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under five. is desantis more interested in catching political points then protecting children's whole? all of this coming up and more. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> a good saturday morning to you. i am katie fang. with just three hearings province and it's this far, it feels like we have so much to digest, including shocking testimony and surprising new evidence showing how close our democracy came to a constitutional crisis on january 6th. the committee has two more hearings coming up next week. we have allie raffa, live on capitol hill for a closer look. ali? >> katie, since the january 6th commi...

Still be able to get the vaccines. they will have to rely on their doctors offices to get them. i am glad to welcome, as it is always my honor to have as my guests, leonard pits. leonard, thank you for being here. you know florida as well as i do. smart political move or really bad strategy to use little kids as pawns to advance a political strategy? >> it is sad to say, but it is probably, given the people he is trying to do outreach to, maybe a small political move. yes, i know. terrible human move. human and politically smart, or not always in the same lane. i think we have reached a time i...

Columnist and opinion columnist for "the washington post" and senior fellow at the brookings institution and leonard pits, here we go again at the capitol, i think the capitol is probably going to be ready this time for the 700 or we will see how man protesters show up there this weekend. >> yeah, i'm reminded of a quote that i forget which general it was that said this around the time of the september 11th attacks, they were always fighting the last war. so i am not surprised that we are now prepared on september 18th for what happened on january 6th. my question is -- and i'm sure everything...

For the pbs news hour and analyst. leonard pits, jr. for the "miami herald" is with us tonight. congresswoman, i never heard of this kind of rehearsal before. is this the first time they have done this. >> they haven't said, but we didn't decide to get ready because the republicans held a mock hearing. we had discussions about doing that. we have one opportunity inviting special counsel mueller and we have to be prepare and strategic. we prepare on our own. we can't be asking the same questions. i'm looking forward to that tomorrow. >> what are the rules of the hearing as you understand it? is...

Hearing, there is zero coordination with the members of the committee. the members prepare alone with their staff. not in time. cnn.com reports that the republicans on the house judiciary committee held a mock mueller hearing last week. if that has ever happened in the history of congressional hearings, i for one am unaware of it as chief of staff in two senate hearings. i never heard of such a thing. now that the democrats discovered that the republicans had a mock hearing, the democrats plan to hold a two-hour mock mueller hearing tomorrow and we are fortunate to be joined by someone who wil...