Breaking news this morning, as Hallie Jackson announced. We just learned about this 9/11 style commission to look into what happened at the insurrection. This is something that has been, safe to say, months in the making, Jackson said. There had not been bipartisan agreement but that has changed as of today. That s right. These had been incredibly thorny negotiations between Congressional leadership, Garrett Haake said. They kicked it out to the chairman and ranking member of the House Homeland Security committee, who came up with a deal in fairly short order here. The outline of it is this: There will be a truly bipartisan commission, ten members, the appointments broken up between the various congressional leaderships. They will have subpoena power and are authorized to investigate January 6 and the immediate events that led up to it. Their report will be due by the end of this year.
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MSNBC correspondent Sam Brock conceded this week he’s not sure how Florida’s new voting bill suppresses the vote. He just knows critics say it s bad, and that s good enough for the network s prime-time news coverage.
Groucho Marx sang a song once to this effect. This was probably the most instructive MSNBC news segment in a long while.
“I spoke with a voting law expert who said it s like 1,000 paper cuts,” said Brock, weirdly declining to give the name of the so-called expert. “It s not clear what any one of the components of S.B. 90 will actually do in terms of suppressing the vote. When you add them all up together, it could make for a lot of bleeding when it comes to voter access.”