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im poppy harlow. >> and im jim sciutto. tonight the january 6th committee will begin to lay out its evidence. after 11 months of interviewing witnesses, scrutinizing thousands of hours of video, more than 100,000 pages of documents, the panel will hold its first public hearing, this one in prime time. it will make a case, that the former president was at the center of a coordinated multistep effort to overturn joe bidens 2020 election win. the committee will present, it says, never-bef...

Of the american people. they think these are reasonabre, important things to do to make the kids safer, their families safer and the communities safer. theyre not message bills. theyre substantive bills that will make a difference in the safety of our country. >> david brooks wrote in "the new york times" today, the following -- we dont need a committee to regurgitate what happened. i dont want to miss the facts but the efforts more broadly to overturn the election. did congress miss an opportun...

Thats not the case. thats not the fact. and this happens nowhere else in the world. not in big countries. not in democratic countries. not in dictatorships. no other country in the world has the gun violence that america has. and what we -- when you ask me, i dont know what the republicans will be for. i say nra stands for no republican action. the second amendment, obviously, the supreme court said, allows people to have guns in their homes. allows them to hunt. im for that. thats fine. what th...

Advantageous. with benghazi, infamously, they impaneled a select committee with a republican majority. they basically could steer the ship. my sense -- i said this yesterday -- but i know when youre doing message bills, okay? there are things that come out of the house that are not going anywhere in the senate. theyre essentially passed along party lines to stake a claim in the ground. i wonder how this was read to the rest of the caucus. the thompson katko negotiations were happening were genui...

But the speaker wanted it to be bipartisan but they didnt go along that, and now, a select committee that will have republicans on it still, and we will have the power, the facts, but this is not disappearing in any way. >> yeah, and i think the calculation here, so interesting, and less politically advantageous, and with benghazi, had a majority. they are the only ones that had subpoena power, and they could steer the ship. my sense, again, i said it yesterday and maybe im naive, but i know whe...

Chambers as their number one priority over investigating a tragic event that unfolded in the nations capital. that is really what this is about, that is what it boils down to. this is going to amplify the pressure to make the filibuster, but manchin is holding strong. >> donna, what is galling heres the process by which this came out, sometimes, if one party controls one house in the other party controls the other house there will be message bills. they will on-street party lines pass something ...

Going to happen. democrats are saying they think they have six votes, thats not the ten they need. and senate republicans, house republicans this is all about power. theyre putting the idea of winning in the mid-terms and winning back control of both chambers as their number one priority over investigating the tragic event that unfolded in the nations capitol. and so thats really what this all about, what it boils down to. and this is going to amplify the pressure to nix the filibuster. >> whats...

Makes total sense. >> it does. >> of course it does because the idea, look, theyve already passed 60 bills that are message bills. some of them are great. some of them are okay. they have not resonated with the american public. the bottom line is, there is nothing left for them to do. they need to maintain their oversight. just from the strictly a political standpoint. you need the civics part to justify this. but from a political standpoint, something needs to fill the vacuum that exists betwee...

That they need to be the face of normality in this country. so theyve been passing all of these message bills, some of which are perfectly good pieces of legislation, and then they seem surprised that these bills that have no chance of ever becoming law dont kind of dominate the agenda or dont change the conversation. and i think that because nancy pelosi has tried so hard to tamp down the anger of the democratic caucus and the democratic base that should be directed at donald trump, instead its...

What she wants to do? >> well, i think that, you know, you see this split in the democratic caucus because -- between those who want to really take on this president directly, make his unfitness, his corruption, his disloyalty to this country, make that kind of the centerpiece of democratic politics right now and put him on trial every day in the house of representatives. then you have nancy pelosi and other people in democratic house leadership who believe that they need to be the, quote, unquo...