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Deja vu. weve seen this before. kevin mccarthy should have been on on the very first list of witnesses. these an obvious key fact witness for the reasons gloria and ryan just laid out. if he does not cooperate, again, were going to see the committee put to its proof. are they willing to fight for his testimony? are they just going to sort of send him this polite invitation and if he declines say, okay, sorry to bother you, mr. -- future speaker potentially mr. mccarthy or are they going to follo...

President was impeached and acquitted for a second time. >> i can never again allow democracy to be put in peril. >> those that defended lawmakers called for justice. the capital police chief resigned in house beaker nancy pelosi launched a committee to investigate the events appointing to republicans both trump critics. >> this is not about partisanship. this is about our duty as americans. they struggled to get staffers to cooperate. steve bannon now charged with contempt. the democrat-control...

What do you think 1776 was? >> for the past year, theyve been investigated by the fbi with more than 700 arrested and charged with federal crimes from disorderly conduct to assault with a deadly weapon. but was the assault planned? and if so, by whom? how much did then-president trump and his inner circle know about it? >> all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. >> i know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the capitol building. >> lets have trial by combat. were going to walk do...

The information that can get us to the answer. she holds individuals who even work with the committee in contempt, but what does she do to herself with that information? rodney is on the right past here, and weve also had the general come in and make 106 recommendations to make the capitol safer. that has not been the case. on the senate side, you had a bipartisan, republican-democrat, two different committees look at this and watched failure after failure. we continue to do the research and the...

I am on the house judiciary committee and a former white house counsel chose to litigate the subpoena, we only got him in two years later. we need to make sure that the folks dont run out the clock. that is why we have to pass legislation on the inherent contempt bill allowing congress to enforce our own subpoenas. >> thank you both very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you john. >> coming up, a turning point on voting rights. president bidens speech thursday fulfilled many democrats long-s...

Against the select committees investigation calling it an abuse of power. does the select committee have any option to try to win over his cooperation. >> no. obviously the question is the committee going to subpoena him. we dont know the answer to that. i think theyd like to have some backup from the department of justice. theyve held mark meadows in contempt. theyd like to see if the department of justice is going to prosecute on that, and so we have to wait and see. but aside from a subpoena ...

Is still going on. but its not known when sue gray, the senior civil servant in charge, will release her findings. our deputy political editor, vicki young, considers the political fallout of the last few weeks and months. its been a disastrous few months for the prime minister, and he stood here today accused of deception, of treating the british people with contempt. some on his own side think this could be a tipping point that leads to his downfall, but this is a man whos recovered from setba...

All stop and reflect on what we almost lost a year ago tomorrow. and then, in the best of all worlds, it would also remind us of all weve done since then to honestly reckon with what happened to bind up our wounds, and in a bipartisan way, strengthen the underpinnings of our democracy. thats how the past year might have played out. it might have. but it didnt. and because it didnt, we come to you tonight at a moment that feels no less pregnant with dark possibilities than january 5th did a year ...

To january 6th. what questions do you think the committee likely has about what was going on inside the hotel that day? >> yeah, kaitlan, we know this willard hotel war room essentially mission control for the coup attempt outside the white house. we know the committee will be very focused on that war room, representative bennie thompson, the chair of the committee, confirmed that to jim acosta, the other day. what we know for sure is that that group in the war room came up with this plan to hav...

Clear. every dark chapter of our history was as the great historian you had on, an ignition point. called the violence, repent not for the actions of the bad people, but the appalling silence and inaction of the good people. the hope i have, the story i have, is this thread continues, and you see it in voter suppression, people trying to gerrymandering, trying to under mine free and fair democrcy, i hope people see this is not just pointing fingers at contempt of otherizing people, at them, no, ...