you had a phone conversation with paul gosar, chief of staff, right? >> we did talk. >> and he said that paul gosar had been talking to the president specifically about pardons. >> correct, yes. >> so in a conversation with you in which he is praising your work organizing the rallies, he also tells you that the congressman had a conversation with the president of united states about pardons, correct? >> yes. that did happen. >> okay. whether that is a dangler. not people can judge. i don't care whether it is a dangler not. i just want to be clear about the facts. are you talk to the chief of staff, and he said that gosar had a conversation to the president about pardons. and we have to, know the president did follow through and part in an individuals involved with steve bannon who was facing incredible -- criminal indictment. >> i think that this is somewhere where we will be a little more in agreement, chris. which is of course that trump pardons the one guy, the guys who are indicted, was all the money to fight. it the trample amputee war hero who wa

capitol as the house voted to censure congressman paul gosar over a violent video he posted on social media. the arizona republican becomes the first member of congress to be simultaneously censured and stripped of his committee post the photoshop video shows gosar appearing to kill democratic colleague alexandria ocasio-cortez, and then, heading for president biden while wielding two swords. >> no matter how much the left tries to quiet me, i will continue to speak out. if i must join alexander hamilton, the first person attempted to be censured by the south, so be it, it is done >> seth: well, this probably doesn't need to be said but you're not alexander hamilton. for one thing, i would be terrified to hear you rap. "my name is paul and i'm here to say -- i forgot what i was here to say." second, i love when these idiots try to sound smart and adopt a defiant tone by using dramatic language, like, "so be it. it is done." like, you don't sound like a founding father. you sound like cousin greg >> if it is to be said, so it be -- so it is [ laughter ] >> seth: we have been watching a

you had a phone qualification with paul gosar chief of staff, right? >> we did talk to him, yep. >> yeah. and he said that the paul gosar was talking to the president about pardons? >> correct. yes. >> okay. so he is praising your work, organizing the rallies, he also tells you that the congressman had a conversation with the president of the united states about pardons, correct? >> yes:that did happen. >> okay. whether or not to dangle or not, people can judge. again, i don't care whether it's a dangle. i just want to be clear on the facts here. you talked to the chief of staff. he said that gosar had a conversation with the president about pardons. we should note that the president did follow-through and pardon an individual involved with we build the wall named steve bannon who is facing federal indictment. >> i think -- i think this is somewhere where we will be in a little more in agreement, chris. which is, of course, trump pardons the one guy, the guys indicted, who has all the money and political connections to fight it. the triple amputee war

one thing i just want to say about paul gosar denying this. when i did the first story where dustin and jen were anonymous he claimed he never met them even though they hadn't been identified. they did in fact meet, and we published the photo of them together on the ellipse on january 6th. and gosar admits he did pursue a pardon for bannon. >> that's also a very useful context. the final thing here is there does seem to be a little bit of a breakdown among some of the rally organizers and we're seeing this with ali alexander as well, who was partly behind that, quote, wild protest. people trying to position themselves as yes, we were there for the peaceable assembly at the ellipse which yes, we were trying to get an election thrown out but we weren't the ones storming the capitol. that seems the line that you're hearing from some of the people that are demonstrably associated with the organization of that rally. >> yeah. as we pointed out earlier, all of this played out on live tv, essentially. but what various people among these groups are sa

>> number one, they could censure lauren boebert just like they did with paul gosar. they could also strip her of her committee assignments which was done to marjorie taylor greene. and speaker pelosi could put a resolution on the floor that condemned islamaphobia. there was some internal debate about this last week, and some democrats are reluctant to have to constantly police the bad behavior of their gop colleagues. they really feel like the onus should be on house minority leader kevin mccarthy. but clearly that's not going to happen. so, momentum has grown in the democratic ranks to take matters into their own hands and hold lauren boebert accountable in some manner. >> and then, olivia, minority leader mccarthy says, oh, wait, he is still capable of leading. listen. >> the clashes that you've seen within your caucus earlier this week, if you're speaker, would that make it difficult for you to govern? >> um, no. we're going to be quite fine. >> what does that mean? >> look, i think mccarthy is basically saying you're always going to have certain members who are p

dustin basically confirmed the core facts. >> you had a conversation with paul gosar chief of staff, right? >> we did talk. >> right. and he said that paul gosar had been talking to the president specifically about pardons. >> correct, yes. >> so in a conversation with you in which he is pressing your work organizing the rallies, he also tells you that the congressman had a conversation with the president of united states about pardons, correct? >> yes, that did happen. >> okay. >> tic-tac-toe. there you go. they have called the claim false and defamatory. adding that the allegations came from people i have never met. which is clearly not true. here is congressman gosar in a photo with the pair. maybe he doesn't remember it. they have not been charged of any crimes but we should note in the general sense that pushing pardon is not outside of the norm for coast guard. gosar himself admitted that he wrote a letter in support of a pardon for steve bannon. in august 2020, steepening was arrested and charged with embezzlement with some of the money he duped trump's base into donating for

