you have the unenviabl position, being on the front lines and then use hurricane u there on capitol hill. i know there is hundreds o pages of transcripts that we just got can you tell me anything about the selection of these names the committee seems to be i have a ton of transcripts already, alex. i ll tell you everything about it amazing can you sorry to cut you off. no, no, and you are a speed readers. and that s why you are the capitol hill correspondent before we get to the substance of all of the transcripts, tal to me a little bit about how the committee, you know, how you are reading their selectio of which transcripts to release, and in what order? yeah, i don t think there s a real rhyme or reason to it other than they re trying to get them out as fast as they possibly can and that we ve known from th beginning that there was a security protocol that the needed to go through befor they released them they are going through, an they are adapting the names of peopl
security breakdown at the capitol that day. republicans have harped on that as the shortcoming or shortfall of the committee. that is their criticism, their way to cut away at the legitimacy of the committee, which has been incredibly successful. number two, i kind of agree with what you are saying. i was here on january 6th. i m not sure that any security protocol could have stopped the 100,000 or however many people that came into the capitol. i m not sure short of i don t know what would have stopped that. it s a fair question to ask. i think republicans in the new majority are going to ask that question and are going to focus in on that. i get it. i think it s a legitimate question. if you have a limited amount of time and limited resources, as this committee pretty much did, you have to kind of bite off what you can chew in one
can and that we have2;g known f the beginning that there was a security protocol that they needed to go through before they released them. they are going through and redacting the names of people that they are concerned may be of some level of a security risk. they are, you know, eliminating any kind of personal identifying information that could lead to identity theft, something along those lines. so that s a process. it appears that once they ve scrubbed the transcript with all that material, that they feel comfortable with, they release it. now, there did seem to be a bit of a theme with the first tranche of transcripts they released because that seemed to be everybody that just pled the fifth to every question. but that might also have been because those are easier to scrub because they didn t provide much information. of course, they released the cassidy hutchinson transcripts on their own. she was perhaps the most important witness. this tranche tonight is filled with, as you poi