onboard the two planes. we are told at least seven other texas democrats are making their way to d.c. as well separately. if this sounds at all familiar to do, texas democrats pulling a big, tactical surprise move to try to save voting rights? it is because this is the sort of the second iteration of this we've seen in a matter of weeks. in may republic

democrats or republicans? let's get to the bottom line. ah, how long has it been since you've heard this voice? we won the election twice. and it's possible we'll have to win it a 3rd time as possible. yes. spoke to the 2nd coming of trump or the 3rd, depending on how you count the former president is back with a vengeance. and from your reaction to that clip, you can tell where you stand on the american political spectrum. do you long for the time when he filled your days and nights with parts of his grievances, personal pet, peeves, culture wars and anger? or is it the exact opposite? and you're wondering why we're still talking about him? well, love him or not this week. donald trump's been holding campaign like rallies around the country, repeating the big lie that he won the last election, promising revenge against the republicans that don't agree with him. vilifying immigration and immigrants, and of course blasting the media and the democrats and throughout all he did. what he does best tease the media about whether he'll run for pr

but they aren't going as far -- republican leadership is not criticizing those republicans who are casting doubt on the vaccines. i pushed leader mcconnell on this last week. he said it's perplexing why more people aren't getting vaccinated and i said respectfully, it isn't all that perflex plex -- perplexing with people in your party casting doubt on this process. are you challenging them directly? he said he can only speak for himself. yamiche: and eva talking about unnamed republicans casting doubt. carol and phil, you wrote a a book about former president trump who downplayed the virus. carol, talk a bit about why former president trump played along with anti-vaxxers, knowing full well he was vaccinated early and he was really sick from this. what's behd his relationship and the way he talks about the vaccine and the virus? carol: everying that happened with donald trump when he was president was about getting re-elected and feeding his base, not leading his base, but making them appeased. and he believed he looked week if he suggested the virus was serious and you would need a vaccine

the republican party has shifted.ingness to, you know, stand up to those people in their party, hasn't changed at all. >> you mentioned the club for growth, the club for growth is -- likes to stir up trouble in the republican party, attacking people it doesn't think are conservative enough, went after donald j. trump, said he was nowhere near conservative enough, they had forgotten that part. they're in tv right now in wyoming going after cheney. >> she benefitted from a famous political last name, she sided with nancy pelosi and attacked president trump when he was in office. she supported impeachment, and she continues to attack president trump today. hillary clinton, no. liz cheney. >> i guess that's somehow the gold standard in republican attacks. but to jackie's point, she has not changed. sadly we wish we could have an investigation of january 6th that was just about the facts. we're not going to. what we hope -- i hope we have one of those, but there is going to be a running right next to it a very thick politi

house republican leader kevin mccarthy saying republicans will not take part in the january 6th select committee unless all of his picks are seated. he blasted house speaker nancy pelosi for blocking two of his choices for the panel, ohio congressman jim jordan and indiana congressman jim banks. the. >> this represents something that has not happened in the house before for a select committee by the historian. it's an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. >> and for her part speaker pelosi says this shouldn't impact the panel's ability to get the work done. >> we have a bipartisan quorum. we can proceed. >> reporter: now on the other side of the capitol the senate is set to vote soon on whether to begin debate on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. a vote is expected to fail because republicans want to see the final text first, and later this hour we're going to talk about all of this with connecticut senator richard blumenthal hand massachusetts congresswoman katherine clark. as president biden heads to ohio to make another push for his build back better agenda

republicans.on't care if you think i am satan reincarnated, the fact is, you can't look at that television and say nothing happened on the 6th. >> lee ann caldwell joins me to breakdown all this from capitol hill. we now know the committee marching on without members appointed by kevin mccarthy, but doesn't seem like we heard the last word on who might ultimately be on that committee. what more are we learning? >> reporter: that's right, garrett. the eight members currently on it, there could be more now. speaker pelosi has five opportunities to appoint new members now that leader mccarthy removed his members from the committee and there are discussions under way my sources are telling me that perhaps representative adam kinzinger, republican, could be someone that speaker pelosi is to appoint. i am told that representative kinzinger and pelosi are supposed to meet sometime today, so perhaps there will be an announcement or perhaps she will be fully happy with the eight members that she already ha

