anniversary later this week. thanks for the fresh reporting. with me to share the reporting and insights margaret at alloff and lauren fox and arabia rasko. up on capitol hill republicans have tried to forget this happened and others have tried to undermine it. when you hear testimony like that, keith kellogg, a trump loyalist, testifying under oath among the firsthand witnesses who say the president essentially sat there when people were calling from capitol hill, his daughter at least twice said dad, do something about this. will cha that change minds among republicans on capitol hill or will it continue to whitewash? i think they are clearly attempted to whitewash what happened on january 6th and i don t expect in a to change. remember, kevin mccarthy sent a left commemorating the fact that january 6th was coming up and didn t mention that letter to his colleagues, just a brief mention of january 6th but one thing to keep in mind about all
that s the issue. that is the issue. margaret, when you hear liz cheney talk about just calmly and bluntly we have firsthand witnesses, firsthand witnesses of what donald trump was doing and more importantly what he was not doing. lauren mentioned kevin mccarthy and his letter at the top of the program. do you think he had a sense here in that he had a chance to have a real bipartisan committee. he blew it up. liz cheney and adam kinzinger joined it, the committee surprised a lot of people by methodically going about its work and having its case and you don t have a distraction of some trump ally blowing it up because kevin mccarthy walked away. john, i think mccarthy a year ago made a calculated decision that it was a political imperative for him to stick with donald trump on this and not go his own way and he stuck by that for better or for worse, both politically and substanttively.