contact him. through his chief of staff. we also have information of other individuals who made calls trying to get some asemi-blens of response out of the white house. but for the 187 minutes, nothing happened. >> regardless of the proof congress may find there's concerning polling about if americans will believe it. the "washington post" surveyed out today. showing 92% of democrats saying trump bares a great deal or a good amount of blame for the attack. only 27% of republicans blame the former president. even more concerning. "washington post" polling finding 40% of republicans believe violent action against the government is sometimes justified. as for the former twice impeached president, he is planning to hold what he is calling a news conference january 6. in mar-a-lago. anticipated rerun of whitewashing the insurrection. after he lost the 2020 election. we have news this hour on one of his biggest cheer leaders. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. her political career has been propelled by spreading lies and disinformation. today, twitter finally said enough. the platform permanently banning the georgia congresswoman personal account. for spreading lies about covid-19. but, her official congressional twitter account remains in operation. joining us now to discuss, seen yore editor for insider. and political analyst and democratic strategist. i want to start with you. you look at the polling and lt numbers about who believes what. what is does that tell you about what the next few months and weeks look like. >> representative hit the nail on the head when he said all of this truth with all of the evidence that we have there are certain people who won't believe it. we know what he's talking about the trump supporters who trump has been able to hold in to his grips with lies and his consistent themes of just ignoring reality of how serious and dangerous january 6 was. and the impact that that has had on the democracy. i do think that the the select committee has an uphill battle in terms of what it's presenting to the public and public hearings. not necessarily to persuade the individuals. but to make sure that anybody who is responsible for planning, executing and funding and participating in this attack is held accountable. because going into this year, we know there are concerns about that. we know there are concerns about the doj and potential to run an investigation and what criminal referrals could come from this. the select committee has a heavy lift here. i appreciate chairman thomas laying out what they do know now that they didn't before. more of that will come. like we heard from the explosive text messages the committee laid out. i think the public hearings early in the coming months are going to be telling about the pictures they're going to display. voters aren't watching their ever move like we are. we know that will be the opportunity to lay out the case. lay out why individuals should be held accountable and actually who will be held accountable. >> to that point, three of us sat here many times and sid midterms in 202020. it's now 2022. when you look at the poll number, roughly four in ten republicans and independents saying violent action against the government is sometimes justified. how does this fall midterm impact the pace of the investigation? >> i don't know that i think given that the midterms are out there and there's the prospect real prospect that democrats lose control of the house. this committee understands they need to wrap it up. quickly. and i think the goal is to do that by the middle of the year. and that's obviously driven in part by the political calendar. i think when you look at it in terms of the politics. this is tough. this is not necessarily a huge issue that you're seeing democrats running on. it's become january 6 the insurrection trump big lie, all of that is more central to the politics on the republican side. rather than running away from it, this is now who they are. they are defending it. this is the new lost cause. and when so many of the voters live in this sealed chamber. they are just totally to facts and evidence. republican candidates run as far to the right. putting their arms around the former president. as tightly as they can. and you're not seeing on the left. you're not seeing democrats out there they're going to talk about it. but you get the sense that is not going to be the issue. saving democracy. is not going to be the issue that gets voters to the polls. if anything, it gives maybe a little more motivation to come up with some way to address voting rights. so the democratic base isn't frustrated. the republicans pass all lies predicated on the big lie. to make it harder to vote. and the democrats who own the power haven't done anything. and haven't come up with a federal response. the pressure will fall on democrats the white house and democratic majority. slim majority. in congress. over the next few months. to try to come up with some legislative response. to what republicans have done around voting laws. >> do you agree. >> i do think that the focus on voting rights is going to be critical. i think this is an opportunity for democrats to really label republicans as the antidemocratic and democracy party. as an unpatriotic party. keep in mind they have obstructed any investigation into what happened every step oeft way. they refuse to hold trump accountable at the impeachment trial. and any commission to dig into january 6. that's something democrats absolutely should be zeroing in on. we know republicans don't have anything of sub tans to run on. they will trend further to the right. keep in mind how that can turn off swing voters who swung from trump to biden. they don't necessarily want that across the country. i think that again goes to the point that while voters might not be watching every single step of the day of the select committee work. they are watching for what precipitates from the investigation. knowing that swing voters can be turned off from more republicans going further to the right. or more being implicated and planning and executing january of 6. could have an impact into 2022. >> it strikes me. it's a good point. the right point. we all watch the moment to moment of how this has unfolded. that is just not true for most voters. i think the caveat is the january 6 committee is entering a new phase of the