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telling our team and what the chair of the committee is saying about the timeline for cooperation. we are live on the hill with what investigators want to know from these lawmakers. and what happens if they dont comply? and also on the hill, the senate is trying to give final approval today on that massive aid package to ukraine. but appearing to get hung up at least for now. while overseas the war prompting a change to a global alliance. a new european nation announcing theyre joining...

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Have preferred if they had come forward to help the committee, the bipartisan january 6th commission, understand why they said certain things, why certain things were being reported so we could continue this investigation and get to the bottom of what happened in the days leading up to january 6th and on that day. >> all right. mikie sherrill, weve got to leave it there. thank you very much, congresswoman. >> thank you. and still ahead, were talking to voters in one key swing state about how p...

Hall county, where we are right now, this is a deeply red county where republicans need high turnout to do well really in any election. its kind of the counter to what dekalb county is for democrats. and across the board everyone weve spoken to, they tell us that the gas prices are ridiculous. they are frustrated. they are worried. they feel like they are stretching their budgets. they differ on who or what is to blame. but everyone said something needs to change. listen. >> its tough right now....

It is important when were talking about further vaccines. i know like many people i had been starting to think okay, how am i going to keep my family safe. im thinking okay, myself, my children. are we going to do a yearly, an annual vaccine? i know some of the pharmaceutical companies are working on a combined flu covid shot. we need to continue to support this and make sure we are continuing to drive down those cases of covid for the support throughout our economy and for the health of our pub...

>> i can hear the voice of pete williams in my head pointing out that the justice department often doesnt like to act on politically sensitive things the closer they get to elections. so put that in your file here a little bit, too. jackie alemany, i want to bring you. we heard from the chairman bennie thompson about whether these republicans will comply and why he thinks its important they do so. heres the chairman. >> i hope they do. i mean, its important based on our investigation. and we kin...

Is probably able to go into these hearings with a narrative thats set from the tens of thousands of documents and hundreds of witness interviews that they already have. even in these letters. and jackie was detailing them. we know what these five men would likely say if they were in front of the committee and actually complying with the subpoena request. we know why the committee wants to talk to them too. i do think, though, when youre talking about the power of the subpoena here, we talk about...

Affecting people who dont have the best jobs, people who have huge families to feed. >> reporter: public transportation isnt great in atlanta in most suburban and rural communities. it is almost non-existent for a lot of people. driving is really their only option to get around. and when you ask them about alternates like driving an electric vehicle, some people said theyre starting to look at that now, but a lot of people told us, said they didnt really feel that that was a financial option for...

Consider as these five republicans are likely, it seems today, we dont know for sure, but based on what we know right now its not a stretch. i was just talking to jamie raskin about this. theyve been dodging this committee for months. they think its illegitimate. if youre a gambling person, theyre not going to be participating willingly. its prudent to start thinking about what the next steps are for this committee. >> two legal things that come to mind as i hear you say that. number one, multip...

>> while senate republicans work to get their house in order, i want to bring in a democratic congresswoman from the other chamber, mikie sherrill of new jersey. shes a member of the house armed services committee. and congresswoman, i want to talk about this new aid package here. it would bring the total to about $53 billion toward ukraine in just the last couple of months. that was actually added $7 billion on to what the white house had requested. so my first question is what need did you and...