house republicans did not support that. senate republicans blocked it through the filibuster. so we are going to have this investigation a little bit more under house speaker nancy pelosi's terms then we might otherwise have had -- and then might have otherwise have had it. we will have to see what they come up with. host: eight chosen by nancy pelosi, five yet to be determined by the house committee. talk about lynn cheney. why is she put in place but -- liz cheney. why is she put in place by the democrats? guest: i think liz cheney has become the primary republican voice who is critical in terms of president trump in terms of how he handled the election, his continued casting of doubt on the election results, accusations of voter fraud, things of that nature. she was among the 10 house republicans who voted to impeach then president trump on the basis of inciting the january 6 riot. and then she ultimately lost her position in the house republican leadership. she was the chairwoman of the house republican conference, the third ranking republican in the house. the perception

and actually, you know, those 2 republicans are the only 2 republicans on this committee. and a lot of republicans are having a lot of problems with that lives cheney with throughout the hearing was very matter of fact adam can thing or as you mentioned, very emotional. take a listen. you hear the former president, trump say quote, it was a loving crowd. there was a lot of love in the crowd. how does that make you feel is subsiding? is a, a better excuse for his behavior, for something that he himself help to create this monstrosity. democracy is or not defined. by our bad days. we're defined by how we come back from bang the bad days, how we take accountability for that now, and the conclusion of the hearing, adam kinsey was asked of how fellow republicans want to remove him from a number of the committees that he sits on here. what's his response to that? all i have to say to that is we had a big attack on january 2nd. we heard very emotional testimony today. and that's what's on the forefront of my mind. and if people want to get petty, that's fine. i think that reflect

only two republicans voted with democrats to establish that. liz cheney from wyoming and a representative from illinois. this is the washington journal in our first hour today you can tell us what you think about this group to investigate the events of january 6. if you support the creation of the select committee call a set (202) 748-8000 and tell us why, if you oppose it you can call (202) 748-8001 and also tell us why. you can also text us at (202) 748-8002 -- text us at (202) 748-8003. you can also post on facebook or twitter. if you want to follow our show you can do so on instagram @cspanwj. here's what the some act -- what the select committee will look like, it will have subpoena power, 13 members, eight appointed by speaker pelosi, and five appointed after consultation with the minority leader of kevin mccarthy. as part of the select committee's work no end date has been specified. that's just some of the framework of what this committee will look like, a couple more announcement as the days go on. yesterday on the house floor a lot of

republican line. caller: it's ironic that liz cheney, whose father was a shill for halliburton and lied about weapons of mass destruction. he probably did more to hurt this country than anyone else. she runs into the arms of speaker pelosi so she could be used for political purposes for a sham committee. this is typical of the cheney's and typical of the way they operate. mccarthy should be commended for holding party discipline and stripping her of her assignments. if she wants to get assignments from the democratic speaker, she might as will become a democrat. host: thanks for the call. this is from rick in washington sending us a text message. this should not be a democrat or republican political tug-of-war. serving on the commission would be a patriotic duty. the truth will set us free from the manipulations of the gop. pelosi appoints liz cheney to the house select committee investigating january 6. nancy pelosi announcing yesterday that liz cheney is one of eight members that she selected to ser

scott, republican line. caller: i would like to challenge the idea that illegals are not voting in the election. i have a personal experience where i was renewing my driver's license at the dmv, and i was chatting with the lady behind the counter about it, and she goes, "oh, we give it illegals drivers license because they all have to prove residency. the next question on the screen says, do you want to register to vote? she says i know for a fact there are illegals, many hundreds of thousands in americans that have come in, they get residency status, they get a drivers license, and then they also at the same time our signed up to register to vote." guest: have you personally witnessed a noncitizen vote? have you witnessed this, or is it secondhand? caller: i did not watch the vote, i watched a person sign up to vote at the dmv. guest: and you knew for sure that they were not a citizen? host: i think we lost the caller. guest: it is all hearsay. i heard this, i read this, somebody told me this or that. when

