culmination of an extensive federal investigation, an investigation that was arguably kicked into high gear thanks to a decision made by speaker nancy pelosi two years ago. this morning, with great solemnity and sadness, i m announcing that the house will be establishing a select committee on the january 6th insurrection. we know from reporting that speaker pelosi did not make that decision likely, that decision to go forward without the cooperation of the minority leader kevin mccarthy. democrats have tried to establish a bipartisan january 6th committee but leader kevin mccarthy said he would appoint trump loyalists to it, trump loyalists like election deniers, jim jordan and jim banks. and he wanted them to be on that panel. and ultimately, speaker pelosi decided to establish the committee on her own, without leader mccarthy s chosen
nancy pelosi two years ago. this morning, with great solemnity and sadness, i m announcing that the house will be establishing a select committee on the january 6th insurrection. we know from reporting that speaker pelosi did not make that decision lightly, that decision to go forward without the cooperation of the minority leader kevin mccarthy. democrats have tried to establish a bipartisan january 6th committee but leader kevin mccarthy said he would appoint trump loyalists to it, trump loyalists like election deniers jim jordan and jim banks. and he wanted them to be on that panel. and ultimately, speaker pelosi decided to establish the committee on her own, without leader mccarthy s chosen members. she picked seven democrats and two republicans for the task. and that house select committee would go on to produce one of
decision lightly, that decision to go forward without the cooperation of then minority leader kevin mccarthy. democrats had tried to establish a bipartisan january 6th committee, but leader kevin mccarthy said he would appoint trump loyalists to it like election deniers jim jordan and jim banks, and he wanted them to be on that panel. and ultimately speaker pelosi decided to establish the committee on her own without leader mccarthy s chosen members. she picked seven democrats and two republicans for the task. and that house select committee would go onto produce one of the most detailed and explosive and public accounts of what donald trump did in the lead-up to the attack on the capitol. right out of the box on election night the president claimed that there was major fraud underway, and this happened as far as i can tell before there was actuallyby
declassified when i took them. of course, this isn t the only potential indictment staring trump down tonight because we are learning that trump has privately told people that he will be indicted in the georgia criminal probe to overturn the election in the state of georgia. trump s team is reaching out to allies on capitol hill and they ve been handing out talking points encouraging trump loyalists to go out in the media in the form of the president s defense. kat kat katelyn polantz is covering the details what are you learning tonight? this is one where prosecutors are piecing together all of the bits that could lead them to charge donald trump with knowingly, willfully, having classified or national security records outside of the protected hands of the federal government and in his possession after he left the white house. so, erin, whenever you look back
trumpist republicans, but within that tribe itself. and so that creates a very different and somewhat unpredictable dynamic because we don t know exactly how it will play out because you have trump loyalists who are suddenly attacking other former trump loyalists in various different ways. and there is also a point at which a movement becomes a fight over the spoils. right now that audience are the spoils and there is a lot of media vultures who would like a piece of that. so interesting. i think you re right. there is no more fight between pro trump and anti-trump republicans. it is between pro trump and more trump republicans. it will be fun to watch. mike, thank you for your reporting. joyce vance, donny deutsch, charlie sykes, thanks for starting us off. when we come back, ron desantis is trying to score political points whenhe bashes the