jim jordan. why did jim jordan get it? his contributions to wrestling? no. after jordan helped with promoting the election was stolen from trump lie, after jordan plotted with trump in the white house about what was going to happen on january 6th, after he did try on january 6th to stop the election results from being finalized, even after the riot had been quelled, after he gave this big stem windinger argument about how trump must have won, he must have. you can just smell it. don't you feel it in your gut? after all of that, trump did not give the medal of freedom to vice president mike pence who had after all certified the election, he gave it to jim jordan. two days later jim jordan led the republicans in opposition as the house voted to impeach trump for having incited what happened on january 6th. so yeah, that was a nice try by the republicans, but, no, he's not going to be on the committee. and mafia dons don't get to help to get back to the bottom of organized crime and pyro maniacs don't get jobs as firefighters either. nancy pelosi did not actuall

congressman jim jordan of ohio. she described that he in jordan -- she described being together with congressman jordan during the siege of the capital on january 6th. remember this conversation took place the day after january six, she told general mediately quote, while these maniacs are going through the place, i'm sitting in the aisle and he said, we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. let me help you. i smacked his hand away from me and told him, get away from me. you effing did this. you bleep did this. that book came out yesterday, the title is i alone can fix it, donald trump's catastrophic final here, it is the number one selling book in the united states right now. and while that incident was never reported before, carol leonning and philip rucker put it in their best-selling book, it is now reported. it is on the record. excerpts including that one from the book have been circulating in recent days. because of that, we probably should've seen today's news coming. when the house of representatives d

jim jordan, jim banks, it does not matter if they are on the committee. how could that impede the democrats in any way? it doesn't happen. i just want to say that i have been watching for the past couple of days. probably 60% of the republican calls you take are actually democrats. when you call, they are asked if they are calling on the republican line. this is watering down the republicans' opinion and i just want to end by saying nancy pelosi is a demon. host: this is the story today in "the washington post" and some of the background on this bipartisan committee. they write that, earlier this year, pelosi proposed appointing an independent bipartisan commission akin to the 9/11 attacks is made up of experts not holding public office. over the course of negotiations, that the subpoena power will be that and the establishing legislation remove references to domestic violence extremism and white supremacy. but democrats rejected republican leaders' demands that the commission investigative scope be broaden beyond the causes and -- beyond january 6, argui

jim jordan. is she afraid of a question from jim? is she afraid of what he might ask or fight for? he's a ranking member. not his first committee, but his second. why would she be afraid? did she set the committee itself to be one-sided? yes. more so than any select committee before. yes, she did. we warned you from that moment in time she was playing politics. today just showed the american people exactly what everybody was warned. it's the american people who lose in this, but we're not going to allow that to happen. we're going to get to the answer of the question, why were we ill prepared. why if they knew on december 14th, why if they found ieds earlier in the morning, why were not the national guard here at the capitol but they were running street signs down in the city? who made that judgment? yes, sir. >> you said in your statement that republicans will, quote, instead pursue our own investigation of the facts. >> yes. >> what does that look like, first off? and secondly, is this your final move, pulling your appointees or is there a chance to reverse this? >> the only way

jim jordan. mr. jordan: the leader and jim are exactly right. this has always been about politics and today's actions of the speaker confirm that. frankly, and i've said this before, what else are they going to talk about? they're so focused on the january 6 committee are they going to talk about crime? the fact that crime is up in every major urban area in this country? are they going to talk about the border crisis? march was the highest month on record for illegal crossings until april, april was the highest month until may, may was the highest month on record until june. can't talk about that are they going to talk about inflation? are they going to talk about the price of eggs is up, the price of milk is up, the price of an airline ticket is up, the price of everything is up. they can't talk about that. so they're going to be partisan and focus on this. but as the leader said, and as mr. banks said, i don't think they're going to address the fundamental question. the fundamental question of why wasn't there a proper security presence at the

banks and jim jordan. read part of her statement a moment ago. kevin mccarthy pulling all five members that heat nominated from the committee. liz cheney is the only remaining republican. here is a jim banks indiana at yesterday's news conference. >> she knows that we were prepared to fight to get to the truths to find the facts about what happened on that day to make sure january 6 would never happen again, but she does not want to go down that path. she knows we are already asking questions in just a first two days that leader mccarthy appointed us, questions that democrats have never asked about why the capitol was vulnerable that day when we had intelligence that told us something dangerous would happen. she knew we would fight back against their political games. that is why she did not want us to participate. it goes to show this is entirely a political exercise on her part. it is a shame. the american people deserve better, they demand answers about january 6. the american people demanded that their l

