To expel congresswoman liz cheney and congressman adam kinsinger from the house gop conference would make it and set precedent for the rnc to continue doing something like this in the future if there were any republicans that went against or were criticizing the party but, look, this censure was voted out of the resolutions committee yesterday. now the whole 168 member rnc is going to vote on this later today. but i want to emphasize that these two lawmakers, congresswoman liz cheney and congressman adam kin singer, both of these members who sit on the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection, they shrugged this off. they are not concerned about this resolution at all and in different statements they both said they stand by their decision to be part of this panel to investigate what happened on january 6th and to continue to call out that big lie that republicans keep pushing that the election was stolen from former president
Know more. meantime, we re also keeping a firm focus on the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. five new subpoenas issued, lawmakers are now targeting in those new subpoenas right wing extremist groups that were involved in the attack. among them, the oath keepers and the proud boys. dozens of members of both groups are already facing criminal charges tied to the capitol insurrection. paula reed joining us now from new york. what does the panel hope to learn from these groups? what are we learning as well by who they re targeting with these subpoenas? it is interesting that they re targeting this group. it appears they re focused on planning, preparation and wanting to talk to people who allegedly engaged in violence that day. here the committee has issued these five subpoenas, targeting right wing extremist groups that were involved in the attack. now, first on the list, the proud boys, lawmakers say the group called for violence leading up to januar
Risk because i believe we still have time to act. we must act now. and wolf, this is unlikely to be haugen s last visit to capitol hill. congressman adam schiff who is on the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection, that committee should speak about the culpability and all of the misinformation about the election and how that played into the january 6th insurrection. wolf? donnie o sullivan joining us from capitol hill and let s get reaction from senator blumenful that about today s facebook hearing. thank you so much for joining us and i know you say and i m quoting now big tech now faces big tobacco, jaw-dropping moment of truth. your words. how disturbed are you by what you learned from the facebook whistle blower frances haugen? this testimony is about as
They had marching orders. they said that they were sent by trump, you know, they were sent by a hit man. so the question of who knew what and when in the oval office, in the trump administration is important, and on this front, alisyn, the doj has just issued a letter staying that they will not be exerting executive privilege for people who had communications with the president. so the committee should be able to subpoena those people to testify to the conversations or anything that happened on january 6th or before that. so let s take that to evan perez there who is covering, of course, the justice department. we know that subpoenas are coming. we heard that from the chair of this committee, bennie thompson. tell us about that actually, that is your reporting. reporter: well, yeah, victor. i mean, look, asha brings up an important point that was brought up in the hearing. at the end of the hearing you heard these officers being asked what they want from this committee. i think i