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On trump. the investment team on the select committee -- a lot of that finding is what's going to drive this -- 1000-page report. the rift and infighting comes as a result of these other teams thinking, you know, we think we've done investigative work that is substantial and maybe not criminal but shows really unsavory behavior on the part of not just donald trump but also the intelligence agencies, intelligence failures. the republicans, far-right extremists. the disagreement has come from the top. the vice chair, liz cheney, basically said, look, we need to have a report that people will rea...

Large majority of the work unrelated to trump and outside of the red and gold team were going to be left on the cutting room floor. either put in the aaappendix or posted online elsewhere. the feeling that liz cheney, control over the report has been unparalleled, and that she has channeled some of her political ambitions into what this report looks like at the end of the day at the expense of a more comprehensive historic accord including totality of things beyond trump including failures of the u.s. capitol police, various intelligence failures, why there wasn't a level of preparedness to st...

I wonder if that could be a signal to federal prosecutors? >> i think this is part of the public record and the committee's focus. in some ways, i regret this. i wish we were going to learn more about the information that the committee gathered about how this imperfect storm of january six happened. what were the law enforcement failures, the intelligence failures that permitted this to happen. you are right to suggest that their focus on donald trump is in many ways meant to signal their seriousness to the white house and to the justice department about just how much evidence they have compil...

Time, if that where in fact black lives matter protesters, there would've been a lot more violence, and a lot more bodies on the ground. not violence by the protesters. violence by the police, intercepting them. i think that asking these questions now is appropriate and important. the fact that we have to ask them, or need to ask them, i think it's really chilling. >> so gee, i am old enough to remember following the intelligence failures of 9/11 what this country did in terms of how we overhauled our intelligence community. we looked at the failures. if you had to pick one of -- you know, bet...

Who knows what a large crowd comes to d.c., what happens in this town. between police, d.c. police, capitol police, secret service, fbi, all of the law enforcement agencies. and it just felt different. the fact that you watched them stormed the way that they did, the lack of resistance to that. you heard people say at the time, if that where in fact black lives matter protesters, there would've been a lot more violence, and a lot more bodies on the ground. not violence by the protesters. violence by the police, intercepting them. i think that asking these questions now is appropriate and impor...