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Was formed and that it does not have the republican representation that mccarthy asked to be a part of it. of course, the committee does not agree with that. they believe its their responsibility to participate. of course, the big question here is, how do they get mccarthy to cooperate with the committee. again, just like with perry and jordan, this is a voluntary request. they are not demanding he be there. they are not subpoenaing him to be there. if he rejects their overtures like perry, like...

United in that outcome. i think thats what we ought to keep the focus on. today is important because we have been encouraging, demanding, asking, please ding, begging, saying to the president and the vice president it is time to put all of the prestige and power of the presidency behind this existential threat to the future of the nation, which is what the attacks represent. >> this speech, it has got the prestige, certainly has the symbolism, things like being in john lewis home district here. ...

What i wanted you to do. isnt that from a plausibility standpoint that the president plausibly agreed with the conduct of the people inside the capitol that day? now, the judge also said that it is -- this isnt the only legal question and none of these legal question are going to be easy for him to decide on. there will be a decision in the coming months. and some of the arguments, there are lots of them, that trumps lawyers and others are making to try to get this lawsuit stopped right now incl...

The law in wisconsin. its an open question as to whether it will be pursued as a criminal matter. in michigan, the detroit news has just reported that the matter is part of an ongoing information by the attorney generals office. a spokeswoman declined to discuss the legality of the republican certificate in detail, saying it was part of an ongoing probe. saying that is part of an information into election related matters. were not in a position to share specifics as the review remains ongoing. s...

State and georgia to try and get him to find 11,000 more votes for him. he called michigan lawmakers. he called the governor of arizona. he repeatedly tried to use any influence he can detain the election and find the way to justify denying president biden the election that he had one. up to the point where he pressured his own vice president to take an action against the president that was unconstitutional on that day on january six. so with this committee has to do and forces to lay out a narr...

Complex. complicated and difficult to find admissible evidence. so, we cannot expect the investigations to move as quickly as we might want them to or we might think they can because we read it in the media. the issue i think that everybody is wondering at a speech left opened and open the question yesterday about, there is no question that the doj is going to get to the bottom of january six. but are they going to broaden the aperture and include some of those facts of donald trump and others t...

Integrity to do the right thing. >> reporter: of course, these voting rights bills have been passed by the house but are stalled in the senate largely because of that filibuster rule. senator joe manchin of west virginia and kyrsten sinema of arizona simply do not support the idea of even temporarily changing the senate rules to allow this narrow bill to go forward. of course, this all comes in the wake of the election lies and changing of laws across this country. in 19 states some 34 laws have...

That lose the response of the prior variant. its an open question whether or not omicron is the life vaccination that everyone hopes for because you have a great deal of variability of new variants emerging. >> dr. fauci speaking on the davos online conference saying its too soon to tell if omicron is the final wave of the pandemic. there are new signs that covid infections may have peaked in parts of the country. miguel almaguer has the latest. >> reporter: there are signs of progress among set...

Complex, complicated and difficult to find admissible evidence. so we cannot expect the investigations to move as quickly as we might want them to or we might think they can because we read it in the media. the issue i think that everybody is wondering and the speech left open the question i think yesterday is theres no question that the doj is going to get to the bottom of january 6th. but are they going to broaden the aperture and include some of those facts of donald trump and others trying t...

Do you believe the administrations response shows learning from those lessons? >> definitely, jim. it shows that they have learned that the 2014 sanctions were insufficient. and the evidence of that is clear. the sanctions were intended to force russia to leave crimea. they are still there, nearly eight years later. the question now is are they sufficient. and so what they learned is merely going after banks and financial institutions is not sufficient. the russians have done a pretty good job o...