aspendental or book online today. ♪ >>> house speaker nancy pelosi has appointed republican congressman adam kinzingerecial committee investigating the january 6th capitol insurrection and now a growing group of gop house members want minority leader kevin mccarthy to punish kinzinger and congresswoman liz cheney for joining the panel. cnn's melanie zanona with with us now. mel what do they want? >> so, a growing number of republicans are calling for liz cheney and adam kinzinger to be kicked off their other committee assignments for agreeing to join the january 6th select panel. there were murmurs over the last week. cnn's ryan nobles and i are both hearing from members and aides and sources saying this is getting to a point where we're going to potentially push leadership on this. now, kevin mccarthy and gop leaders actually don't have much of an appetite to go this route for a number of reasons. one of them being that speaker nancy pelosi could just reappoint them to those committees any way. the right flank is seen as a very important constituency for kevin mccarthy who wants to be speaker. at the

what do you think liz cheney and adam kinzinger will do differently than democrats? whether some republicans like it or not, acknowledge it or not, accept it or not, adam and liz cheney are republicans. in fact, liz cheney is a very conservative republican, far more republican than elise stefanik and i think the role they're there to play is to be principled, to show moral leadership, to put country over party, to put truth over fiction. that is their role, and i think it's one that they are willing to accept, and accept readily, knowing that they may be consequences. but let's also not forget how well adam kinzinger and liz cheney have done in fund-raising since this all started happening. and it's such, you know, i look at what kevin mccarthy's doing, trying to label them pelosi republicans. there is no such thing as a pelosi republican. and adam and liz cheney are no different today in their positions and their principles and their convictions than they were a year ago. when they were kevin mccarthy republicans. and if, you know, he thinks that by calling them pel

what's your reaction to adam kinzinger being added to this committee?see more republicans appointed? >> i think it is a great pick. want to see more republicans appointed but as you know, it is a small pool that could qualify. only as -- as miss cheney said only 35 voted for an independent commission. and so many have respoken the big lie and voted against measures that would change this, like a defense supplemental. i would like to see more republicans but i think it takes more republicans willing to choose country over party and truth over power. ed isly, there is just not that big a group. i did talk to mr. kinzinger briefly about this this week expressing my hope that if it was offered he would take it. honestly, i don't think he need i had in encouragement. i am very happy for him. another voice from illinois. >> yeah. do you think this group of nine is what you are going to stick with or will there be others? apparently there are others who raised their hand as being of interest, whether they are all that group of 35 or not. >> i think that -- i d

adam kinzinger is a highly sensitive person and he doesn't care who knows it. what surprised us was adam schiff of california, you think of him as a tough character, and even prudent fighting heroes have their limits. as adam schiff recalled the horrible image, the nightmare of the q and on shaman wandering around, he broke down and began to cry. >> got help us. we are so driven by bigotry and hate that we attack our fellow citizens, if they were born in our country, if they don't look like us. then got helpless. but i have faith. because of folks like you. adam, i didn't expect this to be quite so emotional but it must be an adam thing today. >> tucker: it's and adam thing. that adam schiff just complained that others were calling people trade doors? he cried anyway. now how afraid are adam schiff and ken's anger and their friends in congress that the queue and on are coming back? they've allocated themselves more police protection than most american cities get at a time when most american cities are becoming more dangerous and thousands of americans are dying.

adam kinzinger, his voice was cracking and he explained.aying how emotional all of this was for him. he too has served in a way that some of those veterans had served. and, yet, then we heard afterwards from some of the republicans that they didn't even bother to watch it, they didn't have time to watch it. so, doesn't that sort of fly in the face of them saying they want answers? >> yeah. i talked to house leader, gop leader kevin mccarthy after the hearings, asked him if he was watching. and he said he couldn't because he had back-to-back meetings. jim jordan, a republican who was one of mccarthy's initial picks for that panel that pelosi vetoed also said he didn't have much time to watch these hearings. mccarthy and his allies are trying to keep a message focused tightly on the security failures in the capitol that day. i talked to some republican source who's said they're very, very reluctant to be seen as anti-cop or impuning the testimony of these police officers. yet at the same time there are conservatives in the party like matt gae

