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eugene scott, national reporter at "the washington post," and dana millbank columnist for "the washington post" and author of the deconstructionists. the 25-year crack up of the republican party. thank you all very much for coming up to the reid out. explain why mccarthy has been oh, so silent on santos. well, primarily because santos has been vocal about his support for mccarthy and mccarthy is not in a position where he can afford to lose any votes. he's not at a place right now where he has enough support from his own party to secure his speakership. >> i just want to point out nbc news has reached out to the national republican congressional committee, leader kevin mccarthy, whip steve scalise, conference chair for their reactions to santo admitting embellishments -- i call them lies -- and we've not receive any responses, so just want to put that out there. matthew, what does it say about the republican party that this is where it is right now? that there's a person who's running for speaker who is so desperate to become speaker that you've got a qanon supported extremist who is sayi

scott perry. they also released the transcript of eugene scalia. they showed he talked to bill barr after the capitol attack and barr advised him to resign. when asked why he declined to take barr's advice, he said he thought working within the administration to so-called steady the ship would have greater value. let's bring in joyce vance, an msnbc legal analyst. it's never a good look when people are burning papers in their white house office fireplace, right? >> that's an enormous understatement. people are talking about the burning of papers. it's a violation of the official records act. this goes deeper than that. the notion you have the chief of staff to the president of the united states and he's so disturbed by meetings he's having that he feels like he has to burn evidence of those meetings, that's something doj will want to sink its teeth into. witnesses won't be able to bob and weave, they won't be able to avoid testifying. if doj wants mark meadows testimony, it can get it by a series of means. it looks like meadows has a lot of exposur

scott perry, working to challenge the 2020 election results. the committee also released the transcript of former labor secretary eugene scalia. scalia told the committee he called former attorney general bill barr shortly after the january 6th capitol attack and barr advised him to resign from the trump administration. barr himself stepped down from his post december 2020. joining us now, nbc news justice reporter ryan riley. good morning. we know the doj is investigating former -- the former president's 9 handling of those documents he took to mar-a-lago. do you foresee them also looking into mark meadow's burning papers as well? >> this is kind of an unexplored area of the law. something not, certainly frowned upon and not supposed to be done. all of these records preserved under the presidential records act, but in terms of the actual prosecution of that, it's not really something that there's a lot, a ton of history on. i think it's something certainly used potentially at supporting evidence for the justice department to look at and certainly something they'll be curious about, but i'm not sure if you can expect necessari

eugene, we've been here before. the stakes are a little different this time. it strikes me that you have republican senators tim scott and jon kennedy campaigning with walker at this afternoon. we've known since we watched the results ruling from georgia the first time that this was gonna be a heavier lift for republicans. right? without the senate literally hanging in the balance, they weren't gonna be able to make the same sky is falling argument to their voters that they would've been able to otherwise. so, what is the argument that they're making? >> the argument we keep seeing, especially from walker, as that warnock is gonna be a rubberstamp for joe biden. he brings up this 96% vote from warnock to joe biden. but the difference between that before the general and election and the midterms -- is that it's been made clear for voters that biden is not the weight on democrats as they thought, as much as democrats were hoping to be -- republicans were opening it to be. seeing a democrat like joe biden, is not as bad for a democrat, those candidates, as a lot of folks it was gonna be beforehand. so you can't say we'r

scott perry, who was working to challenge the 2020 election results. the committee also released a transcript of former labor secretary eugene scalia. according to his transcript, scalia told the committee he called former attorney general bill barr shortly after the january 6th capitol attack and barr advised him to resign from the trump administration. barr already stepped down from his post in december 2020. asked why he declined to take barr's advice scalia told the committee he thought trying to work within the administration to steady the ship would have greater value than resigning. something we've heard many times before. now, joining us on these political investigations reporter for the guardian hugo. what struck you most about, we've seen a lot of cassidy hutchison's transcripts before. what struck you most what you heard from transcripts released yesterday? >> hutchison transcript interesting. three things stood out to me personally. first, the fact meadows was burning documents in his fireplace. now hutchison couldn't elaborate or confirm any of the details of the kinds of documents he was burning, and i'm not sure that'