they say that they spoke to paul gosar at some point, we that he dangled the presidential pardon. which, by the way it was due to their involvement with the fact that they said, we build the wall. the organization that steep biden had been involved with and he was indicted for. essentially what [inaudible] who was giving money to this fictitious and to the. and using it for their personal pocket. they were involved in that is. well and gosar tells them, what, maybe that goes away if you keep it up. >> to be clear, it wasn't a fictitious and. inc. they brought in about $25 million. and they did a wreck to a -- along the border. the issue with steve bannon is that he represented it as a situation where he wasn't getting paid. and allegedly, according to the doj, he and a couple of other leaders of the group took a lot of money while saying that they were doing the sort of pro-bono. dustin and jen, had this -- on their rv in 2020. at the casablanca resort in mesquite, nevada. but they were never charged. so they felt like this was hanging over their heads. and according to them, paul

and he said paul gosar had been talking to the president specifically about pardons? >> correct, yes. >> okay. so in a conversation with you in which he's praising your work organizing the rallies, he also tells you that the congressman had a conversation with the president of the united states about pardons, correct? >> mm-hmm. >> yes, that -- that did happen. >> okay. tic-tac-toe. there we go. for his part, congressman gosar has called the claim false and defamatory, adding that the allegations came from, quote, people i have never met, which is clearly not true. here is congressman gosar in a photo with the pair. maybe he doesn't remember it. stockton and lawrence have not been charged with any crimes, but we should note that in a general sense, that pushing pardons is not something that's outside the norm for gosar. in fact, gosar himself admitted he wrote a letter in support of a pardon for steve bannon. in august, 2020, steve bannon was arrested and charged with embezzling some of the money he duped trump's base into donating for that we build the wall project.

john avlon is here with today's reality check. >> paul gosar is at it again. no, not threatening aoc or calling members of the fbi and doj traitors or boycotting speeches by the pope, no, this is a different sin of blatant hypocrisy. you see, gosar is doing a victory lap for delivering federal cash to his constituency, specifically covid-19 relief funds that will be used to clean and provide relief for the can kingman, arizona, airport. in a press release, he called it critical funding, essential to maintaining safe and reliable air service to the community. what he failed to mention is that he voted against the legislation that made it possible, the american rescue plan act. in fact, he slammed it saying this bill is not about covid relief, it is about funding democrats' pet projects, the american people should be furious. and calling it a democratic spending bonanza. well, which is it, congressman? a socialist spending scheme for more critical funding? but gosar understands that he can vote no and still score the dough. he's far from the only congressman to

doesn't get all the attention that a lauren boebert gets or an older member like a paul gosar gets. dan crenshaw says this is probably why -- >> there's two types of members of congress. there's performance artists and there's legislators. now the performance artists are the ones that get all the attention. they're the ones you think are more conservative because they know how to say slogans real well. >> he's absolutely right. he's absolutely right. in the sense, he made a point at the same event that adam kinzinger who is, you know, viewed as a pariah by trump world, voted with trump more than a lot of members of the -- the matt gaetzes and lauren boeberts of the world. she knows the progressives are mad at her, she knows she said racist and islamophobic things. you would think she would have a low profile. no, she puts out a picture of her and kids with weapons following another congressman who did the same thing. confrontation is her business. controversy is her game. >> absolutely. that's the republican party now. the idea that there's show horses and work horses in congress is

reporter: marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, and boebert distractions to winning back -- mr. mccarthy: it's things we would not want to deal with. it is things that the american people want to focus on stopping inflation, gas prices, and others. anything that deviates from that causes problems, yes. reporter: representative boebert's comments. why do you have a hard time condemning something that's wrong. mr. mccarthy: let me be very clear. this party is for anyone and everyone who craves freedom and supports religious liberty. lauren boebert, i called her when it came forward, we talked. she apologized publicly. she apologized personally. i contabted steny hoyer -- i contacted steny hoyer, maybe steny and i should be in the room. we should lower the temperature of this congress. we should work together and talk to one another. disagreements something goes astray, you apologize for t exactly what lauren boebert did. what's interesting to me, i didn't get to watch speaker pelosi's press conference, did any of you raise the question when someone on their side of the aisle said

