you write about the fact that the candidates that won were enough to flip the house back to give nancy pelosi the gavel back and you say you promised pelosi emily's list helped in 2018. how terrifying is that promise to make to someone like nancy pelosi? why did you believe you could do it? >> guest: you got to have some level of craziness in your head to do that. the truth is by the time i felt comfortable to make that promise was because i had seen these candidates coming up, so many of the congressional candidates were first-time candidates, women from all different backgrounds, teachers and nurses, cia agents. >> host: you are a cia agent? >> guest: every time i see congressman sandberg, no, so good. >> host: to kill you kind of things? >> guest: these amazing women who felt they needed to step up and serve because the country was going the wrong direction and communities were going in the wrong direction. emily's list was committed to the recruitment and getting a strong campaign, it wasn't like we had 23 in play, 40 to 50 in play, we've got to do this. my staff was not through and that

what the motion to commit will do, in the earlier bill, nancy pelosi put $100 million into building a subway just outside her district to silicon valley. last night she added another $40 million to that in the rules committee. we think the mental health of the children because school closures are more important and should be in this bill. today, democrats will have to go on the record, do they support this money going to nancy pelosi's subway or will they do the right thing and spend the money on resources for kids who are suffering from school closures because of covid? now, i imagine the speaker would agree with our request, considering students in the bay area right in her own backyard are suffering from failing grades and rising depression. let me set the record straight. today's pelosi's payoff bill still does not provide assurances to parents and students their schools will reopen. none of the funding has been tied to opening. some house republicans have tried to pass, on three separate occasions, to move the more than $60 million directly to open up schools. three different tim

do you want to retire nancy pelosi? do you want to end this socialism in this country?the house, five seats -- this is the smallest majority democrats have had in 100 years. we can do it. >> both of you have great scores with the american conservative union. you've been a great champion. a lot of the people we have had on this stage -- mike pompeo had an outstanding record in the house of representatives. ron desantis, someone i call america's governor -- [applause] what i'm learning is when you see conservatives get put into positions of power, what you realize about the conservative philosophy is it just makes a lot of sense. what is wrong with these colleagues of years on the others of the aisle and i hear them talk and it's like where did they grow up? where did they learn this stuff? >> you have two wonder where they come from in america when they don't like america like we do. that's what i'm reminded why we are the right party, why the republican party is on the right side of history. we heard a lot about the cancel call serve -- cancel culture these days. if you

the house budget has not even been organized by nancy pelosi in the house them. that is unacceptable. if you are going to use the tools in your toolbox within budget reconciliation, use the rules that have been in effect since 1974. unfortunately, the rules are only used by the majority party if they see it favorable in their outcome. host: we spent the first hour of our program talking about that republican conference meeting late yesterday, that vote on liz cheney, and then there's floor vote that will happen today. can you give us -- and then this floor vote that will happen today. can you give us any insight and how did you vote on keeping liz cheney is the number three republican of the conference? guest: you never want to talk about the discussion that was in the house republican conference, but i will say it was a good family discussion. that is exactly what it is. we had several issues we wanted to address as a republican conference. it was a good discussion. people have their voices heard, and came to a decision. and we are going to move on. our conferen

nancy pelosi. i think they're all heroes and i think walls work because we proved it, whether it's at the capitol or the border. if we'd be better off moving the wall to the border, already funded by the way, if they let the fund's role to that. it's really a pathetic comparison and it really belies their underlying motives and it also ropes in another one of their political tenets that they somehow have to be protected from everyone on the right. it doing magnetometers becomes republicans are on the floor, right? one insult after another. >> rachel: i don't know why these congressmen -- >> the american people and the wisdom of the american people is that they see through this and understand what's going on. in part because of how brazen they are being about it. >> rachel: i was just going to say that i can't understand why kevin mccarthy or any of the congressman will stand for walking through the magnetometers. it's an insult not just to them, but to the voters that put them in office. it's like