for weeks now, jim jordan and jim banks have been raising tough questions, questions that need to be answered about like speaker pelosi didn't make sure capitol police have all the tools they needed to be prepared for that day. maybe because they were raising those questions, they got canceled by this newew counterculture we seek moving throughout the country by speaker pelosi and a lot of socialist allies here in congress for the want to shut out voices that raise tough questions that they don't want to be asked or answered and get they were starting to raise those questions about why capitol police didn't have the tools they needed. what kind of intelligence did speaker pelosi get? weeks in advance, as leader mccarthy talked about, it gave telltale signals that could have prevented what happened january 6. speaker pelosi said she doesn't want those questions asked so she took an unprecedented step of refusing to allow members to bebe appointed by minority leadr to a select committee. that never before happened in the history of congress so as we see these kind of actions taken by s

she ended up couching those as the reason why people like jim jordan and jim banks were unacceptable.their roles they wouldn't be getting at the truth. i wouldn't be surprised if she ends up reaching out to other republicans, current and former, to pursue that. we've talked about the politics and the process of this and, trust me, there's tons of politics as it relates to the midterms. when you hear from house speaker nancy pelosi, when you hear from a lot of democratic members and even some republican members, they're still haunted by that day. in some ways while we always kind of say, aha, there's always politics in this. the totality of their remarks is that they are very serious about getting to the bottom of that happening, filling in a lot of the gaps, particularly with the situation that donald trump might find his way on the ballot in 2024 and you need to kick all the tires to find out what happened that day if he's going to run for president again. >> mark, you're making an important point, right? in many ways it's obviously backwards looking to what happened on january 6th,

jim jordan. liz cheney in that fight. i think most independent voters, most voters that decide swing districts and swing states are going to come down on liz cheney's side, not on jim jordan's side. and always if she turns them down, who knows, she could get three looney toons next that everybody has heard of that are really incentivized to be crazy because that's the only way they make money in their campaigns, you know. the qanon lady and crazy boebert or whatever her name is. so i think in some ways they can work with these people, especially considering we've got three to three in terms of republicans who bought the big lie and protected the big lie and those who rejected the big lie. >> that is a really good point. that's why we love you, claire, that is a great point. for those of you who forget who jim jordan is, you might want to turn the volume down just a skosh on your tvs before i play this. >> i don't know why you won't give us what we asked for. >> i hope your colleagues are not unde

here is the aforementioned statement from jim jordan many i wi.on the other side. >> we know what this is about. this is about going after president trump. i mean the democrats, they don't want to talk about anything else. they've got to talk about this. >> what do you say to that? >> well, this is about not -- it is about us stopping another insurrection, and it is not just donald trump. it is the enablers like jim jordan, like stephen millers, the people that were in the media, in the punditry world that helped build up the insurrection of january 6th. so it is not just about donald trump. this is about our country. it is about our country and preserving democracy and the safe transferring of power from one party to another. that's why jim jordan wants to distract about this, because when we start to get down to the meat of it we will see there were certain republicans and certain trump enablers that put this country on a lifeline and nearly destroyed our wonderful democracy. this is why people like jim jordan should not be anywhere near this se

you know, for weeks now jim jordan and jim banksave been raising some very tough questions, questions that need to be answere about why speaker pelosi didn't me sure that capitol police had all the tools they needed to berepared for that day. no maybe because they were raising those questions they got canceled by this new cancel culturehat we see moving throughout the country, led by speaker pelosind a lot her socialist aies in congress where the want to shut out voices that race tough questions thathey don't want to be asked or answered. and yet ty were starting to raisehose questions about why they capitol police didn't have the tls they needed. what kind of ielligence did speaker pelosi get early on, weeks in advance and leader mccarthy talked about, they gave telltale signals that could have prevented whatappened on january 6th? speaker pelosi said she doesn't want those questions asked so she kicked them off the committee. she took an unprecedented step of refusg to allow members to be appointed by the minority leader to a select committee, and that never before hpen in the histo

