richard haass. and nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. also with us, the founder of the conservative website, charlie. liz cheney, one of two republicans serving on the committee, went on fox news yesterday to defend the committee s work. here s how she responded to a question about why capitol police weren t better prepared for the attack. it s an entire focus of the investigation. you will see in our report. you ll likely see in upcoming hearings, so it is certainly something we re going to be focused on. but what we aren t going to do, brett, is blame the capitol police, blame those in law enforcement for donald trump s armed mob that he sent to the capitol. kevin mccarthy decided not to participate in the committee, that, somehow, the house of representatives cannot investigate the single worst attack on the capitol since the war in 1812. cheney discussed the committee s interest in interviewing ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas.
we have to identify and criticize our own addiction to fossil fuels. i mean, just in the new york times today, the republic of congo is now going to auction off parts of its rain forest. $500 million is going to go by auctioning the rain forest, which sucks up the carbon and helps us live. until we unction the stakes, we re definitely in peril. there s lots of things we can do. we can use trade agreements to tax stuff made with coal going across the international lines. we can try to preserve the rain forest. nuclear power. why is there no serious debate in this country and around the world about expanding the use of nuclear power? it does not emit any greenhouse gases. the inconsistency here is marked. we have to live with fossil fuels for decades, but all fossil fuels are not equal. natural gas is not the same as coal. we re going to need a fossil fuel transition. there s so much that can be