no, nancy pelosi the speaker — have to do it. no, nancy pelosi the speaker of _ have to do it.it. no, nancy pelosi the speaker of the house - have to do it. no, nancy pelosi the speaker of the house has i the speaker of the house has agreed that we need a properly independent commission very much like ours on 9/11. it can be independent, bipartisan, they can ask for the fact without fear or favour, and they can ask for the fact without fear orfavour, and get to the bottom that way. we did that once and 9/11 was successful. it is still used by oncologists. many measures were adopted. we were successful and we can be successful again but we need that kind of commission.- we need that kind of commission. . . ., . ., commission. what chance would an independent _ commission. what chance would an independent commission - an independent commission reaches conclusions everyone believes? clearly the country has not been as divided since the civil war. it has not been as divided since the civil war.— the civil war. it all depends on the people, _ the civil war. it all depends on the peo

nancy pelosi is leading that effort. just announced someone called retired general russell honore of louisiana will lead the security review of what happened on january 6, of the riot. and nancy pelosi says the general has been "assessing our security needs reviewing what happened on january 6 and how we must ensure it doesn't happen again." but that is not right. general honore already has come to conclusions on what happened on january 6. he has been public about that. you should know what the conclusions are and what kind of personhe he is. just because his title is "general" doesn't mean he is sane. or not a wild eyed partisan. on the day after the capitol riot, honore suggested it was an inside job and the sergeant at arms might be implicated in the plot. >> it's was some complicit actions at the capitol police. police chief has been fired but now we need to look at a special investigation. was he complicit? along with the sergeant of arms in the house and the senate. it gives appearance of complicity. he complied b

do a thorough investigation that they did not do i need to do the 911 style investigation that nancy pelosi called for. we have 2 correspondents on this story in a moment or go to and they gallacher in west palm beach in florida close to donald trump's residence but 1st let's check in once again with allan fishies on capitol hill so allan way do we stand right now. we're on a quorum call which is essentially just a technical measure that you can put in place in the senate to give yourself a bit of time to think about things so we know that both sides are actually sitting discussing how they're going to proceed with the whole idea of witnesses as you say it was a bipartisan vote 55 republicans 55 democrats and republicans voted to call witnesses 45 all republicans voted against it i'm told on the floor of the senate there were harsh words between ron johnson big supporter of donald trump from wisconsin and mitt romney former presidential candidate of course for the republicans who's been a critic of donald trump he voted to call witnesses ron johnson didn't like that just to clarify somethin

was it nancy pelosi? no. when did she know it? if she knew there was attack on capitol why didn't she secure it earlier? why didn't she bring in the national guard? what did mitch mcconnell no or aoc know. >> mayor bowser.

nancy pelosi was in chinatown to defeat racism against asian-americans. si herself was explicit on that point "we want to see the people come to chinatown. here we are, we are saved, come join us. in other words if you are worried about catching the virus by gathering in chinatown you are a white supremacist." so after that remarkable day what we have we learned? we know despite the best efforts, nancy pelosi does not succeed in extinguishing antiracism against asians in sa francisco. in fact, a year later, violence against asian-americans in san francisco was the highest rate ever. so if you are a reasonable person, you might call for an investigation into this. what is causing these attacks and how can we stop them? if you tune into the cnn or msnbc, you know where they are happening. donald trump. yes, the great orange menace may not be in the white house anymore. he may not have gotten any votes at all in san francisco, but don't be fooled. donald trump is the reason this is happening. and that since a larger message to the rest of us from the politica

this is being done by nancy pelosi.is a woman who said that the walls are immoral to protect the public. i believe it's part of their narrative of fear. they want to protect fear of the american public and even as you know, we have metal detectors now going to the house floor to vote and fearing other members of congress. this is absolutely the wrong signal to be setting to the american public and certainly in a free democracy, we certainly shouldn't be aware of -- afraid of the people who are the american public. maria: so you are going through metal detectors then to go vote? i had asked senator ron jon and you said no, you are actually going through metal detectors when you have to vote? congressman: correct. they've been installed by the house floor. you have statements by the speaker and statements by the other members of the democratic leadership saying that there are members that are afraid of other republican members. this is all part of perpetuating the culture of fear against the american public, against repub