jim jordan, jim banks, kevin mccarthy, they are seeking to pull the plug. why didn't he appoint john katko? john katko had negotiated the independent bipartisan agreement with speaker pelosi, voted for that commission that mccarthy voted against. there were people he could have appointed but he just showed how unserious he was and uncommitted he was to finding the truth. >> do you think it's possible that the other members, republicans appointed by minority leader mccarthy, could be folded into the select committee even without mccarthy officially making it so? >> that's certainly up to speaker pelosi and kevin mccarthy, though, has done his best to try to threaten and intimidate anyone that would do that. he has implied he would take away committee assignments. look, we have liz cheney on board. adam kinzinger continues to support this select committee and its investigation. but time is ticking as this democracy is dying, so we must do all we can to protect it. we can't wait for jim jordan and kevin mccarthy to be satisfied with who's a part of this invest

congressman jim jordan and jim banks. manu raju is live on capitol hill.reporter: i asked her if she had any concerns that all five republicans may pull out of the investigation. she indicated she is not concerned. she said we have a bipartisan quorum and we can proceed, referring to the fact that she has eight people, one of whom was a republican, liz cheney. the question will be what does republican leader kevin mccarthy do? she also would not explain exactly why she rejected those two, but not another one troy ne nehls. >> i know you have to get to a news conference in a couple minutes so we'll let you go. bringing it back to the table for just a moment, congressman nehls is a really interesting part of this whole dynamic. what is that all about? >> he helped capitol policehamb keep the riots out. he described the riot as criminal and un-american. he did vote with the majority of house republicans to overturn the results of the election. you can find a lot of photographs of congressman nehls in a blue shirt helping the capitol police to keep the ri riot

and the thing with jim jordan is he is a smart person.ly of the president who sticks very closely to him publicly, but he was one of several people who on january 6th we were told was in touch with the white house and other aides calling them as this was going on on capitol hill saying, what is the president doing? he has got to say something about this when they were essentially begging the former president to put out a statement telling people to leave the capitol, to go home, to stop what they were doing. and so, jim jordan is not someone who is just completely oblivious to what was happening. but i think what happened on january 6th and changed very quickly after we know because everyone is trying to whitewash what happened, is even those people who played a role in this, the day of realized holy crap, like, this is a real situation. and look what this has led to. so i think that moment, that outburst from liz cheney towards jim jordan is not that surprising. but i think that was something that it was kind of this moment of realizatio

how do you think this decision for mccarthy to pull everyone after speaker pelosi rejected jim jordannd jim banks, how do you think that could potentially impact the willingness of those who may be called to testify? >> reporter: congressman benny thompson made clear that talking to republicans in the runup to january 6th remains on the table, but that is not the first thing they wanted to look at. they wanted to look at that first hearing to hear from capitol police officers, talk about the intelligence failures that happened that day, investigate all the communication that happened between capitol police, fbi, everything that went wrong, build upon other investigations and also look at what donald trump did and also look at his intersections. that could still be months in the making before we really get into what could be a fight, getting republicans to testify about what happened here. i asked mccarthy directly about whether or not he would be willing to talk to the select committee about what has been reported, a very tense conversation he had with donald trump on january 6th. he

jim jordan, is she afraid of a question from jim? is she afraid of what he might ask or fight for? he's a ranking member. not his first committee, but his second. why would she be afraid? did she set the committee itself to be one-sided? yes. more so than any select committee before, yeah, she did. we warned you from that moment in time, she was playing politics. today just showed the american people exactly what everybody was warned. it's the american people who lose in this. but we're not going to allow that to happen. we're going to get to the answer of the question. why were we ill prepared. why if they knew on december, why if they found ieds earlier in the morning, why were not the national guard here at the capitol, but they were running street signs down in the city? who made that judgment? yes, sir? >> you said in your statement that republicans were, quote, set to pursue our own investigation of the facts. >> yes. >> what does that look off, firstly, and is this your final move, pulling your appointees, or is there a way to reverse this? >> the only way to reverse this is

but people like jim jordan really ignore those suburban swing voters who are republicans but they're sick of trump. so, strictly partisan move you would want jordan on there. pelosi's an institutionalist. jordan has a conflict of interest. he was one of the ultra right-wing republicans who went and met with trump to plan for the vote on certifying the electoral college. so that's a conflict of interest right there. and of course banks, as soon as he was appointed, had this hysterical statement including things like make no mistake, nancy pelosi created this committee to justify the left os authoritarian agenda. the capitol was breached for the first time since 1814 in the war of 1812 with the brits. that's not pursuing a leftist authoritarian agenda. >> just one point that i was surprised by, paul, when we're talking about intellect. one thing i was surprised by. she said, nancy pelosi said i think either on monday or tuesday that vote, past votes would not be disqualifying as it related to serving on this committee. but then she picked jordan and banks and said no to them. and in her

