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Hurt republicans in next year's midterms. that is the essence of party over country. and other gop justifications are as cynical. the commission is slanted and unbalanced. that's absurd. it's a bipartisan commission. house democrats explicitly addressed three conditions that republican leader kevin mccarthy asked for in this letter. equal split in appointees between parties. co-equal subpoena power and no predetermined conclusions. but when mccarthy got the fact-finding commission he requested, he turned his back, fast. mcconnell said the commission would be duplicative but it's priored to avo...

Endure beyond just one election. as john avlon tells us in our "reality check," republicans blocking this commission is nothing short of letting the terrorists win. john? >> after the attacks of 9/11, you often heard republicans say that if we let fear change the way we live, then the terrorists will win. almost 20 years later, an attack on our capitol has flipped the script. the forces of fear that rnd lie the big lie have derailed a bipartisan investigation that would normally follow national cataclysms like 9/11. the 9/11 commission is explicitly the model for the january 6th commission leg...

Right? >> yeah, look. in the context here, it's important. you know, a couple minutes before that happened, there was actually another cicada that allegedly fell out of my pocket. and that happened as i was waiting to go on. our producer morgan said a cicada just fell out of your pocket. and i saw it on the ground and i was a bit stunned. and i was indoors. we had just come from outside about 30 minutes before interviewing senator john thune, and perhaps the cicada, one of those buggers jumped on me as i was running back into the capitol. and then i was preparing for the live shot, as you saw,...