republican u.s. senator james lankford because he voted to certify the election. the state republican party chairman endosing the challenger to the sitting incumbent republican u.s. senator. if you have an incumbent u.s. senator up for re-election usually you would not expect the republican party in that state and its chairman to be crusading against the incumbent senator trying to get him or her thrown out of office. usually that's how it works. for obvious reasons. but six months on from the capitol attack today what we have got now is a republican party that does that. and what we have got now are a lot of single issue republican voters and republican activists for whom, single issue, only thing that's driving them in politics is this fantasy that trump secretly won the 2020 election and the election must be overthrown so he can be reinstated. it's turned the state republican party in oklahoma against their incumbent republican senator as he faces a re-election battle. it's also animating hundreds

another way of saying, they're not really republicans. and the reason he saying that is because they do seem, i don't know, troubled by the violent insurrection? the lack of a peaceful transfer of power, and the desire donald trump clearly has on doing it all again if he gets the chance. in fact, as the midterm races heat up, lots of reports indicating that republican candidates across the country are increasingly focused on the last election. they're running on the falsehood spread by trump and his allies that the 2020 race was stolen from him. just this weekend, donald trump did an event where he prattled on about the stolen election at an interminable rally in phoenix with most of that states republicans running for statewide office they're attending the event. this goes to show, again, that influence. now, arizona of course is the one state that's actually tried to prove donald trump's false and ridiculous claims. that's in the audit of maricopa county's 2. 1 million ballots. which has, not surprisingly, been an absolute clown show. i

actually a total of 18 republicans supported the bill, the one absent senator was a republican who supports the bill. so 17 republican votes on the senate floor tonight, but 18 in reality. >> the old -- days >> including mitch mcconnell. >> you remember the days when there were big votes in the senate like that, but these days, i was talking to senator tester, and it's said unless you're naming a post office or doing something non-controversial, it's unheard of these days to get 18 people joining with democrats, so it's something. >> it really is. and i saw your interview with john tester and his confidence and his confidence throughout this process is one of the beacons that i kept my eye on because he is very realistic about what the possibilities are, he's not somebody who throws a lot -- throws around a lot of false optimism. so he was one of the keys for me and watching you get this far. it's not all the way there, but this vote is a huge hurdle for the bill to get over. >> i'm looking for to your show tonight, lawrence have a good one. >> thank you. while they say the senate will deli

republican. host: republican line. this is reggie next up. good morning. caller: yes. thanks for taking my call. yes. i feel it was righteous yesterday what pelosi did. i thank god we have liz cheney on the committee. i hope the committee can go ahead and do their work. i feel good we have released the woman, the republican, from wyoming, i wish she could get one or two more republicans if she can. i hope the committee can get the truth and i hope the americans can accept the truth. and accept joe biden as their president. and try to work this thing out with voting laws. i think some of the things are crazy and taken the rights that i would say, yes, my people, my fellow americans, had over 40, 50 years ago. we had to get right to vote and now they want to take them away. host: we'll let you go there. reminder, call on the line that best reflects your point of view. democrats, 202-478-8000. republicans, 202-748-80 to 01. linda in marks, mississippi. democrats line. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: yes, we can. you're on the air. caller: all right. thank you

aren't they kind of like pelosi republicans? >> the sad leadership and clear boundaries of the republican party. >> we have important work to do. and i think that's pretty childish. >> it's childish. we are doing big things right now. >>> tonight, how trump's version of the insurrection became the litmus test for house republicans. and what the january-6th committee will be investigated when they convene for the first time, tomorrow. >>> then. >> does this impact fertility? well, the answer is no. and that's been the data. but they -- >> despite the ongoing misinformation damage, how some of the vaccine hesitant are starting to come around. biden's former-covid adviser, andy slavitt, joins me on that. >>> plus, senator chris murphy on the challenges of working with republicans on anything. >>> and with voting rights under threat, we remember the leadership of bob moses trying to register voters in mississippi. >> anyone is arrested and then taken out of the jail. then, the chances that they are alive is just almost zero. >>> whe

