out front tonight, stunt show. i m going to show you some live pictures. that s the senate floor. the senate clerk is reading out loud the 628-page covid relief bill. this is expected to take about ten hours. it is after all, 628 pages. and you can thank republican senator ron johnson for this stall tickactic. it is a stunt pure and simple. by midnight he can change some democrats minds. that is not what he is actually trying to do. first of all, only one senator has been in the room the whole time listening. only one, and that senator is ron johnson. the senators who have been there, at most it s been a handful at a time. they weren t even paying close attention when they did stop by. this reading is not going to do anything but delay. and just hear it from the majority leader himself. we all know this will merely delay the inevitable. it will accomplish little more than a few sore throats for the senate clerks who work very hard day in, day out to help the senate functio
at this point, they have some of the communications devices belonging to the mob, members of the mob that invaded the capitol, and from looking at the devices they have found instances of communications with members of congress in the days around the january 6 insurrection. we don t know the content of those communications but in some cases we know that some of the rioters claimed that they were acting as security for members of congress who were going to speak at various rallies around that date. we also know that there s some indications that they re talking amongst each other with the contacts with the members of congress. at this point, wolf, we don t know that any members of congress are actually actively under investigation. there is not necessarily anything illegal about having those contacts but certainly one official said there s smoke here and investigators will have to figure it out. is this a new phase in the investigation? reporter: it is. we now have around