. >> and the other republican on the committee, adam kinzinger, visibly emotional as he addressed theand took stock of just how important the work of the committee is to the health of our democracy. >> you guys won. you guys held. you know, democracies are not defined by our bad days. we're defined by how we come back from bad days. how we take accountability for that. and for all the overheated rhetoric surrounding this committee, our mission is very simple. it's to find the truth and it's to ensure accountability. like most americans, i'm frustrated that six months after a deadly insurrection breached the united states capitol for several hours on live television, we still don't know exactly what happened. why. because many in my party have treated this as just another partisan fight. it's toxic and it's a disservice to the officers and their families, to the staff and the employees at the capitol complex, to the american people who deserve the truth, and to those generations before us who went to war to defend self-governance, because self-governance is at stake. >> the january 6 s

it comes after nancy pelosi announced yesterday the addition of republican congressman adam kinzingerl. he now joins fellow republican congresswoman liz cheney. they are the only two gop members of panel so for. let's go to lauren fox on capitol hill. this meeting comes amid growing pressure on republican leadership from rank and file republicans in the house to punish kinzinger and cheney just for saying yes. >> reporter: well that is exactly right. i mean, look, this push is coming from conservative and members of the house freedom caucus but it spread further than that according to the latest reporting. and what is important and notable about this is the fact that these are the two republicans who accepted an appointment from house speaker nancy pelosi. and all of this came after mccarthy had to pull back his five members, he had selected for this committee because he argued argued pelosi was pulling punches saying that two members were not appropriate choices for the committee and is he he'd fine, i'm not going to put anyone at all. >> that meant whether they would fill the spaces

do you think she's done that by appointing adam kinzinger. >> i do. serious thoughtful member. he wants to get to the truth. he wants the facts. he wants accountability. he wants answers to questions why thousands of our fellow citizenships stormed the capitol to try to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. it's a very good selection. i would invite the three other republican members kevin mccarthy selected and invite them back. if they don't come back, go down the list. there are plenty of others. kinzinger will bring a nice bipartisan tone to the proceedings. >> are there others you think might agree to serve? >> i don't know who will agree to serve, but i tell you who i think will do a good job on this committee. john cat koe of new york, tommy rice of south carolina. there are a few dozen other republican who is also voted to certify the election who would also be good, thoughtful members. obviously they're taking great political risk by joining onto this committee. kinzinger pointed out he's doing this for the good of the country. >> it will be

they're testifying. >> mccarthy is being pushed to punish congresswoman liz cheney and congressman adam kinzinger because they've accepted pelosi's invitations to be on this january 6th panel. do you agree that kinzinger and cheney should be punished? >> i don't. i think electoral consequences happen the second tuesday in november. i think we need to continue to move forward and go from there. the problem isn't that there's republicans serving on the committee. the problem is who picked the republicans and the republicans that are picked. if they think this is going to get any credibility with 50% of the country, i would actually argue that those two are probably -- there's a special level of dispdain across the country. >> reporter: why is there disdain for them? they say cheney and kinzinger that they want to get to the bottom of what happened. liz cheney is more conservative than kevin mccarthy when it comes to voting records. what's wrong with them wanting to get to the bottom of what happened? >> because when you serve on the committee at the call of the speaker and the minority members aren

i wonder if adam kinzinger will cry about that or maybe not because it's not about him.onder if there has ever been a greater display of narcissism on capitol hill and that's saying a lot, ever in history. >> i have noticed in the reactions of some members of congress and some former members of congress whom i've spoken to about this, very intense personal reaction. they are the ones inclined to consider this incident, this riot it was an ugly by it to be sure, and disturbing. they considered it an insurrection. it was an insurrection that failed pretty spectacularly if that's what it was, when you consider the event they were trying to interfere with, went off later that day. it was delayed but that was all they did, that doesn't strike me as close to overthrowing the government which was a lot of people claim these rioters and insurrectionist's tried to do. >> tucker: does it surprise you the capitol hill police apparently, the personal bodyguards of the nine states congress has a budget that is more than twice that of the entire city of atlanta and more than $100 mill

take a listen. >> liz cheney and adam kinzinger are being lauded as courageous heroes. and while i agree with that notion, why, because they told the truth? why is telling the truth hard? i guess in this america, it is. >> what were you thinking when he said that? >> i was thinking that harry and the other officers there, they are the heroes. they are the ones who saved likely our lives, many of us. they are the ones who protected and defended this capitol. they are heroes. and that as elected officials, as i was sitting there, i was reminded that our job is to conduct ourselves in a way that is worthy of the sacrifices they made and their willingness to fight, as i said, to the death. they believe they might die and they were willing officer gonell, sergeant gonell saild, knew i might die, but that is something i just have to face in order to defend the capitol building. and so as elected officials, we all have to conduct ourselves in a way that is worthy of them and worthy of the republic that we have sworn the constitution that we have sworn to defend. >> you've said

