but again i want to focus on congressman paul gosar. part of the reason that things got so hairy inside the capitol with the mob, including ashli babbitt, getting so close to the people in the presidential line of succession, is because the house took longer that day to adjourn the senate. i only really understood this after i watched that "new york times" documentary. rioters first broke into the capitol building at around 2:10 p.m., and the senate crucially adjourned just minutes later, 2:13. so three minutes go by, and the message is sent. you might remember that moment when it happened. senator james lankford of oklahoma interrupted mid-sentence. an aide comes and whispers in his ear, and everyone starts moving very quickly. you see that? everyone gets out. the house at the same time continued in session for several more key minutes, and part of the reason was because paul gosar was still airing his grievances of the big lie on the house floor, objecting to the seating of electors in his own state. >> in arizona, as my attachments m

i feel like i hear more public criticism of paul gosar's role in the insurrection and the big lie fromom nancy pelosi or any other house democratic leader. >> we've been scratching our heads to figure that out as well. i mean, in every way shape or form, that was a lynch mob going after mike pence and it was definitely targeted on nancy pelosi. the squad has been outspoken in so many parts of this past four years. nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, i mean, honestly where is the democratic leadership? i only hear from my representative in washington state and the didn't take her up on the ethics charges investigation she initiated. i don't know what they need their lives were in danger. here they are allowing paul and his group to fund-raise, to distract with these other things. it continues the dialogue, and it continues the machine rolling. >> every day he seems to get more extreme and there is no ethics complaint or charges as you say. no stripping of committee assignments. we look at marjorie taylor greene's carnival barking. the anti-defamation league wrote this new report published yest

jennifer gosar, paul gosar's younger sister and outspoken critic. research and innovation lab. curt, how dangerous to have elected members of the united states congress playing footsie with holocaust deniers and white nationalists, tweeting out their talking points? >> extremely dangerous. gosar not a speaker but a doer. one of the biggest dangers of individuals like gosar is not just what he says but things he doesn't say. trying to distance himself now from nick fuentes and america first movement but fact that fuentes and other far right groups think they have ally in elected representative in congress is a huge boon for them, regardless of what gosar says or doesn't say. >> yes, it is, sadly. jennifer, you and your siblings grabbed headlines in 2018 when you told voters in arizona not to vote for your brother and accused him of anti-semitism, bold move. he's only become worse. i guess it's difficult having family name gosar when he's most famous one of you. >> yes, it is, but it's important no matter what the name is to stand up to it every way,

today, six months later to the day, republican congressman paul gosar put out a statement echoing the former president's call for the officer to who shot her to be named. that officer has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing. he has been receiving death threats, according to his attorneys. trying to expose him for doing his job is how the congressman is marking this day. six months to the day other people who stood up to the former president and his lies have gotten death threats. not only that, the family of one person who stood up for the truth got them as well. georgia's secretary of state's wife telling reuters, she received threatening texts. you and your family will be killed very slowly one of those read. another warned of an unfortunate accident the family would have. still another read, we plan for the death of you and your family every day. don't forget that six months later to the day, the handful of republican law makemakers who s up for the truth have been cast aside. liz cheney stood up and was stripped of her position. six months to the day, it's the lie that won't die.

paul gosar spoke at a conference of a known white nationalist.er members, louie gohmert, greene have been floating this conspiracy theory that the fbi was involved in the january 6 attack, so there is some concern within the party that if leaders don't do more to stamp out these brush fires it is going to engulf the entire party. >> trump is doing the same thing, right? it's happening on multiple fronts. great reporting. melanie zanona, thank you very much. joining me now cnn political commentator s.e. cupp. you have to take a breath here. steve king -- so, steve king, noted racist, defended white supremacy. he did get his committee assignments taken away. now you have greene repeatedly making comparisons between simple health guidelines and nazi tactics. boebert doing the same, paul gosar as melanie was saying here, hanging out with known white nationalists. what's happening to the republican -- should we just say they have thrown their lot in with these extremists? >> reporter: well, yeah. there's no point in rehabbing someone like marjorie tay