and at the same time, you had a lot of the republican party, liberal, moderate republicans. particularly from the northeast. from the west coast. the suburbs of chicago and that sort of thing. but there was a substantial overlap between the two parties. what happened in congress, what happened is conservative and to a certain extent moderate democrats, they died, they retired, they lost general elections, they lost primary elections or they switched parties. and the same thing with the liberal, to a certain extent, moderate republicans. died, switched parties, lost primaries, whatever. and then within the electorate, you have the same thing. where conservative democrats just sort of leave the party or just stop voting democratic. same thing with liberal republicans. so now our two parties are ideologically sorted so that we do have, we now have a liberal party and we have a conservative party. and you know, it is what it is. the people in each party that were the ballast that kept their parties from going off into a ditch from the left or the right, are for the most part, go

the republican party has shifted.ingness to, you know, stand up to those people in their party, hasn't changed at all. >> you mentioned the club for growth, the club for growth is -- likes to stir up trouble in the republican party, attacking people it doesn't think are conservative enough, went after donald j. trump, said he was nowhere near conservative enough, they had forgotten that part. they're in tv right now in wyoming going after cheney. >> she benefitted from a famous political last name, she sided with nancy pelosi and attacked president trump when he was in office. she supported impeachment, and she continues to attack president trump today. hillary clinton, no. liz cheney. >> i guess that's somehow the gold standard in republican attacks. but to jackie's point, she has not changed. sadly we wish we could have an investigation of january 6th that was just about the facts. we're not going to. what we hope -- i hope we have one of those, but there is going to be a running right next to it a very thick politi

she is now the only republican left on the committee. she came out today to defend the role of the commission. what did she tell you, manu? >> she sharp eely criticized mccarthy and said she agreed with nancy pelosi. she said there needed to be people who agree with the constitution and that this investigation should be done in a nonpartisan manner. even though there will be several democrats and just one republican. cheney of course was pushed out of her leadership position because she challenged donald trump, criticized him in the aftermath of january 6th, was one of ten republicans voting to impeach him for inciting the insurrection. i asked her do you believe that kevin mccarthy deserves to be speaker of the house next year? she said someone who is in third in line of the presidency should respect the constitution. she said kevin mccarthy has not done that, making clear where she believes things are going. she believes the party is in the wrong direction. but she is decidedly in the minority, though, pam, she was just one of two repu

according to testimony from republican congresswoman herrera beutler when house republican leader mccarthy ran trump from the white house on january 6th to demand trump call off his mob the then president replied well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. those are just the five main questions on my mind. there are many more unanswered january 6th questions out there, and to be clear, i'm not pre-judging. i'm not suggesting i know for sure the answers to all these questions, though, as i've demonstrated tonight, there's plenty of prima facie evidence suggesting a lot of evidence including the former president have a lot to answer for. look, that's the whole point of having a congressional investigation, to get to the facts, to get to the truth, and hopefully to get justice for the people who died. i'm joined now by barbara comstock who served two terms in the house as a republican representing northern virginia including during the trump virginia until she was defeated in the 2018 mid-terms and she's since become an outspoken critic of the former pres

but i can't point to a certain document this is the house republican agenda or this is the senate republican agenda. and as we look forward, i think that's critical or incumbent on republicans to figure out what the core things we stand on. i would love it if house republicans would adopt that. i don't think that's going to happen. i think there's tremendous areas of common ground. and my goal is to win the popular vote. and to do that, you have to campaign. rural areas and california and places republicans haven't campaigned before. but you end up heading into the next general election with 85, 86. >> does your orginization support individual candidates? >> we tend to focus more on house candidates than senate candidates. but we will make endorsements in certain senate races. >> he heads freedomworks. welcome your calls 8000 for democrats, and republicans, 8001. for all others, 8002. on the democrats line. >> yes, hello. hi. by the way, what you did, i'm terrified by. you have done a lot and you've been hugely -- made huge changes in the american deasperrau. you aware the entire premise of

course and seats all five republican nominees republicans will not be party to their sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation. this afternoon mccarthy joined his five would-be appointees to repeatedly denounce the speaker. >> this represents something that has not happened in the house before for a select committee by the historian. it's an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. it's true. it is politics by pelosi. >> it kind of went on like that. republican congressman liz cheney of wyoming who pelosi had already appointed to the committee and who until recently was the third most powerful member of the republican party in the house, well, today she called out mccarthy. >> the rhetoric that we have heard from the minority leader is disingenuous. the american people deserve to know what happened. at every opportunity the minority leader has attempted to prevent the american people from understanding what happened, to block this investigation. i agree with what the speaker has done. >> mccarthy, of course, wants to become speaker next year. do y