, mccarthy, a lot of republicans are not in the room. they're going to have to have this message from the outside. hallie, andrea? >> and just to point out that the two sergeants at arms had been appointed by republicans, one from boehner, one from mcconnell, holdovers even though the democrats had taken over. they were the people in charge nommally as well as the capitol police chief, all of them either fired or left office shortly after january 6th. i want to bring in jeremy bash. the other piece of this leigh ann mentioned missing donald trump not mentioned by the republicans and the pentagon leadership. defense chief mark esper had been fired. there was the new acting defense chief miller and he was in the chain of command also. why wasn't the national guard? that's the other piece. jeremy, in addition to being chief of staff and in addition to being cia chief of staff, you also were a house staffer. you worked for the house intel committee. you know how the whole system works and also how the white house works. speak to that chain o

the one absent senator was a republican who supports the bill. 17 republican senate votes on the floor but 18 in reality already there. including mitch mcconnell. >> you remember the days there were big votes in the senate like that, these days i was talking to senator tester saying until you are doing something completely noncontroversial it is unheard of to get 18 people joining with democracy. democrats. it's quite something. >> it really is. i saw your interview with john throughout the problem and he's very realistic about what the possibilities are. he's not someone who throws around a lot of false optimism. he is one of the keys to watch it get this far. it's not all the way there but this vote is a huge hurdle to get over. >> looking forward to your show. have a good one. >> thank you, ali. as i say, the senate delivered a huge vote tonight, a huge win, very important, huge win for joe biden in the senate tonight. it was also a huge win for chuck schumer's legislative strategy in the senate passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill followed by a larger democrats-only bill, and a

another way of saying, they're not really republicans. and the reason he saying that is because they do seem, i don't know, troubled by the violent insurrection? the lack of a peaceful transfer of power, and the desire donald trump clearly has on doing it all again if he gets the chance. in fact, as the midterm races heat up, lots of reports indicating that republican candidates across the country are increasingly focused on the last election. they're running on the falsehood spread by trump and his allies that the 2020 race was stolen from him. just this weekend, donald trump did an event where he prattled on about the stolen election at an interminable rally in phoenix with most of that states republicans running for statewide office they're attending the event. this goes to show, again, that influence. now, arizona of course is the one state that's actually tried to prove donald trump's false and ridiculous claims. that's in the audit of maricopa county's 2. 1 million ballots. which has, not surprisingly, been an absolute clown show. i

actually a total of 18 republicans supported the bill, the one absent senator was a republican who supports the bill. so 17 republican votes on the senate floor tonight, but 18 in reality. >> the old -- days >> including mitch mcconnell. >> you remember the days when there were big votes in the senate like that, but these days, i was talking to senator tester, and it's said unless you're naming a post office or doing something non-controversial, it's unheard of these days to get 18 people joining with democrats, so it's something. >> it really is. and i saw your interview with john tester and his confidence and his confidence throughout this process is one of the beacons that i kept my eye on because he is very realistic about what the possibilities are, he's not somebody who throws a lot -- throws around a lot of false optimism. so he was one of the keys for me and watching you get this far. it's not all the way there, but this vote is a huge hurdle for the bill to get over. >> i'm looking for to your show tonight, lawrence have a good one. >> thank you. while they say the senate will deli

republicans are holding up the process, and republicans are holding it up. will have to ask them why. obviously cory booker is fighting hard in the senate. tim scott says he wants to get a bill. i certainly hope that is the case. jim clyburn has told our caucus he believes there's a path forward for a meaningful bill. that's the key phrase. we don't just want a symbol, we want accountability. we want to make sure people of color, particularly african-americans, are safe when dealing with the police. that doesn't mean they won't deal with the police any more than i won't deal with the police if i do something wrong, but it means they will be treated as everybody else is treated, and that is with the respect that is due a citizen under the law and under the constitution of the united states. so i am hopeful that senator scott and senator booker and other members of the senate will be able to come to an agreement that the house can pass not just a symbol but substance so that we can have accountability. very frankly, when a member of congress does wrong -- i'm