republican congressman jim jordan kind of i guess -- tell us what happened. >> so jim jordan is a staunch ally of president trump. he's at the head of the freedom caucus. he's known to make a circus out of things. he is certainly the antithesis on the impeachment of liz cheney's support of the impeachment. so milly and cheney are actually close. they're friends. they talk a lot. they have a phone call, and in the book milly says to cheney this is the next day, the 7th, how are you doing? and she recounts this encounter with jim jordan. and she says, quote, that effing guy jim jordan, that son of a -- you can read it on the screen -- cheney said. while these maniacs are going through the place i'm standing in the aisle, and he said we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. let me help you. i smacked his hand away and told him get away from me. you effing did this. i don't think liz cheney felt she needed jim jordan's help. >> according to this during the actual insurrection liz cheney saw this as a direct result of jim jordan and the other enablers of the former president. >> absolute

and i think it's really quite interesting before jim jordan was pulled off. he was on fox news the night before or even on the same day. and he telegraphed what he would like to ask questions of the select committee . and then hours later he has cut because it looks like nobody wants to answer the questions that he wants to ask and we're asking on this program. go ahead, debbie. i totally agree. i mean, what's wrong with asking questions? and i will just imagine next year when the republicans take control when they have seen it here have health hearing into different things. and i actually try to democrat leadership, the people that can be placed on their committees. that's wrong. the democrats would be screaming at the top of their wall. and this is a question that i want to know. if you recall, i talked about weapons insurrection. it was called the insurrection from the beginning, i insurrection, if you want to overthrow the government, you're going to have weapons and farms with you. there have been non recovered. this thing was a sad up from the began and

after the speaker rejected two of his appointees, congressman jim banks of indiana, congressman jim jordan of ohio. the speaker did appoint two republicans herself to this committee. that is representative liz cheney a republican of wyoming who just six months ago was in charge of republicans at messaging to she was the number three republican. she was removed from that spotsa by ourur colleagues after she voted to impeach former president trump over the january 6th attack. the speaker on over the weekend also appointed congressman adam kinzinger. here are the democrat serving. the chair of the select committee is bennie thompson democrat of mississippi who's also the chair of the homeland security committee at the house. adam schiff democrat of california who's a chair of the intelligence committee, and zoe lofgren from california who is the chair of the house administration committee who has oversight over the capitolt grounds. also you see the other democrats on your screen as well, congressman i aguilera, stephe murphy of florida, jamie raskin of maryland and congresswoman luria of vir

and she reacounts this encounte with jim jordan and she says, quote, that effing guy, jim jordan, that son of a -- you can read it on the screen -- cheney said. while these maniacs are going through the place, i'm standing in the aisle and he said, we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. let me help you. i smacked his hand away, and told him, get away from me, you effing did this. i don't think liz cheney felt she needed jim jordan's help, at that moment. >> according to this, i mean, during the actual insurrection, liz cheney saw this as a direct result of jim jordan and the other enablers of -- of the former president. >> absolutely. looking back, we knew about the big lie. and jim jordan was close to the president. he was, probably, calling the president every day, a couple of times a week. in the weeks leading up to january 6th. it was not a surprise, to liz cheney, that this happened. and she feels that jim jordan was part of it. >> i want to bring, also, stay with us, because i want to bring in our chief-political correspondent, state of the union co-anchor, dana bash. als

, jim jordan, you know what? when our cooking laugh yeah. you can laugh because you don't have much of an argument, but you know what? when our cook pony, our component cannot question. william ness is partisanship. you don't appoint an arsonist to investigate the so so no, that's that. so you guys lot. okay, so nancy pelosi isn't partisan. your whole argument collapse or ok exact. right? i want to jot. i want to get everybody. hey, i want to get everybody in the program when every be fair and, and debbie hasn't said one word yet debbie, you have the floor. go ahead. well, to begin with, i will answer your question. tell me what praise i were before i admit that dementia. joe, in here, his caretakers won the presidency. i'm in georgia. i know that the election fraud is being uncovered as we speak. that weather is below nice. that's a lot. that's a lot going on regarding debbie debbie didn't interrupt you ari. debbie didn't interrupt. you going to stop there because i double standard of democrat. why asked year th