we'll run against marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar because they are the face of this gop. it's not kevin mccarthy. it's them. that's where the energy and passion is. let's be blunt. good luck. there might be some exceptions, republicans, don't get me wrong. i'm not saying all republicans are racists but all racists are republicans. >> you caught me off guard with that. liam had to laugh. i don't have time for the next question but can we just play this video? i want to show our viewers what it is and we'll go to break. we found another video of representative boebert suggesting representative omar was a terrorist. well go to break. >> one of my staffers on his first day with me got into an elevator in the capitol and in that elevator we were joined by ilhan omar. >> oh my god. [ laughter ] >> well, it was just us three in there and i looked over and i said well, look at there, it's the jihad squad. i do have to say she doesn't have a backpack. she wasn't dropping it. >> man: what's my safelite story? my truck...is my livelihood. so when my windshield cracked... the experts

reporter: marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, and boebert distractions to winning back -- mr. mccarthy: it's things we would not want to deal with. it is things that the american people want to focus on stopping inflation, gas prices, and others. anything that deviates from that causes problems, yes. reporter: representative boebert's comments. why do you have a hard time condemning something that's wrong. mr. mccarthy: let me be very clear. this party is for anyone and everyone who craves freedom and supports religious liberty. lauren boebert, i called her when it came forward, we talked. she apologized publicly. she apologized personally. i contacted steny hoyer, maybe steny and i should be in the room. we should lower the temperature of this congress. we should work together and talk to one another. disagreements something goes astray, you apologize for it. exactly what lauren boebert did. what's interesting to me, i didn't get to watch speaker pelosi's press conference, did any of you raise the question when someone on their side of the aisle said i work with the ku klux k

we just had two weeks ago paul gosar put out his fantasy snuff video where he's murdering aoc, a woman of color. the man spoke at a white nationalist event and how many republicans in the house voted to condemn him? two. two. let's be blunt. the gop -- if we don't speak up about the extremists in our group, we are defined by them. i say the same to the gop. i can't -- you know, they ran against speaker pelosi for years. we're going to run against marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, lauren boebert because they are the face of this gop. it's not kevin mccarthy. it's then. that's where the energy, the passion is. let's be blunt. so good luck. there might be some exceptions, don't get me wrong. there are some good -- i'm not saying all republicans are racists, but all racists are republicans. >> you caught me off guard with that one. even liam had laugh. listen, i don't have time for the next question, but can we just play this video? i just want to show our viewers what it is and then we'll go to break. this is cnn k-file, we found another video of representative boebert suggesting repres

so paul gosar is at it again. no, not threatening aoc or calling members of the fbi and doj traitors or boycotting speeches by the pope. no. this is a different sin of blatant hypocrisy. you see, gosar is doing a victory lap for delivering federal cash to his constituency, covid-19 funds to clean and provide relief for the kingman, arizona, airport. in a press release, he called it critical funding. what he failed to mention is that he voted against the legislation that made it possible. the american rescue plan. he said it's about funding democratic pet projects. the american people should be furious and called it a democratic spending b ing bonan. which is it, a socialist spending scheme or critical funding? he understands that he can vote no and still score the dough. and he's far from the only congressman to take credit for a bill he tried to kill. take congressman gary palmer who voted against the infrastructure bill. called it recklessly expensive. and then put out a press relief, touting its benefits back h

jim jordan, andy biggs, paul gosar, louie gohmert, mo brooks, scott perry. they were actively involved. "the new york times" describes it this way. this circle moved well beyond words and into action. they bombarded the justice department with dubious claims of voting irregularities. they pressured members of state legislatures to conduct audits that would cast doubt on the election process. they plotted to disrupt the certification on january 6 of joseph r. biden's victory. and as we just heard from professor tribe, that plot was a criminal plot. >> well, i think we saw over time that the former president was very impressed with strong men like duterte and putin and xi jinping and kim jong-un. these were the people that he looked to and lauded, really, and spoke in very complimentary terms about while turning his back on our traditional allies that supported democracy with us. so should come as no surprise really he was emulating them. and we saw even his own legal team put together a 36-slide power point on how to keep him in power and what people could do

