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people on capitol hill dont want to solve the immigration crisis. or could it? tonight, amara coates live. lets be clear, there is no border deal yet. senate negotiators, trying to dot the is, cross the ts, to actually have text. there is no clear sign on when they actually get their. that, of course, has not stopped republicans in the house from declaring them not yet final deal dead on arrival. >> we have a responsibility, a duty, to the american people, to insist that the border cat...

theyve uncovered new avenues of investigation, most recently those missing secret service text messages from january 6th. the d.a. inspector general is now launching a criminal investigation into what happened. as a former dhs official quote "almost nothing about this makes sense. at best the loss of these texts is evidence of astonishing incompetence. it is indicative of darker motivations." i want to bring in ali vitali, barbara mcquade is a professor at the university of michigan la...

Think thats -- you just hit on the perfect reason that this investigation needs and we need more answers from it this was not just a lawyer who was doing this on the side. number one we have a terrible candidate hillary clinton. we are not going to beat donald trump. we have got to tie him to russia somehow and progressive narrative. what disturbs me even more, this kind of wiretapping and packing is not something that would go unnoticed. my question is, you know, why was there silence? why is t...

Msnbc talking about the investigation. not just what is coming out of this investigation which seems to trickle out and then moving into a public phase in the next year, but also, about who will and will not testify, will and will provide documents, who will be held in criminal contempt like steve bannon and will not be held in contempt. how much oxygen those types of processes take up and what i mean by that is, seeking out the documents that this investigation needs, wanting to bring people in...

And the lies about the 2020 election that former president trump lost are a stain on american democracy and they need to be really investigated in order to not be a continuing threat to our democracy. when you look at the way that president biden is acting, hes saying not only am i going to make sure whatever information this investigation needs, it will get, hes also in some ways saying the officials trying to claim executive privilege are likely part of the issue and part of the problem here. ...

And i think getting access to facts, to interviews, to statements by witnesses is what the investigation needs. it also needs live witnesses. it needs don mcgahn to testify and other people to testify. this is an important first step in a real investigation. >> it needs robert mueller to testify certainly. >> thats for sure. >> as well, dana. whats your analysis? >> obviously i agree with jeffrey. this is incredibly slow going, but each step that democrats win, each battle that they win gets the...

That committee, which is intelligence, we want to follow the money. people are interested and involved but we need those financial experts to give us the capability to do so correctly. and that raises a good point, and that is that all investigating committees need those staffers that have the abilities that the kind of investigation needs. and that would mean former prosecutors, perhaps former u.s. attorneys. you know, i take you back to the 9/11 committee, chris. they had a big staff, almost 1...

Expert to identify them is an assumption. anybody can do it. they dont need experts. what did he want? i believe what they got out of this was an opportunity. no matter what data you get out of the flight recorders, its not going to tell us who did this. and that is what the integrity of the investigation needs. what the local official got out of this, the self-appointed prime minister is legitimacy. he got the media there. he got something signed saying this is noed amission of wrongdoing. i wo...