not going to participate. that would be severely disappointing if that s what mccarthy decides to do but also on brand. he has not wanted to have the committee from the start. him playing political games with it is no surprise. the reality is even without the five he appoints or selects is still bipartisan, and we are still going to move forward to execute our duties to get to the truth around january 6th. i talked to a lot of members that praised the work that congresswoman cheney has done on the committee for the work itself, but political ramifications of a republican on the committee seen as more important. i want to talk about the hearing tuesday. we know the witnesses, don t know who is asking the questions, know who witnesses will be. witnesses include two capitol police officers and two metropolitan, washington, d.c. police officers, what s the goal you would like to achieve tuesday. is it to set a factual floor for
to these rank and file police officers and they re expected to meet monday as well to prepare for that hearing. and representative cheney has had a seat at the table throughout, and her democratic colleagues have a tremendous amount of respect for her we are told, and that she comes with a different point of view, a different perspective, but with the perspective that the constitution is what matters and she wants to get to the truth. and as we were talking, garrett, representative banks just came out with his own statement in reaction to the events of the last hour or so and he says he s a sitting member of congress and the speaker knows how hard i will fight for my country. he goes on to say, we said all along this was a purely political exercise and nancy pelosi s rejection of me and jim jordan shows once again she is the most partisan figure in america today. finally, the american people deserve the truth.
pelosi is an egregious abuse of power. he says the committee has lost all legitimacy and credibility. unless speaker pelosi reverses the decision, he says republicans will not be party to this sham investigation, so you could be looking at five empty seats for the first committee hearing next tuesday. we will continue to follow that story. believe it or not, there s a lot else going on on capitol hill today, so we have to turn to the other big news from the other chamber where the president s entire legislative agenda basically comes down to two pieces of legislation right now and the senate is about to hold its first key vote on one of them. in about an hour, the senate is expected to hold a vote to debate the bipartisan infrastructure deal. the vote is expected to fail. senate majority leader telling lawmakers time to get moving. republicans are countering they re just not ready. this shouldn t be held today,
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in the trump orbit with shady dealings of their own? well, that s the government s allegation, is the latter, not the former. there s no indication in any of these charges documents or anyone we ve talked to that president trump was even aware of tom barrack s dealings with the uae here. he just thought he was getting advice from somebody who knew the middle east and knew something about energy policy and knew something about foreign policy. there s no suggestion that the president was aware of this relationship with these folks in the uae here, no. pete williams, thank you. we ll jump back across north capital street to my colleague, leigh ann caldwell, waiting to hear kevin mccarthy on his decision to pull republican members from this select committee on january 6th. we are less a than a week from that hearing. how do we think the democrats and liz cheney will proceed with that hearing, knowing that now