and remember, this came after mccarthy had rejected a proposal for a bipartisan commission that would have given equal membership and subpoena power to democrats and republicans. only after all that, did house democrats set up a select committee, which has two republican members. the only two who would actually join. one of whom, liz cheney, was drummed out of the gop leadership. so, kevin mccarthy, we hope that corrects the record just as we hope these latest dielt indictments do the same when it comes to efforts to paint a violent insurrection as something less. more now from ed lavandera who was in court today in plano, texas. so, ed, what happened in court? reporter: well, stuart rhodes, who is leader of the oath keepers made his initial appearance in federal court today here in plano, texas, not too far from where he was arrested 24 hours ago, the dallas-ft. worth suburb of little elm. he appeared calm and unfazed by everything going on. essentially, it was a brief-court appeara
korea they actually get. yeah, because we didn t get a read out of the last meeting, i don t believe, or certainly there was still questions about what happened. i want to move to the domestic front. there have been a lot of developments in the mueller investigation. based on what we ve learned from this past week, do you get the sense the probe is getting closer to touching the president? i don t know. i think robert mueller was clearly doing two things strategically this week. one was the dielt indictment of manafort and gates over matters that are at best tangentially related. it is about payments they received from a russian aligned political party in the ukraine. but then there was this other indictment of george papadopoulos, the low level campaign adviser who is pleading guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russia in the course of the campaign. so i think what the special prosecutor is trying to do here is to get people to flip, to see if he can put pressure on