domestic rortder and msnbc contributor. josh, let me start with this one, we are almost one year in, how close are we to figuring out what happened in the lead-up to january 6 and how to prevent it, from happening, going forward? well, i think there s been considerable progress on the second half of that question yasmin, in terms of what can be done at tactical level for the capitol to prevent this happening again. in terms of what happened on january 6, i think there s been some progress, the text messages you mentioned earlier are certainly enlightening and suggest the house investigation is getting some traction in obtaining information about what happened, but there are still a lot of puzzles left here. in particular, surrounding president trump himself. we know about these texts that people were trying to urgently reach him through mark meadows,
questions on the january 6 attack, much more though to come. news this week about trump s allies in congress speaking of the stop the steal movement in the lead-up to january 6, andy biggs, all named in the lawsuit and roger stone, another trump ally this week, but stone refused to answer their questions after invoking his fifth amendment rights of self-incrimination and saw this guy, robert palmer, sentenced to 63 months in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers at the capitol. so much to talk about, to make sense of it all and these developments josh gorestein senior writer politico, and
what we still don t know is what was president trump doing? i think there have been some sketchy reports that he was watching tv and seemed satisfied or happy with what was going on but yet to get really firsthand accounts of what was the president doing as the violence unfolded and as he seemed so reluctant to make a sort of statement to call off his folks. and josh, the clock is ticking. i mean the midterms are around the corner here in which republicans could take back control of congress, and at that point, this investigation could feasibly be over. right, the committee, i think, has been careful not to set out an explicit time line especially considering the stonewalling from some of the witnesses they re trying to talk to, but you re right, there s a sort of practical deadline that by the end of the spring if they haven t brought the investigation to a conclusion and aiming towards a public report, the whole thing sort of