republicans in the house. kicking her off house armed services or expeling her from the conference entirely. her political future is probably doomed anyway, they feel they don't necessarily to take another whack at her. at the same time you see efforts to chip away at her credibility because she is so instrumental to pelosi's strategy with making this a bipartisan, credible investigation. >> lots of questions about her political future. no matter what, she is not backing down from this fight with kevin mccarthy at all. >> uh-uh. >>> we'll have more coming up. next for us, president biden insists he can get bipartisan things done. this week, though, may be his last chance to prove it. like many people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease, i was there. be right back. but my symptoms were keeping me from where i needed to be. so i talked to my doctor and learned humira is the #1 prescribed biologic for people with uc or crohn's disease. and humira helps people achieve remission that can l

, not were you're a democrat or republican. it's being for the rule of law, for the constitution and for getting the facts on the record and so i am thrilled that they will be doing it and hopefully my friend -- >> i appreciate -- >> deb wriggleman will be there. >> i appreciate what you're saying and other republicans speaking out against trumpet you are saying you don't want him to dominate your party. your critics will say you should have spoken out while you were still in office and i know you criticized the muslim ban and a few other things that happened on trump's ban but you had a 98% record of voting with trump's priorities. in fact, your democratic opponent ran ads against you calling you trumpstock in 2018. i wonder in hindsight shouldn't you have come out against trump and your party's craziness much sooner than you did? >> well, actually i voted against him in '16 and publicly when i was on the ticket with him said that i did, but i am a conservative republican also. i voted for tax cuts. i voted for increasing the

liz cheney, the republican leader in the house, kevin mccarthy, warned republicans that there would be they participated in this good faith effort to understand what happened. which is not a good sign considering that he will now hand pick the republican side of the committee. how do we get out of this partisan mess and to the bottom of what actually happened on january 6th? my next guest is uniquely positioned to know what it's like to navigate partisan waters like these. congressman joe nagoos of colorado was a house impeachment manager who prosecuted president trump for his role in the insurrection. representative, good to see you. thank you for being with us. this is fraught with danger before it begins because specifically of the position that the house leader has taken on who gets to serve on this committee or why. >> yeah, i agree. it's good to see you. i would say that the committee is really incredibly important in terms of getting to the truth as to what happened on january 6 and the various unresolved questions that still exist, as you articulated, which i think warrant the

the republican-led house and the republican-led senate in texas, they're trying to pass legislation that would make it significantly harder to vote in texas in a state where it is already not that easy to vote. the ways they are trying to change the voting laws in texas would disproportionately affect voters of colors and poor voters and with disabilities in particular and so texas democrats have bolted from the state. they left texas entirely tonight in a last-ditch effort to try to stop this bill from becoming law. now, those two planes i mentioned carrying texas democrats, those two planes have just landed at dulles airport just outside washington, d.c. they've landed just in the last hour. it is 51 democrats from the texas state house onboard the two planes. we are told at least seven other texas democrats are making their way to d.c. as well separately. if this sounds at all familiar to do, texas democrats pulling a big, tactical surprise move to try to save voting rights? it is because this is the sort of the second iteration of this we've seen in a matter of weeks. in may republic

democrats or republicans? let's get to the bottom line. ah, how long has it been since you've heard this voice? we won the election twice. and it's possible we'll have to win it a 3rd time as possible. yes. spoke to the 2nd coming of trump or the 3rd, depending on how you count the former president is back with a vengeance. and from your reaction to that clip, you can tell where you stand on the american political spectrum. do you long for the time when he filled your days and nights with parts of his grievances, personal pet, peeves, culture wars and anger? or is it the exact opposite? and you're wondering why we're still talking about him? well, love him or not this week. donald trump's been holding campaign like rallies around the country, repeating the big lie that he won the last election, promising revenge against the republicans that don't agree with him. vilifying immigration and immigrants, and of course blasting the media and the democrats and throughout all he did. what he does best tease the media about whether he'll run for pr

