i imagine that was a dispep tick moment for republican leader kevin mccarthy today. oh, to be a fly on the wall at the next republican caucus meeting. can you guys please stop with the criming? just for a little while. just for a hot minute. trump is not here to keep you all out of prison anymore. enough with the felonies, you guys. hit pause. save me. so the day was already not going great for the house republican leader kevin mccarthy today. but then, at 4:00 this afternoon, it got worse when the january 6th investigation posted this letter to kevin mccarthy himself. it is a letter inviting him to please provide information to the investigation. quote, dear leader mccarthy, we write to request your voluntary cooperation with our investigation on a range of critical topics, including your conversations with president trump before, during, and after the violent january 6th attack. you have acknowledged speaking directly with the former
keeps criming as barbara mcwade would say. it is doing the very same thing robert mueller said, 150 contacts between russians and the trump campaign. different from whether he had sufficient evidence of conspiracy. but remember that one of the things he said explicitly in the report is people lie to us. people destroy documents. he didn t say exonerated. he said people made it hard for us to find evidence. that s exactly the other article of impeachment, which i keep wanting to remind people of. what donald trump did in october is to go on television is say, yeah, china, i want you to do. in fact, i will use the trade talks. in other words, i will use the power of the office and abuse it. and now we have giuliani going back to ukraine and meeting with people. remember, donald trump, one of
back to the watergate. right? in the 70s on nixon. it is astonishing. it is not even that there is a some joint understanding of what the facts are as you were saying before. they re just keep on going with the things that got them in trouble in the first place. that s the democrats argument that they need to do this now. they can t wait for the courts to rule on bringing more witnesses or getting the white house to comply with subpoenas because the president cheated or tried to cheat and he will continue to try to cheat, a threat to our elections. republicans, though, are saying this is all nonsense. they re arguing something completely different, as if the two sides are not just two sides but in two different universes. that s exactly right and sitting on the sidelines what s so fascinating about this to nick s point is barbara mcquaid called it the crime that keeps criming and that s a good way to put it but i want to go back to the point you don t need a crime
whenever i think about this white house and the crimes and the criming, i think of the lucy and ethel at the chocolate factory and trying to just keep up with the crimes coming out of the machine. like we just couldn t do it. i would love them to investigate more. i worry about the physics end of it basically, like whether or not the time/space continuum could handle it. we re going to squeeze in a break, but when we come back, we re going to talk about the experts to expand voting rights today. this is important. i m going to tell you how many republicans voted along with the democrats on this one. this one may surprise you.
wiley, and barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney, all msnbc contributors. very quickly, and i ll start with you first on this, barbara. these people that giuliani met with, yuri lit senko met with giuliani in new york where he made comments about burisma. viktor shokin claims biden stopped him from investigating burisma and constantin kulik has compiled a 17-page dossier in english pushing the conspiracy theory. he s going to interview them. what do you make of that? yeah, i saw someone on twitter calling this the crime that keeps on criming. [ laughter ] you know, as my husband says to our children, when you find yourself in a hole, don t keep digging. yeah. it seems to me that he s just making things worse by continuing to associate with the very people who has gotten him into trouble. you know, there are allegations that he may have violated the