Brooks and Capehart on the political chaos in the House

Jonathan Capehart:

I still view it with trepidation.

We — I mean, just think about it. Two years ago today, we saw thousands of people instigated by the then-president of the United States who stormed the Capitol trying to overturn a free and fair election.

Exactly two years later, we're still seeing chaos in the House of Representatives, when the party of that president, a lot of whom voted not to certify the 2020 election, new folks who came in running on the big lie, going after Kevin McCarthy and not voting for him and rendering the place into chaos as part of, to my mind, the ongoing insurrection.

What happened on January 6, 2021, is still happening. And I think — to set up a contrast, this split screen moment that we're in, in this country, at opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. At one end, you have got the president of the United States working with the Senate minority leader, Republican, on bipartisan infrastructure, whatever, showing what governance can look like when opposing parties come together for the good of the country.

And at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, in the Capitol, they can't — 14 ballots so far and still don't have — don't have a speaker. It's just an ongoing — it's an ongoing insurrection. And I don't see when we — when the party gets out of it, the Republican Party gets out of it, or we as a nation get out of it.

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