will see what they come up with. >> bret: one republican definitely wants it to go forward wyoming republicanis around the minority leader and two members has been disgraceful this must be an investigation that is focused on facts. and the idea that any of this has become politicized is really unworthy of the office we all hold and unworthy of our republic. >> bret: mollie. >> it's worth comparing liz cheney's rhetoric of the woman who replaced her elise stefanik who after nancy pelosi kicked off two members that the republicans had kicked said that nancy pelosi was acting like a radical authoritarian that she would go down in history as the least well-liked speaker of the house that the house of representatives has ever had. versus liz cheney saying it was okay for nancy pelosi it kick off the ranking member of the judiciary committee and jim banks widely regarded as a very thoughtful member while keeping adam schiff the man who perpetrated the russian collusion hoax the lie that donald trump had won the 2016 election only by being a traitor who colluded with russia. a lie he kept going for

republicans. if there is a cause for pessimism is that the deal is not done and it is still sitting here even tonight with donald trump now leaning in and with mitch mcconnell feeling the pressure. i think that is the thing that puts this thing in jeopardy. every hour it does not get done makes it unlikely that it will get done. >> if the bipartisan bill falls apart and donald trump manages to pick off one or two senators, whatever he needs to kill the thing. the republicans will have failed completely at what they appeared to agree to with the president in the white house drive way a month ago and joe biden and chuck schumer, it seems, have positioned the republicans as the people that destroyed the bill. >> absolutely. it will be fascinating. i have to tell you. he is perfectly willing to do so if he thinks that it is for the greater good. >> john heilman, infrastructure, used to be the old-fashioned way to get reelected, whether you got an earmark to get the bridge or the project in your distri

what republicans' politics are. he was saying you have to have a clear-eyed view of what actually happened on january the 6th. and as we know, some of the republicans who wanted to -- that kevin mccarthy wanted to put on that panel were ones who have denied reality. some of them, who have tried to whitewash or downplay the riot that happened on the capitol, that day. and so, he seemed to be supportive of speaker pelosi's moves. we know that our sources have told us they are very deferential to whatever it is that the house speaker wants to see on that panel. how that's, ultimately, going to look like and how that investigation is going to end up, anderson. >> we are going to take a quick break. we are going talk more about the panel, right here, with our panel, as well. we'll be right back. hey lily, i need a new wireless plan for my business, but all my employees need something different. oh, we can help with that. okay, imagine this... your mover, rob, he's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we c

aren't they kind of like pelosi republicans? >> the sad leadership and clear boundaries of the republican party. >> we have important work to do. and i think that's pretty childish. >> it's childish. we are doing big things right now. >>> tonight, how trump's version of the insurrection became the litmus test for house republicans. and what the january-6th committee will be investigated when they convene for the first time, tomorrow. >>> then. >> does this impact fertility? well, the answer is no. and that's been the data. but they -- >> despite the ongoing misinformation damage, how some of the vaccine hesitant are starting to come around. biden's former-covid adviser, andy slavitt, joins me on that. >>> plus, senator chris murphy on the challenges of working with republicans on anything. >>> and with voting rights under threat, we remember the leadership of bob moses trying to register voters in mississippi. >> anyone is arrested and then taken out of the jail. then, the chances that they are alive is just almost zero. >>> whe

liz cheney, the republican leader in the house, kevin mccarthy, warned republicans that there would be they participated in this good faith effort to understand what happened. which is not a good sign considering that he will now hand pick the republican side of the committee. how do we get out of this partisan mess and to the bottom of what actually happened on january 6th? my next guest is uniquely positioned to know what it's like to navigate partisan waters like these. congressman joe nagoos of colorado was a house impeachment manager who prosecuted president trump for his role in the insurrection. representative, good to see you. thank you for being with us. this is fraught with danger before it begins because specifically of the position that the house leader has taken on who gets to serve on this committee or why. >> yeah, i agree. it's good to see you. i would say that the committee is really incredibly important in terms of getting to the truth as to what happened on january 6 and the various unresolved questions that still exist, as you articulated, which i think warrant the

