dear colleagues, your subcommittee could become part of a proud history of serious, bipartisan oversight, stretching from the teapot dome investigation to the boeing investigation to the watergate hearings to the tobacco hearings to the select committee on the january 6th attack. or you could take oversight down a very dark alley, filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation. a place where facts are the enemy and partisan destruction is the overriding goal. appears house republicans are going to go with the dark alley path. the first hearing for the subcommittee to investigate the, quote, weaponization of the federal government was nothing but grievance politics. meanwhile, in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell is trying to distance the party from a fellow republican senator. who could that be? it comes as president joe biden takes his post state of the union message to florida, keeping the focus on the fate of social security and medicare. and the admi
that residence and one day after the former vice president was subpoenaed by special council jack smith in the investigation into former president trump s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. this hour, rick scott s bad week gets worse with republican leader mitch mcconnell slamming the florida senator s entitlement proposal that gave president biden all that political ammunition at the state of the union. miracles within the rubble. more survivors, including children, rescued four days after that 7.8 earthquake, as the numbers continue to skyrocket, 22,000 dead, more than 75,000 injured and millions left grieving over family members lost and decimated communities. thank you for joining us. i m ryan nobles in washington. andrea is on assignment. as we follow breaking news from indiana, where fbi agents are searching former vice president mike pence s home, a search agreed to by mr. pence after weeks of negotiations between his attorneys and federal off
medicare, or medicate even though they want to. oddly enough, dark brandon is getting hope from old school republicans like mitch mcconnell who has launched a low key war on the insurrectionist wing of his party, which just so happened to vote against him to return to his role as minority leader. roll call reported that josh hawley was booted from the armed services committee because of his role in challenging the boss. guess who else got the kiss of death? utah senator mike lee who got from his perch on the commerce committee. lee has been having a rough week. first biden exposed his plan to pull social security up from the roots and now this. but it was his social security and medicare hating tea party brother in arms florida senator rick scott who ticked off mitch mcconnell. unfortunately, that was the scott plan. that s not a republican plan. that was a rick scott plan. i mean, it s just a bad idea.
biden is just twisting the knife, and biden in tampa florida, scott s home to a state, every seat in the audience had a brochure on it showing rick scott s plan. and today, when asked about biden s speech, state of the union speech, leader caught mcconnell made some remarks which for him were about is explicit and cutting as you can get. well, unfortunately that was the scott plan. that s not a republican plan. that was the rick scott plan. there were no plans to raise taxes on half the american people or to sunset medicare or social security. it s just a bad idea. i think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this in his own reelection in florida, which has more elderly people than any other state in america. a challenge in his own reelection in florida. mcconnell could have just not said anything. he could ve said joe biden was lying or exaggerating. instead he called rick scott out by name, saying was a bad idea and hung amount to dry. the core of conflict here, when
wants to sunset social security and medicare. well, unfortunately that was the scott plan. that s not a republican plan. that was the rick scott plan. the republican plan as i pointed out last fall, if we were to become the majority, there were no plans to raise taxes on half the american people or to sunset medicare or social security. so it s clearly the rick scott plan, it is not the republican plan. and that s the view of the speaker of the house as well. i think we re in a more authoritative position to say what the position of the party is than any single senator. so rick scott s really not back in the fold after he ran against you for leadership. well, it doesn t have anything to do with that. this is a bad idea. i think it will be a challenge for him to deal with this as the re-election in florida. no love lost there. the florida senator did address