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Have ties to congress. what can you tell us about this question and what it may be yielding? >> well, certainly there have been questions from the outset ever since january 6 about how january 6 came to be. was it coordinated? both on the macro level, you know, how involved was the former administration, and i'm one of the members of congress who the day before the insurrection saw people in maga gear being given tours of the capitol. and it was noticeable and we've asked an investigation of that. so someone let folks into the capitol, whether it was simply a violation of the covid regulations...

Politics of all of this, and what's in mcconnell's head, i think it's the most dangerous game mcconnell is playing right now, is not actually on the kind of macro level we were talking about earlier, but on this level, i think it's perfectly right to be focused on joe manchin for all the practical reasons that we know. and i do sense, and you know, you are probably as well sourced in manchin world as any host on television. my sense of it is that they are trying his patience. they, republicans, are trying his patience. and he is a guy who has both convictions and whatever you think of them, fo...

Important for our politics going forward, at the macro level, is to try to memory hold january 6th. that is going to be -- that is now the fundamental macro me that political objective of the entire republican party. and that 74% is a sign that so far the way that republicans are handling with this their voters, maybe wrongly, and we can talk about whether that's the right strategic objective, but that is what republicans are focused on. how do we get as much of the republican as possible, particularly in our part, to memory hold january 6th. to treat that event like it was meaningless. we don...

Some republican efforts to whitewash the insurrection. >> remember the comments from a sitting republican congressman saying those rioters looked like tourists. as one officer who recently left the department put it, they think we're like servants. i would rather work outside in the heat or the cold. i would rath ver to deal with people overdosing on drugs than deal with members' staff. that's a remarkable view from inside the u.s. capitol police. the people charged with protecting the capitol and the people who work there. cnn law enforcement correspondent whitney wild joins us now with detai...

In their defense spending domestically. i think that -- it's interesting to hear him say, if anybody is going to take advantage of companies, it's me. you mentioned his lack of diplomacy sometimes. the way he words things opens himself up to criticism. generally on a macrolevel, he is right that we should stand up for american companies. we can't have them taking advantage of by other countries. i just hope that he actually proposing something domestically that reins in big tech and forcing them to pair their fair share. >> neil: many people argue that they pay a lot of back taxes. susan, i'm ...