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Certainly it seems that they will be unwilling to relinquish it, so everything that we're seeing played out, to me now, is prelude of a disaster to come and the contours of that republican party, such as they are, aren't just well known. they're hardened into a type of granite contour at this point. there's no mystery left to any of it. >> steve, they unveiled a new tool today. donald trump announcing that he's creating a social media platform called, wait for it, truth social. your reaction was instant and scathing. you said that trump's truth is a hideous deception, a mirage cloaked in cynic...

>> okay. let's turn to the january 6th attack on the capitol, the house is expected to vote next week on speaker pelosi's select committee with subpoena powers on the riot and your thoughts on that committee and would you want to serve on it if a sked? >> i'm very pleased that speaker pelosi decided to form a select committee, of the january 6th insurrection, and it will be bipartisan in the sense that there will be both democrats and republicans on this select committee. it's important to know that in the house, republicans cannot block subpoenas. and so that is going to be very powerful tool...

The push of the big lie and we saw the violent deadly consequences during the insurrection. now, speaker pelosi is just minutes away from holding this meeting about what you do now, because there wasn't the bipartisan support to get that independent investigation pushed forward. so, i wonder what you would like to see speaker pelosi call for. a house select committee, for example, or do you believe that standing committees should carry out their investigation? >> last week, the u.s. senate asked for some more time to see if they could pass the bipartisan january 6th commission. if that time ha...

General investigation at the department of justice, but the inspector general does not have jurisdiction over former employees like bill barr and jeff sessions. the house judiciary committee, as you pointed out, can issue subpoenas to them. second, republicans, we urge them to join our investigations, but in the house, republicans cannot block congressional subpoenas. this is going to be a full-on investigation and we'll get to the bottom of this scandal. >> just letting people know what they're seeing on the right-hand side of their screen, that's air force one about to land in beautiful gene...

Insurrection very soon. but it might go nowhere at all, with at least half senate republicans saying they're against the plan. meanwhile, infrastructure talks are near collapse. president biden and republicans cannot even agree on the definition of infrastructure, or anything that you see on the screen right now. what does that center in? how we pay for it. nbc's leigh ann caldwell is on capitol hill. president biden set a memorial day deadline for these infrastructure talks. doesn't feel like there's a whole lot of movement and last i checked, we will kick off memorial day weekend in just a f...