matt dowd is still with us.e, your reaction to what we saw today. >> well, it was powerful testimony. like you, i was moved in every way. i was reminded, though, nicolle, of a study that came out of the university of chicago and it was a study of the makeup of those who protested. most of them were older and more professional. many of them came from counties, blue counties that voted for joe biden but counties where the demographics were changing. they felt like they were being displaced. that in some ways what was being revealed in the context of that study and over the footage is white resentment, white fear, terror and panic. that there is this kind of motivation that goes beyond the 3%ers and oath keepers and proud boys, but evidenced in our everyday lives that some folks are clinging to this idea that america has to remain a white nation. remember stop the steal has everything to do with voters in atlanta, in detroit, in philadelphia, in milwaukee, in maricopa county, black and brown voters, young voters. s

and matt dowd is back, political strategist and founder of country over party. matt, straight to you on the texas democrats. we have a little bit of breaking news. eugene, as we were coming on the air we learned the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection has called its first hearing. it will be on july 27th, almost seven months after the insurrection, and the first hearing will feature the law enforcement officials, the police officers, whose bodies were mutilated by trump supporters. what else do we know? >> i mean, that's kind of what we know. we know they're going to be looking into exactly what happened that day to these police officers and these law enforcement officials. we've heard from them a little bit. we've seen them, some of them in some other hearings. we've also seen them on air with you guys here on msnbc and we will continue to hear and see some of these lawsuits go through is how bad it really was for police officers and capitol police that day. we've seen them be beaten as republicans continue to spread misinformation,

. >> matt dowd, we have known each other a long time, the better part of two decades.rned overnight will make its way through the courts. democrats don't have years. the supreme court will uphold, as kim is saying, a lot of these laws. the only card they have to play is federal voting rights legislation that will nullify all of these statewide laws. that is it. that's ball game, and there are no meetings that i am aware of today on reaching any sort of compromise even amongst themselves. i have not heard anything about joe manchin's proposal being met with a counterproposal by any democrats or republicans. do you think they've just given up? i mean what do you think happens next? >> well, maybe there's a secret plan that we're all unaware of that's going on, and you know from the beginning, nikole, i said from the beginning i thought the president and the administration needed to make this priority issue number one, two and three, and everything after this, including the pandemic, which he has done a great job, including -- because -- the pandemic and have a booming ec