she put two republicans on the select committee.t say this committee is, you know, now partisan, where does the responsibility for that lie? >> scquarely at the feet of kevn mccarthy, mitch mcconnell who are doing the bidding of donald trump. it's not only that we won't understand the truth about january 6 th in the most complete way if we had a bipartisan independent commission and the select committee will do the best job possible absent an independent commission. it's such an insult to the police officers you'll hear from tomorrow. they are seen now in the last six months republicans have voted against giving them the gold medal for what they did on january 6th, republicans have not voted to give the security assistance that would help us. republicans have blamed the fbi and said it was an inside job. republican leader mccarthy refused to meet for many months with officer mike fanone and walking away from the select committee. you know, they have shown that to honor donald trump, you have to dishonor the police and tomorrow will

the one absent senator was a republican who supports the bill. 17 republican senate votes on the floor but 18 in reality already there. including mitch mcconnell. >> you remember the days there were big votes in the senate like that, these days i was talking to senator tester saying until you are doing something completely noncontroversial it is unheard of to get 18 people joining with democracy. democrats. it's quite something. >> it really is. i saw your interview with john throughout the problem and he's very realistic about what the possibilities are. he's not someone who throws around a lot of false optimism. he is one of the keys to watch it get this far. it's not all the way there but this vote is a huge hurdle to get over. >> looking forward to your show. have a good one. >> thank you, ali. as i say, the senate delivered a huge vote tonight, a huge win, very important, huge win for joe biden in the senate tonight. it was also a huge win for chuck schumer's legislative strategy in the senate passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill followed by a larger democrats-only bill, and a

more so republicans. think this is a big deal. >> it's part of the reason what you're hearing is an impossibly stupid argument about defund police. i don't know you are but what am i? and i think her point about adam's biography is supremely important. this is a unique character. look, i have a career supporting law enforcement. it got me in the primaries. i'm interested to see how much of this stuff sticks to biden versus how many it sticks to this or that house member. i think that will be interesting to see how different that is. wove seen the defund the police cost them votes. it seems like a taller order to make stick. >> i think we learned that in 2020. it was hard to push biden more to the left. but maybe you can do it. an excellent point. we'll continue this conversation with surprising new details on how just how joe biden won the 2020 election. and it is a party in new york city. look right here. this is a parade honoring essential workers. home town heroes parade right in the streets of new yor

but, the deeper problem here is that there's always been this sense, among republicans, and republican politicians, not all of them, but the vast range already that covid essentially an invented threats, the lives are making this up. you need to manage and move along and not freak out. now, i do think there's a complex relationship between who is leading the pushback to say covid measures, particularly vaccines, and who is following. but because most of that, if you gave most republican politicians through truth serums they would tell you that once the vaccines were available, the goal for republicans was essentially to have their cake and needed to. meaning, let the biden administration, which i think republican secretly know is certainly far more competent than the trump administration, generally wants to solve the problem. let the biden administration handled the crisis. let them administer the vaccine across the country, but don't lift a finger to aid them. take your shots where you can, maybe also flirt with anti pro-vaccine rhetoric like tucker carlson, and that way you can have

the -- the republican party has a lot of bad apples. >> reporter: not all republicans in the state agree. tabitha sloan says she is fed up with her party's focus on the audit. >> grow up. face the facts. and move on. and figure out how to come up with a candidate that can win in the process. >> reporter: arizona's republican party is seeing this divide play out, in the turbulent months after donald trump's loss. arizona voter registration data shows, since january, the month of the u.s. capitol insurrection, more than 17,000 registered republicans left their party. compare that to democrats, who lost just 2,400 voters. independents surged, gaining more than 52,000 registered voters. while the numbers don't reflect why they're shifting, state republicans worry about the big lie that trump continues to repeat. >> the entire system was rigged against the american people and rigged against a fair, decent, and honest election. >> reporter: how do you, then, get republicans to vote in the very same system? >> it's a major challenge. the truth is, is if you don't believe the system is honest an