she is now the only republican left on the committee. she came out today to defend the role of the commission. what did she tell you, manu? >> she sharp eely criticized mccarthy and said she agreed with nancy pelosi. she said there needed to be people who agree with the constitution and that this investigation should be done in a nonpartisan manner. even though there will be several democrats and just one republican. cheney of course was pushed out of her leadership position because she challenged donald trump, criticized him in the aftermath of january 6th, was one of ten republicans voting to impeach him for inciting the insurrection. i asked her do you believe that kevin mccarthy deserves to be speaker of the house next year? she said someone who is in third in line of the presidency should respect the constitution. she said kevin mccarthy has not done that, making clear where she believes things are going. she believes the party is in the wrong direction. but she is decidedly in the minority, though, pam, she was just one of two repu

but i can't point to a certain document this is the house republican agenda or this is the senate republican agenda. and as we look forward, i think that's critical or incumbent on republicans to figure out what the core things we stand on. i would love it if house republicans would adopt that. i don't think that's going to happen. i think there's tremendous areas of common ground. and my goal is to win the popular vote. and to do that, you have to campaign. rural areas and california and places republicans haven't campaigned before. but you end up heading into the next general election with 85, 86. >> does your orginization support individual candidates? >> we tend to focus more on house candidates than senate candidates. but we will make endorsements in certain senate races. >> he heads freedomworks. welcome your calls 8000 for democrats, and republicans, 8001. for all others, 8002. on the democrats line. >> yes, hello. hi. by the way, what you did, i'm terrified by. you have done a lot and you've been hugely -- made huge changes in the american deasperrau. you aware the entire premise of

shouldn't whether you're a democrat or republican. we saw senator mitt romney stand up when there was misinformation. we saw liz cheney do the same. honestly ten years ago i thought that would have been senator grassley, unfortunately it's not anymore. >> with that, we're going to leave it there. former congresswoman abby finkenauer, thank you very much for coming to the reidout. >>> tonight on "all in." >> i was ready to get the vaccine. >> please take covid seriously. >> these vaccines are saving lives. >> after months of silence and misinformation, republicans start promoting the covid vaccine. >> i think it was sort of as we catholics say a bit of an epiphany for them. >> what's behind the sudden republican turnaround and will it work. >> it was a loving crowd. i heard that from anybody. many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. >> as republicans try to rehabilitate the violent crowd of insurrectionists -- >> when statements are ridiculous and fall into the realm of you must be kidding, there's no way they're going t

republicans in the house. kicking her off house armed services or expeling her from the conference entirely. her political future is probably doomed anyway, they feel they don't necessarily to take another whack at her. at the same time you see efforts to chip away at her credibility because she is so instrumental to pelosi's strategy with making this a bipartisan, credible investigation. >> lots of questions about her political future. no matter what, she is not backing down from this fight with kevin mccarthy at all. >> uh-uh. >>> we'll have more coming up. next for us, president biden insists he can get bipartisan things done. this week, though, may be his last chance to prove it. like many people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease, i was there. be right back. but my symptoms were keeping me from where i needed to be. so i talked to my doctor and learned humira is the #1 prescribed biologic for people with uc or crohn's disease. and humira helps people achieve remission that can l

she put two republicans on the select committee.t say this committee is, you know, now partisan, where does the responsibility for that lie? >> scquarely at the feet of kevn mccarthy, mitch mcconnell who are doing the bidding of donald trump. it's not only that we won't understand the truth about january 6 th in the most complete way if we had a bipartisan independent commission and the select committee will do the best job possible absent an independent commission. it's such an insult to the police officers you'll hear from tomorrow. they are seen now in the last six months republicans have voted against giving them the gold medal for what they did on january 6th, republicans have not voted to give the security assistance that would help us. republicans have blamed the fbi and said it was an inside job. republican leader mccarthy refused to meet for many months with officer mike fanone and walking away from the select committee. you know, they have shown that to honor donald trump, you have to dishonor the police and tomorrow will

according to testimony from republican congresswoman herrera beutler when house republican leader mccarthy ran trump from the white house on january 6th to demand trump call off his mob the then president replied well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. those are just the five main questions on my mind. there are many more unanswered january 6th questions out there, and to be clear, i'm not pre-judging. i'm not suggesting i know for sure the answers to all these questions, though, as i've demonstrated tonight, there's plenty of prima facie evidence suggesting a lot of evidence including the former president have a lot to answer for. look, that's the whole point of having a congressional investigation, to get to the facts, to get to the truth, and hopefully to get justice for the people who died. i'm joined now by barbara comstock who served two terms in the house as a republican representing northern virginia including during the trump virginia until she was defeated in the 2018 mid-terms and she's since become an outspoken critic of the former pres

