candidacy. and co-host of the good lies trying to make sense of the continued allegiance to the nra, at the nra meeting. stay tuned for that chat. good evening, i m mehdi hasan, if you support the democratic party, you probably don t want to hear this forecast from election expert and political analyst dave wasserman of the cook political report because he posted this tweet last week projecting that republicans would gain a hefty 20 to 35 seats in the house in november s midterm elections. ouch. exactly the kind of defeat president barack obama once called a shellacting, and republicans are planning for that victory for control of congress for what they re going to do and i tell you this won t be health care policy or tackling prices at the pump, top gops have conservative think tankers on the tony eastern shore of maryland ways to investigate the biden administration as soon as they get congress, and looking for flimsy excuses to launch congressional probes according to
you get that? you re wrong for expecting anything to be there but he won t stop talking about the findings of his report which are not much really. it s maddening. but it s also smart from the gop point of view. these gop bogus investigations, they re a pattern that keep going and going and going. because the republicans, they work. just this week, on tuesday, a federal jury found hillary clinton campaign, not guilty of lying to the fbi. he was acquitted. it az all flowed from the trump administration era probe into the investigation into trump s ties to russia. he was supposed to find the smoking gun for the gop and the fact that he didn t doesn t matter to gop, they got to attack clinton again and again. mean whirl the lack of anything happening there with increased pressure on the justice department to ditch, excuse me, wrap up that ridiculous politicized gop-led probe and yet the only thing that still moves glacially amid global warming is merrick garland.
the gop is successful at launching endless probes and investigations that create lots of heat but shed very little light while the democrats who have very legitimate things that need investigating seem to have an allergy to going big on probes and investigations, into actual scandals and crimes. yes, the 1/6 hearings begin this thursday, perhaps the exception, but even, that it took half a year to get the committee off the ground, and you know, after what, 11 months of investigating, to get to public hearings. is it likely the members will achieve what they need? in those hearings? before republicans take the reins? in january, 2023, as the poll suggested? i don t know. meanwhile, there will be no subpoena of trump. no criminal referral of him to the justice department. and speaking of merrick garland, the attorney general made the decision this week not to indict former trump chief of staff mark meadows or ex-aide dan scavino