. >> i -- just wondering, when you -- i know you -- you have said you had communication with paul gosar. he has denied those communications. um, but i want to ask you, when you hear what some of, you know, paul gosar and others are saying about what happened on january 6th, the way they characterize, you know, it wasn't -- you know, it was like tourists coming to the capitol. things like that. i'm wondering what you think? >> well, so i -- a lot of what has been printed about dr. gosar, i -- i have a long friendly relationship with him. i -- i also don't believe that he did anything wrong in his interactions with me. i think the way the talk about potential pardon has been mischaracterized by a lot of the media. so, i definitely want to just try to clear that part up. um, i -- i think one of the most stunning -- i'm sorry -- revelations that -- about these recent text messages from fox news producers and trump jr. and all these other people is that they were doing the right thing as things happened. and yet, they've continued to mischaracterize it afterwards which is the -- those text m

gosar each offered rittenhouse an internship, which is great it's not jail time but it would be nice if he got some kind of punishment. [ laughter ] the clothing brand old navy on friday launched a virtual santa boot camp to train mall santas on how to deal with outrageous gift requests, like gas. [ laughter ] and finally, apple announced last week it will launch a new self-service repair program that will offer users tools and parts to fix their own devices all right, but trader joe's already does that. [ laughter ] and that was a monologue, everybody. we got a great show for you tonight. [ cheers and applause he is the co-head writer on "saturday night live" and the co-anchor on "weekend update." our friend michael che will be here [ cheers and applause che's stand-up special, "shame the devil" is out on netflix now. and it's fantastic also he represents california's 28th congressional district. his new book, "midnight in washington: how we almost lost our democracy and still could" is a "new york times" number one best seller on sale now. congressman adam schiff will be here [ che

gosar and many others constantly take the abuse by the democrats. >> that's it, gosar. she ran to daddy trump to go tell on mace who was doing the two-step on cnn saying one thing about vaccines on fox and the other thing but now trying to be descent and they're attacking her. she told to daddy and trump has released a statement today saying it's ilhan omar that should apologize. once daddy has said that, doesn't that mean that kevin mccarthy cannot condemn these remarks, cannot condemn this behavior because that lady marjorie greene will probably be in his leadership team team if fact he becomes speaker? it's going to be the guy who says he's donald trump without the baggage as number two and it's going to be probably that lady or one of the other weirdos as number three, right? >> right. that's true. and i agree that kevin mccarthy can't condemn. but i think the real question is does he wish to condemn? i don't think we're talking about the same man you played a clip of a few years ago because the party has changed so much. and he's just so nakedly ambitious that he w

i was in touch with members of congress like paul gosar and worked with them on the january 6th set of events. so all together this is a fairly substantial step in congress now looking at themselves in addition to donald trump and those that surrounded him. >> when you have kinzinger saying, cheney saying they are looking at crimes, what crimes are possible? >> yeah. i think the main crime here is the obstruction of an official proceeding. it doesn't take a rocket scientist to learn donald trump today is to use the technical legal term freaking out. he is freaking out because of the revelations that you just mentioned a moment ago. also because there was a decision ten days ago by the federal court in washington, d.c. by a trump appointee and what the judge said is that one of the insurrectionists was guilty of violating this statute obstruction of an official proceeding, the count of votes on january 6th. and she said what this person intended to do was try and stop it. she said you don't need to show this person intended violence or anything like that, just need to show the person ac

so paul gosar is at it again. no, not threatening aoc or calling members of the fbi and doj traitors or boycotting speeches by the pope. no. this is a different sin of blatant hypocrisy. you see, gosar is doing a victory lap for delivering federal cash to his constituency, covid-19 funds to the kingman, arizona, airport. in a press release, he called it critical if you indicated essential to maintain is that he voted against the leg sl slags that made it possible. the american rescue act. he said this bill is about funding democrats' progress jeb -- projects. he called it democratic spending. a socialist spending or critical funding for the community? gosar understands he can vote no and still score the dough and he's far from the only congressman to take credit for a bill he had to kill. take gary palmer, the republican freedom caucus member that voted against the bill, called it recklessly expensive and put out a press release toting the benefits back home saying funding the northern belt line has consistently b

but it sounds like his testimony that he was in direct contact with paul gosar, representative andy biggs, mo brooks, all of whom are also kind of fringe characters, but members of congress might have been involved in the planning of the attack on congress. >> right. ali alexander has made a similar claim in the past about having been involved with these folks. now we're sort of getting the receipts for it. but we know that mo brooks was involved. he spoke on the ellipse on the morning of january 6th. one of the things that's really important for us to do is remember that all of these things were overlapping. that there were three events that were planned for thim that time period. and this event planned at the capitol. and at some point in the days prior to january 6th, all of those things were folded into one. ali alexander was kicked to speaking on the evening of january 6th. at one point, the official website for the ellipse rally mentioned they were going to have a rally at the capitol at 1:00 p.m. and on msnbc, dustin stockton was talking to chris hayes and said the point at which h