congressional republicans are blasting it, trying to label it as nancy pelosi's subway. however, the southbay art extension is not even in her district and she did not pick the project. bart is getting the money because it had previously been approved for federal funding. >> the earlier bill, nancy pelosi put $100 million into building a subway, just outside her district facility -- for silicon valley. >> it would ship the first 100 million and now the extra 40 million that was added overnight, that was allocated to nancy pelosi's subway. to grants that would be used for mental health for children. >> it would go to extending bart service from the berryessa station through downtown and back up to santa clara. >>> president biden just got back to the white house less than an hour ago after trip to houston earlier today. the president and first lady were there to check on things after those powerful winter storm's and freezing temperatures hit the entire state. >> true partners to help you recover and rebuild from the storms and this pandemic and economic crisis. we are in

if he does there are a lot of depositions that need to be happen nancy pelosi is deposition needs to be taken. face president harris's deposition absolutely needs to be taken and not by assume none of these depositions should be done by assume we didn't do this hearing by xoom these depositions should be done in person in my office in philadelphia. that's where they should be done. i don't know many civil lawyers are here but that's the way it works folks when you want somebody whose deposition you send a notice of deposition and they appear at the place where their notice says that's civil process i don't know why you're laughing it is civil process that is the way lawyers do it we send notices of deposition. i would remind everybody. we will have order in. i don't date chamber of food. during these proceedings i haven't laughed at any of you. and there's nothing laughable here he mentioned my client coming in and testify that is not the way it's done if he wanted to talk to donald trump he should have put a subpoena down like ominous slap subpoenas on a good number of people if wit

nancy pelosi put about a $2 trillion bail in. there was a vote on the floor.he put a tunnel in silicon valley that has nothing to do with covid into the bill we wanted to take that gas into the bell. we wanted -- -- that has nothing to do with covid into the bill. we wanted to take that money to put the kids back to school. democrats voted for it. it is a clear fight, who is standing for the american public and who is standing for corporations? it is the republican party today, tomorrow and in the future. that is why america is going to be stronger as we put america first. [applause] representative banks: donald trump taught us many things and make the republican party the party of the working class for the first time since ronald reagan. the democratic party today is the party of multinational corporations, big business, wall street, silicon valley and they are the pro-china party, putting american workers last in the interests of our greatest adversary had wall street interests ahead of the interests of working class, working men and women in this country. m

nancy pelosi's number one priority is election reform.ou being the leading republican, you have the most to lose. from an unfair election. what are you going to do to ensure that the future elections are safe and fair? here's what supreme court justice clarence thomas wrote. unclear rules threaten to undermine this system. they sow confusion and ultimately dampen confidence in the integrity and fairness of elections. to prevent confusion we have peteedly -- repeatedly blocked rule changes made by courts close to an election. this is a major issue and republicans continue to worry that you're not going to have any leadership positions so long as elections are not fair. i spoke with senator rand paul this past week on "mornings with maria" over on fox business. he says did georgia -- georgia had a big win because state senators passed a bill to require identification to vote. there's a novel thought. how about id to vote. here's rand paul this week with me. listen to this. >> i'm terrified of election integrity. i'm all for election integri

so republicans have every right to know what nancy pelosi did to keep them safe. she get the request for national guard troops and did she deny that request? we have a right to know that as americans and if you look at the capitol you want to know that. refusing to answer the question makes it seem like, harris, nancy probably knew more than she is letting on playing politics as a distraction so questions aren't asked. >> harris: if she had intelligence or some information before the riots and that was not conveyed -- we know the capitol hill police knew a few things. that was not conveyed to the people who could have protected all of them, you didn't leave congress -- these people are your friends. if she played a role in not getting what they needed there, what should happen? >> well listen, the problem with it is, harris, we feel like the capitol grounds are safe. you have capitol police there. they have very powerful weapons. there is a lot of them around. you feel safe. but i think as molly hemingway mentioned last night she said listen, i've been to a lot of

