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While Seth Meyers' "Closer Look" segments take deep dives into serious issues with occasional laughter and mockery. This week, his takedown of Republicans trying to rewrite history on the Jan. 6 attacks, Meyers destroyed the GOP and interspersed hilarious impressions of Eric Trump and Mike Lindell.

He began by talking about how much better American's quality of life is after President Donald Trump is out of office. In 2021, people can wake up without a series of news alerts on their phone saying something like, "President Trump accuses Eiffel Tower of spying on him, suggests eating a golf ball can cure coronavirus."

A whopping 35 Republicans from a broad range of states voted to authorize the Jan. 6 Commission in the House Wednesday. It put the support for the commission to over 250 bipartisan members.

The vote came just hours after the Capitol Police produced a letter attacking officials they protected on Jan. 6 who are refusing to support an investigation into those who beat them with bars and showered them with toxic bear spray.

On Wednesday, CNN reporter Gary Tuchman visited the district of Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA), a heavily conservative area comprising most of northeast Georgia, and asked constituents how they felt about Clyde's characterization of the January 6 Capitol rioters as no different from "normal tourists." And while many of his constituents weren't overly concerned, one appeared outraged.

"Congressman Clyde said it was a tourist visit," said Tuchman. "Do you agree with that?"

On Wednesday's edition of CNN's "The Situation Room," as the House took the vote to pass the bill to establish a January 6th Commission on the Capitol riot, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a conservative Trump opponent who voted for the measure, speculated that some Republicans who voted against it are still afraid of Trump tweets — even though he's banned from Twitter.

"I think it's an easy vote," said Kinzinger. "We need answers. We need to take ownership of what was done, what led to it. This was an attack on our democracy and an attack on the number 2, 3, 4 person in line of secession for the presidency. It was the right vote. I'm pleased by the number of my colleagues that voted so far. I wish it was significantly higher. But I think, given all of the people that came out against it, it's a positive number."

President Donald Trump's former lawyer made a startling prediction speaking with MSNBC's Joy Reid on Wednesday: the former president will flip on everyone to save himself, even his own children.

Cohen explained that while the Trump Org. may seem like a large company, it's nothing more than a "glorified mom-and-pop company."

On CNN Wednesday, tax expert and Pulitzer Prize-winning Trump biographer David Cay Johnston broke down the significance of the criminal tax investigation into Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg — and the legal implications for the former president.

"Weisselberg and the Trump family go back to the 1970s. Forty years, as we know," said anchor Erin Burnett. "A former Trump employee told CNN, 'Allen knows where all the financial bodies are buried.' Trump's former longtime attorney Jay Goldberg once told me, in terms of the money trail, 'Donald could be hurt, I believe, a great deal by Allen Weisselberg.' What do you think, David, does he stay loyal here no matter what, or does he turn on Trump?"

Speaking to MSNBC's Ari Melber on Wednesday, former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res said that in her opinion, CFO Allen Weisselberg has flipped on former President Donald Trump.

"I think Weisselberg is very concerned about his kids," said Res. "I think that what they're doing is the kind of thing they did with [retired Lt. Gen. Michael] Flynn. Remember his kid? I don't think Weisselberg will let his son go to jail. So that's what he's doing."

On Wednesday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara suggested that the Manhattan district attorney intends to bring charges in the criminal investigation of the Trump Organization before, according to rumors, he leaves office next year.

"The New York Attorney General Letitia James, she's essentially joining forces with the Manhattan district attorney, Cy Vance, this is his last year in office," said anchor Jake Tapper. "Does that mean that the end of this investigation might be near?"

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi, former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal and Donald Trump biographer Tim O'Brien all spoke to the new revelation that the New York attorney general joined the Manhattan D.A.'s case against the former president.

"I think Trump has misjudged his exposure here," said Figliuzzi. "There's hubris here and there's just bad gambling luck. So, with folks like [Paul] Manafort, [Roger] Stone, he believed that he could control them. That they were disloyal enough that he didn't trust them and needed to dangle the pardons. That he needed the pardons and commutations. I think he misjudged [CFO Allen] Weisselberg and others. I think he thought he was Teflon, this wouldn't happen. He was emboldened by [special counsel Robert] Mueller not going after his finances and I think he's misplayed this."

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) unleashed on Republicans during debate over the creation of the Jan. 6 Commission.

Screaming at the top of his lungs, Ryan said, "Benghazi, you guys chased the former SoS all over the country, spent millions of dollars. We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol Police with lead pipes across the head, and we can't get bipartisanship. What else has to happen in this country?!"

On Wednesday, ahead of the congressional vote on the bill to establish the bipartisan January 6th Commission to investigate the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) gave a long-winded speech defending the Capitol rioters and demanding Congress investigate Black Lives Matter protesters instead.

"In this past year we have witnessed violent riots in American cities all over this country," said Greene. "There has not been a commission launched to study the reasons why that happened. There has not been an investigation to stop the BLM and Antifa riots that have hurt innocent people and attacked federal courthouses, taken over police departments, taken autonomous zones in the city of Portland and done damage to people all over the country."

Rudy Giuliani's son Andrew seemed confused about his own resume when speaking to Fox News on Wednesday.

When pitching Martha MacCallum on his candidacy for the governor of New York, he explained that he's spent time in and around government for 32 years, which would mean he would have been working at just three years old.

Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has joined his counterpart in the House and opposed a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.

House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced Tuesday that he would not back legislation to establish a panel to study the riot and its origins, complaining that it was too focused on the deadly events at the U.S. Capitol instead of unrelated political violence, and McConnell declared his own opposition the following day.