paul gosar seems to be concerned about her death yet he shares the moral responsibility for all the events of that day. the situation that led to her death was brought about at least in part by the delayed he caused with his recitation of the big lie that the election was stolen, on the floor of the united states house of representatives. on that day, when congress had a duty to simply ratify the people's choice for president, and declare joe biden who was the rightful president the rightful president. so yes, the question of who does have blood on their hands from that day -- part of the reason why we need to commit to investigate. congressman benny thompson is the chair of the select committee to investigate january six and he joins me now. congressman, i feel like there's a lot we don't know about the deaths of the individuals that died that day. there's been sporadic reports, we have some reporting on ashley babbitt and her death, and other individuals, a woman who was declared a matthews or and brian sicknick. would that be the focal point of the committee? >> we will look at everythi

the events of january 6th, or sharing the stage with a holocaust denier, far-right congressman paul gosarng a name for himself as one of the most conspiracy-addled republicans in congress. in a new fundraising e-mail, gosar baselessly says the fbi may have had a hand in planning and carrying out the capitol attack. again, that is baseless. if the arizona congressman, actually, believed this inside-job nonsense, and wanted to get to the bottom of it. then, why did he vote against investigating the attack, twice? sadly, gosar's e-mail may not be this week's most stunning headline involving republicans and the capitol riot. some republicans, i should say. because, on tuesday, several gop lawmakers toured the u.s.-mexico border with an admitted-capitol rioter, anthony aguero. now, maybe, they thought he would have some expert insight on breaching security barriers. for the record, these are the house republicans who were with aguero. lauren boebert, madison cawthorne, chris jacobs, michael cloud, john rose, mary miller, and tom tiffany. aguero was a close ally of congresswoman marjorie taylor

. >> i think one elected official we should be talking about right now is paul gosar who did a number of rallies with ally alexander, seems to have been quite close to him, is also, we know, close to the white nationalist refusing to disavow that association, even though this isn't sort of nudge, nudge, wink, wink, white nationalism. it is unapologetic. actually far worse than anything steve king said except the center of ogravity in the republican party has moved so far right that where they would have once expelled steve king in order to preserve, you know, what they thought was their image, now they sort of come to accept that people like marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar are part of their image. so, yes, i think that -- i think it's no secret, anybody could have seen the rally that preceded this insurrection. they could have seen the people saying, including the president of the united states, we're going to march on the capitol. i guess the question is whether the coordination went even beyond the already kind of quite shocking level of coordination that we've seen. >> indeed

add to that, mccarthy tolerating paul gosar planning fundraisers with white supremacists. where is this all going? >> it's going in a very bad direction, don. i mean, for a brief moment i had some hope that being chased around the capitol by a trump lynch mob might bring republicans to their senses. and clearly that happened with a few of them like liz cheney and adam kinzinger. but most of them are as bad now as they were in january or perhaps worse. they're openly embracing these white supremacists' views. i can't imagine any argument for why you would want to keep a statue of jefferson davis in the capitol. they're opposing the investigation of january 6 of them, which again, i can't imagine any reason why you wouldn't want to get to the bottom of one of the most serious attacks on our democracy in our history. but republicans could not care less, they know what their base is. it's pro-trump, it's basically people who are motivated by a desire to maintain white power. that's who their catering too. it's shameful. it's disgraceful. but sadly it's getting worse. >> max, d

andy biggs and paul gosar vote to abandon the afghan allies. part of a small group of 16 republicans who voted against an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill to expedite the process to get afghan translators who helped u.s. forces to safety as america ends its longest war. quote, when the u.s. pulled out of vietnam, there were unfortunate, sometimes tragic repercussions for some of the vietnamese who assisted our troops. the idea of the house bill was to not let that happen again, to appreciate loyalty, and understand humanity. in voting no, the congressmen proved themselves to be unmistakably the opposite. they are not the only facing backlash for voting against helping afghan translators. >> when nearly every republican and democrat in congress comes together to make sure local interpreters who served us faithfully and kept you are troops safe are offered a way out if they want it, guess who teamed up and voted to abandon them to the taliban? bovert and greene. they wouldn't know a patriot if one stepped up and shook their hands. praise traitors a