you also have adam kinzinger. bipartisan and the records when they come out are going to show you that those closest to donald trump told him that what he was doing was absurd. >> ana, where do you see this committee going? and what are you hoping to learn in this process? >> look, i'm hoping for some immediate facts. i'd like to know exactly how this happened and why this happened, where the failures were. i'm also hoping on the long term for some recommendations so that it doesn't happen again. and if the republicans are what they used to be, the law enforcement party, the ones who talk about blue lives matter, they owe it to the capitol police and to those people who were beaten and harassed and abused on january 6th to find some answers. i think nancy pelosi should not only consider appointing adam kinzinger but also bring in more republicans in other roles, advisory roles, staff roles. i think there should be a place for somebody like a bill hurd who brings cia experience, you know, security experience, or a

update. >> reporter: just as i was on air talking, house speaker pelosi officially announcing adam kinzinger will make the committee, making it nine members, two republicans and seven democrats. kinzinger is saying in part self-governance requires accountability and responsibility. my faith requires the same of me. truth is necessary for order. i'm a republican dedicated to conservative values. i swore an oath to defend and uphold the constitution. when duty calls, i will always answer. speaker pelosi just calling on him to serve. they also said they would want kinzinger on the committee. two republicans appointed by pelosi and no republicans from minority leader mccarthy. >> julie, thank you for that breaking news. perfect timing t. i'm going to ask what she thinks about this, congresswoman madeleine dean, democratic member of the house judiciary and financial services committees. so what do you think? adam kinzinger now joins the select committee investigating 1/6. is that a good move? >> i'm pleased that he is joining. i'm pleased the speaker has asked him to join. you heard in his staple

my guest this morning, congressman adam kinzinger of illinois. also, eric adams beats out progressives in the democratic primary for new york city mayor. >> i am the face of the new n ig democratic party. >> what the non-woke former police captain's victory says about the kind of democrats that are actually winning elections. joining me are nbc news capitolr hill correspondent kasie hunt, mark leibovich from "the new york times," former obama white house senior adviser stephanie cutter and republican strategist al cardenas. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. operation enduring freedom in afghanistan began on october 7, 2001. it was less than one month after the attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon. by december of that year the en taliban, which had provided a ie safe haven for al qaeda, had collapsed. and then on may 11, 2011, u.s. forces killed osama bin laden. what was o

host: that, from congressman adam kinzinger. you were on the house floor when the initial debate took place. as you hear the debate today on two different sides of the aisle , including from barbara lee, your reaction? guest: i'm glad you played such long clips. i think it is important. people can learn from this. barbara lee was the only no vote, the only against the 2001 authorization to use military force in afghanistan, and her view was there was a better way to respond to the attacks on us. she was from berkeley, california, as was her predecessor, chair of the house armed services committee when i was elected, by the way. out of moral conviction, she voted against the 2001 au mf, which is also still on the books . i agree with her about repealing the 2002 au mf that was. based on wrong intelligence. i voted for it, and as i said, the intelligence was wrong and i was wrong. that is in my book. i think it should be repealed. i think the 2001 aum, which has beenf used to justify or support 40 military missions in 19 countries

first on manu's reporting, would you want to see republican congressman adam kinzinger on the select well, dana, i know congressman kinzinger and i think he would be a great addition to this committee. this is important that this be a functional and effective and a bipartisan committee. and adam kinzinger is a congressman who showed real courage in demanding that we get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th and along with congresswoman cheney, i think they would round out a bipartisan effort to get to the bottom of january 6th. we owe the men and women who serve and defend in the capitol as members of the capitol police no less. >> let's talk infrastructure. you have been involved in bipartisan talks. there has been optimism about meeting a new deadline which is monday. but the reality is that there are still several issues to be worked out. one of them, senator, as you know, is funding for more mass transit. it is proving to be so complicated and sticky that the lead gop senator rob portman told manu raju that it may have to be dropped if the bill. if that happened, would yo

let's walk through the impact of the addition of adam kinzinger now to the january 6th select committee. >> i think adam is -- as he does lend himself at least to the appearances of more bipartisanship, thusly adds a bit more credibility. i think democrats are looking for after they were attacked by kevin mccarthy and republicans last week for being overtly partisan, even though republicans had been given the opportunity to cede an independent commission, a bipartisan commission adam kinzinger is still not a friend of kevin mccarthy. the two, along with liz cheney, have become outspoken members of the republican party who have come out against some of the most galvanizing issues that republicans are rallying around, which is election disinformation that former president trump won the election, that there was widespread fraud, all of which talking points that are all patently untrue. i think starting this week on tuesday, with two republicans sitting on the committee hearing, it's going to potentially lends itself to adding more credibility to this investigation. >> let's talk reactions

