influence, that relevancy is gained not through fighting on any of the approximately see, and we've seen almost none of that in the early days of the biden administration and it is all on the lowest common denominator culture war issues and a lot of it isn't real culture war outrage and it's phony manufactured and meant to raise money and rile up the base and it's very effective. >> tim alberta, who is a wonderful chronicler of this situation, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> sure. mark meadows finds himself in a wee bit of a pickle. his big book tour money grab after he revealed the former president tested positive for covid, well before he knew, a detail that infuriated donald trump, and today mark meadows offered something of an olive ranch to the former president, refusing to testify before the january 6th committee, but is meadows willing to face contempt