close up shop over the holidays, you are practically inundated with releases a material. there was the committee s final report which clocked in at over 800 pages. then there were just thousands of deposition peaches and transcripts, court documents and exhibits from the committees. hearings dozens of videos. it is hard to believe that there was anything the committee did not release. and yet today, we learned there was something. today the washington post published this draft memo. prepared by a team of committee staffers and focusing on social media and extremism. they were known as teen purple. the team apparently hoped that there 100 plus-page memo would be adapted into a chapter investigations final report. but the committee decided to leave most of it on the cutting room floor. among team purples most damning findings was that in the run up to january 6th, social media platforms like twitter and facebook bent over backwards, that their own rules to, allow donald trump
rush to close up shop for the holidays, we are practically in inundated fleeces a material. there was the committee s final report, the clocked in at over 800 pages, then there were just thousands of pages of deposition transcripts and court documents and exhibits from the committee s hearings, and dozens of videos. it s hard to believe that there was anything the committee did not release. and yet today we learned there was something. today the washington post published this draft memo, prepared by a team of committee staffers focused on social media and extremism. they were known as team purple. the team apparently hoped that there 100 plus-page memo would be adapted into a chapter in the investigation s final report. but the committee decided to leave most of it on the cutting room floor. among team purples most damning findings was in the run up to january six. social media platforms like twitter and facebook bent over backwards, they bench their own rules to allow donald
when it comes to funding the government, like comes to lifting the debt ceiling. an optional pieces of legislation, because a lot of what these members have got to do on these committees as you know, right legislation that never passed the senate, can ever get signed into law by president biden, things that occur since the oversight functions which are also very important. but there are some important matters of governing, you know, which have a very very serious consequences. okay. okay, moderate wing. use your power wisely, i guess. nbc s senior political reporter sahel kapoor, el risco to see you sahel, thanks for your time. joining us now is mark leap of, mark an author of thank you for your of two, donald trump s washington in the price of submission. mark, great to see you. perhaps you as a wise man washington, can tell me, sahel just said the moderate wing of the gop is not content or perhaps bold enough to use the power that they have to keep the hard lined conservative you
governing, i think. when it comes to funding the government, like comes to lifting the debt ceiling. an optional pieces of legislation, because a lot of what these members have got to do on these committees is you know, right legislation that never passed the senate, can ever get signed into law by president biden, things that occur since the oversight functions which are also very important. but there are some important matters of governing, you know, which have a very very serious consequences. okay. okay, moderate wing. use your power wisely, i guess. nbc s senior political reporter sahel kapoor, always great to see you sahel, thanks for your time. joining us now is mark leap of, mark an author of thank you for your of two, donald trump s
washington and the price of submission. mark, great to see you. perhaps you as a wise man washington, can tell me, sahel just said the moderate wing of the gop is not content or perhaps bold enough to use the power that they have to keep the hard lined conservative you know, extremists, in line. my question to you is, as someone who studied the sort of, republican class of politicians in washington, why is that? kevin mccarthy holds the speakers gavel by one vote. why? one naysayer could outs to misspeak or, might not use your power? right. or, they ve a majority of what, four votes. any number, this is a fairly high number of mainstream moderate were republicans who ran and won and in districts that biden ran and won in 2020. they are clearly vulnerable to get some kind of reelection battle. they are not banding together. i was a little bit surprise after basically mccarthy, it looked like he was rewarding all kinds of bad behavior, preemptive bad behavior, during just the chaos o