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
political reporter, sahel kapoor. sahel, good to see you. thanks for being here. a lot of choices remain on capitol hill today. what is the reaction of republicans who are not in the most extreme wing of the republican party? to this election of lauren boebert, marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, scott perry for these plum committee assignments? there certainly were a lot of choices made in a lot of very important choices made alex. of the 20 holdouts food out cuba mccarthy 14 humiliating defeats of the house of representatives before ultimately electing him speaker, all of them have gotten committee assignments that would range from good to great. there are several of them that are freshman, forced her members who have gotten committee assignments on the homeland security committee, financial services committee and the appropriations committee. i texted that one aide house
how can you look at what just happened and make the decision that was made today, hours ago? yeah. what you are seeing is people acting out of self interest. if you are in a safe district, if you are in an echo chamber that is fox news, small donors, it is your deep in district that marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar represents, also the far-right members of your caucus, that kevin mccarthy desperately needs, these are the people you are focused on. the idea of what an autopsy committee is going to decide, what the republican party needs to win swing voters, they don t give a damn about that. that is not something that they think about in the day today. it is very short term, narrow and self perpetuating. i wonder if there s also a more cynical thing up play, there is a belief that what happens in washington state in washington. i wonder if you think this is
there is a very small margin ultimately, the white house in the senate were but the debt ceiling is the big kind of clamoring exception to all this. this is a massive, massive threat. they decide they don t want to play ball in this, they re just going to sort of obstruct this, it could be catastrophic consequences. and frankly i don t think marjorie taylor greene is thinking about it in terms of what her district i think the reward structure there is very very different from what sane consumers and politics will think but on the day today. not to me is i don t think is acquainted and that the grifter like george santos went from basically ponzi scheme to running for office in the republican party. putin and winning. mark cleavage, staff writer for the atlantic, front of this program, thank you for your time tonight. thanks alex. just ahead, well the recent discovery of classified documents at president biden s delaware home, will that impact merck arlene s thinking when
shows. every single person who has been on the fringes of the last couple years have been rewarded, in power. we are going to see so much more of paul gosar, marjorie taylor greene, again, they are dealing with self perpetuation in very narrow, focus desks tricks that involves their own political interests and foxes political interests. in national elections and autopsies and things like that, are not the kinds of things they think about, nor are they thinking about what is good for the country. do you think we are going to default on our credit? when it comes to the deep debt ceiling. how nihilistic do you think the republican party is willing to be in the stage at the game? we are going to find out. i hate to be honest about it, but look. i think, obviously democrats were thrilled, pretty much of the election, the midterm election results. they knew especially if they kept the senate, which they did, we amount of damage that the house could do was somewhat contained by the fact