6th BECAUSE THAT ALL PLAYS INTO
ANOTHER GOP LIE AND REWRITES THE
TRUTH AND AS PROMISED, JOINING
ME NOW, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
HOUSE HOMELAND COMMITTEE.
BENNY THOMPSON.
I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START WITH
THIS BUT YOU’RE UP AGAINST FAR
GREATER HEADWINDS THAN THE
PEOPLE THAT DECIDED THERE WOULD
BE A 9/11 COMMISSION BECAUSE
THERE WERE NOT MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSE THAT DISAGREED 9/11
HAPPENED AND AIRPLANES FLEW INTO
BUILDINGS AND KILLED OUR MER
CANS.
THERE WAS NO DISAGREEMENT ABOUT
THOSE FACTS.
TODAY THERE IS NO DISAGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES.
>> THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT
IT.
LET ME TELL YOU, WE’VE BEEN
WORKING SINCE JANUARY 6th TO GET
TO THIS POINT.
IT BEEN DIFFICULT.
WE HAVEN’T HAD THE BEST
COOPERATION TRYING TO GET HERE
BUT WE’RE HERE SO WHAT WE’RE
SEEING ON THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW
IS ACTUALLY WHAT HAPPENED.
OTHER PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO SAY
OTHERWISE.
THEY WILL HAVE THEIR OPPORTUNITY
TO COME BEFORE THIS COMMISSION
AND TRY TO MAKE THEIR CASE, BUT
WE THINK CLEARLY WE HAVE TO MOVE
FORWARD.
WHAT YOU SEEN RIGHT NOW, THE
ONLY OTHER TIME WE’VE HAD
ANYTHING CLOSE TO THIS AT THE
NATION’S CAPITOL WAS 1814 WHEN
IT WAS SET ON FIRE.
SO THIS INSURRECTION THAT I CALL
IT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT IT, AND SO
WE PUT THIS COMEMISSION BILL
FORWARD.
WE LOOK TO VOTE ON IT THIS WEEK,
AND IT’S BEEN DIFFICULT.
BUT TO MY RANKING MEMBER, WE
WORKED IT OUT.
>> HOW DID THAT GO?
TELL ME ABOUT THE
REPRESENTATIVE.
HE’S PROBABLY SET TO GET TROUBLE
GIVEN THE FACT HE WORKED IT OUT
WITH YOU.
>> IT BEEN BACK AND FORTH.
WE NEGOTIATED FROM -- TO WHERE
WE ARE NOW.
WE WANT TO REMEMBER WHAT WE DID
IN 9/11, SO WE SET THE
COMPOSITION, EQUAL NUMBER OF
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS, THE
SUBPOENA POWERS THERE, THE
LEADERSHIP PICKS THE VICE CHAIR
AND THE CHAIR AND SO WE WANT
CERTAIN EXPERTISE ON THE
COMMITTEE BUT WE WENT BACK AND
FORTH UP UNTIL THURSDAY WE WAS
STILL EXCHANGING LETTERS GETTING
IT RIGHT AND I’M HAPPY THAT
WE’RE HERE, BUT, YOU KNOW, THIS
SPEAKS TO WHO WE ARE.
OUR CAPITOL POLICE DID A
WONDERFUL JOB BUT THEY WERE
UNDER ATTACK AND THEY WERE
TRYING TO PROTECT THE CITADEL OF
DEMOCRACY IN THIS TRICK AND THEY
WERE OVER RUN AND WE HAVE TO
PROTECH THOSE MEN AND WOMEN WHO
DID THAT AND INSURANCE DNLTCIDEN
WAS NATIONAL POLICE WEEK.
A LOT OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS
DENYING WHAT WAS GOING ON, THEY
WERE HAVING EVENTS SAYING HOW WE
SUPPORT THE POLICE SO WE’RE
SAYING IF YOU SUPPORT THE
CAPITOL POLICE IN DOING THEIR
JOB, YOU SUPPORT THIS COMMISSION
GETTING TO THE FACTS.
>> ARE YOU CONFIDENT THAT THIS
WILL PASS THE HOUSE AND THIS
COMMISSION WILL BE ESTABLISHED?
>> WELL, WE’LL GET THROUGH THE
HOUSE.
WE’LL TAKE IT UP THIS WEEK.
I HOPE THE SENATE FOLLOWS, YOU
KNOW, RIGHT AWAY AND WE CAN GET
THIS SUNSET THE COMMISSION FOR
DECEMBER 31.
THEY HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO.
SOME OF THE COMMITTEE AND
EVIDENCE THAT THE NORMAL
COMMISSION WE WOULD HAVE TO GET
WE ALREADY HAVE.
WE HAVE THE HONORARY REPORT AND
HOUSE ADMINISTRATION REPORT.
WE HAVE THE GOVERNMENT REFORM
AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES REPORT.
SO WE HAVE A NUMBER OF DOCUMENTS
ALREADY IN HAND.
WE HAVE INFORMATION FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.
SO WHAT WE NEED IS A CLEAR
DIRECTION FOR THIS COMMISSION TO
GO FORWARD AND COME BACK TO US
AT THE END OF IT AND SAY
CONGRESS, THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED
TO DO TO PROTECT THE CITADEL OF
DEMOCRACY SO THIS WILL NEVER
HAPPEN AGAIN AND I LOOK FORWARD
TO THE REPORT WHEN THE 9/11
COMMISSION REPORT CAME BACK, ALL
THE TEN RECOMMENDATIONS WE
INSTITUTED THEM AND TO THE
CREDIT OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO
SERVED ON THAT COMMISSION, THEY
DID A WONDERFUL JOB AND WE HAVE,
FOR THE MOST PART, PROTECTED
THIS COUNTRY FROM FOREIGN
INVASION, IT’S NOW WE HAVE TO
PROTECT OURSELVES FROM DOMESTIC
INVADERS LIKE WE HAD ON JANUARY
6th.
>> IF MINORITY LEADER KEVIN
McCARTHY INSISTS THAT YOU
INCLUDE BLACK LIVES MATTER AND
ANTIFA AS SUBJECTS OF
INVESTIGATION, WILL YOU?
>> NO, NOT IN THIS COMMISSION
BILL.
WE’RE TALKING STRICTLY ABOUT THE
EVENT OF JANUARY 6th.
IF THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS THAT
WANT TO SET UP ANOTHER COP
COMMISSION, THEN THAT’S
PERFECTLY WITHIN THEIR RIGHT AS
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS BUT WHAT WE
HAVE HERE TODAY, WE’RE LOOKING
SOLELY WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY
6th.
ALI.
TO SEE WHAT OCCURRED, TO SEE THE
MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE STILL
UNDER DOCTOR’S CARE FROM WHAT
HAPPENED.
WE CAN’T HAVE THAT.
WE STILL HAVE A NUMBER OF
CAPITOL POLICEMEN OUT ON WORKERS
COMP SITUATION.
SO WE HAVE TO DO BETTER.
WE ARE A BETTER COUNTRY THAN
THIS AND THIS COMMISSION IS ONE
OF THOSE WAYS TO SHOW HOW WE CAN
IMPROVE WHO WE ARE AS AMERICA
CAPS..
IT’S A GREAT DEMOCRACY BUT
SOMETIMES FRAGILE.
DISCOMMISSION WE BELIEVE WOULD
GET US BACK TO WHERE WE NEED TO
BE AS AMERICANS.
>> CONGRESSMAN, GOOD TO SEE YOU
AGAIN.