talk about this point of adam kinzinger. how do you think this is going to affect how the majority of republicans see this january 6th select committee, or will it? >> it will. first off, congratulations to adam. i appreciate his stepping up. i called for this appointment the day mccarthy said he was pulling all of the players off the field, so i'm glad to see this has pursued the court it should, with the outcome we need. number two, i think republicans are going to be of a split mind. the hard-core trumper types, this is a write-off, this is all politics, the big lie is the cause celeb. for the rest of us, wet to know exactly what happened. to charlie's point about being called will they actually come in called? to make sure they do testify. republicans are beating their breasts right now in texas, because, you know, when those democrats come bulk, we're going to arrest them, force them to pass this regressive voting bill. so i wonder just how much they're going to be applauding whether the speaker of the house calls for t

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kevin mccarthy lobbying insults at liz cheney and adam kinzinger joining the investigation. >> some republicans have been saying that the gop should play a role in this committee. >> who is that? adam and liz? aren't they pelosi republicans? >> let's be clear. mccarthy is the highest ranking republican in the house resorting to name calling ba because cheney and kinzinger aren't afraid to investigate the insurrection and tonight are fighting back asquingainst the r in the house. >> we are about serious business. we have important work to do and i think that's pretty childish. >> it's childish. we're doing big things right now. we're getting to the answers of the worst attack on the capitol since the war of 1812. >> childish. mccarthy has opinion playing games ever since the days that followed the deadly insurrection. because just to remind everybody how far we've come, this was an insurrection that mccarthy once squarely blamed on trump. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters. >> kevin mccarthy said it. he said it on the floor of the house. he sa

i think it's notable that at this point liz cheney and adam kinzinger are two of the only republicansmpeting the criticism of former president trump that you heard from a lot of members of that conference in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, even the other republicans who voted to impeach president trump, former president trump, have not gone as far taz as these two of keeping up the drum beat of criticism. >> we have seen video of what happened on january 6th. what do you anticipate or what do we know about some of the potential evidence that might be seen here, including new videos? >> look, i think that it's hard to know exactly what the scope of unseen evidence, evidence previously undisclosed to the public in forums like the media and, more importantly, perhaps like the impeachment trial of former president trump where the democratic impeachment managers introduced video that we had not seen before. but i think, you know, daniella mentioned we are going to be hearing from some of the police officers who defended the capitol that day. that is a kind of voice, a kind of exper

now, he is calling liz cheney and adam kinzinger pelosi republicans. lled that childish. pointed out it was republicans, actually, who killed the independent commission in the senate. listen. >> we had an opportunity for a 5-5 commission that didn't even include members of congress. then, at every junction, it kept getting blocked, despite that we negotiated the 5-5. and so, it's become obvious that there are some that just, simply, don't want answers. and that, to me, is unacceptable. >> people don't want the truth. there are some, who don't want answers. some, who are spreading lies with their talk about how the rioters hugged police. look at all that hugging right there. we all saw, with our own eyes, that they were beating police of trying to defend the seat of our democracy. >> many of the republicans in congress were the most vocal about supposedly supporting the police and law and order, are the same ones who have dismissed and downplayed the shameful events of that day. >> and as the hearing goes on tomorrow, some of those republicans who have s

what do you think about adam kinzinger being added to the committee nor the investigation? >> i think it's great. it's great for the country and adam is really serving us again. he is a veteran. he's an even shooter. he'll tell us what is the truth. we don't always agree, republicans and democrats. i felt he came from a center point of truth. i think that's what we need many this country right now. >> do you think, ultimately, that hen the findings are released it will blunt any reaction from republicans, conspiracy theoryist, 1/6 d deniers because we have the presence of republicans on the committee. whatever the finds are, they will be interpreted as legitimate and truthful. >> i think some will. unfortunately, there is a cult that surrounds president trump that will never accept any responsibility even if you have direct proof. we're here to get the truth. there's no reason why we put jim banks and jim jordan on there. that's like putting the people that broke into watergate on the the watergate committee. that's just insane. we need to get to the bottom of the truth. doe