but would a speaker trump pave the way for lawmakers like marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, matt gaetz to end up in leadership positions and the thought of that, how dangerous a prospect is it? >> it's very serious indeed. i mean, i think that for most gop leaders, they want to be perceived as being a mature and responsible governing party but if donald trump were in such a position where he's literally in charge of the house and overseeing the committees and overseeing leadership positions and he starts rewarding his allies, extremists like matt gaetz and marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar and others, you're looking at a situation in which the house republicans would be even more radicalized than they are right now so i think for democrats looking at this and weighing their campaign plans for 2022, i think this is an important element. i think that not only does it light a fire under the democratic base but it tells independent voters and swing voters, look, republicans are going to be pretty extreme in 2023 if they're in a position of majority and so 2022 midterms will be determin

or paul gosar, who sweeted out an may video with him and. or marjorie taylor green he never would have been comfortable in that environment. however kevin mccarthy singled out five democrats. he summarized the conduct of ilhan omar, adam shift, eric swalwell, and ka heem jeffries. dole is so much of what is missing today. his life was a can vance, of a backdrop of what is wrong in washington. and we don't have to speculate that dole thought ant the news of the day. he turned in a column. the washington post says it was drafted early 2021, arnold the time of his death. listen to the late senator in his own words -- i watched the january 6th riots from the capitol. there's been a lot of taung about what it would take to he'll our country. we must remember that bipartisan is the minimum we should expect from ourselves. america can never achieve greatness when we prioritize principals over party and humanity over personalal legacy, we establish more as a nation. i will count on tomorrow's leaders to stand up for what is right for america, with f

tim, on the right you have the folks like marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, and others who seem to be growing in power on the conservative side right now. do you think that they are going to be the controlling influence across the republican caucus going forward? or do you think they can be more moderate folks who may become the speaker? >> i think that kevin mccarthy is actually so weak as a leader. so i don't see an overthrow of the house caucus for lauren boebert who is going to be running for speaker of the house. i think that would you have seen over the past year is that kevin mccarthy winds when he needs to. he will step aside. let them advance their conspiracy. and he demonstrates that he's not going to try to fight with them, fight with, them control them in the way that john baer did. that is what's ended up being the death of them. they were seen as too hostile in the surge and tea party part of the caucus which is now a maga tea party conspiratorial monstrous that has grown even wilder since back then. but he has no interest to fight with them. so i think that he will b

gosar louis gohmert, mo brooks, and andy biggs. also known as "steal team dicks." ( cheers and applause ) after the election, the dicks developed a blueprint for the former president's supporters in congress: to hammer home the idea that the election was tainted. then, they went on cable television, radio shows, and rallies to promote the idea started drumming up support to derail the transfer of power, and finally plotted to disrupt the certification on january 6th of joe biden's victory. then, on january 6th, all six lawmakers were inside the capitol, ready to protest the certification, but right before they could, security forces entered the chamber because rioters were in the building. so they were ready to reject the delegates, seize the ballots, and overturn the election but they were interrupted by the out-of control mob that their lies created. reminds me of the words of founding father benjamin frankenstein: ( as dr. frankenstein ) "no, no, i'm hearing reports it was 'antifa' who destroyed your village!" ( laughter ) ( app

gosar louis gohmert mo brooks, and andy biggs. also known as "steal team dicks." ( cheers and applause ) after the election, the dicks developed a blueprint for the former president's supporters in congress: to hammer home the idea that the election was tainted. then, they went on cable television, radio shows, and rallies to promote the idea started drumming up support to derail the transfer of power, and finally plotted to disrupt the certification on january 6th of joe biden's victory. then, on january 6th, all six lawmakers were inside the capitol, ready to protest the certification, but right before they could, security forces entered the chamber because rioters were in the building. so they were ready to reject the delegates, seize the ballots, and overturn the election but they were interrupted by the out-of control mob that their lies created. reminds me of the words of founding father benjamin frankenstein: (as dr. frankenstein) "no, no, i'm hearing reports it was 'antifa' who destroyed your village!" ( laughter ) ( appla

matt gaetz, jim jordan, margorie taylor greene, paul gosar. they've made it very, very clear where they stand on a number of issues, including our democracy. they stand for violent videos that appear to show the killing of a colleague, an attack on the president of the united states. they stand for bogus conspiracy theorys. they stand for on devotion to a former president. let's bring in now our correspondents, reporters. jamie, you have an exclusive every night. i love you for coming on elliott, too. bring us some exclusives, we would love it. >> all i can say, don, is if you think donald trump was furious about mark meadows' book, get ready. according to the committee, we have learned that, among more than 6,000 pages of documents that meadows voluntarily handed over to the committee, are messages sent and received during the riot. texts, emails, calls, while the events of the election -- excuse me, after 40 years, i can't believe i did that on tv -- insurrection was happening. the records include "volumes of material, including realtime com