you have one paul gosar who meets with and flirts with white sue supremacists and nationalists.tions. 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. bush, the current commissioner of texas running for attorney general of texas actively, obsessively sought the approval of donald trump despite the fact that the former president belittled the bush family in the 2015 primaries. george p. putting out the campaign koozie. a graphic depiction of the meeting. he is the one member of the bush family that i like or agrees with me. doing everything to get that endor endorsement. what does trump do? endorse ken paxon. >> he is under investigation himself who put forward

paul gosar apparently plans and claims he didn't know anything about it a fund-raising appearance with a holocaust denier and white supremacist even though he has appeared to defend the appearance in a tweet saying and i quote here, "not sure why anyone is freaking out." he tolerates a qanon congresswoman who's still pushing the big lie, who compared mask requirements on the house floor to the holocaust. who blamed wildfires on jewish space lasers, who before she ran repeatedly expressed support for executing top democrats. he tolerates her. he tolerates matt gaetz who's under doj investigation over allegations involving federal sex trafficking, prostitution, and public corruption laws and whether he allegedly had sex with a minor. he tolerates moe brooks who whipped up the crowd ahead of the capitol insurrection just before they stormed the capitol with the goal of hanging the vice president. kevin mccarthy tolerates them, but he can't tolerate any republican standing up for the truth about one of the darkest days in american history. and let's face it, the last thing most republicans

which to be honest with you i thought would be a no-brainer -- i asked him to denounce congressman paul gosar'snited states capitol police officer who was involved in the shooting death of ashley babbitt. the department of justice had conducted and concluded their investigation into the shooting and deemed that that officer was justified. i found it interesting that, you know, while the fraternal order of police regularly releases statements protecting and defending officers who have been involved in line of duty shootings, that there was no statement denouncing a elected representative who described this officer as an executioner laying in wait. to me that was insane. and finally, i asked that the fraternal order of police denounce any active duty or retired law enforcement officers who participated in the insurrection at the capitol on january 6th. i could not get a commitment from patrick yose to do any of those things. what he offered me several hundred days after the insurrection was access to the fraternal order of police's wellness program. i told him that if i had waited six months to g

i asked him to denounce representative paul gosar's mischaracterization of an on-duty police officer was participating in an insurrection at the capitol, and whom the involved in serious use of force incidents. per the investigation to play out. well, in this case the investigation did play out. that officer was justified. and finally i asked him to publicly denounce any active duty or retired law enforcement officer that participated in an insurrection at the capitol on january 6, and in doing so, betrayed their oath of honor. i have received no commitment as to any of those things, none whatsoever. in fact, he offered me only access to the national f.o.p.'s wellness program. i told him if i had waited six months to get mental health treatment, i'd be dead. >> officer michael fanone, we're glad you didn't wait. we're glad that you're getting the help you need. we're glad you're speaking out and telling the truth, reminding the world of what happened, what we all know happened, despite what others choose to say. so, thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks for being with us this morning. >

congressman paul gosar, conspiracy theorist, he meets with white supremacists has been pushing it asrt of a violent mob, tried to break into a secure part of the capitol is some sort of a martyr and the officer who shot her some kind of criminal. >> the person that shot ashley babbitt, boom, right through the head, just, boom, there was no reason for that. and why isn't that person being opened up and why isn't that being studied? >> first, ashli babbitt was not shot in the head. according to the medical examiner, the bullet struck her left shoulder. he's wrong about that and lying. second, there certainly was a reason. the mob she was part of was trying to batter their way into the speaker's lobby. on the other side of the door were members of congress being evacuated. in other words, the mob could be perceived as a direct and immediate threat to their lives and that of the officers who were protecting them. the third, the matter was studied, to use the former president's word, and the officer who shot ashli babbitt was cleared of any criminal wrongdoing. fourth, his name is being w

