country s history. at least since the civil war. remember, for months, it is may right now, for this reason, for months democrats negotiated with house republicans in good faith. many of them were here talking about the negotiations. negotiating to investigate the attack. john katko a republican of new york is the guy who let those negotiations for his party. katko the republican hammered out all the details with his democratic counterpart, bernie thompson of mississippi and congressman katko did all of this at the with kevin mccarthy, who then just turn drawn into the whole republican caucus to vote against the commission. here is congressman katko urging his colleagues to vote for it. we must find answers to the many questions surrounding that day. what information was known leading up to january 6th?
john mccain that you fight for a cause larger for yourself, that is peoples true mission and why they should want to go into public service. democracy is a cause larger than ourselves, larger than our parties and getting to the bottom line of what happened in the facts, this is about our democracy and it is not about would party you belong to. your colleague john tester, a straight shooter that is fair to say. he said this we have to get to the bottom of this, jesus it s a non partisan investigation of what happened. if they re afraid of trump they need to get out of office. i do find the fear bizarre, i really do. i think it is a calculation that look, this is who we are in this is what we are and who we represent and how we can win elections by being this party and this faction. i don t think they re crazy to think that but it s not what our job is,
trying to overturn an election, that man donald trump still controls the republican party. no one reads his blog. no one really cares about his takes, as they shouldn t, but here he is. the reason is he fully embodies the base of the party, their grievances and their hatred. and it doesn t matter what happens there is nothing that would pry it apart. they had one chance, they had it, it was given to them to make a clean break. that was during the impeachment. they had it. you could ve voted to convict, mitch. you could ve voted to disqualify him and then he would have no power. but you didn t. and so now he is your king. and as your king, you are his soldiers, and as soldiers you must defend him from an inquiry that would it obviously show horrible things about a horrible man.
chambers as their number one priority over investigating a tragic event that unfolded in the nation s capital. that is really what this is about, that is what it boils down to. this is going to amplify the pressure to make the filibuster, but manchin is holding strong. donna, what is galling here s the process by which this came out, sometimes, if one party controls one house in the other party controls the other house there will be message bills. they will on-street party lines pass something with no real intentions that the house is going to take it up. it is a party line vote, you want to put it in a box politically. this was not a message bill, we had betty thompson on the show, he negotiated with katko for four months. manchin sat down with collins, this was not a stunt, this was not a bill you passed to box in your opponents and talk about bad people, this was an honest and good faith effort to get
and what they indicate. first we have to remember that it hasn t got a lot of attention. that is the trump inauguration committee. it s being investigated, it s a civil investigation, not a criminal one, not yet. by the d.c. attorney for basically taking what was charitable money and using it to enrich, guess what, the trump family buy overpaying payments at the trump hotel for ed vance is, and events that weren t held at the trump motel and holding a lavish party for the trump family. the attorney general of d.c. has accused the trump family of using the inauguration to grift, to line their pockets with hundreds of thousands of dollars, this is corruption from not even the first day of the presidency but the day before the presidency, the week