country. jackie alemany, we will stay riveted by your reporting and will watch for the piece. thank you for starting us off. claire and charlie are sticking around because when we come back, because we ve been discussing the gop can t shake their addiction to donald trump s big lie. one was booed off the stage because she dared to say the arizona audit was a farce. she s not alone. risking trump s rants, most republicans too afraid to speak up. big lie is the latest litmus test coming up, plus the unvaccinated in this country aren t just a risk to themselves. we are now all paying the price of their inaction. the very latest on the covid surge and the new mandates popping up all across this country and it s a big, big week on capitol hill as we ve been discussing. we ll talk about it and what s at stake with our friend agnus king when deadline white house continues after a quick break. u continues after a quick break. born to be wild
you have a justice department that is being led by a democrat right now. a lot of these subpoenas complied with. otherwise these republicans they are eyeing issuing a subpoena to are going to face more serious repercussions than under bill barr during the trump administration. that s the hope at least. some great reporting that i will read to you. republicans should know better by now, a former trump aide told power up. the worst thing that can happen is for democrats and never trumpers to have multiple shots on trump that will be shown on every cable news network. to claire s point and jackie s, he s been impeached twice. none of the facts were in dispute. we do know the ex-president has this trigger that not being
of donald trump. but what i m talking about are a huge swath of americans that are not watching fox, that are busy trying to figure out if they can afford to retire, or if their mother is being taken care of in the nursing home, and they are not paying as close attention now. what i m hoping is once those people, once this starts hitting the airwaves on once it starts coming up on social media we will pull back in the tens upon millions of americans that know it was bad but maybe don t know how bad it was and hopefully the dramatic testimony will help with that. that is the political imperative of this committee s work and they read like we just had the all-star game in baseball. they read like the all-star team of trump s impeachment managers. let me read the list of the
starting to shrink down. he said, look, this is the most important issue, this stolen election. it s more important than the border, more important than anything else. what he s signaling to republicans is you might want to talk about other stuff, but i am not going to stop this. i am going to go deemdeeper dowe rabbit hole of crazy and insist as a matter of a litmus test that you go with me down this rabbit hole of crazy. at the same time you re having this hearing, trump s rhetoric is, i mean, more extreme, more deranged and demented than it was and this is a huge problem for republicans who are not going to be on television. they may hold press conferences with marjorie taylor greene but contrasting liz cheney and adam
thing. this will be about what happened that day and why it happened that day. and trump will figure into that. liz cheney will be terrific at this job. you know who knows it? kevin mccarthy. when he called them pelosi democrats, he looked silly. he looked like a little kid who hasn t gotten his way and doesn t know how to deal with it. i really do think that even if she has more republicans, they re in a strong position now to justifiably say this has, in fact, been a bipartisan effort. i want to show you, jackie, some of the sound that claire is talking about today, the feeble effort on kevin mccarthy s part to smear the republicans serving on the committee and the reaction to it. some republicans have been saying that the gop should play ball on this committee. really? who was that? adam and liz? aren t they kind of like pelosi republicans?