make it inside, and stop the count. so we don t want that to ever happen, again. and by the way, don, what has changed, right, we haven t the republicans have voted against or stopped us from having security assistance on the senate side. they re not taking up that vote. so donald trump is still around, saying that he is going to come back in august. so what has changed? so, we have to make sure we protect against this type of situation happening, again. and then, of course, we want to make sure that, in january, 2025, and future-electoral certification days, that we are better able to protect the capitol. and and that means a full mri has to be taken to what led up to that day. so, as you know, um, and i think it it bears repeating. people should we should continue to say this. the house speaker, nancy pelosi, initially, agreed to an independent 9/11-style commission, only for senate republicans to knock that down. she put two republicans on the select committee. so, for the
stunning hour s of hearing, that was for me one of the more stunning rebukes to right-wing disinformation and lies. well, it sure was, nicolle. it is startling sadly to see somebody with an r after their name saying those things, but back to your previous question about the bottom. i don t think we re anywhere near it. i mean my sense is january 6th will now become an iconic date in the modern republican party, a date to celebrate. i think you will see members of congress doing events. i think you will see people announcing their presidential campaigns in 2023 on january 6th. the way we escape this is, you know, you have now the people that drive certainly social media discussions but i would argue a lot of republican activists and republican primary voters, they swim in this very toxic, delusional fishbowl where covid was a hoax, you shouldn t take vaccines, january 6th was not a terrorist attack, trump won the election, he is going to be restored in some miraculous
listen. you were an impeachment manager for trump s second impeachment. the charge against him was inciting an insurrection. and tomorrow, the select committee s going to hear four officers who were on the front lines during the attack. what do you expect to see, congressman, and hear? tomorrow starts with four police officers who were on the frontline, don, fighting in hand-to-hand combat to defend the count that was taking place, and the lives that were inside. essentially, it s to make sure, animating through those officers, that january 6th is a day that is not erased from the story of america. you know, adam kinzinger um is now on the committee. he says that he is open to potentially calling some republican members of congress to testify. should that include kevin mccarthy and the former president, as well? they shouldn t be off the table. certainly, kevin mccarthy knew donald trump s mindset, as the insurrection was taking place. and what donald trump was willing to do,
so desperately didn t want his supporters and fox viewers to see or hear, and what do you think he ll do? kevin mccarthy does not want americans to know the truth about that day because the truth really is aimed at him because he has enabled the big lie with donald trump. but, nicolle, you and i both grew up in bay area republican families. this is not the republican party that my parents told me about. you know, this is not the party of ronald reagan. my dad was a police officer. he s horrified by anybody who would choose to honor donald trump, to dishonor the police. and that s what they re seeing, whether it s voting against security assistance to fortify the capitol, whether it s voting against the gold medals for the officers, whether it s saying that the officer who killed ashli babbi. t t was an executioners, whether it s saying the fbi was responsible or walking away from the select committee, time after time they are dishonoring the
genuinely just don t understand what they re doing or think they re making the situation better or worse, but on the margins. this is the core issue. it is the core issue. so it is the nightmare scenario and it is the most predictable thing in the world. it is exactly what the georgian pursuer, the people propagating this law, what they want. they understand the end game here is in a contested election, who controls the counting. i remember in 2020 talking to steve bannon in the fall of 2020 and bannon talking about what he thought was going to happen after the election. he said, there s going to be knife fights in the counting rooms. we re going to have all of this fight. now, it turned out that donald trump s election lawyers were totally incompetent, were complete i mean they had no legal basis for the challenges they were launching and they were also complete morons led by the a-plus moron of them all, rudy giuliani. so they couldn t do what bannon was imagining, there will be kn