undermine the manhattan d.a. already this week the republican chairs of the most powerful house committees called on d.a. alvin bragg to testify, a request that bragg today said, quote, only came after donald trump created a false expectation that he would beq arrested the next day. and his lawyers reportedlq?7 urd you to intervene. neithere1 fact is a legitimate basis for congressional inquiry. meanwhile, house judiciary chair jim jordane1 sent newe1 letters jim jordane1 sent newe1 letters ovtju seeking testimony and documents from two prosecutors who resigned from okñibragg s oe last year including mark pomerantz, who wrote in his %=9 he was a former lawyer for the democrats during trump s firs!■ impeachment, now is ar the oversight committee. he ll go ahead excuse me,fá head to head against some of these high-profile gop fire brands. maraw3 gay is back with us heren the studio. congressman, let mestp)t with
jamie metzel a former fellow for the atlantic council and nicholas wade, he is a science writer. all three of these witnesses have given some voice to the theory that the coronavirus may have originated in a lab. of course, their system is coming amid this intensifying debate over whether the coronavirus originated in a lab or if it was because of humans exposed to an infected animal. now, the intelligence community does remain divided over this subject. there is no conclusive evidence on that front, but the department of energy did recently come to the conclusion that it may have been the most likely cause of the coronavirus. i do expect republicans to focus a lot on that specific theory. you have fire brands on the panel like marjorie taylor greene who have been really animated over this. i expect that she will try to claim vindication. we could see some fireworks, but overall, jim and erica, i will say that there is a bipartisan agreement here on capitol hill that figuring out the o
event filled with conservative activists and far right fire brands. meanwhile, in florida, other major potential candidates are gathering for a private donor event hosted by the club for growth, an anti-tax group at odds with trump. florida governor ron desantis, former vice president mike pence, and south carolina senator tim scott skipping cpac altogether. beyond trump, former u.n. oms nikki haley and former secretary of state mike pompeo are the only major 2024 hopefuls set to address the cpac crowd. raising questions about its relevance. there s a lot of chatter in the media about who s here and not here. reporter: the two events highlighting the deep party divide. some politicians who say they re on our side are also destroying our country. reporter: with former president donald trump at the center. but while many attendees say they re still behind trump i m not undecided.
oversight committee at all costs and go to judiciary or something else, anything else besides the oversight committee. so listen, this is a useful foil for the biden administration, a committee that is filled to the brim with fire brands, to say the least, and one that will not get a lot of cooperation from businesses or the government. all right. so susan, what is the white house bracing for, as this congress gets moving? bracing for investigations into everything. into hunter biden. into the withdrawal from afghanistan. now, especially to the treatment of secret documents that showed up, not only with donald trump, but in the home and offices associated with president biden. there is i think no issue that republicans will hesitate to investigate, and you know, the lesson of this, of these committee assignments, you can get a reward for siding with
ramping up but the appointments on the committees that will be conducting those investigations. speaker kevin mccarthy giving the white house quite a headache today as he sets the tone, lays the ground work for possibly really really fiery hearings. he s just appointed some gop fire brands, marjorie taylor green and paul gosarcommittee. you ll remember back in 2021, this pair was stripped of their committee assignments over controversial comments that may made. democrats took their committee assignments away. the white house reacting today. not very happy with these appointments. watch. it appears house republicans have handled over the keys to the most extreme maga members of the republican caucus. now, those two will join representatives lauren boebert, scott perry and anna luna.