Going to take to find out what happened? it will take talking to a lot of people, thorough investigations. We want to do this expeditiously. We don t want to drag this out. But we want to know i think is kind of like the shot we have as a country to get answers to what led up to it, what really happened and what happened in the aftermath. And so i would expect to see a significant number of subpoenas for a lot of people. Would you support subpoenas to the republican leader in the house and to jim jordan? i would support subpoenas to anybody that can shed light on that. If that s the leader, that s the leader. And in those comments kinzinger is echoing comments from the chairman of the committee, bennie thompson, who says they will not hesitate to subpoena members of congress. From the washington post reporting, quote, the leaders of the house committee investigating the january 6 attack on the capitol are promising a vigorous inquiry into a day they have called a threat to american dem
There was no widespread or organized or partisan fraud in the 2020 election. There wasn t even small scale fraud. Many americans see through this employ and some are fighting back against it. This week former texas congressman beto o rourke and dr. Barber with the poor peoples campaign will embark on a three day march to protest the restrictive voting bills that republicans there are trying to enact. Meanwhile, democratic state lawmakers from texas are coming up on their third week in washington, d. C. As long as they are able, the legislature can t reach a quorum which prvents republicans from passing the restrictives i thei. President biden has spoken out against the tactics calling it a 21st century jim crow assault but the question remains, what will he do about it? testimon democrats want reform of the filibuster rule so that they can implement federal protections through the john lewis act and for the people act. Here is what jim clyburn told me last hour about the president s co
Used to it. Unlike the mountain west, which lives with forest fire, this kind of smoke has felt dystopian and new. In fact, it s not just your imagination of it feels that way to you, if you live in that part of the country, the air quality index in parts of newark city yesterday was over 170, which is the worst it has never been in 14 years. When you think about that air quality, there is no way to escape it. No matter how much money you have, where you live, in the end, everyone has to prove the same air. It s a real wake up call yesterday for everyone in the parts of the country covered with the smoke. Breathing that same air that emanated from wildfires thousands of miles away in the west. Turns out, we share the same climate with them. Right now there are more than 80 fires burning across the 13 states, many more burning across canada. And as this incredible new york times interactive map shows the smoke from those fires is why the air is so hazy in these parts of the country. Her
Washed, specific washed, specific washington, d. C. , specifically tod. Ask for federal help, to a for new t federal protection th could set a floor on voting rights that no state can fall below. That, of course s the idea behind the for the people act. The for the people act is busy not passing the united states senate right now. Basically because of one conservative democratic senator named joe manchin. The texas democrats have met with him directly. Er they have met with other senators as well. They ve met with white house officials up to and include the vice president kamala harris. These texas democrats are away from their families, away from their jobs and businesses, away from their beloved texas. They re likely to be staying away for weeks to continue to press this case and to make sure there is no quorum at home. Like i said, they are literally facing arrest when they do go back to texas. And now six of these texas democrats have tested positive for covid in recent days. It wa
Participate. House republicans take their ball and go home over the january 6th investigation. Plus we ve got two epidemics go on right now. One of those biological caused by a virus. The other is informational. The head of the national institutes of health on how to fight covid misinformation. Then there are very few businessmen that ever survive in the political part of washington. The latest on the arrest of trump s inaugural chairman and what it can tell us about the expresident s actions in the middle east when, all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. For the last two days, much of the northeast and midwest look like this. The haze of the sun, a thick smog over an entire region of this country that is very much not used to it. Unlike the mountain west which lives with forest fires, this kind of smoke settling over the eastern seaboard has felt dystopian and new. In fact, it s not just your imagination if it feels that way to you, if you live in that p