nancy pelosi admitted that last week. past couple of years about republicans. this is what some of what they are expected to present at the trial. listen here. >> i want to tell you, you have released to the world women's and you will pay the price! >> they talked about the president's cabinet. i said, everywhere. [laughter] in a department store. just tell them, you are not welcome here. >> go to the hill today! get up and please, get up in the face of congress people. >> john: get up in the face of congress people, could this be a case of democrats, be careful what you wish for? >> they pick the dumbest of all articles. you have kamala harris with amy coney barrett and she is telling the whole world that judge barrett is coming after your health care and reproductive rights and your voting rights. if you're dumb enough to believe that, that's going to incite you, so what they're going to do is play those clips and say, if you will start penalizing political rhetoric, let's do it for both sides. >> john: we have a busy w

president biden and vice president harris paid their respect along with remarks from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. watch the memorial service for slain police officer brian sicknick saturday at 8:00 and again at 11 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org. or listen with the c-span radio app. >> the senate impeachment trial former president donald trump begins tuesday with senators deciding if the former president should be convicted on a sentence of insurrection. watch our live coverage of the senate impeachment trial starting tuesday at 1 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. c-span.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app app. if you miss any part of the proceedings, watch any time on demand it c-span.org/ impeachment. next, georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene talking with reporters a day after the house pa

they were told today in no uncertain terms by nancy pelosi who put out a press release with a "q" next to mccarthy's name and shawn maloney said we're going to call you the qanon party and they stood by her anyway. that is a caucus there's no working with. so to your point i think joe biden says at this point democrats are the only governing party here, let's go. >> another fascinating hotel living room scene behind john heilemann. john, thank you very much for joining us tonight. always appreciate it. >> good to see you, lawrence. >>> thank you. coming up, almost now 400 congressional staffers are doing something that they never do. they are speaking publicly for themselves, and they are telling senators how to vote. and they want those senators to cast that vote, quote, for the sake of the country in the impeachment trial of donald trump. two of those brave congressional staffers will join us next. ♪ the calming scent of lavender by downy infusions calm. laundry isn't done until it's done with downy. you may have many reasons for waiting to go to your doctor right now. but if you're

what did nancy pelosi know? why did they back down from having her come in and testify?etails here? this whole thing was a split call show. let's take them up on it and let's get to the bottom of it. maria: you heard what congressman jim jordan said, he believes that they backed down on witnesses because they assumed that the republicans would call speaker nancy pelosi and then we would have to clearly hear it in terms of what she knew, the planning that went in from these groups that want today breach the capitol. we spoke with mark meadows last week, former chief of staff to the president, and he also asking questions. senator johnson told us that he's been saying why did capitol police say, no, we don't want additional troops that the president tried to put in place because it was known that groups were coming and they wanted to attack. so here is mark meadows with me last week, listen to this. mark: the president was very vocal in making sure that we had plenty of national guard, plenty of additional support because he supports the rule of law, he supports our law en

nancy pelosi is guilty of treason, and we want her out of our government. amy: cnn reports marjorie taylor greene recently removed that video from her facebook page. in another resurfaced video, greene talks about the qanon conspiracy theory. >> is it going to be true that the child's pedophia in the elit in washgton,.c-- is at whate are ally goi to see comeut? ishe typof corruion we are going toee come t going to be satanic worship tt possib all these peop are involved in? maybe all these scyhings thateople ta about owhat is consired consracy sites and consracy tories ally may be te. but at is wh qas bn tellg everyo. amy: in 2018 marrie tayl grne also clmed a laser from outer space started the camp fire. pacific has pleaded guilty to the deaths of people killed in the wildfire. house speaker nancy pelosi butte house republicans for putting -- rebuked house republicans are putting the conspiracy theorist on the education committee. >> appointing her to the education committee which he has mocked the killing of little children at sandy hook elementary school

