diminished in quality just across the board because the whole thing of it s just become so ugly and nasty, but there s no doubt that we don t have if you look at the democratic party, it has problems. not all the candidates are perfect. not have many people who believe in the jewish space lasers. none that i know of. that was my understatement. zero is the number. and you know, and are willing to believe in all these other crazy conspiracy theories, up to and including the big lie but you have a million other conspiracies. you have genuine qanon people in congress now and there s more running and those candidates are not just bad candidates, not compelling but also nut jobs and you see a lot of that on the republican side. when i got to congress in the beginning of 2019, i had never heard of qanon, and i remember asking my colleagues on the house intelligence committee, what is this? the way they described it to me is, it is this crazy, cockamamie thing from the right about how
permits and were talking to government functionaries about how to set up the basic details of how these rallies came together and led to the attack on january 6th. the witness list for next week includes some of the bigger names in donald trump s orbit, like bill stepien, his former campaign manager. folks who can help connect what donald trump was doing in the leadup not to january 6th, but to election day, and at a time immediately afterwards when the streaming for what became january 6th started to come together. so we are seeing all of those pieces get linked. i can tell you with regards to eugene robinson s column i said similar things to the committee. at some point they have got to talk about what they are finding it cannot just come in leaks if they want people to trust their finding. the answer i have gotten back time and time again is that those public hearings, the public reveal will come at a time of their choosing. liz cheney is talk approximating doing weeks of hearings w
need for these documents and that they are directly relevant to the committee s inquiry into an attack on the legislative branch and the peaceful transfer of power. pete williams says it is prosisely the point made by the court that the january 6th serves a valid and important purpose. mark meadows is attempting to toss out the subpoenas from the committee. the point made by trump and meadows could very well mark a dangerous turn in republican thinking, though, around the insurrection, one that could lead to obstruction of any and all recommendation has the committee might ultimately make in order to prevent the next coup. from the washington post s greg sergeant, let s consider the idea that met owes claim advanced. after all that happened protecting the process of concluding our elections from corruption and beefing up
oversight of potential white house law enforcement are not legitimate purposes. in other words, in response to this attack on political order we should do nothing meaningful to protect our system against another one? all of this amid the looming threat of an attempt to steal the next election. it s leading for calls for the select committee to be more visible, broadcast its findings even as the investigation is firing on all cylinders. eugene robinson rights, investigate the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection at capitol will fail us if it quietly goes about its work. it needs to be louder. the way to investigate a crime with an eye toward prosecution, and january 6th was definitely a
witnesses that they keep talking about, the 300 that they have already engaged with, the thousands of documents. ly ann caldwell tweeted earlier that mark meadows before facing criminal contempt turned over 9,000 documents to the committee. they may have given up more leads. ali alexander was in yesterday for eight hours. this may be part of a probe into who was planning what and how much knowledge donald trump had of it. we are in the middle of a critical period for this committee. they are staffed up, they are focused. and they are having finally some success of linking together some of the interviews of folks they wanted for some time. yesterday jamie raskin told us they are trying to develop a fine grain image of what happened on january 6th. we know the big picture. the big picture is not in dispute. the latest round of subpoenas are the kind of people who can give you the fine grain detail. they are the organizers of the rally. these are people who applied for