wise wisdom by heart, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. well, this week, in both word and deed, republicans are telling all of us exactly who they are. just the latest instant, the most prominent gathering of american conservatives, cpac, is kicking off in hungary, of all places. the keynote speaker, the recently re-elected prime minister, viktor orban, a far-right head of state accused of curbing media and judicial independence, enriching associates with public funds and recasting election laws to entrench his power. and if the selection of orban wasn t alarming enough, just wait until you hear what he said in his speech before that conference this morning, orban insisted, quote, progressive liberals, neomarxists, dazed by their woke dream, people financed by george soros and promoters of open societies want to annihilate the western way of life that you and us love so much. we must coordinate the movement of our troops as we face a big
the attorney here, harry is, does this amount to seditious conspiracy? is this the kind of thing that might warrant expulsion from the house of representatives? one of the big questions is accountability and what is going to be done if it turns out that he was part of a plan to overtake the capitol. again, my note of caution here is we have the letter, but we have not seen the videotape. we don t know exactly what they have and and we don t know how loudermilk will spin all of this and this is part of this case i m looking forward to the details that this committee has laid out in june, i think we ll find out these details filled in over the next few weeks. jackie, i want to follow up on charlie s questionary note about what we don t know yet.
1/6 committee s final phases of the investigation, at least in terms of the final phases that precede the public hearings in june, seems squarely focused on the republicans and either their complicity or knowledge or in the case of this congressman, a tour he gave on january 5th. what do you think the significance is of what is public facing and what we re seeing and hearing? well, first of all, nicole, i want to compliment representative cheney and kinzinger for their bravery and their willingness to stand up to the criticism and the condemnation of the republicans. i think it s critically important that they continue this work, and it s quite obvious that what the committee is saying is that they do have evidence that contradicts some of these statements and comments of these republican members of congress who tend to masquerade as defenders of our democratic principles but in fact may be withholding critical information that is necessary for the
charlie sykes, who is congressman barry loudermilk? i m not that familiar with him. me neither! we all will be soon. yeah. a note of caution, we haven t seen this evidence yet and we don t know what the full scope of this is and the full details of what it is or what his defense is going to be and again, this is very, very fresh information. i do think that the january 6th committee although would have been unlikely to have written that letter if it was solid and then it raises the question, if, in fact, he did lead a tour of the capitol the day before and it is what we are describing right now, setting the stage for the insurrection then. so what? what is going to happen? how would he be held accountable? does this amount, and i m not
reconnaissance mission. it s still unclear what the evidence is, what it looks like and where the committee got it from, but as they ve shown time and time again, they ve been pretty resourceful especially in working around some of the roadblocks and some of the bigger named figures who have refused to comply with their requests. and harry, i guess, and again, there is a lot we don t know, but the denial and the letter say two diametric le opposed thing, no republican member go toward the capitol any then it has this, proven by security footage. we know the person were the the first one were the rioters and they delved deep into the