this year. according to for people with knowledge of the decision, and internal records reviewed by the washington post. the inspector general and his tufted not respond to repeated requests on this reporting. the report was coauthored by carol leonnig, she will be joining us in just a moment. last, night caroline her colleague reported there are even more missing text messages from trump s acting homeland security chad wolf, and fortunately, from a key period, guess, when leading up to the attack of the chapel. chad will for spawned it in a tweet saying this, i complied with all the data retention laws and returned all my quitman fully loaded to the department. full stop. dhs has on my texts, emails, phone logs, schedules. meanwhile, the january 6th committee is now focusing on trump administration figures, and the justice department appears to be escalating its own inquiry in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. today, former trump acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney,
and i just have to set the stage and tell you, the last time i wrote about him, which was last year, it was because he had blocked his staff, his career staff, recommendation to investigate two other ways in which the secret service had essentially enabled the political shenanigans of donald trump. one was in creating super spreaders, as campaign rallies in 2020. and the other was the secret service role in clearing, forcibly clearing peaceful protesters, who were protesting the death of george floyd, from a park outside of the white house. so, president trump, and that s the backdrop in which i see this inspector general. a trump appointee, who has tried to put the calabash on things that could be very damaging for the trump administration in the past.
stands for all the america first principles. his focus is just different than trump s. where do you see a break? so i wouldn t say that i m aligned with the sunni or mike pence, let s be clear. but the fact that he is going to trying to go toe to toe right now with trump, going against the candidate, the fact that he went to arizona and, said you know, what i am not supporting your candidate, i m supporting the one who is less right-wing than you are, the fact that he went up to capitol hill last week, and had a conversation with senators saying, things were not exactly on the right track. he is not denouncing trump but he s trying to create a new lane for republicans to get back on track. is it gonna happen? i think it s gonna be really really difficult. i wouldn t be surprised, stephanie, if at the end of the day, the one who cleaves off of the republican party is trump, kind of whatever resulted in 1912 with a bold moose party, and, then he, you know that went off in a different
starting of the u.s. capital on january six. and the majority of americans, 58%, say they are following the news about the january six committee river closely or somewhat closely. millions of americans tuning in to watch the public hearings in the last two weeks, democratic senator writes for msnbc.com, saying, the republican party could be screwed by the same thing it has become addicted to with trump. huge television writings. for insight and analysis, we are joined by former republican congressman joe walsh. who is no longer affiliated with the party. and political correspondent for insider, kimberly leonard. joe, i m gonna start with you. i want your immediate reaction to that max burns piece. do you agree? will trump be screwed by the very thing he has always been obsessed with? tv ratings and millions of eyes watching what is going on on tv? katie, i do. and that s trump could be screwed. i do not think the republican party will be scared, not this
doesn t really matter because katie, it fits. this is where my former political party is. they want a christian theocracy, the republican party does. and this notion of a white, christian theocracy. again, misspoke or not, this fits with the way my former political party is. look, i think more is coming from this january six committee. and i think it will continue to be damning to trump. especially in 24. i agree with kimberly, though. i think the roe decision really could be an impact on republican democrats in 2022. it could get democrats, it should really help get democrats, out to vote. and to joe s point, kimberly, you recently chance to speak to a candidates here in the state of florida, nikki freed. and you got some insight into whether or not she thinks there has been some huge upending to this race, as a result of roe.