. >> this is after republican congressman paul gosar claimed she was executed. how dangerous is talk like this, congressman? >> it's very dangerous and specifically dangerous when the president is trying to reveal the identity of a police officer that he knows he may put their life in jeopardy if that person's identity becomes public. so it's very serious, you know, as well as just sort of fanning this right-wing talking point. but that's what donald trump does. the last thing he wants to talk about is his own culpability in all of this. the last thing he wants to talk about is the big lie that he put out about the election and continues to put out. and this is both a good distraction, it's a way of endearing himself once again to the right-wing base. but if he does that in the process and endangers this person's life, he's perfectly fine with that. >> congressman schiff, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >>> next, marjorie taylor greene, she just can't seem to help herself. this time comparing the white house encouraging vaccines to nazi-

but it's the latest lie that republicans like paul gosar are trying during congressional hearings that are supposed to be focusing on our national security. it's pretty obvious that republicans are doing everything they can to show loyalty to the mango mussolini and not to their country. it's not just the ones currently in office. "the washington post" reports republican candidates for state and federal offices are increasingly focused on the last election, running on the falsehood spread pie the florida man and his allies. but there's nothing like j.d. vance. cnn caught him deleting past tweets critical of trump. he told fox today i regret the tweets and regret being wrong about the guy. i think he was a good president. of course now he wants power because right now there is no republican party without trump. there's just nothing that exists without him. so americans are facing a choice between the real world where coronavirus cases are falling and the economy is bouncing back and a fantasy world on the right where the election was stolen and everything is a culture war. alexander bur

arizona congressman paul gosar continues to target the police officer who shot the insurrectionist whoet with kevin but to no avail. when he did, kevin refused to denounce the whitewashing of the january 6th attack. is that what they mean when they say blue lives matter? hysterical republicans like ted cruz have denied these claims. fact check. mr. vacation in mexico. biden has vowed to spend $260 million more than the orange guy on the police. also it was republicans who literally voted against funding for the police in the american rescue package. so tonight, pretending that they actually care about the police when they really don't, the republican party is the absolute worst. that is tonight's reidout. "all in" starts now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> we will march to the capitol building and call on congress to stop the steal. we are hoping patriots like you will join us to continue the fight to protect the integrity of our elections. >> six months later, what we're learning about the institutional accomplices the trump insurrectionist, the enduring threat that keeps election law ex

against stripping committee posts from marjorie taylor greene, who hasn't done anything to punish paul gosaring like that. so -- so you can cozy up to white nationalists and holocaust deniers and keep your committees but not serve on a committee to investigate the insurrection? >> but, you know, there is no great of principle in the congress. and to me, it results from the almost futile power that trump has over the republican party, now. and they are taking these very strange actions, as you're commenting about, to keep him happy. and to go from 35 republicans voting for an independent inquiry, one month ago, to now two. shows the heat's been turned up. >> um, we talk about this level of partisanship in this really new page some ways in partisan politics in the country. i want to actually show something that is the opposite of that. because frankly, we need it. president biden went down to florida, your home state, yesterday. went to miami to visit with the families of the condominium collapse there. and he met with ron desantis, the republican governor of florida. partisan. and look, democ

the other hand, a republican congressman having ties with a white nationalist holocaust denier as paul gosarrew cly? he's still serving on the house oversight, and get this homeland security committees. what about congressman matt gaetz? has being investigated in connection with the alleged sex traffic of a-mile-per-hour gotten him bounced from his positions? don't be silly. he's still on the judiciary committee. marjorie taylor greene, she had the conspiracy theories and jewish space lasers. now, she was strip of committee assignments but by democrats after kevin mccarthy refused to take any action to hold her accountable. because whether haters, crazies target federal sex crime investigations are offensive to him, disciplining them isn't a priority. defending the former president is. seems to be his first priority. oh, and just as a cherry on top of this hypocrisy sunday it's not like kevin mccarthy hates all select committees either. >> everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee, a select committee. what are her numbers today?

