today on inside politics, you have blood on your hands. that s one gop senator told tech ceos like mark zuckerberg, a democratic senator told them that they, quote, suck at self-policing. this is a grilling happening as we speak before a senate committee. parents are in the audience who blame some of them blame their children s suicide, others, exploitation on social media on the people testifying. we re monitoring this hearing. we ll go back to it in a moment. but first, we re also standing by on this very busy day on capitol hill, for mike johnson to give his first house speaker as speaker, as he poses donald trump lead with the bill that we ve seen for decades on capitol hill. before we get to that, i want to get straight to manu raju who has new reporting on what has been going on behind the scenes with regard to that voter deal. manu, tell us what you re hearing. reporter: yeah, senate republican leaders are trying to decide whether they should go forward with that
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
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
senators, chuck grassley and ron johnson who have spearheaded these investigations into hunter biden, into the russia probe, kind of working backwards investigating what has already been investigated, and essentially trying to prove that the federal government is out to get conservatives. in their words, is weaponized against the american people. on the flip side, you have democrats led there by stacy plaskett saying, look, you re the reason this committee is being weaponized. if anything, you are weaponizing the federal government, which is very dangerous for the american people. i want you to take a listen to what jamie raskin had to say, remember, he was a member o. january 6th committee, he was part of the impeachment trials of former donald trump, and he was called by democrats today to be one of their witnesses, and this is the message he had. your subcommittee could become part of a proud history of serious bipartisan oversight stretching from the teapot dome investigation to
executives of the major oil companies had appeared before congress to speak about their relationship to climate change and i do think it is meaningful. yes, it s mostly talk today but it could set the stage for some more medical actions, most notably in budget negotiations under way on how much you spend on climate change and changing the economy to a cleaner and greener path. some people making comparisons with the tobacco hearings of the 90s, is it as big as that? there are those echoes. when big tobacco denied knowing that tobacco caused, or nicotine caused cancer, you have similar kinds of protestations from previous oil ceos, most notably lee raymond who was ceo of exxonmobil who denied any linkage between fossil fuel is global warming and today the