we just mentioned house speaker nancy pelosi.she has ruled out censuring of former president trump, she said today that center is a quote, little slap on the wrist and would let everyone involved with the capital right off the hook. now, some republican senators have said over e resolution hast been introduced. ah coverage of the impeachment trial and acquittal continues on ktvu .com. you can find the latest developments right on our home page. president biden's deputy press secretary, tj duck low, has resigned. his resignation comes one day after he was suspended for making sexist and threatening comments. two political reporter terror palmeri duck low is said to have threatened the journalist who was seeking to cover story about his relationship with another reporter. sources say duck low threatened paul. married by saying, quote, i will destroy you. the effort to recall governor gavin newsom received a significant donation today. the california state republican party says it has contributed 125,000 to that effort. so far, the

nancy pelosi's deposition needs to be taken. vice-president harris' deposition, absolutely needs to be taken, and not by zoom. these depositions should be done in person, in my office, in philadelphia. >> this could lead to a panoply of witnesses summoned by both sides. vice-president pence, perhaps, mccarthy, even g.o.p. alabama senator tommy tuberville. this could be a defacto review at the capitol. and one from speaker pelosi what she requested for the security posture on the 6th of january and the republicans are more than happy to stretch this out. they believe the democrats were stretching authority with the trial. this could be the shortest impeachment trial of a president, five days. last year's two weeks. president clinton's trial five weeks in 1999. the trial of president andrew johnson in 1868 three months. the senate is it going to return at 12:30 eastern time and they have to work out a resolution how to proceed with witnesses and maybe we'll learn more about that at 12:30 and there could even be a vote, john. >> we

>> i'm hopeful for it but i didn't hear nancy pelosi make the same commitment. i hope the president listens to republicans on everything from the coronavirus to foreign policy but there are different views within the republican party. i certainly hope that president biden doesn't reach for the trade policy of paul ryan and the foreign policy of dick cheney. i think there are policies that president trump was working on that are for the benefit of the people in our country and i think president biden would do well to give some credence to the successes and to the progress that we've made over the last four years. >> harris: congressman matt gaetz. we came together on a number of issues but primarily brought together by marjorie taylor greene and getting to watch her and get your first response. good to see you today. appreciate your response. rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel is now with me. first i want to get your reaction to congresswoman taylor greene and what she just said about your political party. let's watch and we'll come back. >> he was the president that

were de monetized i mean every video i posted that was critical of nancy pelosi was de monetized and that right there showed that the establishment that these the corporatocracy out there the powers that be are protecting one another in the protecting their investment which is their bought off politicians you know it seems to me these thoughts are i'm sort of for privileged people that will. challenge power will go along to get along with their neo liberal ideology and it's for the da sile the ones that just want to be mildly entertained to pass the time and that you know politics in any meaningful sense has no place in the public square because it's all been decided somebody else decided it but it's been decided go ahead and oh yeah yeah i mean it's it's maybe inside is specially you talking about the capital tax a couple weeks ago we broadcast it we broadcast it trump speech we gave the ripping in we listen to it and then now we use the c.-span and feed our broadcast so we are using fox 7 7 now you see me as you are you c.-span st even our pinion rasho never dang it wow look ok cou

now, that's not what nancy pelosi is proposing.ould use as a further cudgel to beat up on republicans and conservatives out there in the country. paul: kim, should donald trump's role in this be part of such an investigation? because i assume that's a exactly what democrats will want to pursue. >> look, i don't think that you can do an evaluation without this without talking, for instance, about the president's speech out there. because that gets to the question of whether or not some of this was preplanned and who was actually at that speech versus who was at the capitol, that kind of a thing. but again, the way that you make sure that you get the facts and that this entire experiment is not moved over and focused as a, quote, witch hunt against the president is you make sure you have a truly bipartisan commission. paul: dan, what do you think is nancy pelosi's calculation here? because if you're looking to essentially have conspiracy theories put to rest, if you're looking to have some kind of consensus about what actually did ha