speaker nancy pelosi officially named congressman adam kinzinger to the committee.mber of the military guard and brings great patriotism to the committee's mission. self-governance needs it. let me be clear. i'm a republican dead indicated to values but i swore an oath to uphold the constitution. when duty calls, i will always answer that. that's adam kinzinger. top house republican kevin mccarthy reacted by attacking the speaker. he said, the rejection to serve on the committee and self-appointment of members who share her preconceived narrative will not yield a investigation. pelosi denied two, banks and jordan, due to previous comments they made about the attack and their false claims about the election results. >>> senators announced an agreement on the framework on the bill with president biden a month ago, but negotiation disagreements have slowed the process down. last week senate majority leader chuck schumer tried to force a vote on a procedure to move that bill forward but it failed. >>> also complicating things, house speaker nancy pelosi said she would n

now two republicans liz cheney and adam kinzinger on this committee.an of the house select committee democratic congressman bennie thompson of mississippi. so, we just learned that republican adam kinzinger has in fact accepted the house minority leader kevin mccarthy has already responded saying that this is not going to be a serious investigation and that in his view this is now in step with what he calls the house speaker's plan as a preconceived narrative, the selection of these two. what's your response to that? >> well, obviously, minority leader mccarthy had an opportunity to do another way. as you know, i negotiated a 5-5 no member of congress committee with subpoena power and everything. he turned it down. today is 200 days from january 6th. congress has to do something. speaker pelosi is absolutely correct in doing what she's doing. if republicans want to fix what occurred on january 6th, they'll join the select committee. congressman kinzinger is a good person. he comes with excellent credentials. i look forward to working with him. >> and m

>> here's how adam kinzinger responded to that. >> it's childish. we're doing big things right now, we're getting to the answers of the worst attack on the capitol since the war of 1812. they can call me whatever name is they want. i just believe that bottom line, i'm an elected member of congress i'm a republican. >> all this comes in the wake of house speaker pelosi rejecting two of mccarthy's original picks for the committee. republican congressman jim banks of indiana and jim jordan of ohio. mccarthy then removed all of his picks from the committee. tonight, he tried to introduce a resolution demanding pelosi seek all five of his original choices. of course, it went nowhere and the democratic-controlled house. meanwhile, the explosive growth of the delta variant is driving up covid cases across the nation. the cdc's laces data shows the rate of transmission accelerating in most counties. areas in red on this map indicate the highest levels of infection. low vaccination rates have also fueled the surge and today we saw the first announcements of

liz cheney, along with adam kinzinger just to be clear have, to my mind, pretty terrible politics. i mean, that's where i'm coming from. they have extremely conservative voting records. they vote for tax cuts for rich people and against abortion rights and almost everything else along the party line or as much as you can identify what the ideological party line of the republican party is. but of course, that doesn't matter. and it didn't save cheney from being kicked out of her position as the number three in house republican leadership. that's not some backbench committee assignment, that's way up near the top and she was kicked out because donald trump has worked every day since the election and since the insurrection to exert the influence he has to make fidelity to the big lie and a commitment, an enduring commitment to overturning american democracy the litmus test for republican party membership. now, the influence that the former president has his narrow bit deep. only works among certain set of people but among the people it works with, it's strong. so we're still watching

are you happy to see adam kinzinger and liz cheney on the january 6th collect committee? you must be welcoming the move seeing that kevin mccarthy and the rest of the republicans took their toys and went home last week? >> i certainly thrilled to see this. the investigation is bipartisan and what's important is the information that's been subpoena and i've been saying since january 7th, for example, that the president -- that donald trump who was then the president on january the 7th, that his phone records, his texts it, all of the documents from that day should be subpoenaed and now we know from these many books that are coming out there's a lot of details from the people with him there on january 6th. the whole time frame before i was a member of congress i was a chief couple on the government reform committee which is the largest investigative committee, and what we would do is get a timeline and subpoena all the documents, and i think in this case you want to go, you know, around election day through january 20th. >> yeah. >> and find all of the people who were invol