those are republicans.age, whatever you want to call it, is softening. >> it's a clear attempt to rewrite history and it's dangerous. but the numbers are exactly why this investigation that's going on on capitol hill is important. republicans killed this outside commission. they clearly did not want the truth to come out in an election year, and they were afraid of what that would mean for him politically. now there's this really ugly and nasty fight going on on capitol hill about how they are going to do the select committee. it's important this committee reach those people who are still having their minds changed. it used to be just a small segment of the republican party. it's growing. it's still growing because of the big lie, and that's danger. that's why this committee needs to have some sort of impact beyond just democrats. it's got to reach across the aisle. >> how? how do they do that? a sense that the speaker was clear today. we're going to try to lay out facts. we're going to try to explain why i

will see what they come up with. >> bret: one republican definitely wants it to go forward wyoming republicanis around the minority leader and two members has been disgraceful this must be an investigation that is focused on facts. and the idea that any of this has become politicized is really unworthy of the office we all hold and unworthy of our republic. >> bret: mollie. >> it's worth comparing liz cheney's rhetoric of the woman who replaced her elise stefanik who after nancy pelosi kicked off two members that the republicans had kicked said that nancy pelosi was acting like a radical authoritarian that she would go down in history as the least well-liked speaker of the house that the house of representatives has ever had. versus liz cheney saying it was okay for nancy pelosi it kick off the ranking member of the judiciary committee and jim banks widely regarded as a very thoughtful member while keeping adam schiff the man who perpetrated the russian collusion hoax the lie that donald trump had won the 2016 election only by being a traitor who colluded with russia. a lie he kept going for

republicans would bow down, and while some of the more spineless republicans have done just that, the reality of your post-presidency life has been much more choppy. just this week your friend and inauguration committee chair was indicted on seven different charges. though he says he's planning to plead not guilty. this soon after multiple indictments were made public against your company, the trump organization and its longtime cfo, allen weisselberg. that's a big bloerks particularly as your own incompetence made it some of the worst in history. your racist rhetoric from the campaign and presidency cost you millions in licensing deals, and your big lie and the insurrection on january 6th caused some of your political partners to disavow you entirely. and while your cool indifference during the covid pandemic crippled the entire travel industry, including hotels like yours, if that wasn't enough, a wave of tell-all books are giving the american people a window into your administration, and it's not a pretty picture. anecdotes in these best sellers include a section of michael bender'

what republicans' politics are. he was saying you have to have a clear-eyed view of what actually happened on january the 6th. and as we know, some of the republicans who wanted to -- that kevin mccarthy wanted to put on that panel were ones who have denied reality. some of them, who have tried to whitewash or downplay the riot that happened on the capitol, that day. and so, he seemed to be supportive of speaker pelosi's moves. we know that our sources have told us they are very deferential to whatever it is that the house speaker wants to see on that panel. how that's, ultimately, going to look like and how that investigation is going to end up, anderson. >> we are going to take a quick break. we are going talk more about the panel, right here, with our panel, as well. we'll be right back. hey lily, i need a new wireless plan for my business, but all my employees need something different. oh, we can help with that. okay, imagine this... your mover, rob, he's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot. we c

republicans to vote for this. the reason is because they say they are still in the throes of negotiating their bipartisan infrastructure package and they don't want to vote to start this morose. this is not a vote on final legislation. this is just a vote to open up debate and start the process. and they say they're not willing to do it until they have a agreement and they have seen legislative texts. they've worked through the night and working all day today to try to finalize that, but they seem like they're going to hold firm on that position and they're really pushing leader schumer to hold off on that vote and visit on monday. they think they'll be wrapped up by monday, but this is a test vote and we'll see where it goes. schumer has indicated that he'll likely bring it up again, so it won't be the end of these bipartisan attacks. it's just meant to put a lot of pressure on these negotiators to get things done. and some could argue that perhaps it did. because they are very close to finalizing those last deta

the republican leader pulling all five republicans from the panel. the one remaining republican is liz cheney. the headline from the washington times this morning, pelosi: trump obsessed republicans will derail the january 6 to probe. a tweet here from politico, speaker pelosi is weighing new ways to beef up the bipartisan credibility of the january 6 pro after mccarthy and republicans walked out on it. she is considering adding adam kinzinger and hiring the republican as an outside advisor. here's what she had to say yesterday. speaker pelosi: the select committee is bipartisan and it has a quorum. it will do the job it is out to do. that is to investigate the causes of what happened on january 6. to find out who paid for it, who message to get those people here for the assault on the capital. over 100 people or injured, some died. i will never forget the trauma it caused not only for our members but our staff and people who work in the capitol. some of you were here that day as well. you can attest to the fact that it was not all love, hugs, and ki

