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President obama. now an msnbc contributor. also joining us, anna palmer. and robert costa is here national political reporter for the "washington post" and coauthor with bob woodward of "peril". anna palmer, let me start with you. what is happening right now? >> right now, is we are finally getting to this vote on the house floor. there was about 70 votes here as i was last looking before we went on camera. there have been a handful, about eight votes so far by republicans. most unsurprisingly. right? you would expect liz cheney, for example, adam kinzinger, members of the january 6th committe...

Ripping off republican voters, their own constituents to build the fake wall, and yet more than 90% of them then turn around and say, yeah, we're going to let him thumb our nose at this body, at the congress of the united states over something like january 6th. look, i mean, the republicans have made a very, very clear decision, with the exception of the nine, that they're either going to ignore it or they're going to go along with trump, who is now rather aggressively engaging in revisionist history. that tweet that he put out that the real insurrection was november 3rd and the protest was ja...

And it seems like there's a whole lot of people in congress right now. they happen to be republicans that are trying to stand in the way of that process. >> i want to just pull out and repeat this one line. donald trump did not create the environment that we live in now. he just did an amazing job of exploiting it for his own personal benefit. professor fanone understands this is the grift to end all grifts. this was about donald trump saving face, saying that the biggest popular vote defeat in history was a result of fraud because his frail ego couldn't handle the truth, the truth as delivere...

Frankly convicted in a bipartisan vote although obviously not enough to convict him. but this idea of political peril of voting with steve bannon. say more. >> at this point, a question ahead of 2022 and 2024 is who is in control of the republican party? it is easy to say oh, trump's in control. but it's more of the trump movement. not even trump himself seems to be directing that much from mar-a-lago or his new jersey golf course. it's now his allies who are in the conservative media, at conservative pressure groups. they are exerting power. bannon with his daily, quote, war room podcast. the...

Keilar, what she had asked him about was her claim that it's time to move on. and that is what officer fanone was talking about. and what's amazing to me is it stands in contrast to her old boss, george w. bush, calling domestic terrorists the same -- of the same evil, foul ilk as the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11. so, you're right to have republicans -- >> that's what made it so disappointing. >> -- thought leaders all over the map without much more conviction than the republican elected officials is disturbing and jarring and part of why we're still here with no answers for officer fano...