Going on. But tonight i actually showed up with something planned to say. Oh, okay. And you ruined it. Because i just listened again. Rachel. Bless our hearts and other parts. All right. But [ laughter ] i didnt know i could get you to say that again. Im regretting it immediately. Okay. Im going to try to say the thing i planned to say. Okay. And what i planned to say is wouldnt it be nice if it was just completely totally absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in syria this week so that his friend in the white house could have a big night with missiles and all of the praise he has picked up over the last 24 hours . Wouldnt it be so nice if you couldnt even in your Wildest Dreams imagine a scenario like that . Wouldnt it be great if we could go back to wag the dog being a sitcom plot, you know. Exactly. And i dont know what it is. Is it a 2 chance . Is it a 50 chance . I dont know. But i dont think its a zero percent chance. And it used to be wi
let s not do this or that so that putin doesn t escalate. where did we end up? ukrainian cities are being bombed. every day, missiles are being shot at various targets across the territory of ukraine. hundreds of civilians killed, tortured, raped. economy is being destroyed, economy of ukraine. so the entire logic of, let s not do this in order not to provoke russia, is failed. it s flawed logic. so if anyone continues to think this way, then they re just helping russia to win the war. this is it. we can keep asking these questions endlessly, but everything, everything that preceded 2a february failed. it didn t work. maybe it s time to change the strategy and the line of thinking. right, well, let s pursue that, then, and move on from arms supplies to sanctions.
and of course in some officers tragically taking their own lives thereafter. we have a connecting of the dots and all the things we haven t seen. we know the president wanted the election to not be certified. but the question is sort of did he have the mechanics and the people around him, did they actually put the mechanics in place so that people had maps of the capitol, so that they had the tools necessary to carry out the violence we saw on january 6th. peter, while you ve been reconnecting to your feed, we ve been trying to connect the dots in the investigation here. two things i want to point out, the fact that we know, there s a headline in the hill the other day that said trump told mccarthy that rioters are more upset about the election than you are. we also have a quote from npr where the chair of the january 6th panel that the committee will ask mike pence to appear. in terms of dot connection, if
i think a significant part. i think, where we re at right now, we know a lot of the narrative, and as i ve said, i think the most important thing is not even the day of january 6th, it s what led to it. we have a lot of what s out there in the public venue, what the president himself said, so i think if everything shut down today, we d be able to put out a powerful and substantive narrative. we still have more information, obviously, we want to get. aloha and namaste again, everybody. i m john heilemann. the january 6th committee is moving with deliberate speed and purpose as it investigates the assault on our democracy that took place more than a year ago. detailing what they were doing on the 6th and leading up to it and examining whether crimes were committed, including potentially by the former president of the united states, all of it even more critical as we enter this midterm election
taking place. we lost peter. i ll ask this question of yamiche. yamiche, what s your sense, think about this now from the standpoint of an investigative reporter, where do you think the dots that we have, what are the connections that you still want to be able to see in order for this committee, if it is trying to demonstrate that donald trump did something immoral, unethical, illegal, what are the dots that need to be connected by this committee? it s a great question, and it gets into the heart of what the committee is doing. there s a team looking at the money, who funded this rally, who was involved in getting people the financial aid they needed possibly to assemble? there s also people looking at the arm of the trump campaign, whether there were people in trump s orbit who were talking to these rallygoers. the number one thing is how much