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
Hill is abc Senior National political reporter, sahel kapoor. So, lets talk, sahil. In light of representative gates saying that he is going to move to oust Kevin Mccarthy, what are you hearing about members on capitol hill, talking about, with respect to yesterday and how we move Going Forward . Well, charles. This is something matt gains has been threatening force quite some time. Now he never wanted Kevin Mccarthy to become speaker in the first place. He never voted for him. He just backed off and said he would vote present along with several others in order to pave the way out of room to move. But the price of Doing Business, you know, Kevin Mccarthy decided to change the rules that any one member of the house could call a motion to vacate. He decided that was the cost of Doing Business with his republican hardliners. Is allowing him to be on a short leash. This is what we saw yesterday, speaker mccarthys declaration of independence from matt gaetz. He is been threatened by gaetz r
political reporter, sahel kapoor. sahel, good to see you. thanks for being here. a lot of choices remain on capitol hill today. what is the reaction of republicans who are not in the most extreme wing of the republican party? to this election of lauren boebert, marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, scott perry for these plum committee assignments? there certainly were a lot of choices made in a lot of very important choices made alex. of the 20 holdouts food out cuba mccarthy 14 humiliating defeats of the house of representatives before ultimately electing him speaker, all of them have gotten committee assignments that would range from good to great. there are several of them that are freshman, forced her members who have gotten committee assignments on the homeland security committee, financial services committee and the appropriations committee. i texted that one aide house
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