other hand, a republican con congressman having ties with a white nationalist holocaust denier, as paul gosarick fuentes. no problem. what about andrew clyde? was he disciplined for later trying to say the insurrectionists behaved no worse than a tour group or refusing to shake a wounded officer's hand? nope. he is still serving on house oversight and get this, homeland security committees. what about congressman matt gaetz? has being investigated in the alleged sex trafficking of a minor gotten him bounced from his positions? don't be silly. he is still on the judiciary committee. marjorie taylor greene. she, of the conspiracy theories and jewish-space lasers. now, she was stripped of committee assignments. but by democrats. after kevin mccarthy refused to take any action to hold her accountable. because whether haters, and targets of federal sex crimes investigations are offensive to him, disciplining them isn't a priority. defending the former president is. seems to be his first priority. oh, and just as a cherry on top of this hypocrisy sundae, it's not like kevin mccarthy hates all selec

republican congressman paul gosar said in a hearing that babbitt was executed. in wait. tucker carlson said vladimir putin was asking fair questions about babbitt's killing when he suggested her killing was an assassination. yesterday, donald trump was a guest on fox news hosted by maria bartiromo, can they took it to a whole new reality. >> who shot ashli babbitt. who is keeping that secret? who is the person who shot an innocent, wonderful, incredible woman? a military woman, right in the head. and there's no repercussions. if there were on the other side, it would be the biggest story in this country. who shot ashli babbitt? people want to know. and why? >> well, that's right. and i want to talk about that because ashli babbitt, a wonderful woman, fatally shot on january 6th as she tried to climb out of a broken window. what can you tell us in terms of who shot ashli babbitt? what do you know, mr. president? >> i will tell you they know who shot ashli babbitt. they're protecting that person. >> babbitt was shot in the shoulder, not in the head, as trump lied,

prepared, sir, to also investigate and subpoena your colleagues like representatives mo brooks or paul gosar or even kevin mccarthy, if there was any reason for you to believe that they somehow contributed to what happened on january 6th? >> well, let me just say i am prepared to go wherever the facts lead the committee. we will hire the best professionals in this country to assist this committee and its work. we will make sure that to the extent we can, our deliberations will be bipartisan. we plan to get to the facts. we know right now a number of committees have held oversight hearings on what happened on january 6th. but most of us are troubled that how did we let that happen as some of you know, i was actually, physically in the building on january 6th. so, for about two hours, a lot of us had to be protected from the people who broke into the capitol and never in my wildest dreams would i have imagined that that would happen to the united states capitol. something went wrong. and so now our select committee appointed by speaker pelosi will have the responsibility for looking at any and

>> well i think one elected official we should be talking about right now is paul gosar, who did a number of rallies with ali alexander in seems to have been quite close to him and is also close to that white nationalist -- and is refusing to disavow that association even though this is sort of norwich nudge wink wink nationalism. it's unapologetic. it's actually far worse than anything that stephen king said that the republican party has moved so far right that where they would've won and expelled steve king in order to preserve what they thought was their image, now they sort of come to accept that marjorie taylor greene and paul costar are part of them. so yes, i think that it's no secret. anybody could've seen the rally that preceded the insurrection. they could have seen the people saying and including the president of the united states that were going to march on the capital. i guess the question is whether it's important that the nation one even peons the already kind of quite shocking coordination that we've seen. >> indeed. and we need to celine it wasn't physically leading the b

some members of the republican conference like extremist andy biggs and paul gosar could be witnesseswill have final say over the appointees but has declined to say if there are any selections that would be rejected outright. it will focus on the role donald trump paid, and bennie thompson has not ruled out a subpoena for the ex-president. last month, propublica reported the white house knew what kind of extremists would be descending on the capital that day. and trump himself raised questions about what his supporters might do. on the day before, trump asked if the following day would be peaceful. don't forget, trump told them, these people are fired up. i'm joined by the chairman of the select committee on january 6th, chairman bennie thompson. i want to start with that question about what in your view would be unacceptable in terms of people that kevin mccarthy might pick? is it just extremists like lauren boebert and marjorie taylor greene, or is it some criteria in your own mind about what would be unacceptable? >> well, thank you very much, joy, for having me. it's clear that th