how do you feel about that, republicans and republican leadership? how do you feel about using the same arguments that were used by some of the arch segregationists to stop voting rights in the senate in the 1960's? last month, as i said, the vote represented the starting gun, not the finish line, in the fight to protecting voting rights. as majority leader, i reserve the right to bring back voting rights and democracy reform for another vote on the senate floor. now, on another issue. infrastructure. climate. over the past few weeks, we have seen an awful heat wave hit oregon and washington. those states in the beautiful northwest, always known for their cool summer breezes, had temperatures like 115 degrees. it was just astounding. not just a little temperature bump. dramatically unusual. temperatures in the pacific northwest climbed so high that power cables melted and roadways cracked in two. at the same time, in the american southwest, the lack of rainfall and depleted reservoirs have led to a historic lack of water. according to the national dr

republicans, as we have seen, tended to vote only for republican candidates, more than 90%. democrats voted more than 90% for the democratic candidates. in this election, critical group for joe biden were people who don't lean toward either party or support either party in that -- and that vote went to joe biden. host: let's talk to jeff who is calling from florida on the independent line. caller: thank you for taking my call. it seems to me, if i understand things correctly, that a person needs to register to vote before they can vote. that is where we can put this big lie to rest from ever happening again. you need to register people with a fingerprint. that fingerprint, if they are doing a mail-in ballot, comes with a little ink pad. you stick your thumbprint on it. when it goes in, it registers that you have made your vote. if there is any doubt as to if it was you or someone else that can pull the physical copy, see if it matches your name and if there's any question at all they know who you are and they can come and ask you "did you vote?" now, this is a simple thing.

of cold water at all for some elected republicans? you know, look, you've heard the case probably made to you privately. well, you just don't understand. he's so popular. okay. well, if he's so popular, it didn't pay off your susan wright in that fort worth, texas, district, and -- boy, it now puts elected republicans in a really awkward position of having to, and jim banks did this yesterday. attack police officers as crisis actors. i mean, where has the party put itself right now? >> well, you know, chuck, as i said to you before. if donald trump disappeared few elected officials would be in the search party. you see how well the officers did yesterday. donald trump said remember this day always on january 6th, and thanks to those great officers and their testimony that was unfiltered, really, on all networks yesterday and cables. so people got to see for themselves. these men were under oath. so when jim banks was attacking them, he said, actually, you know, he didn't think that was their testimony. they were scripted. if he spent

shouldn't whether you're a democrat or republican. we saw senator mitt romney stand up when there was misinformation. we saw liz cheney do the same. honestly ten years ago i thought that would have been senator grassley, unfortunately it's not anymore. >> with that, we're going to leave it there. former congresswoman abby finkenauer, thank you very much for coming to the reidout. >>> tonight on "all in." >> i was ready to get the vaccine. >> please take covid seriously. >> these vaccines are saving lives. >> after months of silence and misinformation, republicans start promoting the covid vaccine. >> i think it was sort of as we catholics say a bit of an epiphany for them. >> what's behind the sudden republican turnaround and will it work. >> it was a loving crowd. i heard that from anybody. many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. >> as republicans try to rehabilitate the violent crowd of insurrectionists -- >> when statements are ridiculous and fall into the realm of you must be kidding, there's no way they're going t

republicans as well.e learning that leader mccarthy will appoint republicans, and i think it behooves him politically to appoint some serious people. they'll probably be of the same mind as he is on this, but people that will at least conduct themselves seriously. >> leader mccarthy may have that view, but the real leaders of the republican party, you can listen to two of them here, have a different view. >> the person that shot ashli babbitt, boom, right through the head, just boom. there was no reason for that. and why isn't that person being opened up and studied. >> we can certainly demand justice for ashli babbitt. >> we mourn the death of ashli babbitt. but she was far from a crowd of rioters who crashed through the capitol. she was shot in the incident and that is horrific and that's one of the facts that should be investigated, but if you have the former president and essentially his chief ally in congress marjorie taylor greene think that this is what it should be about -- >> i think to eva's poi

