of the witnesses in the house investigation into the january 6th attack. plus, republican congresswoman liz cheney of the committee defending her work there during last night s republican primary debate in wyoming, as she fights to keep her seat in congress. and the latest in the debate over abortion rights. president biden says the senate should make an exception and suspend the filibuster and its rules to allow new protections to make it through congress. but does he have the votes to pull that off? we ll discuss it. and a brutal six months for financial markets, as wall street closes out one of its worst periods in a half century. brian sullivan joins us in a moment to look ahead to the next six months. with us this morning, we have u.s. special correspondent for bbc news katty kay. and pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. let s start with the questions of whether donald trump may be trying to influence wi
uh-huh. isn t that happening faster, actually, than the rules would have made it happen, just because of market forces? well, i think you re right, gene, yeah. and i think that s one aspect to this. i know the headline for the supreme court seems pretty grim, to your point. these laws actually were never enacted. in fact, they were based off nixon era law that also was never enacted. i think the court was trying to make a bigger point. yes, you are correct. market forces are working to say, guess what? with esg, environmental social governance investing, we don t want coal. the wall street money is not beginning to go there anyway. these ultimately are going to go away. they re bad for the planet. what we re going to do is put all our wall street capital, global capital, into things like either natural gas, maybe nuclear, we ll see, gene, wind, solar, et cetera, and the irony of it is, right now, is that