what i love about the secretary world as i m friends with all of them, republicans and democrats. is a great fraternity. tell us. i need that trajectory. i never thought it would be on tv but he kept winding up on tv when i was little bit of kept finding myself on local television randomly as a kindergartner. i was in a package about something i remembered doing something and they came and asked me some question and i said when i will watch of i watched my self on tv come it was about the button now lasts gilly scandal. and then the banality only it was in the paper and random stuff. and then o reilly. in the nylon the a lot. he said he didn t want to have me keep bothering everybody inside the building. he said father everybody outsid. it was your eye care his?
field offices, mistakes by the capitol police not properly preparing and staffing and arming policemen on the front lines, and then you had the mistakes at the pentagon, not deploying the guard quickly enough. on top of that, you had the sins of banality with the leader of the executive branch organizing this rally and sending his little army off to the hill to break into the capitol and try to overturn the election. and the and ultimately, we have to address both. and i think the january 6th committee is doing it. there are a few other committees who have already done a report on some of these, let s call them, the veep mistakes from january 6th, and made recommendations and i think the january 6th committee will look the it too because ultimately, we can fix those mistakes of incompetence. the fbi can do better. we can come up with better problems. and i think ultimately, it s the other problems, the sins of venality from january 6th that are much more troubling and hard to addre
worry that we re muellerizing the 1/6 committee and i would love your thoughts on that. but all these conversations, all these gaps in our understanding, all these gaps in accountability, all these sort of missing pieces of the puzzle, an ig report here, another congressional committee investigation here, call for the full accounting that the 1/6 select committee wants to do. where do you sort of stand in terms of your optimism and confidence that they ll fill in gaps like this one? i think they ll get there. look, we often have this question or people haven t worked in government have this question about government. is it more veep or house of cards ? meaning, when government makes mistakes i can answer that. way more veep. way more veep. but are they sins of incompetence or banality and on january 6th, you had both. mistakes of bureaucratic fumbling in the lead-up to january 6th, the fbi failed to properly disseminate intelligence from one of its
and, you know, if someone is trying to illustrate the banality of evil to me, brian, i d say career environmental lawyer decides to facilitate a coup is kind of on the nose. and what disturbs me tonight is we know that there is an inspector general investigation. we know there is a january 6 commission, but the attorney general, the attorney general garland hasn t announced any sort of investigation or anything like that. and, you know, every day the justice department is investigating and putting in jail people who sell minor amounts of drugs. here we ve got accusationed from the top of the justice department and the white house that they were facilitating a coup and trying to overthrow an election. i can t imagine why we wouldn t announce an investigation into something of that gravity and seriousness. and i think it s got to be announced now. i can t imagine three better guests to help us start off a new week. lisa lerer, neal katyal, dr. kavita patel, our thanks for