Like a political dynasty. the other half appropriately sees them for what they are which is a crime family. they look much more like a mob crime family and what the january 6th select committee is appropriately doing, a bipartisan committee is asking what these people knew when they knew it, trying to get to the core of it and these are people trump doesn t treat his family members as people he sees when he gets home from his day of work. he enlists them in his efforts and what s disturbing to me, again, nicolle, back to the point you just made is that everyone knows it. everyone up to and including his family would acknowledge in private how irascible and unstable this man is, but won t talk about it in public. and that refusal to do so when it comes to an individual person around someone like a donald trump is maybe a decision of cowardice, but when everyone does it, it creates exactly the scenario you just painted, the public ends up creating a whole
Sort of partisan circus, making it so that there is a flow, an uninterrupted flow of questions. so that s why they re getting this 45-minute chunk each. however, we do expect that these two men will cede most of their time to the committee staff lawyers. on the left you have daniel goldman, the democratic counsel. he s a former federal prosecutor with the southern district of new york who prosecuted new york city mob crime family. also on the right the republican counsel. he is counsel for the oversight committee but he s been brought over specifically for this hearing. democrats will ask questions to essentially establish the facts. they want to weave together a narrative, and republicans will certainly be trying to defend the president as you heard manu said. and then this is the rest of the house intelligence committee. on the left-hand side you see 12 democrats. they will each get five minutes, and then on the right-hand side, these are all the members, the eight republicans.
Away despite the whole bathrobe and slippers act. in new york city, they call him the oddfather. and now vincent gigante has been convicted of conspiracy to commit murder. his lawyers have said he s mentally ill. he s a familiar figure on the streets of his neighborhood where he shuffles along wearing a bathrobe. prosecutors said it was an act, and the jury agreed, convicting gigante in effect of running a mob crime family. today show footage from 1997. and the way those prosecutors built those cases, the way they flipped these top guys in the mob including in the case of vinnie the chin they flipped a guy in witness protection to testify against the head of another crime family, it has always been almost unbelievably dramatic story of the way the