be less known out to those of us watching. but who may be central to what was going on in the white house. and you start to build a narrative and others start to cooperate. and then it gets to the point where someone like mark meadows has to say, all right, am i going to rebut this committee and allow the committee and the other witnesses to paint the picture of me that will go down in history. or do i want to go in there and give my side of the story? and that is why the momentum matters. it s that it starts putting pressure on everyone around the president to get in there. to tell their side of the story. but when you have documents like they do and you have numerous witnesses as the do, you can t make up a story as easily as you might be able to if everything were being played out in public. so there is so much that we don t know. over 300 witnesses, a lot of documents still to come. and that is why i think those
point. so naming that threat, naming the energy to the dam is going to increase pressure to democrats to add. because saying that our own mansion wanted bipartisan support on that is going to be insufficient. and honestly, it will also be a welcome mat for trump to expand his power and expand his authoritarian mission that we stand on display this far. so i say one because i am hopeful that they keep this energy. i am hopeful that they will use every tool available to them to pass these rights. because it falls exclusively to them. no one can step in here. and so when i see biden use this energy today, that is a signal to his entire party to get it done. daniel, there is one piece of criticism that is still out there that will need that didn t touch on. it is people who would like merrick garland to work faster. who would like merrick garland to get in there and do something about donald trump and his cronies on what they were up to a year ago today. what is your sense of the speed
so the energy that biden put on display today is the energy that democrats need to carry in order to flip the script. because the country s act skiing democrats, what are you going to do about everything that has gone wrong? talking about january six? talking about the voter suppression laws. so considering that republicans of resolve himself of any responsibility to fortify our democracy or protect our democracy, it all falls to democrats at this point. you said a lot of when is there, when they do that, when they did the other thing. but the fact is it s not for lack of trying on the parts of either democrats or the president. what changes? if there is another gear that joe biden has right now, what does that do for voting rights? what does that do for build back better? what does it do for covid? what does it do for americans who say, how are you making my life better? i think that the next gear is emphasizing the impact because let s be real. ali, the election in ten months cou
it. because they know they ll be held accountable. they know they ll be prosecuted for trying to undermine an election in the future. and so it comes back to democrats having that exclusively on their soldier. so at this point republicans have said they re going to try to minimize january six or continue to spread trump slight because they are fully happy being and lined with trump at this point. but on voting rights, ali, that is exactly right. when you think about the fact that black and brown voters can t access the polls, young people can t access the polls, people with disabilities can access the polls, it cannot matter. it doesn t matter what issues our country is facing. it doesn t matter how much the gas prices are. it doesn t matter all these other things that impact our reality because our basic and our rights are being denied to. and i think that underlying issue, the underlying reality is something that should probe democrats. the threat to our democracy is clear and presen
state and georgia to try and get him to find 11,000 more votes for him. he called michigan lawmakers. he called the governor of arizona. he repeatedly tried to use any influence he can detain the election and find the way to justify denying president biden the election that he had one. up to the point where he pressured his own vice president to take an action against the president that was unconstitutional on that day on january six. so with this committee has to do and forces to lay out a narrative that would be compelling to voters who haven t already made up their minds about it. many americans already have a pretty strong view of january six. the jen the question is are they coming up with something that would change some minds? we ve already got more than 300 interviews and have 37,000 documents. they have already uncovered these text messages involving mark meadows, and we know that