paul gosar of arizona, i inform the house that mr. gosar will vote nay on the rule. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from washington rise? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. strickland of washington, i inform the house that ms. strikeland -- ms. strickland will vote yes on h.res. 852. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? >> madam speaker, the following members vote yes on h.res. 852. defazio, oregon. trone, maryland, mceachin, virginia, wilson, florida, krishnamoorthi, illinois. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise? >> as the member designated by representative leger fernandez, i inform the house that representative leger fernandez will vote aye on h.res. 85 #. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? >> as the member designated by mr. crist, i inform the house that mr. crist will vote yea on h.res. 852. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? >> as the member

gosar, out there touting the success it's going to have in doing things like making airports function better as we see the new omicron variant spread. it's turning into a double-edged sword. on one hand, these folks need to be able to go home and say i'm doing everything i can to protect our state and do everything to keep this new variant under control and then biden gets to go out and say -- it's such a successful bill in accomplishing its stated purpose, we have critics out there talking about how crucial this money is. >> i remember in the spring the president pulled an index card out and said, hey, here are some republican congressmen who voted against the bill who are out there touting the money. do you feel like this could be a moment where he points to big-named republicans, including some who may be coming for his job in 2024 who says, look, i already got them. >> the dnc has been dropping the stuff out as research saying, look, these are some of our harshest critics and they're saying how important this is. you mentioned arizona using the money in a way that could potentiall

you have paul gosar tweeting out violent animes against joe biden and killing alexandria ocasio-cortez. marjorie taylor greene going after the 13 republicans who voted for a bipartisan infrastructure bill, going after mace. and you've got ted cruz trying to fight with anybody who will listen and who's got a pulse in hopes of getting some attention. it is pathetic. it is unseemly. it has no place in congress. jim, you've got kids. if your kids were behaving this way at school, the principal would call them, would call you and they'd probably be suspended or expelled. if they were behaving this way in any other workplace, if there was this level of toxicity and threats to colleagues, they would be fired and rightly so. there's got to be an end to this happening in congress. children are watching. the world is watching, and these people are behaving like if they were raised by wolves. >> listen, i have to deliberately sensor those comments. >> let's think about this. we've heard the death threats against ilhan omar. we've heard on tape, the voice mails, the death threats against the 13 re

they've already been talking about kicking democrats off committees the way that paul gosar and marjorie taylor greene have been kicked off committees under a democratic majority. >> the concerns i have about precedent being set is the fact we have people who are elected members of congress that deny the events of january 6 .that's a dangerous precedent. the fact fact we have elcted members of congress who deny it was violent, that there were police officers who were beaten, who make outrageous claims against the brave men and women of law enforcement, capitol police and metropolitan police department officers who were beaten with flag poles, fire extinguishers, more than 150 of them who required medical care. and some of whom were -- have been unable to return to the job. so i think we're already in a place where there's terrible precedent being set by the fact there are colleagues on the other side of the aisle who deny that reality, deny the danger and certainly do not respect the constitutional duty that congress had to certify the election and continue to traffic in dangerous conspi

gosar, who tweeted an anime murder fantasy video that depicts him killing a congresswoman or marjorie taylor greene who relates wearing a mask to holocaust. and gop minority leader mccarthy singled out democrats and talked about their behavior, which he said didn't set the conduct for gosar and talked about maxine waters, and hakim jeffreys and so it goes. dole was so much that is missing today. not the least of which is p pragmatistism and we don't have to speculate as to what dole would have thought about the news of the day. it turns out that he left behind his final words. a column written by the late senator dole, that "washington post" says was drafted early in 2021 to be published around the time of his death. so, listen on the late senator in his own words. quote, i watched the january 6th riots at the capitol. i thought of the symbol of our democracy consumed by hatred and violence. there's been talk about what it will take to heal our country. we've heard many of the leaders express bipartisanship. but we must remember it's the minimum we should expect from ourselves. americ

gosar, mo brooks -- i'll have more on him in a moment -- and andy biggs about what he was trying to do to overturn the election leading up to january 6th.

what he predicts could very welcome to pass mat matt gaetz, marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar made it clear where they stand on a number of issues including our democracy. they stand for vile videos and the attack on the president of the united states and stand for bogus conspiracy theories about jewish space lasers. they stand for devotion to a disgraced twice impeached one term former insurrection inspiring president. let's bring in our correspondent's reporters. jamie gangel and legal analyst elliott williams. jamie is ready to go. you have an exclusive every night. i love you for it. thank you for coming on, elliott. bring us exclusives. we'd love it for the show. >> all i can say, don, if you think donald trump was furious about mark meadow's book, get ready. according to the committee, we have learned that among more than 6,000 pages of documents that meadows voluntarily handed over to the committee are messages sent and received during the riot. text. emails. calls. while the events of the erection -- excuse me. after 40 years i can't believe i did that on tv. insurrection was

