good morning. i m peter alexander. we ve live here on capitol hill, where tonight the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack here will hold its first hearing. it will take place in primetime. a chance for that committee to grab the attention of the american public to try to lay out its case. it has now been more than 500 days since the attack in this building. the images haunting. but the impact has been waning over time. the committee that hopes to show donald trump s election with his election loss and repeated false claims of voter fraud laid the foundation for the deadly siege. but as our meet the press first read team puts it, what if folks who watch tonight are part of nearly half americans who already believe donald trump was mainly responsible for what happened on january 6th? and what if the other half of americans do not tune in? the committee does have a lot of work that it has to get done tonight, try to make its case. there are going to be si
right now, the so what? what do we get out of this? you know americans were furious about what happened on january 6th, they re going to be watching with outrage. the challenge is to get the other americans who may not have been persuaded or may not have paid a loft attention to it. what is success? how do you define these hearings would be successful? success is getting the truth to the american public. on the greatest attack on our capital, in our democracy, in our country s history. i was here on january 6th, and you note correctly that i was one of the impeachment managers for the second impeachment. we at that point painted a picture of what we knew at that time. in the meantime, this committee, a bipartisan committee with extraordinary colleagues of mine collected more than a thousand interviews, hundred of thousands of documents, texts, and what the american people deserve is the truth. what was the coordination for the planned attack on the seat of our democracy for the plann
its higher now and some areas lower. what s the truth? what happened was in 2017 border patrol agents call it the trump effect. when president trump came in everybody thought that if you cross the border illegally you would be held and deported. unfortunately our leadership didn t follow through on the promises that president trump made and so the catch and release program continued. the smugglers found that out and started crossing their products en masse again. in 2018, february of 2018 that was the first month that we saw more apprehensions than in the corresponding februarys in 2015 and 2016, the last two years of president obama. bill: last question. just talking about it has it helped you? president trump has put a loft attention on this issue. it has. that s the trump effect. when he talks about something, everybody takes notice. now he is talking about the catch and release. people will take notice and we expect to see another huge drop.
welcome back to hardball. what happened at the white house after the country s governs met there with the president yesterday. it s been getting a loft attention, not all good for louisiana governor bobby jindal. in case you missed it, here is what happened. as usual, the governors sounded themes of bipartisanship and camaraderie until jindal took the microphone. jindal broke the kumbahyah spirit taking aim at the president, particularly his push for a federal minimum wage of $10.10, provoking dannel malloy of connecticut to jump in to challenge mr. jindal. i heard a question over here about whether he mentioned the minimum wage? yes, he did mention the minimum wage repeatedly to us. what i worry about is this president of the white house seems to be waving the white flag of surrender of after more than five years now under this administration, the obama economy is now the minimum wage
after the country s governs met there with the president yesterday. it s been getting a loft attention, not all good for louisiana governor bobby jindal. in case you missed it, here is what happened. as usual, the governors sounded themes of bipartisanship and camaraderie until jindal took the microphone. jindal broke the kumbahyah spirit taking aim at the president, particularly his push for a federal minimum wage of $10.10, provoking dannel malloy of connecticut to jump in to challenge mr. jindal. i heard a question over here about whether he mentioned the minimum wage? yes, he did mention the minimum wage repeatedly to us. what i worry about is this president of the white house seems to be waving the white flag of surrender of after more than five years now under this administration, the obama economy is now the minimum wage economy. i think we can do better than that. i think america can do better than that. just one second. until a few moments ago, we were going down a pretty