members of congress were still dodging the disgraced ex-president s phone calls on the floor of the house. kevin mccarthy was still cutting back room deals, negotiating with his hostage-takers, trading away everything but the gavel so he could ascend finally, at long last, to the speakership. now less than one week into republican rule of the house of representatives, here we are, one newly minted republican of the house, george santos, is facing multiple open investigations and mounting evidence that he is both a pathological liar and a potential campaign finance violator among other things. speaker mccarthy is dangling the possibility of expuning one of the disgraced ex-president s impeachments. republicans are unleashing a so-called weaponization with mccarthy. democrats of the house are now receiving death threats like this one against congressman eric swalwell. getting your kicked off the committee is the least of your problems. the american people aren t going to be
the fisa, for example, that was scrutinized is because the doj i.g. told us about it. they investigated it themselves. i believe the genesis about anything about andrew mccabe s tenure into public view came from an internal inspector general. the durham probe spent four years, felt like eight, looking at everyone who touched the russian investigation and he found the technical term for jack you know what, bill barr s favorite term. there was nothing. these chapters in our country have been probed by the organizations themselves, so the notion that jim jordan is going to launch his inspector clue sew committee and found the agencies didn t sound the alarm themselves is ludicrous on its face. look, this is distraction. you know, when you don t know the facts, you basically are
receiving death threats like this one against congressman eric swalwell. getting your kicked off the committee is the least of your problems. the american people aren t going to be happy till we soo you hanged by the nuk until death. dead, dead, legally! through trial! have a nice sling! this is what a deal with the devil looks like. speaker mccarthy says he s prepared to release all the security footage from the january 6th insurrection. thousands of hours. according to mccarthy s nemesis, matt gaetz, fellow republican, this was a key concession made in the back room deal mccarthy had to exchange for gaetz s present vote. feels like releasing the surveillance footage isn t going to be the oh, exoneration of republicans they might think it s going to be. if the surveillance footage that we ve seen thus far, and we ve seen a lot of it, is any
talking to people who were, you know, close to both the former president and his allies as well as those who may have had contact with participation in the scheme in various states. so, you know, i think that there was a little frustration on our part as the committee early on. was doj doing anything? of course as a congressional committee, our role is different than the department of justice. but now that we have completed our work, presented, you know, a comprehensive story of january 6th to the public and passed that information on to the department of justice, i feel they are continuing to act and move forward with that as a framework. i mean, they didn t need us to conduct an investigation. they didn t need us to issue, you know, criminal charges. but we made recommendations about, you know, the referrals of what we gleaned from our information. they have subpoena power and a way to compel witnesses beyond what a congressional committee can do, and therefore from all observation,
for the national republican party. garrett, let me be clear. they want to expose political malfeasance at these agencies. is there evidence that there s been any political malfeasance of the agencies in their sight? reporter: it depends what you think about content, moderation, and social media companies. i think this starts with the twitter files, which have become a huge obsession on the right and the idea that the federal government and federal law enforcement were engaged in content moderation basically within some of these big social media companies, particularly as it relates to election-related content and covid-related content. if you think that s malfeasance, you re going to enjoy the evidence presented here. beyond that, i certainly have not seen compelling in evidence what s been presented publicly thus far. the committee gets to work in a few weeks here and we ll see. andrew, i don t mean to belabor this point, but i think it s important to understand that the reason