of big news, joe, on capitol hill. what a significant day. and i will tell you, i was away from the tv for a good part of the day, and started getting breaking news alerts about the hearings, started following some i had to come back, rewatch the entire hearing all over again. it really, yesterday, about as compelling of any hearing we ve seen on capitol hill since the days of watergate. i was young when the watergate hearings were on. i was upset because we had only had four channels then, and i wanted to see the flintstones and mr. ed, but my parents were sitting front, watching watergate. like everybody. and it was so compelling. and you see those clips, and it s history and you don t think you re ever going to see anything like that again. like a movie. but actually, willie, we did see something and we keep seeing, every one of these january 6th hearings. you re looking at history, you understand it, because, again, it drives home the point that maybe we ve
a lot of people will argue that something that the president was quoted as saying is really the direct line to him, the smoking gun. but even more so, it explains a lot about the behavior of many of his followers and you just have to wonder, not to get sidetracked here, you have to wonder how kevin mccarthy and other republicans in congress right now, how they can still bow to this man. they just can, because they are without shame. sam stein, kevin mccarthy was the one on the phone on january 6th screaming at donald trump, swearing at donald trump, saying, i m done with this guy, he has to be brought to justice. and then kevin mccarthy runs down, gets a picture with trump at mar-a-lago, because he s afraid that two or three of his followers may not like him. i mean, yeah. and this is not this is just there are so few people