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which will begin tonight. i do want to play kevin mccarthy new audio given to us by the author of a new book coming out to the "new york times" reporters, "this will not pass." just listen. >> we cannot just sweep this under the rug. we need to know why it happened, who did it and people need to be held accountable for it. the first option is some people have talked about a censure resolution against the president, both republicans and democrats are drafting these and one can be introduced or co-sponsored. another item is a bipartisan commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attack. >> bipartisan commission to investigate the circumstances. there is a bipartisan commission happening right now, one he says is not legitimate. i want to ask you about brad
of some document, not because of some institution, not because of some process that is self-pef pech waiting. it exists because people joup hold it. the second people stop believing it and stop fighting for it, it doesn't exist anymore. that's the water shed moment and that's the question before the american people. are you willing to fight for it? are you willing to maintain democracy? are you going to reject the attempt to overturn our democracy that some republicans have been so brazen about. a year and a half ago kevin mack -- mccarthy got up and gave a speech and called me out by name saying i was one of the people that helped to hold the house chamber and keep it from the rioters. fast forward to this year and the republican party puts out a statement calling it legitimate
you have to thread that needle. republicans will try to make it seem like it wasn't trump's fault. >> fox news, for instance won't be playing the hearings on their schedule, it will be on fox business instead, it does perpetuate the silos where you go to get the information you want to hear. the committee i know understands this and will be trying to break through. what can you tell us about what they plan on delivering? >> perhaps the most important thing, katy, that this committee believes will help them break through into the other end of the spectrum, the other echo chamber that continually says donald trump is a savior and a champion of conservatives and people who care about america's traditions, that echo chamber they hope will be broken by two things -- one, using donald
fbi to deal with. the role within congress, we should look at why we were so ill prepared that day and how do we protect it? >> you've heard republicans make this point time and again trying to say this committee is partisan and it illegitimately formed and just because they say it doesn't mean that it's true. i think the thing that i'm watching is what's the consequence of these hearings. you hear members of the committee continuing to tell me legislatively they have fixes to the electoral count act. i asked what happens for americans who wonder what the consequence is for dpt. the committee will continuously tell you that's not what they're here for but they're going to ask that question. >> i ran into lindsey graham and asked him if he'd be watching the hearing tonight. he said, no, he had dinner plans. i asked him if he thinks that the hearings matter, does he care? and he said he did not because
accepted a top role on the january 6th committee. back home in wyoming where it's a very republican state and it speaks to what yamiche is talking about, she's perceived by those republican voters as paying more attention to what's important in washington than what's important to them there. i'm not saying that. be clear, i'm not saying that's not what's important but this is what polls are saying. hageman is now ahead by 28 points, a 20-point increase. liz cheney only is drawing about 26% of the electorate there, 28% or so and that's problematic for her and most republicans that you talk to there who understand how elections work in wyoming think that the race is kind of baked. >> that is really difficult
democrats have decided it better to take a modest win rather than to use the image to try to bludgeon republicans. >> modest is the word for that. guad, there's an investigation into the officer response in uvalde but it's going to be behind closed doors. what can you tell us? >> reporter: katy, so this is a different investigation. let's start by saying that there's three different things going on so that people can keep track. we have the first investigation by texas state authorities. yesterday the department of justice announced a team that will be conducting a review of what happened and now today we have texas state representatives meeting, this is the investigative committee, meeting in austin to interview and hear testimonies from some of the officers, law enforcement, they have details, they understand the circumstances of what happened the day that they waited outside while kids were calling 911. as you mentioned, those
and elsewhere. the cry is to do something. >> reporter: what's behind that sense of urgency, katy, a recent poll by a 5-1 margin americans want gun laws to become more strict, not less strict. >> 5 to 1, wow. raising the age limit to buy a semiautomatic weapon, is that on the table? >> no, it's not. four of the five republicans are retiring. other petitions not on the table are a ban on semiautomatic assault weapon, not going to happen, high capacity magazines, not on the table. and even universal background checks not on the table. republicans are walking a really fine line here between pro gun voters and activists.
it's just a political action, just politics at play here. he did make a mention to say he was glad to see the people involved in the insurrection -- he didn't use that word -- that were involved on january 6th were getting arrested. i wonder if there was internal conversation among republicans. it stood out that mccarthy said what happened that day was wrong. i wonder if there was internal conversations among republicans that said you can't write it off entirely because voters will see through it? >> there was some dissension among republicans that i and my colleagues talked to that they should ignore the hearings out of hand because they'd rather focus on things on the inflation and the economy. at the same time these hearings are happening in primetime, maybe not on fox but across the other news stations across the country and the world.
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and order in simple safety and security. if may be focused a little less on attacking republicans and looking at the race of reporters that cover you. feel like the vice of local politics and may be focus on what's going on in your backyard and in your city that you claim to care about. you along with conrad bill de blasio, so many others, failed democratic mayors and governors. not protecting the citizens are supposed to protect. if you're not being the public servants you swear to be. if you can't protect basic safety and security, law and order, you can't support the police and you supports a bail, then it's time for you to resign and let somebody in that will protect the people of your city and state. it's not your chicago. new york city prosecutors, get this, no dropping charges against hundreds of rioters and looters that were caught last summer during the unrest better known as rioting. a exposing yet again that this