quote, arizona representatives andy biggs and paul gosar votes to abandon afghan allies.man for being part of a small group of 16 republicans who voted against an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill to try to expedite the process and forgetting afghan translator to help u.s. forces day safety as america ends its longest war. quote, when the u.s. pulled out of vietnam, there were unfortunate, sometimes tragic repercussions for some of the vietnamese who assisted our troops. the idea of the house bill was to not let that happen again. to appreciate loyalty to. demonstrate empathy. to emphasize humanity. the bill before the most unmistakably and indisputably good. in voting, no, congressman gosar and biggs prove themselves to be unmistakably and indisputably the opposite. gosar and biggs are not the only republicans facing bash slash for voting against helping the translators. the veterans group released this ad targeting two different republicans for their vote against the bipartisan bill. them >> when nearly every republican and democrat in congress comes together to make sure

>> i think in donald trump's case, probably in paul gosar's case, they are expressing their legitimate admiration for these people. in fox news i think they're talking to their base. it is true, i suppose, that most trump supporters aren't in favor of the violent overthrow of the government. but most republicans do believe that biden's election was illegitimate. and i think you've seen this strange rewriting of history even just over six months where initially when the attack was so raw, it was so new and kind of raw and shocking, almost everybody tried to distance themselves from it. and yet over the last six months, they've developed this revisionist history and sort of martyrology around some of the people who died that day. so, they've gone from saying this was horrible, then antifa did it. then, this was unfortunate to this was justified. >> and that's the thing. i'm glad that you took us through that entire arc because not only were most republicans trying to distance themselves from this. they actually complained about it initially. during the impeachment hearing, they said dona

we learned today that matt gaetz, marjorie taylor greene, louie gohmert, paul gosar, all the bright lights of the republican party, plan to hold a press conference, quote, demanding answers from attorney general merrick garland on the status of january 6th prisoners and related investigations. end quote. they are calling insurrectionists, who violently stormed the capitol january 6th prisoners. as though they're sort of pows, in some way. the fact that they are doing this on the day that police officers are testifying about how they feared for their lives. you know, louie gohmert claims to be a law-and-order person. i mean, he is from texas. it's -- this is what the republican party has come to. >> it is what the republican party has come to. it's not a party of ideas. it's a cult around the person of the former president. and look. if they choose to do that and we fully suspected they might choose some distraction tomorrow. it will only sharpen the contrast between the democrats and the republicans on the select committee. and their genuine desire to get to the truth and the facts. and th

we learned mattigates, marjorie taylor greene, louie gohmert, paul gosar, all the bright lights of the republican party plan to hold a press conference pressing merrick garland on the january 6th prisons and related investigations, end quote. they're calling insurrectionists who violently stormed the capitol january 6th prisoners as they're sort of p.o.w.s in some way. they're testifying how they feared for their lives, you know, louie gohmert claims to be a law and order person. he's from texas. this is what the republican party has come to. >> it is what the republican party has come to. it's not a party of ideas. it's a cult around the person of the former president. and look, if they choose to do that, and we fully suspected they might choose some distraction tomorrow, it will only sharpen the contrast between the democrats and republicans on the select committee and their genuine desire to get to the truth and the facts and this clown show that has become the gop wedded to this grifter in the form of the former president. >> is there anything new really to learn, though, about jan

>> on the floor of the house, paul gosar, the republican from arizona, who had previously been in communicationzer ali alexander, is launching his own protest. >> for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> i rise both for myself and 60 of my colleagues to object to the, uh, counting of the electoral ballots from arizona. >> so there you have it, the first objection. they'll be separated now. >> i didn't have a view into the outside but somebody texted me a photo of people on the inaugural platform and that was the first time i thought, wow, i can't believe we're at this point. >> it was almost the same moment donald trump was delivering this prophetic line. >> and we fight. we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. so we're going to walk down pennsylvania avenue. >> outside the walls of the capitol, mayhem. a member of the proud boys got his hands on a capitol police riot shield. >> they're throwing bricks at the capitol! >> you hear officers on the radio screaming for help. >> harry dunn, stationed on the capitol's east sid