investigation. holding public hearings. what can we expect in the next few month ins this investigation in the realm of the public hearings? and does the fact that there's now going to be a much more public component of it potentially extend the reach of who is going to be following the goings on? >> we can absolutely expect a more public aspect of the invest. a lot of the information has been coming out. even details over the past week about videos that we probably are going to see. and hopefully see about what trump recorded before he sent a message that day last year. we'll see a lot of information coming out. it's going to help the case because as we saw in the past public hearing, we heard from capitol officer ands emotional powerful testimony. that resonated with people. hearing the firsthand accounts of the truth of the matter opposed to what's been spun or changed. the narrative changed in the past several months. and now here after this investigation started. all of that is hanging in the balance right now. what we can expect going forward is that to put this in front of the american people is beyond important. at this point. considering that, all the attacks on democracy have happened not in a dramatic video. not a dramatic scene or camera. or many screens in the past several months to the year. a lot of them have been happening on the local level. the attacks against elected officials. misinformation from elected officials as well. we have seen so many bills mentioned earlier that have really taken attacks on restricting the access to the ballot. we have seen proposals and bills coming in to 2022. this attack on democracy goes beyond of what happened on 1y57 6. americans probably around able to see that up front. what the investigation will lay out firsthand experiences. what people need to know. what they need to hear and see. however we know that may not always make a difference. the polling shows it as is. it is disappointing to see. what we can do is hope that with more information, with a public hearing. with more public hearings. and testimony. and information that is clearly laid out for the american people, they can trust what they're hearing. actually happened and a full on attack on democracy. >> chairwoman liz cheney spoke about trumps actions during the riot. take a listen. >> we know as he was sitting there in the dining room next to the oval office, members of his staff were pleading with him to go on tv. to tell people to stop. we know leader mccarthy was pleading with him to do that. members of his family. his daughter. firsthand testimony that his daughter went in at least twice. to ask him to please stop this violence. >> that is what we know. what do we not know? >> we don't know what trump said to certain people about why he wasn't doing it. there maybe other things that we learned from some of the reporting that has been done. in terms of what was happening with the trump brain trust and the various efforts they were looking the levers looking to pull. to prevent the vote from being certified. there could be more that comes out and i'm sure there will be. there's already so much that is in public view. again trump was making calls publicly. he said he won the election on election night. he encouraged the folks down to walk over to the capitol. and march on the capitol. and then he waited for so long in the white house before he came out and made the video statement. it took three takes. we know from reporting that we have. the first couple takes were too sympathetic to the insurrectionists and the one he put out eventually was still sympathetic. telling them he loved them. it's clear already trump didn't necessarily want to call off the dogs. he wanted to see how it played out. he thought maybe it had a chance to succeed and stop the certification of the victory of joe biden. and his defeat. we already know that. i think yes there will be compelling hearings this summer. perhaps earlier. whenever the committee puts out the report. there will be more information. it's up to the public to digest it. and it's what we have seen so far is this splits down partisan lines and liz cheney and kin singer are ont committee. they are the only republicans that have anything to do with it. the majority are trashing them. pushing primary challenges against them. you see where the emotional center of the republican party remains. where it was last year. in the year before that. and it's going to be really difficult for this report i think to move the needle of public opinion. in a serious and lasting way. >> thank you all for getting us started. it's officially a midterm year. on the promises biden and democrats need to make good on. to hold the majority in november. and we'll discuss the push to energize young voters. plus america surpasses 55 million cases of covid. expert advice ahead on how to slow the spread. with omicron in the mix. e mix. one of the worst things about a cold sore is how it can make you feel. but, when used at the first sign, abreva can get you back to being you in just 2 and a half days. be kinder to yourself and tougher on your cold sores. up at 2:00am again? 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>> only if there's pressure. part of the problem is too many people have not been pressured. they sat gnat back room with him and gave him time. the pressure has to come from west virginia. and impacted people. 80% of west virginia won't expand voting rights. 75% won't build back better. one of the things the president and vice president need to do is first of all meet with poor and low wage people who asked to meet with him. and religious leaders. and give them the mike. to turn it from biden vs. manchin. and cinema. vs. the 140 million poor poor in the country. we also have to be clear. we can't we should have never separated infrastructure from the infrastructure of the daily lives. which is build back better. the infrastructure of the democracy. we knew he was lying. more importantly we have to tell people when you talk about the build back better you talk about 1.9, 31 million families being lifted. 