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i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto. tonight the january 6th committee will begin to lay out its evidence. after 11 months of interviewing witnesses, scrutinizing thousands of hours of video, more than 100,000 pages of documents, the panel will hold its first public hearing, this one in prime time. it will make a case, that the former president was at the center of a coordinated multistep effort to overturn joe biden s 2020 election win. the committee will present, it says, never-before-seen material. and chips of taped interviews with family officials, and witnesses who had an up-close view of the rioters in action. many leaders like kevin mccarthy, have been all over the air waves, trying to downplay and denigrate the committee s work. leaked audio from just five days after the insurrection, coming from mccarthy himself, reveals that he really wanted a bipartisan investigation into the attack. listen to part of that. we can t just sweep this under the rug. we ....
Of the american people. they think these are reasonabre, important things to do to make the kids safer, their families safer and the communities safer. they re not message bills. they re substantive bills that will make a difference in the safety of our country. david brooks wrote in the new york times today, the following we don t need a committee to regurgitate what happened. i don t want to miss the facts but the efforts more broadly to overturn the election. did congress miss an opportunity to pass remedies to prevent similar effort in the future? we ve been talking about remedies. you had the overwhelming majority of republicans vote against setting up a commission, that was a fair commission, in the united states senate, across the board. equal number of republicans and ....
That s not the case. that s not the fact. and this happens nowhere else in the world. not in big countries. not in democratic countries. not in dictatorships. no other country in the world has the gun violence that america has. and what we when you ask me, i don t know what the republicans will be for. i say nra stands for no republican action. the second amendment, obviously, the supreme court said, allows people to have guns in their homes. allows them to hunt. i m for that. that s fine. what they re not allowed to do is have criminals have guns. the court said, you can make reasonable efforts to oversee the use of guns. they kill people. these are all consistent. what we propose in the house, you say they re message bills. they re not message bills. the message is, the democratic party is responding to the will ....
Advantageous. with benghazi, infamously, they impaneled a select committee with a republican majority. they basically could steer the ship. my sense i said this yesterday but i know when you re doing message bills, okay? there are things that come out of the house that are not going anywhere in the senate. they re essentially passed along party lines to stake a claim in the ground. i wonder how this was read to the rest of the caucus. the thompson katko negotiations were happening were genuine negotiations actually strike a deal. it was undertaken to get to an actual objectivity. i said let s do this and the speaker kept actually pushing back on progressives saying we want to do this bipartisan. the speaker for anyone who knows her is an institutionalist. ....
But the speaker wanted it to be bipartisan but they didn t go along that, and now, a select committee that will have republicans on it still, and we will have the power, the facts, but this is not disappearing in any way. yeah, and i think the calculation here, so interesting, and less politically advantageous, and with benghazi, had a majority. they are the only ones that had subpoena power, and they could steer the ship. my sense, again, i said it yesterday and maybe i m naive, but i know when you are doing message bills. are things that come out of the house that are not going any where, and they are passed along party lines to stake a claim in the ground. and my sense, i wonder how it read to the caucus, the thompson negotiations that were happening were trying to actually trying ....