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for the -- last month. john so it has been a fierce advocate on this issue, and you will not want to miss what he has to say. that is coming up. but first, i want to start tonight with this really weird moment that happened last week at a house hearing. transportation secretary pete pitt a judge was testifying before the house committee, and as you would expect, for several hours, they discussed infrastructure. roads, railways, electric vehicles, energy prices, all the usual stuff. unt...

transportation secretary pete buttigieg was testifying before the house committee, and as you would expect, for several hours, they discussed infrastructure. roads, railways, electric vehicles, energy prices, all the usual stuff. until one republican congressman on the committee suddenly took the transportation hearing off the rails. and that joke was for you, transport nerds. youre welcome. have a watch. >> we now have president biden in office for 18 months, and just recently, we now...

Truth about the 25th amendment discussion which happens after january the six? >> because that tells you a lot about how they viewed donald trumps mindset at that time. thats a lot of the committee so focus on what was donald trumps state of mind while all of this was going on. some of that could be essential if they are ultimately criminal charges against him coming from the justice department. as to what was in his head both on january 6th and immediately after. remember, he was reluctant to d...

Now they want to look to the day after, the week after, and get a sense of what was really going on in the white house. and i think weve heard some testimony about the seriousness in which some cabinet members took invoking the 25th amendment, which would be unprecedented and scary in a way. but i think they want to shore up that information. how serious are these talks really get? what did these cabinet members, what was a conversation like? who was convening them? was mike pence involved in th...

>> he should have immediately got up and excuse himself from that meeting and said i will not be part of this discussion. first of all, the fbi has no jurisdictional entries or abilities in the 25th amendment discussion so he should have immediately recognized he had no role and should not abandon the meeting. >> laura: terry, bill barr just sworn in last week is the new attorney general of the united states. former and now current. how does he proceed here? its almost like the entire fbi has to...

Legal standing for this? lets start with that and well go from there. >> well, i think its very questionable. emergency generally means something that happens so quickly that there isnt time for congress to act. i dont think an emergency includes a failure by the branch of government that is authorized to expend funds, namely the house of representatives and congress to authorize funds the president wants to see authorized and they refuse to do it. i dont think thats an emergency and i think con...

Why is that courtesy not extended to all americans? how is that level of political clout, why is it afforded at the top and not everyone else? i found that striking and something looking forward to me for that level of the house is cleaned. >> heather: i want to get back to you, chris, in reference to the discrepancies in the stories including the statement from mccabes spokesperson. we also had back in the fall james baker testifying that mccabe had told him at the time conversations between mc...

Should not stand. >> the stirewalt rule is iron clad and absolute. opinions are luxury items. dont have more than you can afford. and whether its the covington catholic case, the story of justin fairfax, whether its this. we have these controversies and now because we carry computers in our pockets that allow us to be stupid faster and everybody has to vomit forth their opinion on every matter and then after the fact emilys point we have to reverse engineer and say maybe im right. maybe there is...

And shows james baker, who testified behind closed doors about his conversations with mccabe and another f.b.i. lawyer about what rosenstein had said. baker told house investigators he believed rosensteins 25th amendment efforts went further. fox news confirmed sections of the baker transcript. i had the impression the dep see attorney general had already discussed this with two members in the presidents cabinet and that thefrp on board with this concept already. baker also testified he believed...

And i have a specific question for you. watch here. >> discussion of the 25th amendment was simply rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. >> what seemed to be coursing through the mind of the deputy attorney general was getting rid of the president of the united states. one way or another. >> i cant confirm that. but what i can say is the deputy attorney general was definitely very concerned ab...