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with the exception of liz cheney and adam kinzinger, they couldn't even be bothered to show up. by boycotting the investigation, house minority leader kevin mccarthy and his caucus have turned their backs on the very officers who saved their lives. in their attempts to downplay the insurrection earned them this emotional rebuke from officer fanone. >> the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. nothing, truly nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day. and in doing so, betray their oath of office. >> kevin mccarthy is so indifferent to the events of january 6th that he didn't even bother to watch the hearing today. the witnesses on the front lines of that attack implored the committee to get to the bottom of what happened. they were emphatic in their view that any political leaders who incited the mob to violence must be held accountable. >> that is what i am looking for is an investigation into those actions and activities which may have resulted in the events of january 6th, and also whethe

to that end, the likes of adam schiff, the congenital liar, adam kinzinger, liz cheney and every other politician hard at work, all the evidence points to this being a biased one-sided investigation with a predetermined outcome. to be very clear, we have always condemned the riots, what happened on january 6th. what happened on that day can never happen again, why? that is the people's house. our institutions and every lawmaker, it doesn't matter what your politics are, they must be protected. attacks on the law enforcement should never be acceptable, ever. not at the capital and not anywhere. member last summer, violent riots rocked almost every major american city. even the white house was besieged. it got so bad there, the secret service was forced to evacuate the president and his family. next door, the historic st. john's church was lit on fire, hundreds of other buildings throughout the country were being targeted by these radical arsonists. a federal courthouse in portland was vandalized and lit on fire on multiple occasions. a police precinct in minneapolis was burned to the gr

speaker pelosi appointed to republicans to the select committee anyway, adding adam kinzinger of wyoming along with liz cheney. at a white house ceremony today to mark the great triumph of the americans with disabilities act, kevin mccarthy took time-out with the press corps to attack nancy pelosi and his two remember colleagues who joined the select committee calling them -- i hope you're sitting down for this one -- pelosi republicans. with or without the cooperation of kevin mccarthy or any other republicans not named liz cheney or adam kinzinger, that house select commit me to investigate the january 6th attack will begin its work tomorrow and it's very first hearing will feature testimony from police officers, four police officers who were at the capitol that day, two from the u.s. capitol police, two from the d.c. metropolitan police. tomorrow we all will get to hear their stories and it will include new video from the attack not seen publicly before. what should we expect tomorrow and from the investigation it moves forward? joining me congressman jamie raskin of maryland. he's a

. >> will you be appointing more besides adam kinzinger? >> that will be my plan. >> frankly like so many in d.c., i care lessing the bipartisan of the committee and more about what they plan to find out because there are in my mind five main questions that this committee has to get to the bottom of starting tuesday. number one, were republican members of congress involved in organizing stop the steal rallies including big one on january fth in washington, d.c.? i'm not just talking about those who spoke at such rallies like congressman jim jordan who gave a speech at a stop the steal rally in pennsylvania two days after the election when nancy pelosi blocked him it from the committee. no. i want to know if they helped organize the big one because ali alexander who was behind that rally said this. >> i was the person who came up with the january 6th idea with congressman gosar, congressman mo brooks, and congressman andy biggs. >> why should we take their word for it? the committee needs to look into it. number two, what members of congress

not adam kinzinger or dick durbin. no one disputes the numbers, so what's the answer?s no answer. this is being used, it's very clear, the government's purging the military, spying on its own citizens because of a virus that isn't killing very many people anymore. keep in mind, vaccination isn't like voting. they don't trust you to do it yourself at home and mail the results, their keeping track. just how east german is this country becoming? the fbi just announced in a tweet that it's good encouraging americans to switch some accidents. of the federal government, the by demonstration, is encouraging their families to snitch on each other. does extremism apply to people who have questions about the vaccine? of course it does! in march, the fbi put out an official bulletin announcing they would be cracking down on fake vaccine cards. since then, undercover agents have been arrested for -- bearing an official government logo. a sting operation that [indiscernible] in the small town of clemens california for example. what's interesting is the fbi hasn't put out any bullet

liz cheney and adam kinzinger. s>> the gop should play tin thi committee. >> adam and liz?? >> first of all, we should note that congress member liz cheney used the word childish as the term. second of all, the new editor of the national review noted that will be used against cheney and possibly kinzinger in races against them. kevin mcckcarthy was commening with a term to use against them. you have a number of republicans in the house caucus. you have one paul gosar who meets with and flirts with white sue supremacists and nationalists. you have matt gaetz involved in child sex trafficking investigations. you have marjorie greene who had crazy issues with rockefellers were behind lasers and causing wildfires. these three people do not offend kevin mccarthy based on his public statements or lack there of. liz cheney and adam kinzinger do. kevin votes with nancy pelosi far more than liz cheney does. i mean, that's who kevin mccarthy is. >> that is not test. >> not about the conservative principles, but if you are willing to support trump lies. >> along the lines, george p. b