, not were you're a democrat or republican. it's being for the rule of law, for the constitution and for getting the facts on the record and so i am thrilled that they will be doing it and hopefully my friend -- >> i appreciate -- >> deb wriggleman will be there. >> i appreciate what you're saying and other republicans speaking out against trumpet you are saying you don't want him to dominate your party. your critics will say you should have spoken out while you were still in office and i know you criticized the muslim ban and a few other things that happened on trump's ban but you had a 98% record of voting with trump's priorities. in fact, your democratic opponent ran ads against you calling you trumpstock in 2018. i wonder in hindsight shouldn't you have come out against trump and your party's craziness much sooner than you did? >> well, actually i voted against him in '16 and publicly when i was on the ticket with him said that i did, but i am a conservative republican also. i voted for tax cuts. i voted for increasing the

you're still a republican, right? you're still a republican. >> i am. i am. >> i talk with republicans like you all the time who say the same thing, my party is burning. it's burning like it's gone straight to hell and no one seems to have an answer as to how you pull it back. do you have ideas on how to pull it back to at least sanity where we're just fighting about tax cuts again? >> it needs to burn down. it literally needs to be demolished before you can go in and build it up again. the people who actually say please stay republican are democrats who like to say let's argue about tax policy because they know you need a strong republican party. right now it's not strong, but it needs -- it really does need to be burned down to the ground so it can come back up. but that also means there has to be people willing to keep their republican credentials to be there when it's time to build it up. >> but they're silent and that's not helpful. not everyone is willing to go on tv and do what you're doing tonight, susan. meanwhile, neo nazis are marching in phi

republicans would bow down, and while some of the more spineless republicans have done just that, the reality of your post-presidency life has been much more choppy. just this week your friend and inauguration committee chair was indicted on seven different charges. though he says he's planning to plead not guilty. this soon after multiple indictments were made public against your company, the trump organization and its longtime cfo, allen weisselberg. that's a big bloerks particularly as your own incompetence made it some of the worst in history. your racist rhetoric from the campaign and presidency cost you millions in licensing deals, and your big lie and the insurrection on january 6th caused some of your political partners to disavow you entirely. and while your cool indifference during the covid pandemic crippled the entire travel industry, including hotels like yours, if that wasn't enough, a wave of tell-all books are giving the american people a window into your administration, and it's not a pretty picture. anecdotes in these best sellers include a section of michael bender'

on the commission, and now republicans criticizing the select committee, and so this is a republicanculation on the part of the gop that there is nothing to be gained by talking about january 6th or who is responsible for it? >> it is not just the idea that there is nothing to be gained, but some members of the republican party have said that there is a lot to be lost for the republicans to continuing to talk about the events of january 6th, that it is bad for them politically, and that it is not a winning midterm message if the nation is talking about how a group of trump supporters stormed the capitol as part of the deadly insurrection to overturn democracy and it is not a winning 2022 message, and winning 2024 message, and something they are eager to live past. >> and not to reduce this all to politics, since january 6th was an attack on our democracy. and when you are talking about the midterm strategy, help us to understand the white house view of this, because the white house has voiced the support for white house speaker nancy pelosi, but they have been relatively hands off, a

more so republicans. think this is a big deal. >> it's part of the reason what you're hearing is an impossibly stupid argument about defund police. i don't know you are but what am i? and i think her point about adam's biography is supremely important. this is a unique character. look, i have a career supporting law enforcement. it got me in the primaries. i'm interested to see how much of this stuff sticks to biden versus how many it sticks to this or that house member. i think that will be interesting to see how different that is. wove seen the defund the police cost them votes. it seems like a taller order to make stick. >> i think we learned that in 2020. it was hard to push biden more to the left. but maybe you can do it. an excellent point. we'll continue this conversation with surprising new details on how just how joe biden won the 2020 election. and it is a party in new york city. look right here. this is a parade honoring essential workers. home town heroes parade right in the streets of new yor