this was going to be the moment that republicans realize trumpism is a virus inside the republican partyhere we are six months and five days later and boy let me read you this head line in oklahoma this is a censore resolution in oklahoma. not for people that voted to impeach like you did, this is to sensor senators for failure to delay the certification of frau fraudulent elect or votes in the 2020 election. but the actual reading in this republican party and just so you think i'm not picking on one in oklahoma, burr senator langford was standing up there to object to the electoral votes in arizona when vice president pence was take edge off the senate floor senator langford is a traitor now inside trump's republican party, congressman, seriously? >> ex os, look, here's what's happened it's just like donald trump's method biggeste most faithful people to donald trump. if you enemy i eves not li an o against donald trump, yoe z cheney it's mike pence let me say this to you a zombie today or tomorrow, based on donald trump's whims or stand up and tell your constituents the truth. that's w

but those are the questions republicans want to push. they also want to look into political violence from last summer, what happened during the racial unrest and the black lives matter movement to be part of that investigation. they did not want a narrowly focused investigation on january 6th, which is what democrats were pursuing here. so in a lot of ways in talking to republicans, they're relieved that pelosi took this move and rejected those two members and allowed mccarthy to make the decision to pull out altogether here so now going forward they can say this is a partisan investigation, this is a witch hunt. they can try to dismiss it so no matter what is found here, they can say this is a democrat-only investigation. but one catch to all of this, guys, is the fact that pelosi had named a republican, liz cheney, to be part of this investigation. when i caught up with pelosi earlier, she said we're still moving ahead because we have a bipartisan quorum to investigate having liz cheney as part of that, so it shows you the significance

democrats and republicans. i don't care if you think i'm satan re-incarnated, the fact is you can't look at that television and say nothing happened on the 6th. you can't listen to people who say this was a peaceful march. >> and kaitlan collins is our chief white house correspondent. she was in the halls tonight. what do you make of what you heard? >> reporter: well, it's notable because this is really the first time he's weighed in on what's happening with this commission given all of the developments we saw today where pelosi rejected two of those members that of course kevin mccarthy wanted to put on that panel, two of those republicans who had voted to overturn the results of the election. he responded by withdrawing all of the republicans he had submitted to be on that panel. and president biden was saying essentially we have to view this from a perspective of reality, of what actually happened that day because what he was alluding to there by saying it doesn't matter what his opinion is of him and his po

but they aren't going as far -- republican leadership is not criticizing those republicans who are casting doubt on the vaccines. i pushed leader mcconnell on this last week. he said it's perplexing why more people aren't getting vaccinated and i said respectfully, it isn't all that perflex plex -- perplexing with people in your party casting doubt on this process. are you cllenging them directly? he said he can only speak for himself. yamiche: and eva talking about unnamed republicans casting doubt. carol and phil, you wrote a a book about former president trump who downplayed the virus. carol, talk a bit about why former president trump played along with anti-vaxxers, knowing full well he was vaccinated early and he was really sick from this. what's behind his relationship and the way he talks about the vaccine and the virus? carol: everything that happened with donaldrump when he was president was about getting re-elected and feeding his base, not leading his base, but making them appeased. and he believed he looked week if he suggested the virus was serious and you would need a vaccine

scott, republican line.r: i would like to challenge the idea that illegals are not voting in the election. i have a personal experience where i was renewing my driver's license at the dmv, and i was chatting with the lady behind the counter about it, and she goes, "oh, we give it illegals drivers license because they all have to prove residency. the next question on the screen says, do you want to register to vote? she says i know for a fact there are illegals, many hundreds of thousands in americans that have come in, they get residency status, they get a drivers license, and then they also at the same time our signed up to register to vote." guest: have you personally witnessed a noncitizen vote? have you witnessed this, or is it secondhand? caller: i did not watch the vote, i watched a person sign up to vote at the dmv. guest: and you knew for sure that they were not a citizen? host: i think we lost the caller. guest: it is all hearsay. i heard this, i read this, somebody told me this or that. when judges