but what are we to make of elected leaders like jim jordan and mr. mccarthy who have tethered themselves so desperately to this lunatic, delusional set of lies that is extraordinarily dangerous for the country. i'm extremely proud of the speaker. she made a difficult, thoughtful decision in disqualifying mr. jordan, mr. banks, from the committee, but really in effect they had completely disqualified themselves in their thoughts and in their actions. imagine the deflection that mr. jordan attempts there. it's torturous. it's not going to convince anybody that somehow this is an investigation of speaker pelosi. what happened on january the 6th, and thank you for recognizing i was there. it's still -- it's still incomprehensible to me that that happened. that americans incited by an american president attacked americans, using our flag, using a trump flag, beating other members -- they would have beaten any one of us and would have killed any one of us. they would not have distinguished if i was a republican or democrat. they came to hang, to assassinat

, jim jordan, you know what, when our cooking laugh yeah. you can laugh because you don't have much of an argument. but you know what? when our cook pony, our coupon cannot question william ness is partisanship. you don't appoint an arsonist to investigate the fun so so no, that's bad. so you guys law. ok so nancy pelosi isn't partisan. your whole argument collapse. ok exact right. i want to jot. i want to get everybody, hey, i want to get everybody in the program when every be parent and debbie hasn't said one word yet debbie, you have the floor. go ahead. well, to begin with, i will answer his question. tell what trees were before i admit that to meet you joe, and hear his caretakers won the presidency. i mean in georgia, i know that the election fraud is being uncovered as we speak. that would causes bologna. that's a lot. that's our law. you can go on air regarding debbie. debbie didn't interrupt you. alright, debbie up to go drop there because i live double standard, a democrat. why asked year there were 25 people killed and she and b l

, jim jordan, you know what, when our cooking laugh. yeah. you can laugh because you don't have much of an argument, but you know what? when our cook pony al capone's cannot question william, that's his partisanship. you don't appoint an arsonist to investigate the fun so. so no, that's that. so you guys lot yet. ok. so nancy pelosi isn't partisan. i your whole argument collapse are ok, that's right. i want to jot. i want to get everybody. hey, i want to get everybody in the program when every be fair and debbie hasn't said one word yet debbie, you have the floor. go ahead. well, to begin with, i will answer his question. tell me what the trees were before i admit that to meet you, joe, and hear his caretaker's won the presidency. i'm in georgia. i know that election fraud is being uncovered as we speak. that weather is below nice. that's a lot. that's a lot. if you go on air regarding laurie, debbie, debbie didn't mean interrupt you ari debbie did have to go up there because i live double standards of democrat. why a year? there were 2

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jim banks of indiana and jim jordan of ohio. same chamber that was barricaded against a violent member before to overturn election results. congressman mccarthy had this to say. >> house democrats must answer this question. why are you allowing a lame-duck speaker to destroy this institution? this is the people's house, not pelosi's. >> now, keeping him honest. congressman mccarthy, who accused the speaker of destroying the institution, voted to overturn election results just hours after the attack. and in the wake of it, liz cheney out of republican leadership. she is still on the republican leadership and said this about speaker pelosi's decision. >> i agree with what the speaker has done. >> and also, mccarthy, of course, wants to become speaker, next year. do you think that he deserves to be speaker, in the aftermath of his actions here? >> i think that any person, who would be third in line to the presidency, must demonstrate a commitment to the constitution and a commitment to the rule of law. and minority leader mccarthy

i wasn't surprised about jim jordan being chosen either.e there will be phone calls back and forth to marb-a-lago. >> kirstin, you know i -- i think it's really hard to deny what happened on january 6. even with the jim jordans there, it just makes them look bad, it's not a good narrative for them to try to pretend that january 6 didn't happen. even if jim jordan is there and people who tried to not certify the election, i think it just shows them for who they are, i don't know if you agree with that, but that's my thinking. >> to the point you were having with chris earlier about whether or not this is sort of blowing up in democrats' face because you have a jim jordan on the committee, i'm more inclined to think about it the way you do, which is this has to be investigated. of course the ideal would have been to have a 9/11 style commission. that was not an option because of the republicans. so this is what they're left with. i do think they have to try to do the best that they can. this will be heavily weighted under the control of not j

