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Gone on now, we're heading into memorial day. that was the deadline. now they're talking about july. democrat activists are looking at the clock and saying we may only get one year to do the things we want to do and there's other things that are incredibly important like voting rights in particular is what they point to. and the january 6th commission is layering on top of that. if republicans aren't even willing to vote to investigate an attack on their own house, many say, what will they negotiate with democrats on? there's new accusations republicans are just trying to stall everything to p...

Fbi or whether it's state attorney generals or from whatever sources that have basically, you know, suggested jared kushner was going to jail, don jr. was going to jail, donald trump was going to jail, you know, matt gaetz probably been a thousand headlines that had matt gaetz and the word sex trafficking in the same headline. what happens if he's not convicted of sex trafficking, exactly where do you go to expunge those thousands of headlines. hillary clinton supporters will tell you for a year and a half there were people inside the fbi that were leaking about her emails, then leaking act th...

Push it through in reconciliation? >> if you're a betting man and i know that you are -- >> yes. >> i would say yes put money on that outcome. i think the odds are pretty strong at this point that's the rout they end up taking. there is one other route that has not been explored and probably won't be explored but that is to simply deficit finance this thing. don't include a full slate of pay-fors. maybe raise revenue here and there and do tax enforcement at the irs, but if the complications are they don't want user fees raised and republicans don't want taxes raised, no one on the hill is cons...

They're talking about this being politically driven and political stunt but you'll have half of the panel representing their point of view. jonah goldberg has a new column for the l.a. times titled why the gop is terrified of january 6 commission. jonah writes this -- quote, it's amazing how easily republicans can see how the rhetoric of blm activists can create a permission structure for violence but become utterly blind to the same point when it comes to violence at the seat of our government. there are many legitimate arguments against the special commission to study january 6th. congress h...

Contradicting the false narratives still being peddled by trump and embraced by his core supporters. it's absolutely true that his supporters are mostly peaceful, but that misses the point entirely and deliberately, joe. that's jonah goldberg writing in the "l.a. times". >> great points from jonah, as usual. there are areas that still can be negotiated, susan collins as her local newspaper said is concerned about staffing. good reason at the beginning. you know, this commission at the beginning the proposal was seven democrats, four republicans. all democratic staff. and we said on this show t...