each other? another really great question. honestly, republicans have had a fairly slow start after the speakership debacle that push their schedule back a year, or sorry, back a week. they ve been slowed kicking off their congressional oversight investigations, issuing a handful of subpoenas that they ve been promising for over a year now. those first hearings finally happened today and in terms of what the internal dynamics are looking like, i met with a few lawmakers today, republican line lakers, who told me privately that mccarthy is still getting his bearings in terms of how he is navigating and maneuvering the current dynamic. but what we do know is that republicans are getting in line with mccarthy s show of force, to show joe biden that biden can t go around and negotiate directly with moderates, that this needs to be done through mccarthy. otherwise it could foment some sort of house wide, at least in the gop conference, revolt. but here s what i don t get. big spending i
of the investigation with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these members. that triggered this from republican leader mccarthy who warned, quote, unless speaker pelosi reverses 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
going have to deal with regarding budgets and debt limits. and once we get out of this year and into 2022 we re into mid-term season and the clock really has run out on president biden trying to get through a domestic agenda, so it s going to be a crucial two weeks in congress to see what they re able to pull through, and, you know, not to be overdramatic but what happens in the next two weeks could potentially spell out a lot of what the fate of president biden s domestic agenda is going to look like over the next 3 1/2 years. weighty words. and there you have it, our fearsome threesome, our starting line for the night. shannon pettypiece, leasy lerrer, phil rucker. our thanks for starting us off. coming up for us, mccarthy had his chance for an equal number of republican and democrats on the 1/6 committee. he turned it down. now he s taking his republicans and going home. and now the party pushing the
and of course among the co-host of the circus on show time. gentlemen, welcome back. eugene, i m told mccarthy went on fox news tonight and further pounded this theme that it s all about pelosi not providing enough security. you just saw him in an olympic piece of gaslighting say it was the democrats who put the capitol police at risk. eugene, am i missing anything deeper here, or does mccarthy pretty much take orders from trump? and are the republicans really at the end of the day worried about what a 1/6 investigation might turn up? oh, absolutely. i think you re right on all counts there. i mean, it s just astounding. there was an insurrection at the capitol that threatened the lives of all members of congress, of the vice president on january 6th. that s to me and to any sensible person what needs to be investigated. yet the republicans have no
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 you think that he deserves to be speaker in the aftermath of his actions here? i think that any person who would be third in line to the presidency must demonstrate a commitment to the constitution and a commitment to the rule of law. and minority leader mccarthy has not done that. pelosi says the committee will go forward with its investigation, and today democratic chairman benny thompson told the guardian, the actions of former president trump, his administration officials and lawmakers will all