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Be good news, but i dont know quite how to calibrate it against the bad news. dr. david kessler has been an incredibly straight shooter with us from the very beginning. hes going to be joining us tonight. im looking forward to having that conversation with him. were also continuing to keep an eye on new developments in congress generally, including on voting rights, which we talked about at length on last nights show, and where it appears there may be some movement along the lines we were talk...

>> do what a republican would do and start monday morning at 9:00 a.m. and work them through thanksgiving. ted will get the message. you will make this hard? okay, well go two hours for the ambassador. well have you working around the clock through thanksgiving. well have some canned turkey brought in for you guys. >> thatll move them. yesterday we learned -- >> thats what i like about canned turkey, you can eat it cold with a spoon. >> delicious. >> yesterday we learned senate majority leader s...

Congressman kinzinger who was on the committee now says his hunch is about some lawmakers, sitting lawmakers. listen to this. >> i certainly believe members of congress knew what was going to happen, some members knew. i certainly believe some members instigated this. >> if that turns out to be true, what are the consequences? legally, what are the consequences if they somehow had prior knowledge or were even in cahoots with some of the violent insurrectionists? >> there are a couple issues here...

Visited the white house on multiple occasions after the election, spoken to mark meadows maybe eight to 10 times and briefed several members of congress on election fraud theories and as you said, the letter gets into the powerpoint and so on, but what congress is doing here is really trying to get information not about waldren per se, but about waldren contact with trump, and meadows and meadows with congress and if any of those individuals could violate that criminal statute earlier, obstructi...

Respected, revered figure, that they have attached it to. they need to be talking about this all the time and invoking john lewis legacy. >> i dont understand the lack of urgency. i never have. peter baker, we were showing the "new york post," "daily news." "daily news" this morning having don jr. -- >> doing the right thing. >> yeah. >> didnt see that coming. >> begging his father to stop. all these other members begging his father -- or begging don jr.s father to stop what was going on january...

American rescue plan. only 13 house republicans voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill and they caught massive flack for it from their colleagues. you might have thought they voted to investigate an insurrection. this is ridiculous. and yet it is the way we live now. kentucky democratic congressman john yarmuth didnt need much of a crystal ball when he predicted this in march. >> what were all concerned about on our side is the republicans are all going to vote against this, and then theyr...

Mark meadows told donald trump because mark meadows wont testify. based on what youve seen in merrick garland, merrick garland seems to have his own set of considerations running the department of justice. what is your reasonable expectation, honestly, based on what youve seen of garland, for what he would do? >> i want him to be independent. he indicted steve bannon. that was an easy call. i hope he indicts or looks at the laws and the facts with mark meadows. thats his call. im not the prosecu...

In march. >> what were all concerned about on our side is the republicans will all vote against this and show up at every ribbon cutting for every project funds out of this bill and pump up their chest and take credit for the great benefits coming to their citizens. >> and the reason he could predict it all is because weve seen this before like during the obama years when republicans pursued a strategy of total obstruction during the fiscal crisis and yet, one year after the passage of the recov...

Determines that hes not going to go along with 200 years of tradition and agree that the winner will become the next president. >> what we havent seen, paul, so far is any indication that the committee is gearing in on one particular criminal charge that they think the president should face, the former president. but do you think theyre gearing up to subpoena trump, and if so, how would that work? >> so last night liz cheney tracked the federal obstruction statute to suggest that donald trump wa...

Where he revealed the president might have had covid when he debated joe biden in the presidential debates? is it that the president was upset about his cooperation with the committee? but ive talked to people on the committee and weve seen, katy, in full view, liz cheney just running down the massive amounts of things that they have learned from the documents that mark meadows has already turned over. so outside of the stunning spectacle that the former chief of staff, a former member of this b...