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representative jim jordan and jim banks. lee ann caldwell joins me.forth next to each other on the hill. let's talk through this a little bit. my reporting on this is that the speaker was calling around, trying to gauge interest, what the caucus was thinking before she made the decision. what else are we learning about how she came to the decision to tell two gop jims they aren't welcome on this committee. >> reporter: yeah, garrett. we are getting a little more insight into her thinking and there was concern among members regarding, of her members, regarding representative banks and jordan, specifically they point to the statement representative banks put out monday after he was assigned to lead the committee on behalf of republicans. i am going to read to you a little of banks' statement from the time because his words are better than mine explaining what he said and what democrats are upset about. it says if democrats were serious about investigating political violence, this committee would be looking at january 6th but the hundreds of political ri

that's what jim jordan there to do to make this a big circus. it is horrible for them to do that now that jim jordan is not on it and mccarthy pulling all the cards back. what they're trying to do is to say it is a partisan witch hunt which is classic talking point for them. she's already framed the debate by saying it is bipartisan and actually putting a prominent republican on the panel. i think to a certain mccarthy overplayed her hands here, she's going to have a serious committee looking into this manner and not a clown show that republicans play politics with. this is bipartisan, we do have republicans on this committee and i want more republicans on this committee but mccarthy pulled them out. it is a win-win for her. the doj will only look at the facts of his case and conduct on that day as they should. whether wide reform needed here is what this committee needed. i want to read from the powerful rules and chairman committee from the white house. >> speaker pelosi made the right decision today. this is about patriotism and upholding our

even i don't think really want to have a jim jordan and jim banks on that committee investigating speakerst thing for republicans is to just not be there at all, and that is ultimately where we are in this situation. >> i just want to play what speaker pelosi told our manu raju today. >> what was it about jordan and banks in particular? >> that was not the criterion i told you yesterday. >> yeah, what was the criterion? >> read my statement. >> what do you make of the calculus? >> look, i think she was put in a no-win situation. it's not just they voted against the thing, it's that they've been out there deliberately undermining the process before it even started. and they're going to have access to sensitive documents. i think at the end of the day that becomes very scary because you're going to have a process that needs to have some integrity. there are, you know, really bad and dangerous people who were involved in attacking america's government. these people are very, very dangerous. information may be shared inside that committee, and you don't want it to end up in the wrong hands. s

mccarthy and trump-aligned lawmakers like jim jordan are likely headed toward a summons or subpoena ath jordan on fox news revealing even more about the communications between the former president and his allies on the day of the insurrection. >> did you talk to the former president that day? >> i talked to the former president umpteen times, thousands -- >> i mean on january 6th. >> countless times. i never talk about what we talk about, i just don't think that's appropriate just like i don't talk about what happens in republican conferences. i talked to the president numerous times. i continue to talk to the president since he left office. >> did you talk to the president january 6th, congressman. >> yes. i can't remember all the days i've talked to him but i've certainly talked to the president. >> and on that day, was -- can you share any of the insight of what he was thinking about that day? >> brett, the people we need to come testify are the people that can testify to the fundamental questions. why didn't the united states capitol, the people's house, have an appropriate securit

jim jordan is particularly good at that.e speaker pelosi has in terms of not letting republicans on the committee at all, but i think they're going to be tight rules and have their -- and just let them rant and raid for a couple of minutes at every hearing and say, are you finish now? can we get back to reality? it is going to be very ugly. >> right. >> here is the thing. i found that amazing that the number of conspiracies that jim jordan always talk about it in public but could not find it. here is the problem that i see, it is another sign of weakness on the part of democratic party leadership. why can't pelosi simply say look, we are going to have this committee and we'll allow republicans in the committee, voting to investigate the investigation. why not say to mccarthy right now that that's the pool of people we'll have to pick from. all we are going to hear about is jim jordan screaming and one crazy thing and one strange guest that the special guest star, the one person that the republicans give the rose to is going

jim jordan is scared.the january 6th commission, and what i mean by that is what was the political network that supported the events of january 6th that ultimately led to the violent insurrection? start with the notes that we saw today. it is easy to look at those notes and immediately go to the nixonian corruption behavior of donald trump to try to use his department of justice to fix and election, but it is far greater than that. what it does is it further establishes the sequence of the plans leading up to january 6th. all right. so donald trump -- the three sequential elements of donald trump's culpability for the insurrection was first laying the predicate, the big lie. second, issuing the invitation, telling people, come to washington on january 6th. >> right. >> a date no one otherwise would have known to come, and then giving the charge when he gave his speech on that day. what we learned from the notes was just preceding the events of january 6th he wanted his department of justice to announce tha

