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This committee. this committee's investigation into the violent assault on our capitol on january 6th is not a game. any communications mr. trump has with this committee will be under oath. and if he persists in lying then, he will be accountable under the laws of this great nation and subject to criminal penalties for every false word he speaks. >> she is not messing around. those efforts to hold the disgraced expresident and his team accountable for the january 6th insurrection is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. luke broad butter is back, "new york times...

Person you describe to doesn't show up to work and whatever, but there's another category of problem which is a very senior official in the government who are there in the bureaucracy, they do show up, and in fact that's the problem, they show up in order to block and frustrate with the president, the elected president is trying to do. does this apply to those senior officials as well. >> we had to be very careful that you don't fire people because of their political position on issues, but at the same time there are performance standards that this bill would allow these agencies to begin to i...

Show up to work and whatever, but there's another category of problem which is a very senior official in the government who are there in the bureaucracy, they do show up, and in fact that's the problem, they show up in order to block and frustrate with the president, the elected president is trying to do. does this apply to those senior officials as well. >> we had to be very careful that you don't fire people because of their political position on issues, but at the same time there are performance standards that this bill would allow these agencies to begin to implement that will hold people ...

Least. they do have one republican senator. and that seems to be a slightly different dynamic from what you've encountered in the house which seems purely partisan in the house. >> that's right, lawrence. if right now what you're seeing in the house, it was a road, it would be the president speeding recklessly down it without a stop sign or a cop on the beat. that's the environment that we are in. and, you know, i don't think the russians ever would have imagined in their wildest dreams that in addition to getting the preferred candidate this they wanted elected by helping donald trump, that t...

Would be the president speeding recklessly down it without a stop sign or a cop on the beat. that's the environment that we are in. and, you know, i don't think the russians ever would have imagined in their wildest dreams that in addition to getting the preferred candidate this they wanted elected by helping donald trump, that they would also see in our congress a complete inability to tell the american people how we were so vulnerable, who was responsible, whether the government response was adequate, and to see any reforms be made to prevent it from happening again. and they have somehow ac...