all democrats voted yes while only two republicans, congressman adam kinzinger and congresswoman lizan panel. cheney said, quote, i believe this select committee is our only remaining option. the american people need and deserve a full accounting. woe must ensure that what happened on january 6, 2021, never happens again. >>> joining us now, democratic congressman jake auchincloss of massachusetts. congressman, it's great to have you with us, and i know you do want to talk about infrastructure, so we will do that, but first let me ask you about this vote yesterday. what does it tell you that there are now only two republicans who are willing to say we really need to investigate this even though ten were willing to say president trump needed to be impeached over what happened on that day? >> they're choosing trump over truth again. we need to look at what happened on january 6th and how we can prevent an attack on our democracy in the future. >> do you think it's important for there to be chosen a speaker on the select committee? >> the speaker extended her hand to the republicans in

congressman adam kinzinger, and congresswoman liz cheney, and this is what they said. >> look. almost every member of the republican conference understood in days immediately after january 6th what had actually happened, and many of them said so publicly, and the fact that so many members of our leadership and others, the fact that they've gone from recognizing what happened on the 6th to protesting in front of the justice department on behalf of those who were part of the insurrection is something that i can't explain. i think it's a disgrace. >> i never expected today to be quite as emotional for me as it has been. i've talked to a number of you and gotten to know you. i think it's important to tell you right now, though, you guys may, like, individually feel a little broken. you guys all talk about the effects you have to deal with, and you know, you talk about the impact of that day. but you guys won. you guys held. you know, democracies are not defined by our bad days. we're defined by how we come back from bad days. how we take accountability for that. and for all of the

. >> i think congressman adam kinzinger spoke for all of us when he expressed his surprise how emotional this hearing was for him and for us watching on television and i believe for anyone who is watching anywhere because you're right, we feel like we know this story, we have heard from some of those police officers, not all of them. we've seen so much of the painful and agonizing video and we've had six months of coverage of it and so what could -- what new could today bring and it was all new. it was an experience like we'd never had watching any congressional hearing in history. >> agree. you covered a lot of them. one of the americans that best captured the emotion of what it would have been like to be at the united states capitol that would be on the show. >> they will be on that hearing. >> have a good evening, lawrence. >>> in today's historic house hearing, we heard things we have never heard before in the history of congressional hearings. we heard words that have never been on this network before. the words are going into print tonight "the new york times" where those words hav

house republicans, congressman adam kinzinger and liz cheney railed against republicans and they vowedt an attack of that magnitude will never happen again. >> american people deserve the full and open testimony of every person with knowledge of the planning and preparation for january 6th. we must know what happened here at the capitol. we must also know what happened every minute of that day in the white house. every phone call, every conversation, every meeting. leading up to, during and after the attack. >> i never expected today to be quite as emotional for me as it has been. i've talked to a number of you and gotten to know you. i think it's important to tell you right now, though. you guys may like individually feel a little broken because, you all talked about the effects you have to deal with. you talked about the impact of that day. but you guys won. you guys held. democracies are not defined by power bad days. we're defined how we combat bad days. how we take accountability for that. and for all the overheated rhetoric surrounding this committee, our mission is very simple,

liz cheney and adam kinzinger being at the top of that list. she's also dealing with the fact that after making her move last week to reject the later mccarthy picks for the committee, that he pulled all of the five picks that he is entitled to, he wants it to have as much of a bipartisan look on it as possible even though it , certainly doesn't have the republican leadership. she can reasonably say that this is a partisan probe. there are two republicans joining the democrats on the panel to investigate this. now, leader mccarthy and many other republicans will say they are not our republicans, but it remains to be seen how much that is going to matter to the american public to the extent they are paying attention to this. i think that speaker pelosi has very much made a calculation that, you know, she is not going to be party to engaging in some of this what about-ism, complaints that have come particularly from the republican side, saying that we need to look at this, this, and this, not the causes of what happened on january 6. she seems co

the same thing to adam kinzinger.y right now, and having jim jordan on the committee gist for the sake of, quote, unquote, bipartisanship, it doesn't save democracy. >> sam, do you think the serious word that needs to be done can go on without republicans on the committee and maybe, in fact, it adds more to the credibility everyone hopes this committee has? >> let me start off by saying i'm sorry i'm not denver riggleman, i'm not as important a guest as he is, but i'll do the best i can. i think in fact to your point, it actually probably helps the committee in terms of getting the work product done to not have members like banks and jordan on. they were there, you know, obviously to throw wrenches in the processes. they were there to run interference for trump. i don't think it is a crazy statement to make. the question comes now, does the credibility of the committee become in any way diminished because pelosi has exercised her veto power over these members. you know, i think ultimately that the answer to that quest

