its future but after another election denier wins his primary in maryland has the gop already made its choice? the outing republican governor of maryland larry hogan joins me to discuss. ahead. plus, feeling the heat. halfway through his second year, president biden still has a long to do list with pressure mounting to act on the climate crisis and turn around the economy. can the biden administration keep its promises? i ll speak to pete buttigieg in moments. the january 6th committee presented a season finale of sorts to the series of eight hearings they have held this summer. the committee laid out minute-by-minute how former president trump sat and watched as rioters stormed the capitol three hours he sat this refusing to call for the violence to end and refusing to reach out to the law enforcement or military to send help. this weekend two of former president trump s favorite newspapers both owned by rupert murdoch ran a pair of damming editorials saying trump s acti
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the committee, and i know the chairman must want to get things back on track. so, michael, just talk about the damage that this does, though, big picture, to have this committee in such disarray, such disarray that the fbi director told our manu raju he s not going to come testify and give those answers they need until the committee can get along and get its sort of house in order. this is the committee that guards the secrets, a lot of classified information that keeps this country safe. look, look, it s not very shocking to hear that there s politics going on in the congress. i mean, there always is in every investigation i ve ever been involved with. there have been communications between the party of the president and the party of his allies on the hill, so i wouldn t totally put too much stock in that. the fbi wants to do its work. they don t want congress to interfere. at the same time, congress feels like it has a duty to oversee
a lot of questions about how he s handled this and whether they can move forward in a credible way or perhaps the senate intelligence committee moving forward. perhaps that s where the focus will move if this does indeed break down. manu raju, great reporting. i can t emphasize that enough, getting the answers in realtime and getting to 10,000 steps, getting to the milestone by chasing nunes through the halls. great work, thank you. our panelists, we have alice stewart, republican strategist, former communications director for ted cruz, and dan pfiefer is here, former senior adviser to president obama. nice to have you both as we await paul ryan. alice, let me just ask you, what do you make of the confidence nunes is not exactly instilling in people by not answering these questions, very direct questions that he could have answered to manu? and he says, no, no, no, you already asked that, why are you asking so many questions? go back and look at your transcripts. that is not be
that issue, and it was a simple yes or no question did you talk about russia at all? and why that s significant is some members on the committee believe that he may have compromised this investigation by talking about russia at the same time that the committee s investigating russia and those alleged contacts that happened with the trump campaign. but the upshot being that devin nunes says he s not going anywhere, and it will take republicans, and particularly speaker ryan, who we re going to hear from momentarily to call for him to step down, and we re not getting any indication that will happen as of yet, guys. manu, that s a good point, behind you speaker ryan will speak any second, so we forgive you if you have to duck down any minute or not answer, but the fact remains, there are questions chairman nunes won t answer and in fact, there are new questions raised every day that he seems not to answer. we now know that he canceled what was supposed to be a public hearing for today