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Political party. we take our oath to defend the united states constitution. that oath must mean something. >> basically, resignations in the trump white house, they basically want together like in a butter and jelly. symone sanders and david corn are back with us. i never worked at the white house, so i dont have the experience that you have. this was next-level crazy, right? it is not normal for a white house, even in the white house that is made up of a team of rivals, to have competition, to ...

Good evening everyone, and welcome to a special three hour mega addition of ayman, live from washington d.c.. tonight, our goal is to present the lessons of the january six committee first public hearing in ways that you have not seen before, to take into the details that help you understand the seriousness of the charges laid out, who is at fault, who has something to hide, why the threat still exists to this country, and where it is all heading next? we have an incredible group of experts to h...

Influencing a lot of people, members of the public, that there was this systemic, corruption in the system and that their votes didnt count, and that these machines controlled by somebody else were actually determining it, which was complete nonsense. >> we were having an amazing conversation there during the break. we were going to break into the commercial to start it, thats outside if we were. joining me now is david corn of mother jones, symone sanders, the host of simone on msnbc, and the f...

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Fox News is not airing the hearing of the January 6 committee live this Thursday as it falls during the network's highly-watched primetime line up and will instead be airing

Unfortunate. and merrick garland was correct. youve got more bases for a narrative there, but right now, trump is out there saying, democrats are destroying the country. merrick garland is out there saying, hey, were doing the best we can. there isnt even a fight, and theyre in for a world of [inaudible] if the republicans stay in power. >> well, later in the show, were gonna play some tape of one democratic congressman who does seem to be doing a good job of picking a fight with republicans. st...

They think theyre the good guys, and theyll win anyway. and as weve seen from benghazi, these congressional are extremely effective and successful. so lets hope this january six committee does change minds. >> indeed. david, you often hear from democrats off the record we can go after trump, or the chief of staff, or subpoena a member. we cant set precedents to republicans that abuse power, even though republicans have already done plenty private democrats investigated. youve covered the benghaz...

And minds. and i think like weve seen a lot of incompetence recently, like the road leak. and when that happened, it didnt immediately change hearts and minds, but it did eventually change hearts and minds. so i dont know that -- we dont know whats gonna make people care, and we dont know whats gonna be the tipping point. i think that this is an important, historical event. and i think that people care about this kind of thing much more than we even assumed. so, i dont know how its gonna go. i d...

There, clearly trump, you know, did a lot of crime-based stuff, so the hope is, yes, i mean they tried to, you know, they steer away from such things, because they work so well, or because they dont want to seem partisan or they think that since theyre the good guys, theyll win anyway, and as weve seen from benghazi, these congressional investigations are extremely effective, and successful, and so lets hope this january 6th committee does change hearts and minds. >> indeed. david, you often hea...

Thats gotta change everything. [inaudible] >> so, molly, david makes a very good point. how many people are left to persuade? putting persuasion to one, listen to what law enforcement -- you talk about crime and stuff. where is merrick garland? is he playing checks and the rest of us dont get it? or is a small conservative judge who was once beloved by republicans by the late senate, just not the right ag for this historic moment? >> well, i hope he is, right? because it seems unlikely to me tha...