i think something that moving forward what democrats and liz cheney and adam kinzinger want to do is make sure that they try to stay focused, put on the blinders and try as much as they can to keep the politics out of it. however, i will say we did a playbook event earlier this year with shawn patrick maloney, and he said, even though it was back in february, i think, that no longer can republicans call themselves the party of backing the blue. know that in 2022 that is something we're going to continue to see as democrats feel they no longer back the blue, and that is something they will tell voters especially in swing districts. >> ben rhodes, i want to put two new pieces of information up for you, and i want to have this conversation that eugene just set up about politics not entering into this. the public supports this congressional investigation, this select committee appointed by nancy pelosi. two republicans sitting on it, her rejection of kevin mccarthy's farcical clowns. 58% of the company supports them. 29% oppose it. and i'm going to just put up some video of something tha

today house speaker nancy pelosi said she intends to name representative adam kinzinger, a republicanpecial committee investigating the capitol riot and attack. kinzinger is one of ten house republicans who voted to impeach former president donald trump. and the senate may vote on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure spending bill this week. one of the negotiators, republican senator rob portman, said today he believes one key issue remaining is public transit funding. >> we're about 90% of the way there. i'm here this weekend. we're going to legislate the languageith colleagues and with staff, and i feel good about getting that done this week. >> sreenivasan: for analysis on the week ahead on capitol hill, newshour weekend special correspondent jeff greenfield, joined us from santa barbara, california. jeff, first of all, the past couple of weeks, to try to kp track of these different bills has been incredibly difficult, not only parsing where the support lies, but what's in which one. >> let me take a shot at this. first is the bipartisan infrastructure bill that would provide

just two republicans, liz cheney, adam kinzinger, of course, voting with democrats to learn the truthbout what happened on one of the darkest days in american history. the rest of the gop, trying to sweep everything under the rug, as they have been doing lately. just sweeping it, all, into a big-memory hole. just like senate republicans did last month. claiming the select committee would be partisan, which is garbage. gop deniers don't care about bipartisanship, at all. if they did, they would have voted for that independent-bipartisan commission last month. you see, that commission had the name in it. bipartisan. but they didn't vote for that. republican sources telling cnn, they were embarrassed that some of the police officers who risked their lives defending the capitol were there to see their cowardice, today. one of those officers is a man that i have gotten to know very well. you have seen him on this show. he is a truth-teller. it is officer michael fanone. and he says that he is shocked, but not surprised, that 190 republicans voted no today. he'll be here, tonight, and you w

. >> today speaker pelosi added republican representative adam kinzinger to the committee. he joins liz cheney on the panel. this was after pelosi rejected two picks from minority leader kevin mccarthy. those two selections, jim banks of indiana and jim jordan of ohio, had openly expressed hostility to the mission of the committee and trafficked in revisionist history about the siege. >> due to the rules of the united states capitol, the power structure of the capitol, nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, has more control and authority and responsibility over the leadership of the capitol police than anyone else in the united states capitol. she doesn't want us to ask these questions, because at the end of the day, she is ultimately responsible for the breakdown in security at the capitol that happened on january 6. >> that is the erroneous attack you're going to be hearing from republicans on this. of course, another reason for the finger pointing. republicans want to blame anyone except for donald trump as they hope to retake the house in the 2022 midterms. but a gop r

i have a lot of respect for adam kinzinger. he's a serious person.think takes his oath seriously. to be clear, i don't agree with him on politics most of the time. but i do think he would take his obligations to the constitution and the country seriously and, you know, this is a committee that needs serious people because it is serious work. this is not a game. this is not a political circus. we're not going to allow it to become a political circus because the american people deserve better. i'm confident that the speaker will choose people who will be disciplined, that will be clear eyed and focussed on the task at hand and discharge the obligations of this office and do right by the people and those offices. >> all right. we will be watching next week to see how this hearing plays out. congressman jason crow, we appreciate your insights as well. we know you will be watching it. thanks again. >> thanks, jim. >> all right. i appreciate what you did that day as well. >>> just ahead, the stadium was mostly empty. the pandemic hasn't gone away, but the

>> perhaps after i speak to adam kinzinger, but i'm not about to announce it right this minimum.ve on the select committee. >> also some new reaction from one of the republicans appointed by mccarthy and vetoed by speaker pelosi. >> it's more clear than ever that nancy pelosi is not interested in an investigation. she's only interested in a narrative. she claimed the reason she booted me from the committee was because of antics on the part o