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Leading democrats off of their committee posts. among them, intelligence committee chair and trump impeachment manager adam schiff, who was asked about mccarthy's threat on abc on sunday. >> i suspect he will do whatever marjorie taylor greene wants him to do. he will adhere to the wishes of the lowest common denominator. if that person wants to remove people, that's what they will do. it's going to be chaos with republican leadership. >> joining me no -- it's boston globe senior opinion writer kimberly adkins store and peter baker. first of all, how is the white house preparing, peter, for th...

A disappointment for republicans who were expecting a bigger margin, a bigger red wave, mccarthy's going to have a real hard time as speaker. i think a lot of insiders believe and i report this in playbook this morning, that he will eventually get the speaker's gavel but because of the thin margin and the fact they could only have say you know, half a dozen seats more than democrats, he's really going to be held captive to the far right wing of his party to the sort of trump ak lights who are going to try to lord their votes over his head. there's a discussion about running a candidate against...

Remains, but now the concern is not only that insurrectionists may return. lawmakers are worried about what their own colleagues are capable of now. a harrowing new piece in the "washington post" details how january 6th has fundamentally changed those who work at the capitol. quote, trust in one another whether to clinch a critical legislative bill or to protect each other from violence seems to be at an all-time low one year after the pro-trump mob attacked the capitol with both democrats and republicans in their crosshairs. the democratic majority, which ordered that the metal detectors be p...

So thank you for congresswoman cawthorne for educating me as to that. what are people saying on the hill? >> what democrats are saying is it just shows where the republican party is right now, which is that kevin mccarthy is willing to be more forceful in his condemnation of madison cawthorne about this issue rather than about whether it's marjorie taylor greene or paul gosar and them making anti-semitic comments and racist comments. he's not willing to take action against them. in fact he's willing to give them back their committee posts if he gains the majority, even though they have repeate...

Police officers? why weren't there enough police officers? why didn't the national guard come? were they told to stay back? the questions aren't answered a year later. >> that's one of the questions i have. they planned to be out planned and out manned. foreign terrorists would come to capitol hill. the weapons that were sheer numbers of people and ideology and what seemed so scary when i talked to people. the fact the u.s. capitol police did not have enough of a plan, the sergeant-at-arms on both sides have been fired and replaced. a new team in place. the u.s. capital police chief said yeste...