rush to close up shop for the holidays, we are practically in inundated fleeces a material. there was the committee s final report, the clocked in at over 800 pages, then there were just thousands of pages of deposition transcripts and court documents and exhibits from the committee s hearings, and dozens of videos. it s hard to believe that there was anything the committee did not release. and yet today we learned there was something. today the washington post published this draft memo, prepared by a team of committee staffers focused on social media and extremism. they were known as team purple. the team apparently hoped that there 100 plus-page memo would be adapted into a chapter in the investigation s final report. but the committee decided to leave most of it on the cutting room floor. among team purples most damning findings was in the run up to january six. social media platforms like twitter and facebook bent over backwards, they bench their own rules to allow donald
republican and the reaction i got back was a screaming face emoji. throughout this process of getting democrats elected speaker, there was a lot of anger from more moderate and mainstream republicans about the fact that 10% of the most right-wing republicans were, in their view, holding the other 90% hostage. and there was also this insistence that were there were no explicit committees promised to these members, there was never like, i need you to put me on this exact committee or i m not gonna vote for you. but we do know, because the members were in the room negotiating this, told me and other reporters that one of the things they demanded if kevin mccarthy was what they called, a conservative representation on committees, what they meant was that was, membership of the far-right freedom caucus on these plum committee assignments. it appears they got that, alex. i mean, riddle me this, sahel. kevin mccarthy agreed to a
a mainstream republican and the reaction was a screaming face emoji. throughout this process, there was a lot of anger from more moderate mainstream republicans at the fact that 10% of the most right wing republicans were in their view holding the other 90% hostage. and there was always this insistence that there were no committees promised. it was never like i need you to put me on this committee or i won t vote for you, but we know that the members told me and other reporters that one of the things that they demanded was what they called conservative representation on committees. what they meant is membership of the far right freedom caucus on these plumb committee assignments. it appears that they got that, alex. riddle me this. kevin mccarthy agreed to a one vote threshold to oust him as speaker. so the far right seems to be winning this hand, but does not a certain amount of political capital lie with the nonmaga-ish