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6th. i wonder what that strategy signals to you? >> i think it signals the idea for many people, look at the timing of it again. we're more than a year away from what happened on january 6th and we can't pretend that the american public or appetite or patience and attention span is infinite. they have to really envelope the public to make them understand why this is still relevant. by bringing in people who were across the ideological spectrum, they're trying to undercut the notion this is a witch hunt, that all too common phrase used for the better part of four years during trump's administra...

Oversight function in investigating what led up to and what occurred on january 6th, which was an attempt to prevent them from performing their legislative role in certifying the electoral college as was required under law, by the way, and also compelled by the people's vote, a suggestion that congress is somehow wrong to try to figure out who played a role in an event that put our elected officials in grave danger, well, that is also a big self-serving lie. congress is inherently political. obviously, it is. but it is also expected to codify our principles into law. instead, members of congre...

We say. the other had a legislative intent and oversight function. i expect some overlap in the same way here thinking well listen, the doj is already charged you with conspiracy, these are serious crimes and now a damacles over the heads who conspired or aided or abetted or facilitated or financed what they thought would be a violent insurrection so now you have this idea of congress trying to on the one hand get information from people who are not cooperating among their own colleagues and also others who they may have yet to interview who are now worrying if i provide an answer, will i be r...

Funding or promoting or encouraging or dictating behavior? and so, this is a monumental decision as jeffrey and gloria talked about, that the supreme court didn't even feel the need to have to explain why the incumbent president of the united states could dictate what is best in the nation's interest for transparency. and a dually commissioned select committee could ask forring information with its legislative and oversight function. this is a very big deal and we should soon know the answers to why he wanted to shield it. >> jeffrey, what kind of lasting impact could this decision by the supr...

Though these four are notorious liars about the election, that's not a crime, right? so what is the committee hoping to get? >> well, you're right. again, the civil case versus what the doj might come up with, criminal context, this is a congressional committee who has legislative and oversight function. they're trying to figure out what led up to the event to try to fortify certain laws or to fill in the gaps when what was legal and what ought to be illegal. and try to figure out who contributed to what they saw that day and afterwards and before. and so these are the jigsaw puzzle pieces in ...