here is his speakership will rest on the support of people like marjorie taylor greene and george santos. these now become the faces of the republican majority. and he will be too weak to defy any of them. what you re seeing is a very real maga crackup when you start to see marjorie taylor greene fighting with lauren boebert. but the american people are going to be sitting back, and swing voters are going to be going who are these guys? what is this clown car that is just driven into washington, d.c.? and obviously kevin mccarthy has wanted this job for a very, very long time. you have to wonder whether there is a part of him deep down inside thinking is this worth it? i think probably not, because he is such a holloman. and by the way, i mean, adding to the layers of self humiliation that he may be subjected to over the next 24, 48 hours in the next two years is the fact that my understanding is he has already moved into the speaker s office. his stuff is already there.
voting machines, that meeting ended with them deciding not to do it because trump was afraid it was too legally risky. and that same night, he sends out the at which time about sabotaging january 6. i suppose the question as a storyteller is has the committee then and does next week serve to effectively finish that story to the american public or people already kind of moving on into the year? i think people have moved on and donald trump i think rather than there being one cathartic repudiation, it seems more likely there will be a slow to climb and slow crackup. i think if you look at the mid terms and how important democracy was to the january 6 insurrection, i think can you make a strong case that the committee did its job in showing
a contest gets resolved on election night. and the longer after it people are counting the votes, the more opportunity there is for people to jump in and say it s fraud or there have been irregularities. dana milbank, thank you very much. his recent book is entitled the destructionists: the 2020-five year crackup of the republican party. thanks, dana. up next, in the era of netflix and chill, one production company is trying to reimagine the movie-going experience and save local theaters at the same time. that s next when morning joe returns. tech: at safelite, we take care of vehicles with the latest technology. when my last customer discovered a crack in his car s windshield, he scheduled at safelite.com. safelite makes it easy. we re the experts at replacing your glass. .and recalibrating your advanced safety system.
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the former president s state of mind around the time of the attack, his fitness for office and discussions that he reportedly had with treasury secretary steve mnuchin about the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment after the attack. joining us now, luke broadwater, new york times congressional reporter, and dana milbank, washington post opinion columnist and the author of the new book the destructionist: the 25-year crackup of the republican party , luke first to you in this reporting. i know that just because it s quiet in terms of public hearing, doesn t mean it s quiet for the committee or for you, so tell us what they ve been looking into. right, the january 6th committee has been sort of out of the headlines for a little while, partially because there s been so much focus on the justice department and the search at mar-a-lago. but they have been quietly working behind the scenes this month particularly focusing on preparing hearings for next month. and one of the line