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Inquiry, the committee has issued over 40 subpoenas. theyve held one public hearing. theyve interviewed about 200 witnesses, and theyve held one steve bannon in contempt. "the washington post" reports, quote, chairman bennie thompson has previously said he hopes the investigation wraps up in early spring of next year. as the midterm elections approach, its a "one step forward, two steps back" that wants to yield results. theyre increasingly alarming with inflation, even with signs that the econo...

Diaries." the leader of the oath keepers encouraged his members to stock up on ammo and prepare for a full on war in the streets. as someone that was an impeachment manager and prosecutor, what do you make of the subpoenas that today? >> joy, we are seeing that no one is off limits and like any good white collar prosecution from the bottom up or outside in, they are starting to get closer and closer to the commander of this insurrection donald trump and its important that they do so. we should a...

These guys, also your steve bannons, your michael flynns, your stephen millers on down the line. whats the committee going to do toer enforce the subpoenas? are they going to do what they did with bannon, hold him in contempt? will the justice department charge other people beyond steve bannon or will that be it? >> it will be interesting to see. thank you so much for joining us. >> great to see you. >> happy thanksgiving if we dont see you. >> thanks. he and the newest victim from that car at...

Bathe for the time he was in there? his skin was falling off and he smelled so bad he was apologizing to people who gave him a lift, transported him. my god. thats a horrible story. and one more example of how badly he was used. >> tucker: no one seems to care. i mean, you would think like if the media are supposed to care about the weakest among us. here is a working class kid from wisconsin. you know, but they dont care. >> brit: no a lot of the elite opinion would find someone like kyle ritte...

The point where he couldnt bathe for the time he was in there? his skin was falling off and he smelled so bad he was apologizing to people who gave him a lift, transported him. my god. thats a horrible story. and one more example of how badly he was used. >> tucker: no one seems to care. i mean, you would think like if the media are supposed to care about the weakest among us. here is a working class kid from wisconsin. you know, but they dont care. >> brit: no a lot of the elite opinion would f...

Representatives, the lawyers and the claimants who all come under the windrush banner with total contempt. i mean, there is absolutely no funding for lawyers to do this work. i dont think there would be any of the scheme like this where, you know, the claimants couldnt access lawyers of their choice. in the community groups out there and they are picked up the pieces, these tiny grassroots, not the big ones. there is one in nottingham, tiny community groups are doing this work and they cant even...

Our elite have enormous contempt for them. it squeezed them through covid rules that make their businesses have to shut down but not large corporations, not jeff bezos amazon. and its unleashed riots on them with blue leaders, mayors and governors winking at riots and more or less saying you should take it because thats justice. thats the ark of history, your community has to burn down. we live in parts of manhattan where we are safe. or parts of california silicon valley where we are immune to ...

Culture, this is a debate about class and culture, am i wrong? >> sean, i think that you are absolutely right. the issue of class remains the main dividing line in the united states, as it has been. and race is a sort of way to mystify that and obscure that reality. and over the past two years, especially, you have seen one set of classes in this country, the large corporations and the managerial classes who service them really squeeze people they sees a class they dont understand them. they loo...

I am not sure you can have a negative chance of something but that raises the bigger question, which is the committee has done a good job, a commendable job of being aggressive in who is subpoenaing but issuing the subpoenas is the easy part. the question is do they have the political will to back these up and to force people to comply? because that line of people who are sure to defy is getting longer and longer and longer. we have got bannon. i would not count on michael flynn, stephen miller,...

The committee has done a good job of issuing subpoenas, not so good enforcing them. >> we do know they have been also talking to dozens, in fact, i think the latest number was around 200 people voluntarily so their work continues in some form behind the scenes. but back to these subpoenas because with this latest batch, theres also a link to former white house chief of staff mark meadows. does this committee think meadows is a dead end? he was in that first batch of subpoenas. >> it could be, an...