that i would recommend. welcome back, everybody. the fog continues after house bigger kevin mccarthy s decision to give fox news tucker carlson thousands of hours of security footage from january six. want to bring in now to talk more about this msnbc political analyst, matthew down. matthew as always great to talk to you. i spoke to congresswoman zoloft of the top of the so asking her opinion on what was handed over to took across than. we know mccarthy s ultimate objective as to why he would hand this over to carlson, right? he was being lambasted by tucker cross in on fox news nightly. all that being said she feels as if it s a security risk. what is your reaction to what has taken place there? well, as you said, kevin mccarthy s motivation we know i think we also know tucker crossings motivation in this
investigating a former president for his own clear abuses of power is not usually what we think of when we think of a rogue fbi or cia. what should we expect from this new committee, and how will congressional democrats respond? joining us now is california democratic congresswoman zoloft, former member of the january 6th committee. thank you so much for your time. giving pause to an open investigation seems deeply problematic here. what is your expectation about how successful kevin mccarthy and his band of merry republicans are going to be in trying to get involved in the justice department s ongoing work? it s a huge concern. to the best of my knowledge, there has never been a committee of the house that has been directed to interfere in an ongoing criminal
congressional democrats respond? joining us now is california democratic congresswoman zoloft, former member of the january 6th committee. thank you so much for your time. giving pause to an open investigation seems deeply problematic here. what is your expectation about how successful kevin mccarthy and his band of merry republicans are going to be in trying to get involved in the justice department s ongoing work? it s a huge concern. to the best of my knowledge, there has never been a committee of the house that has been directed to interfere in an ongoing criminal investigation that is being undertaken by the department of justice. that would be a first, and entirely improper. that s not the role of oversight, we oversee policy. and finding, but don t interviewer in prosecutions. and further concern is that it looks like the department of justice is maybe taking a look, at least at one of the house members who advocated for this committee. as we know, from news reports and his ow
party today, erin. and ivan, big crowds at rallies on small boxes at mar-a-lago. thank you so much for that report. we re also keeping a close eye on the january six committee as they gear up for thursday. to give us a preview, member and congresswoman zoloft joins me now. thank you, congresswoman, for being so generous with your time on the sunday. what do we expect to learn this thursday? i know you ve been doing a lot of work in this time where there hasn t been a committee hearing. but what can people expect to hear? well, we have been working throughout the summer, interviewing additional witnesses. we ve received a huge amount of documents from the secret service and have learned some additional things. so, we plan to present what we found out, working through the summer. i think it will shed some light on the events of the day and the events leading up to it. the connections between the
a concern the european union and allies abroad. certainly concerning as we continue to watch the election results in italy. thank you so much. that wraps up for me everybody. i will be in the chair this coming thursday and friday. also back next weekend on saturday and sunday 2 pm eastern. simone starts right now. greetings, you are watching simone. coming up this week it s the first hearing since july. we talk a congresswoman zoloft in about what they want the american city to know before the investigation wraps up. republicans release the midterm elections. the so-called commitment to america, president biden calls a threat to women. it s also just business as usual to the republican party and we are back with our culture critics today. we are launching the regroup for culture critics.