writes. many of those former administration officials met solely with the committee s republican members, representatives liz cheney and adam kinzinger, sources with direct knowledge said. some also testified together with their former colleagues, so groups of ex-white house staffers walking in, talking to the republicans. eugene, this feels like a very strategic way on the committee s part to do what congressman raskin described as unburdening these staffers of what they saw and what they know. no, absolutely. trying to figure out what exactly happened that day, and we know all of those staffers, many of them who have been on msnbc, on cnn, talking about the things that they have seen, and some staffers, i think, the number was 15, getting together to, quote the term they used was trying to take trump down. so there is this recognition in some parts, a very small sliver of the republican party, that they have to get out front of a lot of this, and that s something that we re going