lawmakers seated, there is no real opposition, no pushback to question any of the conclusions or expand inquiry. over the next couple of weeks, we anticipate the unveiling of never before seen testimony, documents, video, audio from january 6th. even tonight we will see that whether that changes how people look at the event or how much it impacts politics going forward is yet to be seen. congressional correspondent chad pergram starts us off tonight live from capitol hill. good evening, chad. good evening, bret. the goal of the committee remind the public of what happened that day and warn people of threats to american democracy. tonight s hearing is a made for tv docudrama in prime time. tonight will be sort of an opening of the narration, the narrative of what happened as an assault on our democracy on our constitution, on our capitol, on our congress and in a very violent way. republicans anticipate something else. we can expect a circus. the democrats have been sh
bret: martha and i will be covering it on fox business. have coverage dip in here. the new york times has an op-ed by david brooks. the january 6th committee has already blown it we need a committee to locate the weaknesses in our democratic system and society and find ways to address them. the core problem here is not the minute neuro shah who texted what to mark meadows on january 6th last year. the core problem is millions of americans who have three convictions that the election was stolen, violent was justified to rectify it and norms that hold our society together don t matter. let s bring in our panel josh kraushaar. byron york cheel political correspondent washington examiner. , byron, your thoughts on tonight it seems like they have set the bar pretty high. they need to deliver something that tells this narrative. they have. first of all, we needed a
hands of the russians. tonight they feel more confident that russia is going into ukraine here is new york times writes it extraordinary new demands and threats following his military build up on the borders of ukraine, nato back to basics, continuing russian power and more discussion cold war with its firm dividing lines for europe and russian some and spheres of influence. american allies of nato s purpose. we ll start there with our panel. byron york chief political correspondent washington examiner. mollie hemingway senior editor at the federalist and jeff mason white house correspondent for reuters. jeff, let me start with you. i think we heard from the national security adviser we heard from the pentagon and there are more and more words suggesting that russia is increasingly aggressive. absolutely. and the evidence of that is beyond rhetorical. it s also the amount of troops
russian economy including sea foods, vodka and diamonds and continue to squeeze putin. direct confrontation between nato and russia is world war iii. something we must try to prevent. from everything that we know and have witnessed putin shows no sign of engaging in serious diplomacy. bret: well, the situation in ukraine continues day to day as the ukrainians battle back but here in the u.s. the battle is on the gas pump and what you are seeing as you pay for gas. if you look at the national average of gas prices, 4.33 now and you can see one week ago, one year ago, big changes. let s bring in our panel byron york chief political correspondent washington examiner. dr. kraushaar politics editor for national journal and jeff mason white house correspondent for reuters.
to stop a new variant from spreading is to have less virus out there and the best way to do that is to get people vaccinated and to mask up until they are. bret: cdc director on this show just moments ago. we are going to digest all of that and the breaking news just moments ago. president biden was asked what it s going to look like going forward and he said to the pool of reporters you can expect more restrictions. we will try to turn around that soundbite when it comes. let s bring in our panel byron york chief political correspondent washington examiner. harold ford jr. former tennessee congressman and empowerment inclusion capitol and trey gowdy former congressman from south carolina. you listened to that interview and where the cdc director finds itself? i hear the phrase follow the science, bret, as you know early on there was some folks with m.d. behind their name that misstated the science. they thought they had a superior reason for doing so and then we