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Michigan. i wanted to start with this. what do you think about how this went down? they've been negotiating for so long, dragging this on and then manchin saying, no. >> we've always known that senator manchin plays a really important role in these negotiation, there's a very slim majority in the senate. i hope that they will all get there themselves back into the negotiating room and continue to have the conversation, and i don't like that they go to the press when they're -- they've hit logger heads, so i expect them auto to get back in a room and finish this out one way or the other. >> is ...

Give us a preview of the topics of each. >> the one i think i'm most interested in, probably also from my beat, is the thursday hearing focused on the doj and the effort to use doj as a tool during the 2020 election. i think we'll hear from former doj officials and hear a lot about jeffrey clark, who is going to be this major figure, i think, going forward, that will sort of become a household name after this week. focused on -- you know, he was basically trying to overturn the election from within doj. he was perhaps someone going to take over the justice department. he had this effect from a...

We're glad to hear that. anyone with pertinent information we want to hear from and so we have a range of questions. the committee will be interested in, among other things, whether this was discussed with justice thomas given that he was ruling on cases impacting whether we would get some of this information. >> so what do you think the potential significance of ginni thomas' testimony would be assuming she does agree to talk with the committee? >> pam, this is interesting. ginni thomas' name started twirling when "the washington post" disclosed these 29 texts between ginni thomas and mark me...

Some sort of independent investigation but you have dealt with legal trials all your professional life and would it not perhaps be more interesting to viewers if you had, let's say, a prosecution and a defense presentation of sorts during a hearing like this so people could debate it among themselves? it might actually draw more interest. >> if that is what you were really interested in, which is drawing people in, obviously the tension of a confrontation between different perspectives is what is interesting. the more important thing, i think about our system, is that we believe our adversaria...

May be called to testify in the next few weeks. negotiations going on right now with the aforementioned brad raffensperger, georgia secretary of state. in talks with the committee, he may appear in one of the hearings, not tonight but over the next few days. what -- whether it's he or someone else, what sort of compelling testimony does this committee need to elicit from a witness that will shake the americans to pay attention? >> i'm with joe on this. i think that the testimony that i'm most interested in, and, you know, we're all students of it to a degree and obsessively, absorbing all the ...