but, the deeper problem here is that there's always been this sense, among republicans, and republican politicians, not all of them, but the vast range already that covid essentially an invented threats, the lives are making this up. you need to manage and move along and not freak out. now, i do think there's a complex relationship between who is leading the pushback to say covid measures, particularly vaccines, and who is following. but because most of that, if you gave most republican politicians through truth serums they would tell you that once the vaccines were available, the goal for republicans was essentially to have their cake and needed to. meaning, let the biden administration, which i think republican secretly know is certainly far more competent than the trump administration, generally wants to solve the problem. let the biden administration handled the crisis. let them administer the vaccine across the country, but don't lift a finger to aid them. take your shots where you can, maybe also flirt with anti pro-vaccine rhetoric like tucker carlson, and that way you can have

the republican leader pulling all five republicans from the panel. the one remaining republican is liz cheney. the headline from the washington times this morning, pelosi: trump obsessed republicans will derail the january 6 to probe. a tweet here from politico, speaker pelosi is weighing new ways to beef up the bipartisan credibility of the january 6 pro after mccarthy and republicans walked out on it. she is considering adding adam kinzinger and hiring the republican as an outside advisor. here's what she had to say yesterday. speaker pelosi: the select committee is bipartisan and it has a quorum. it will do the job it is out to do. that is to investigate the causes of what happened on january 6. to find out who paid for it, who message to get those people here for the assault on the capital. over 100 people or injured, some died. i will never forget the trauma it caused not only for our members but our staff and people who work in the capitol. some of you were here that day as well. you can attest to the fact that it was not all love, hugs, and ki

the republican party, you're a republican, a conservative republican, have been for a long, long timean party has always projected itself as the law and order pro law enforcement policy. can your gop colleagues still make that claim while hanging these police officers, at least many of them, out to dry? >> well, i can. for the party at large, you know, i guess that's a political question that people have to decide and the party has to decide. i will say this, if, again, it's one thing to argue some of the nuances, but then to not condemn members, republican members of congress particularly that obfiscate or deny or distract or deflect from what actually happened and pretend like it was, to quote the former president, hugs and kisses. to host members of congress, nothing other than a tourist visit, that's going to be a tougher case to make. i think every republican needs to look kind of deep into their soul and say, okay, maybe you're scared of ticking some people off, but this has long-term implications and not just political implications, human implications, and frank the implication

republican line, good morning.aller: donald trump, he got things done, he could make deals and he was for the people he loved america. since biden got in, everything's gone sky high, he is a disaster. they are like living on $45,000 a year, he is a complete disaster. and the water is horrible -- border is horrible and he hasn't been down there. trump at least he keeps on going down there, he's been down there twice. host: what was his greatest achievement while in office? caller: while in office i think doing things for the people and making deals and no wars. when obama and biden were in we had wars. we didn't with trump. trump knew what he was doing and he was ripped down from day one by the democrats and all the people were thoroughly jealous of him. we were in south glastonbury and we love trump. host: his debut ranking for the survey which we put out every time a president leaves office, individual categories as far as historians, 41st overall, when it comes to rankings of presidents that were released last we

republicans, as we have seen, tended to vote only for republican candidates, more than 90%. democrats voted more than 90% for the democratic candidates. in this election, critical group for joe biden were people who don't lean toward either party or support either party in that -- and that vote went to joe biden. host: let's talk to jeff who is calling from florida on the independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. it seems to me, if i understand things correctly, that a person needs to register to vote before they can vote. that is where we can put this big lie to rest from ever happening again. you need to register people with a fingerprint. that fingerprint, if they are doing a mail-in ballot, comes with a little ink pad. you stick your thumbprint on it. when it goes in, it registers that you have made your vote. if there is any doubt as to if it was you or someone else that can pull the physical copy, see if it matches your name and if there's any question at all they know who you are and they can come and ask you "did you vote?" now, this is a simple thing.