now nancy pelosi wants are on review calling for commissions similar to the one congress created in the wake of the september 11th terrorist attacks writing a letter to colleagues, quote, to protect our security, our security, our security, our next step is to establish an outside commission to investigate and report on the causes relating to the january 6, 2021, to mystic terrorist attack on the united states capitol complex. this commission would seek to have bipartisan input but there is already support for it. >> did nancy pelosi know on january 5th was a threat to the capital? what did donald trump do after the attack? we need a 9/11 commission to find out what happened and make sure it never happens again. >> reporter: this is house republicans sent a letter to speaker pelosi, about her decisions leading up to the attack and the timing of the national guard deployment, specifically if she delayed a request from capital police. >> we don't know because she won't answer the question. the media is not asking tough questions and when they do hedge around it she dodges it. >> reporter:

nancy pelosi held onto those, that's a fact. there is video of her and other folks walking them over to the senate not too long ago. it was clearly not within days of passing, they held them for a while. that is not true. secondly, my point is just to say if the democrats go down this path, i would bet that we will have it come back and bite them when a republican house and/or senate has a president of the opposite party and they utilize it as a political tool. the president was impeached in the house while he was -- donald trump was impeached in the house while he was in office. the difference with respect to the senate is this is when you would get convicted with the penalty being removal from office. that's the difference. who knows what would've happened had nancy pelosi sent articles of impeachment, what leader mcconnell would have done. we don't know because she chose not to do that. host: from our democrats line, germantown, maryland, sharon. caller: a couple of commentary mr. spicer, you have polished your lies. you lied

there trying to label it as nancy pelosi's subway. the extension project is set to receive more than $140 million for the covid stimulus package. however, the bart extension, did not even pick the project. bart is getting the money because it had previous the been approved for federal funding. that isn't stopping with publicans. >> reporter: is allocated to nancy pelosi's subway. to grants that would be used for mental health for children. in the earlier bill, nancy pelosi put $100 million into building a subway, just outside her district for silicon valley. >> the fund will go to extending bart service from the berryessa station through downtown and back up to santa clara. but the extension is not the only project on the list. the package gives more than $30 billion to struggling transportation agencies nationwide. elsewhere in the bay area provides 47 million toward electrified caltrans. it funds to projects that are actually in pelosi's district. 77 million to increase the capacity through the trans bay tube and 22 million to build

i think nancy pelosi classically is just overstepping here. everybody that i know of just totally disagrees and disavows what congresswoman greene said but that happened before the election. and so what they do is the party will come to an agreement as to how many seats each party gets within the committees itself. i believe it's the republicans who get to choose which republicans sit on those committees. but nancy pelosi is taking it to another level that we haven't yet seen before trying to reprimand somebody for comments they didn't make in congress. >> harris: you know, there is more to the story, as there always is. it's happening on the other side of the political aisle. congresswoman ilhan omar is fundraising off the gop effort to take away her committee assignment. fundraising email reads let's be clear this resolution to remove ilhan is rooted in racism and anti-muslim bigotry and we must call it out. your reaction to that? >> you always get a little disgusted when everything is about money, money, money. but that's the reality and di

the first person they wanted to bring up into cross examine nancy pelosi. they would have turned the whole thing into a circus and we conducted it legal seriousness and decorum and you saw the conduct of the lawyers on the other side and you know what donald trump's track record was. we would not allow them to turn into a farce. [inaudible] >> why did you -- [inaudible] >> the press conference we are going to continue to watch for that and bring it to you as it develops. let's now bring in the lead defense attorney, bruce castor is been arguing for the last five days. i want to congratulate you and maybe get your reactions in today's department. >> thank you very much. i doubt i will ever see anything like this again in my career. i am doing pretty good. >> jamie raskin and he is essentially saying they did indeed prove their case but you disagree? >> they failed miserably on all sorts of grounds, none of lease is the jurisdiction, the constitution is quite plain that once your out of office, that's the only active remedy on the impeachment article and then