i mean, paul gosar goes to a white nationalist conference and kevin mccarthy is not saying a thing. and so i don't know what to say about what this says about the modern republican party but i do know that the -- that voters don't seem to be holding them accountable anymore for this kind of behavior and, even worse, it seems like this is the new strategy to attract voters is to talk like this. the only thing that gives me solace is this is the kind of thing that really turns off college educated suburban voters, swing voters, but, yeah. i think the republican party would really like -- there are parts of the republican party that would like donald trump to go away but then this other part of the party gets more like him every day. >> on friday, former minnesota police officer kim potter broke down in tears as she testified at her trial for manslaughter in the death of daunte wright who was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. her testimony comes the same week another minnesota cop derek chauvin pleaded guilty to federal charges in the death of george floyd. we've seen effo

so people on twitter are now guessing names like paul gosar, jim jordan, devin nunes, matt gaetz, ted cruz, and josh hawley. and you can play the home version in the fun new game "clue-less." ( laughter ) ( applause ) these messages-- got a little-- got a little-- there you go. these messages have the ring of unfiltered truth because they're taken from mark meadows' two personal phones. and nothing says "innocent" like a second cell phone. ( laughter ) "i'm sorry, i'm sorry. what's that, honey? you found my second phone in the closet? oh, that's just my backup. 'i love you' phone in case i can't find the first one to tell you how much i was not sleeping with the babysitter last night. hello! i love my wife... who's right here in the room with me right now. good-bye, wrong number!" this whole attempted coup was based on the former president's endless lies about non-existent massive voter fraud. and now the associated press has shown just how big a liar it is. they conducted a review of every potential case of voter fraud in the six battleground states he disputed and found fewer than 4

we saw paul gosar showing the murder of aoc. these are people who now have made guns and violence part of the rhetoric. it's a very fetishistic theme that guns and this toxic masculinity are now the point. it's not merely a side light. these are the central themes that they use. it's not really about the second amendment at all. it's about this bravado, it's about a sense that no one can tell them what to do, no one can restrict them, and that they have no responsibility to anyone else. so i find this prosecutor to move to indict them a welcome change, and perhaps we will get back to some sense of responsibility for gun ownership. >> yeah. and i don't know if you notice this, maya, but in watching the video, when we came into this segment as the prosecutor was talking about charging them, the father was laughing, laughing and basically shaking his head no. but, more to the point, you are from new york, you are in new york, the supreme court heard arguments in a case that had major implications for gun laws not just in new york,

a feeling if they were going to rebuke paul gosar who posted this anime video of himself killing alexandria ocasio-cortez a few weeks ago, why not the staple for boebert, a double standard for islamophobia. there's pressure on pelosi to do something. a week ago i talked to senior democrats reluctant to do anything, and the reason is because boebert in this instance unlike past instances with republicans actually issued an apology. people will say it was a phony apology, it wasn't sincere. a lot of democrats feel that way but there was a fear of rebuking and doing something against a member who did make an effort, tweeted an apology and reached out to ilhan omar, they obviously got in an ugly spat on that phone call but there was a reluctance to do that. we have to see if this pressure is enough to sort of push pelosi this week to do something. there's certainly a lot of members talking about it on the hill. >> so this tweet you're familiar with, sparking a lot of reaction this week and understandable. one, why a republican member of congress would consider this christmas appropriate, we can

. >> are marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar and lauren boebert distractions to winning back the majority next year? >> it's things we would not want to deal with. it is things that the american people want to focus on, stopping inflation, gas prices and others, and anything that deviates from that causes problems, yes. >> wow. susan that's as close as he has come to party discipline in a long time. could he have seen some fresh polling? >> he probably has. he is still not willing to condemn those members for their behavior because he is astutely aware of what happened back in 2015 when he was up for speaker and then said the truth, brian, that the benghazi hearings were meant to hurt hillary clinton. that caused him a loss. i think at this point he is willing to say whatever he can to please whoever he has to at the time. >> don calloway, i got something for you. here is congresswoman boebert on newsmax. >> i do want to make it a priority to take a moment and thank the millions of americans, especially my constituents who have shown their love and support for me the last few days. i have

