be a number more than 2,500 is putting a strain on the department, and that s not counting people who committed crimes outside or people involved in the fake elector scheme or people who were and former president trump. and the pace of information is not slowing down. it s growing. last night a spokesman for the 1/6 committee said they decided to begin sharing transcript interviews with the justice department. 20 at first but there may be more to come. that s because we re seeing more members of former president trump s cabinet meeting with the committee, including steve mnuchin and mick mulvaney. mick mulvaney talked about the questions the committee wanted answered. why did i communicate, why did i say what i said? i sent some tweets and texts on january 6th. they want to talk about that. i was fairly heavily involved in the trump campaign. they want to know about the discussions i had leading up to the election day and the discussions right after the election day and the
manchin s announcement that he was backing away from the deal. i noted a quote from john pedes podesta. a lot of this is political kabuki and this deal had been essentially reached beforehand. there was talk on sources that they had essentially reached an agreement a few weeks ago and publicly stepped away from it in order to allow republicans to vote for the chips bill and came out a few hours later with what he said was a brand new 700-page bill, which had been rebranded as an inflation cutting bill. probably wasn t all this different from the bill that had been negotiated a few weeks before. i wonder if this deal was ever as dead as it looked like a few days ago. you and i were talking when i was in paris and the climate accords were signed, there was this sense not everything we