Nothing. it s actually i mean, if somebody wrote a novel about how to completely mess up an investigation on capitol hill and run as incompetent a set of depositions and interviews with utterly unreliable witnesses, this would be it. it actually is amazing that they would actually find these kinds of witnesses. malcontents that left the fbi because they couldn t do the job or wouldn t do the job. serious issues of, you know, almost cultish behavior in terms of conspiracy theories and more troubling than that with respect to january 6th itself, perhaps lending support to its direction, and these are their primary witnesses who, as you said, have witnessed nothing.
So they re not whistleblowers, they re malcontents who couldn t cut it at the fbi. what is the democratic strategy? you ve called them out. it seems like the weaponization of bill barr and donald trump and especially what we ve learned from the durham probe is ripe for examination. absolutely. right? i mean, can you i know you re in the minority. what is the ability to do the stated mission of this committee? well, i think we have a role to sort of call out the republicans, as we re doing right now, when they when they go awry, which seems to be with great frequency. and to be truth tellers, right? to have a truth squad as the democratic minority in reminding everybody what the real weaponization was. one of your panelists earlier cited if you want weaponization, look no further than jeffrey clark, and i think that s
Would not want to recognize the devastation of january 6th, who are perfectly happy there is no mention of january 6th on the tour. so we are seeing an extra in a contrast between our caucus who now nine times has voted 212 unified votes for the most talented leader in our caucus, hakeem jeffries versus the other side which has a bunch of folks that are just malcontents, keep choosing people that are not prepared to lead and of course mr. mccarthy is not prepared to lead . do you care if mccarthy wins or not? do you view him as better/different than anyone else on the menu and do you understand who else might even be on the menu? i don t know other than the three names that were called in the last series of votes, one was the former president, imagine that. it sent shockwaves through the colleagues i was sitting too, recognizing that tomorrow marks
To get there, get if majority there and replacing it s in the minds of these five malcontents with one of their own. something that they would choose. it s interesting none of them have done much at all to help get the republicans in to the majority in the house. they ve not raised money or campaigned hard or articulated a winning message. they were overwhelmed in the caucus when they had a vote on what should be the caucus cand candidate. they want to be in charge and the five of them will use the leverage they have to get this charge. you think mccarthy has given away too much to that group? they have already decided that mccarthy has exceeded to the demand that five members have to say hey, we want to have a vote on vacating the speakership here. does that begin to kneecap what he can do as speaker moving forward? i m not certain how much it
Treat him with dignity and respect but i ll make the argument that we need a change in energy and change in generation. rich: biden declared today, they would be the two oldest in history. molly? molly: all right. we go now to our next guest for reaction. jose is the former dmc pres secretary. i want your thoughts on some of the things that carl just talked about. starting with what is happening in washington right now with the speaker s race. he talked about five malcontents. do you think that this battle going on with the republicans and kevin mccarthy and the speakership does weaken the republican party? they ll be in charge now. i think it does. it shows the division within the republicans as a whole but the republican leadership. i think mccarthy will get elected as speaker.