they are, jim jordan, and the big, paul gosar, louis gohmert, moe both, dark and scott -- >> all of them remained silent today. here is a text from someone in congress the day after the attack on the capitol. yesterday was a terrible day we tried everything we could in our objection to the six states. i am sorry nothing worked. that is the bank robbers saying the day after, i am sorry that we couldn't get out of the bank with all the money. the member of congress who wrote that texas is afraid. days after it's been revealed, to come forward and say that i wrote that text. i am proud of writing that tax. that texas is saying i am sorry that the crime we committed yesterday, the crime of conspiracy to violate election fraud, did not succeed in our criminal objective. yesterday, congress man jim jordan was forced to admit that he wrote a text that outlined a criminal conspiracy to commit election fraud and change the votes of the electoral college. jim jordan admitted that only after it had leaked to some reporters that jim jordan wrote that tex. that jim jordan forwarded this techs to mark

gosar. he says he exchanged a text message with mo brooks. in the filing it says who he believed. so, again, these are -- this is revelatory in that it is deepening our understanding of the kinds of information that the house select committee is questioning these witnesses about, ali alexander sitting for this deposition. but he is trying to get his phone records directly from his telecommunications provider. we're seeing some of the witnesses provide a wealth of information and try to silo other efforts to get a wealth of information. this story continues with more and more documents emerging all the time. >> whitney wild, i appreciate your reporting. a lot to get through. thank you so much. >>> with me now to talk more about this, is michael d'antonio. he's a cnn contributor and a donald trump biographer who has written several books on the former president including the book "the truth about trump". you know the former president quite well, how he functions. regarding this development tha

. >> speaking of clown show, tim, on the right you have the folks like marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, lauren boebert. they've seemed to be growing in power on the conservative side right now. do you think that they're going to be the controlling influence over the republican caucus going forward? or do you think it could be more moderate folks and kevin mccarthy may become the speaker? >> well, look. i think that kevin mccarthy is actually so weak as a leader that is serving him within the house caucus and so i don't see an overthrow of the house caucus for lauren boebert or whatever is going to be running for speaker of the house next time and winning. i think that what you've seen over the past year is kevin mccarthy when he needs to just steps aside, lets them, you. >> advance their crazy. lets them advance their conspiracy theories and he demonstrates he is not going to try to fight with them or punish them or control them in the way paul ryan and john boehner did. that is what ended up being the death nell of those two former republican leaders in the house. they were seen as to

. >> i'm not going to stay quiet when paul gosar tweets out killing alexandria ocasio-cortez. >> you're right. >> i don't agree with you. >> you have to look at the big picture and take each one on the merit. sometimes the best response is no resons. >> absolutely not. maybe you can do that at other times but not when you talk about a co-equal -- >> ignorance and craziness is no response. >> you-all can be silent. i'll be a hero by myself. >> they say silence speaks volumes. >> we'll be right back. >> words speak volumes. by the team at fidelity.and a group of investment professionals manages ben's ira for him, analyzing market conditions and helping him stay on target. he gets one-on-one coaching when he wants some advice, and can adjust his plan whenever he needs to. and now he's so prepared for retirement, ben is feeling totally zen. that's the planning effect from fidelity. [microwave beeps] [ahh] ♪ ♪ ♪ i'm so defensive, i got bongos thumping in my chest ♪ ♪ and something tells me they don't beat for me ♪ ♪ i love romance, but i got eggshells around me ♪ ♪ don't st

whether mccarthy or paul gosar. how complicated is that for that committee? >> i think politically complicated, because the table's always turn. some other -- parties tradeoff running the house, running the senate, running the white house. so you'd want to be careful about setting political precedence for subpoenaing other members of congress. my hope, sort of like charlie brown, lucy and the football, and my hopes are often dashed, is that members of congress would want to simply cooperate, because they're members of this body and they would want to help get give the right answer. i mean -- i know. right, foolish, naive, i understand, but i don't know there's a legal impediment to subpoenaing other members of congress but may be a political one, chuck. >> well, that obviously certainly i think gives something many of those members of congress are thinking about. especially since control of that house chamber may indeed change in approximately a year. chuck rosenbaum, always helpful to get your expertise in here and you helped clarify a lot of things. thank y

paul gosar who posted a violent video that appears to show the killing of a colleague in an attack of the president of the united states says he was empowered when nancy pelosi stripped him of his committee assignments. >> so when nancy pelosi took your committee assignments, did she victimize you or empower you? >> she empowered me. >> because now you get the wide-angle lens? >> she's not limiting me. she's actually expanding my horizons. >> people don't get that. see, i think they think they got you, but really they unchained you. >> and let's not forget matt gaetz's prediction about 2022. his prediction far right will take control, and they are the new gop. >> we are going to take power after this next election. and when we do it's not going to be the days of paul ryan and trey gowdy and no real oversight and no real subpoenas. it's going to be the days of jim jordan and marjorie taylor greene and dr. gosar and myself doing everything to get the answers to these questions. >> that is a -- a prospect. i think it's fair to say frightening prospect. ladies and gentlemen, the lights ar