assassination for nancy pelosi. that's what house republicans gave a standing ovation to last night. she said jews, jews -- you can't compare these people to nazis. that's wrong! oh, how dare you! she said that jews, jewish kabul was responsible for the wildfires in california because a jewish laser. it was the jews' fault. my fold, how could anybody draw parallels to nazi. that woman got a standing ovation. >> some republicans stood and clapped for her. there are certain things you can't walk back. we all know that. as we have backed into the news here, along with joe, willie and me, we have nbc news and national affairs analyst, executive producer of show time's the circus john heilman. >> john who? how do you pronounce that last name? >> the host of waive too early kasie hunt and founder and of the conservative bulwark and how the right lost its mind, charlie sykes. >> boy, that title just keeps getting morel vanity by the day. >> as willie mentioned, the third highest ranking house republican liz cheney will rem

today it's nancy pelosi. but it's been nancy pelosi in the past. terms of stirring the pot because these guys do pay attention. they are watching the news. a lot of what you find is people will just post news stories with their commentary. this probably didn't help that. but she's been a target for some time. >> i wanted to play for you and our viewers a part of trump's statement yesterday. it was read by his spokesperson. listen to this. >> this has been yet another phase of the greatest witch-hunt in the history of your country. no president has ever gone through anything like it. and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted with us just a few short months ago. >> talk to us a little bit about how that statement is playing out online. have you seen any traction with it. i know that people parse the words of the president because in the past everything he's said and done has been picked up by conspiracy theorists and we don't want to lump all 74 millio

it seems very, very clear hearing nancy pelosi and other committee leaders including steny hoyer, the number two ranking democrat in the house of representatives, they're going full throttle with this. and, apparently, they were emboldened after meeting with the president who said we can't do much here, but we can do too little. so, again, every principled figure in the democratic party is going on size, the bigger the better. and by the way, so is wall street, on the notion the bigger the stimulus, the bigger the market rally. it's one of those rare times where the investment guys are kind of juxtaposed against the republican guys who are concerned that we're spending a little too much here. there's a timeline to all of this. as you know, this measure that was approved very early this morning in the senate broken by kamala harris who broke a 50-50 tie to keep it going, it could set the stage for needing a simple majority to ultimately get this thing passed. it goes to the house where they mark it up in various committees. they have to have that all submitted by around february 16th.

why wouldn't nancy pelosi want that?, nancy pelosi wouldn't want that because she's become so hopelessly and relentlessly partisan in her treatment of virtually anything these days, martha. it's been going on for four years and the only lens through which speaker pelosi can see the world, which is to say what can she identified that will disadvantage republicans. she seems to be trying to attach republicans, the party to the events of january 6 such that any voter out there in the country and the coming mid-terms will conclude that they cannot possibly vote for a republican. that is such a stretch. this event on january 6 was an extraordinary historical event. we do need to get to the bottom of it. we need a 9-11-type investigation or say something like the silverman commission that looked into the intelligence before the iraq war. if speaker pelosi insists on pushing a partisan interpretation of those events, we won't get to the bottom of it. that would be a tragedy if we failed to find out what happened leading up to t

we're going to wait to hear from nancy pelosi. while we're waiting to hear from pelosi, i want to bring in dana bash, cnn chief political correspondent. i'm curious to hear what speaker pelosi said. last week when we were together talking about this, she didn't told back at all. she was very focused on republican leadership when asked about marjorie taylor greene. that it was beyond the pail that they were turning a blind eye. and i wonder if after last night what more does peeker pelosi say in. >> probably that. and she's going to have to explain and frankly in some ways defend the fact that they are going to put this vote on the floor. when i use the word "defend", i do is very specifically because obviously we heard during the rules committee process yesterday, jim mcgovern talked with a lot of passion about the fact that this must not -- they must not let this stand as a house representatives that they can't allow somebody with her views with the things that she has said, whether it is in office or before, to sit on these majo