embracing white nationalists and other things, whether it is marjory taylor greens, matt gaetz, paul gosar former president. he has all eyes on trying to become the next speaker. i think it is a true reflection of where the republican party is, to both tim's point that they are the party of trump. besides liz cheney and adam kinzinger, they are all marching ahead and the party is becoming more aligned with white nationalists, more aligned with the donald trump part of the party. and the establish republicans are either lost or retiring or probably will be finding themselves in a different business because they're not going to be able to get reelected again. >> you know, tim, this is the saddest part of it all. the party is just broken bad, and the idea that these are good politics seems like the dumbest calculation of all. i mean the ex-president lost the white house, lost the senate, lost the house, but the idea that all -- you know, trump is out. it is about believing in the same stuff at this point. i think it needs to be called out for that. this is about the gop being fine with white

among the most closely linked with that extremism is congressman paul gosar who has emerged as a friends capitol to those on the fringiest of the far right. gosar, a five-term republican from arizona, was one of the most prominent backers of the stop the steal movement, if you can call it that, and who has repeatedly voiced baseless conspiracy theories like the false claim that the fbi organized the insurrection, has aligned himself closely with leaders of white nationalist and extremist groups, people like nick fuentes, the leader of the america first movement who "the new york times" describes as boasting the kind of resume most members of congress would run from. it was at the unite the right rally in charlottesville. he has warned that the nation is losing its white demographic core. other conservative organizations have denounced him as a holocaust denier and a racist. mr. gosar, though, has continued to associate himself with fuentes. "the new york times" adds this about the connection, the arizona republican was the keynote speaker at a conference hosted by mr. fuentes group in f

you have the former president joining republicans like paul gosar in demanding the unmasking of the officer who shot ashli babbitt. one conspiracy theory with the russian police. the former president has been open and vocal. he still supports the insurrection and insurrectionists. instead of dialing the hysteria down, they are dialing it up. >> well, that's right. and your question points to a larger question, a darker question, that i'm not sure this committee will necessarily get at. this committee will get at what happened on january 6th, what led up to it, what the implications are. it's not going to answer a fundamental question for every american, which is how did we get to a place in this country where, pick your number, but somewhere between 25% and 35% of americans would rather have a sort of authoritarian, maybe even fascist leader, because they would run over constitutional procedure so long as it's their guy, so long as it's donald trump. they are more interested in having donald trump in the presidency than in having the democracy that has defined this country for two and a hal

here from florida and i, along with our other colleague, congressman louie gohmert, congressman paul gosar, we visited a federal prison here in washington, d.c., today where we were told in the lobby that we were trespassing. as members of congress it's our duty for oversight over these types of facilities. we vote to fund them. and it is our dew and our right to go there -- it's our duty and our right to go there and check on the circumstances and the people and the type of facility and the maintenance and the order that they are receiving. i know this is of particular interest to you and some of your colleague, today we didn't see that. i would say the lobby of this prison was not in -- anywhere near the conditions as far as cleanliness and order, that i saw in the detention center in california. so i'd like to yield back to mrt further. mr. gaetz: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. we have an obligation here to approach issues, bipartisan, when it is opportune. on the issue of prison reform, republicans and democrats joined together to pass the first step act. it was in fact the gentl

paul gosar is openly consorting with white nationalists, what price has he paid for that.kless, irresponsible and some of the dumbest politicians out this, at least for the moment. i agree with you long-term, it seems like a terrible life choice but they're caught up in the moment, and so we're seeing how far are people willing to contort themselves to get power, prestige, money, clicks in the age of trump, and so you have j.d. vance, elise stefanik, nikki haley, tucker carlson, these are all people who are smart people, who could have gone a different direction, who know exactly what they are doing. i mean, you have guys like sean hannity, who's dumb as a box of rocks, but these other guys, they know, they understand the history, they know what they are doing. they understand the match they are lighting out there. who they are encouraging and what they're doing, and they're willing to do it anyway, and that's what's so sickening about it. >> charlie, thank you very much. i wonder what joe, what the answer will be when j.d. vance is asked about the january 6th insurrection