welcome back. as the nation prepares to mark the first anniversary of the insurrection at the capitol, members of congress focusing both on what happened and how to keep it from happening again. capitol police chief thomas major exposed departmental failures. the department is now absolutely able to defend against the type of threat we saw a year ago. at the same time, january 6th select committee continues to widen its investigation. benny thompson told cnn he would like to hear from the former vice president mike pence about what he was being told that day. the committee also asked fox news info tainment host to cooperate with its investigation calling him a fact witness and released text messages showing discussions hannity had with mark meadows and other trump allies expressing real concern about the lead up to the january
trying to replace us and the globalist eelites are doing it on purpose because it helps them somehow take over the country. it is a toxic stew. fed by fox news and other parts of the right wing info tainment complex and what is called this republican triangle of doom, promoting something, the base gets all worked up about it. republican politicians test it out. they get a good response from the base. and we re in this kind of triangle of doom that can only be broken if it is, well, two ways. voters have to repudiate it. you would think some responsible elites would. fox news is owned by certain people and has a board of directors. the republican party has leaders in the house and senate and governors. you know, it is kind of important the people who are closest to this repudiate it the most firmly and strongly i would think. and as you note it is a toxic ideology and has gotten people killed pushing this ideology.
better or worse for the democracy of this country. but if you are a republican and you are a, you know, frankly, a hard right republican and even those who, you know, just frankly like info-tainment at night, it gave them a place to watch and there is no question it changed the landscape and it changed politics. it changed republican politics. i saw the change in the years since fox news was on the air. we ll cover his death. i m sure we ll talk to a lot of voices throughout the day here. but let me talk about president trump. big news, people are waking up this morning, the appointment of former fbi director mueller now leading this investigation. rod rosenstein. we re talking to mag give haber man almost three hours ago and he was saying how thrilled the white house must be that we ve heard nothing from the president on twitter. because the president was
we know they colluded with wikileaks and hillary clinton. we know they are biased. we watch these questions, they are clear gotcha questions. there is no fidelity it seems to serve the american people and actually get to the truth, which is why they won t focus on white, we really need to be fired which i talked about in the last second. there s a lot of grandstanding in the entertainment culture. it s info-tainment instead of information. the more the snl becomes a destination place every saturday night, what did they do this weekend? than the reporters feel like their characters in the ongoing drama. you have just one brush and he becomes a character. jake tapper became a character. i imagine it s fun for these guys. sean: there is something
sean: certain things we have to remember here that i want you to comment on. we know they colluded with wikileaks and hillary clinton. we know they are biased. we watch these questions, they are clear gotcha questions. there is no fidelity it seems to serve the american people and actually get to the truth, which is why they won t focus on why comey really need to be fired which i talked about in the last segment. there s a lot of grandstanding in the entertainment culture. it s info-tainment instead of information. the more that snl becomes a destination place every saturday night, what did they do this weekend? then the reporters feel like they are characters in the ongoing drama. you have just one brush and he becomes a character. jake tapper became a character. i imagine it s fun for these guys. sean: there is something that is happening. saturday night live had record