we need to have an investigation into this and quite frankly, i would put liz cheney against jim jordan any day of the week. >> doesn't this put liz cheney in a really difficult position? first of all, she'll play a much more important role, potentially and it further isolates her from the rest of her party. >> you know, liz cheney who i have disagreed with on many occasions and we both sit on the house arms services commity. i'm from new jersey. she's from wyoming. we have different policy views, but she acted and has been acting very courageously. i wish every member of congress could have one iota of her courage in the last several weeks standing up for what's right for this country and not putting her own agenda first, and so i think this is further isolating her. it's not -- i'm sure helpful to her, but she has chosen to put this country before her own selfish personal interests which i wish more members of the republican party would consider doing. >> should the speaker try to find some other former republicans, perhaps who might be willing to play a role as has been reported and

jim jordan falls into that category.egory of people who were willing to go along with these claims about challenging the election despite what had happened. and i think in both cases you have seen this calcifying of sentiment in the republican party. that is where all this has led. >> those are the people in power now. >>> angela merkel the former president obviously had an interesting relationship with the german chancellor. and he talked about an oval office meeting with offensive terms for germans here. he said, quote, that bitch merkel, i know the f'ing krauts, i was raised by the biggest of them all. his father was a german. >> he was german except he spent years claiming he was swedish, so that was part of what i was sort of intrigued by, in that anecdote. they had a famously bad relationship, him and angela merkel, that he is using that language is not surprising, if anybody spent any amount of time around him privately that rings completely true of everything we have learned so far, this is the least surprising o

cheney reportedly ripped into trump loyalist, congressman jim jordan saying, quote, that f'ing jim jordanace i'm standing in the aisle and he said we need to get the ladies away from the aisle, let me help you. i smacked his hand away and told him, get away from me. you f'ing did this. and yamiche, there is an argument that many believe that congressmen like jim jordan and other loyalists are those who inspired the insurrection on january 6th. >> the more we learn about january 6th, the more rerealize just how close american democracy came to being brought to its knees. this reporting by phil and carol is extraordinary, it also in some ways confirms the fears we were talking about on this show and the fears a lot of reporters were reporting on. where you had even republicans really concerned that the president had gone even a step too far for them. so this, i think, exchange between liz cheney and jim jordan, of course, reportedly from this book, it shows in some ways the breaking up of the republican party even further. it shows liz cheney finally looking up and saying this is a party th

three of the five lawmakers on this list, congressman jim jordan, jim banks and troy nels objected to the election results on january 6th, effectively voting to give the insurrectionists what they wanted and overturn the election. as politico today points out, all but one of the republican picks, congressman rodney davis, voted against the creation of a nonpartisan outside january 6th commission. some have even spoken out publicly against the select committee that they're about to join. congressman jim banks last night putting out a statement that draws a false equivalency between the january 6th mob and black lives matter protesters adding, quote, make no mistake nancy pelosi created this committee solely to malign conservatives and to justify the left's authoritarian agenda. jim jordan recently saying this to the associated press. quote, i've got real concerns that this is all just political and that this is impeachment three against president trump. but for jordan, there's also the complication of what some might call a conflict of interest. as we learn just last week in a new book

by banks, and jim jordan.o get those answers in the evening of partisan matter because she chose to take the impressive ended step to try to veto our own members. we are going to continue to ask questions, and frankly there ar many unanswered questions about why this capital was so unprepared, and the key questions as leader mccarthy said, are we in a better position now security wise? there are many issues that we saw in the capitol police id reports and others that laid ou reasons why our officers didn't have the equipment they didn't have the training, and they didn't have the preparation and the backup to adequately addres what happened on january 6. why? and what have we done, what has the speaker done, and more importantly, what has she asked the capitol police board that i made up of her own appointees, what have they done to put this capital complex in a situation to address another security issue? those questions would have been asked, those questions will still be asked, regardless of whether or not

jim jordan is one of them.tomorrow night's game will be called entirely by women.

congressman jim jordan and congressman jim banks.fter the riotous mob stormed the capitol on the