17 million low wage workers. you talk about 4 million people getting healthcare they don't have it. talk about millions of home healthcare workers getting $15 living wage and paid leave. talking about 32 million people if you pass $15 living wage. being raised from poverty. to a living wage. and when you talk about voting rights you talk about 56 million people. who used processes in 2020 if we allow voter suppression to continue. they no longer have the access. we need to keep it together. put poor and low wealth people the exacted people and leaders at the front of it. and make it a moral issue. if that happens, yes, you can turn the tide on this we believe that. >> "new york times" editorial board this weekend said quote mr. bidenen and other leading democrats should make use of what remaining power they have to end the filibuster for voting rights legislation. even if nothing else. you support nuking the filibuster. do you get the sense from democrats that you have spoken to they are willing to take that step? 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>> democrats know they need to do better with young voters. it's always been the case. we always found ways to try to engage them. if you break up the numbers you're seeing president biden does well with the younger college educated voters. where he needs to do better more democrats need to do better is the non-college educated younger voters. and a lot of the data you showed on your screen right now could be improved by passing bills like build back better. younger voters don't want to see the gridlock in washington. they might not be paying taeng to the day-to-day. they know washington is dysfunctional. and so, what the biden administration and democrats need to do is show how they're delivering on climate change. and putting money in their pocket. how are we getting over the pandemic. all of these things can be passed through legislation. and different policies that the biden administration is currently pushing. >> so here's the thing i think when ever i see the numbers. i know he's with me. it's a midterm year. you talk about young voters. there's always someone groans and says why are we talking about them. they're not going to show up. that's part of the why. we have to invite them into the conversation. we have to make them a part of the conversation. so there are resources and efforts to engage them and understanding things like that colle differential. i'm going to guess you are in a lot of meetings where you are asked if poll numbers look like that why do you think we should be investing what's the case that you make? >> i think the biggest issue with voters is there's a lack of messaging. that's something we have seen in our own research. the biggest issue is that young voters do not understand what's inside of the bill. that are currently being debated. for example build back better. there's a lot of parts cater to young voters. in but in the research we figure that people do not understand what's in there and core relates with mistrust in the biden administration and i think congressional democrats and need to fix quickly for voters to support them in the midterm. >> is that a mistrust of the biden administration or the congress? is it individuals or of the system writ large? >> it's a mistrust in government really and the biggest issue is they don't feel listened to. that's the big part of why we are asking the administration and congressional voters to give a voice and establish a white house student advisory board to bring millennial activists inside the white house and listen to what their priorities are. it is kind of hard for us as an older president to understand what's affecting young voters without listening to them. that's what we push them to do. >> do you remember when we were young voters and have this conversation? there's this piece about how you message that is, of course, critical. a piece about delivering legislation. the other thing is this comes down to access, to how easy it is to vote and how accessible voting is. so as we have this conversation about voting rights in this country one of the groups we need to be most concerned about is young americans. >> yeah. absolutely right. and you have seen states like texas and georgia trying to pass voter suppression laws because if democrats can't turn out young and minority voters that republicans will win and why you have seen chuck schumer and the president and the democratic leadership come out and say at the beginning of this year we will tackle voting rights because they understand if they don't restore the voting rights about, if they don't put measures in place then democrats won't win and democrats can't make progress for the american people so you will see a big push at the start of the year because of the young voters and minority voters and the republicans will continue to attempt to silence them. >> we talked about build back better and voting rights and want to talk about student debt which of course is an issue to the american economy at large. often gets painted as a young person issue. we can understand there's multiple generations at this point saddled with an unprecedented level of student debt. is that an issue? do you believe that the biden administration differed on student debt that that could be a turning point? >> without a doubt. they would vote with inflation of any student debt and not to say if it's canceled altogether. reform is something that young voters care about. the agenda included free college and got left on the sidelines when build back better is negotiated. yes absolutely. the student debt canceled there could be so much energy behind supporting democrats in the midterm election. >> we'll continue to follow this. we'll be seeing more of both of you. thank you. the biggest unknowns as we approach one year since the insurrection. plus twitter takes down the personal account of a controversial congresswoman who spread lie after lie about covid. mayor of boulder, colorado, how the city is helping the neighbors torn apart by the wild fire. remembering the golden girl for the laughs and fierce fights for equality. a woman we can thank for being a friend. automotive donor to make-a-wish and meals on wheels. and the largest corporate donor to the aspca and national park foundation. get a new subaru during the share the love event and subaru will donate two hundred and fifty dollars to charity. y'all heard it here. if you wanna be fresh, you gotta refresh, like subway®. like the new baja steak & jack tender, thicker-cut steak and. wait sooo you're not coming out of retirement? 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