>>> SEVERAL COMMITTEES IN THE
HOUSE LED BY DEMOCRATS ARE
MOVING FORWARD WITH A SWEEPING
INVESTIGATION INTO THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT’S HANDLING OF THE
JANUARY 6th ASSAULT ON THE
CAPITOL.
NANCY PELOSI INITIALLY SOUGHT A
COMPREHENSIVE COMMISSION SIMILAR
TO THE 9/11 COMMISSION TO
INVESTIGATE.
MITCH McCONNELL REFUDSED, SAYING
IT WOULD BE TOO PARTISAN UNLESS
BOTH PARTIES HAVE EQUAL
REPRESENTATION.
HERE’S THE PROBLEM, THAT
WOULDN’T REALLY WORK.
AND THERE’S AN OBVIOUS REASON.
MOST OF McCONNELL’S PARTY IS
ENTHRALLED TO A MAN WHO CALLED
INTO FOX NEWS LAST NIGHT TO
SPOUT THIS REALLY DISGUSTING LIE
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.
>> RIGHT FROM THE START, IT WAS
ZERO THREAT.
LOOK, THEY WENT IN.
THEY SHOULDN’T HAVE DONE IT.
SOME OF THEM WENT IN AND THEY’RE
HUGGING AND KISSING THE POLICE
AND THE GUARDS.
YOU KNOW?
THEY HAD GREAT RELATIONSHIPS.
A LOT OF THE PEOPLE WERE WAVED
IN AND THEN THEY WALKED IN AND
THEY WALKED OUT.
>> IT WAS ZERO THREAT.
THAT’S WHAT HE SAID.
AND IT’S NOT JUST TRUMP.
>> I’M ALSO CRITICIZED BECAUSE I
MADE THE COMMENT THAT ON JANUARY
6th I NEVER FELT THREATENED
BECAUSE I DIDN’T.
I KNEW THOSE WERE PEOPLE THAT
LOVE THIS COUNTRY, THAT TRULY
RESPECT LAW ENFORCEMENT.
>> NO THREAT.
NO BIG DEAL.
THIS IS ALSO THE PARTY LINE FROM
THE HOSTS ON FOX NEWS WHO LIKE
TO MOCK THE VERY IDEA OF AN
INSURRECTION.
>> ACCORDING TO THE HONORABLE
JIM McGOVERN AND EVERYONE ELSE
ON THE SCREEN THIS WAS NOT A
PROTEST.
THIS WAS AN INSURRECTION.
INSURRECTION, INSURRECTION,
INSURRECTION.
CHEWBACCA GUY SANG A SONG,
SPREAD GOOD VIBES AND WAVED AT
THE OFFICERS IN THE CAPITOL AND
WAVED BACK.
IT WAS NOT AN INSURRECTION.
IT WAS NOT AN ARMED INVASION BY
A BRIGADE OF ENRAGED WHITE
SUPREMACISTS.
IT WASN’T.
THOSE ARE LIES.
>> LET’S TALK ABOUT WHO’S LYING.
FIRST OF ALL ONE OF THE PEOPLE
ARRESTED AND APPREHENDED IN HIS
FBI CALLED IT INSURRECTION IN
HIS MESSAGE.
FIVE PEOPLE DIED AS A RESULT OF
THE INSURRECTION, INCLUDING
OFFICER BRIAN SICKNICK WHO WE
HAVE NOW LEARNED, IT APPEARS,
HAD A TOXIC SUBSTANCE SHOT INTO
HIS FACE, WHICH HE WAS SEEN BENT
OVER RECOVERING FROM.
140 OFFICERS WERE INJURED AND
PUNCHED AND PUSHED AND TRAMPLED
AND CRUSHED AND BEATEN WITH FLAG
POLES.
WE HAVE VIDEO OF ONE APPEARING
TO ATTEMPT TO GOUGE THE EYE OUT
OF ONE.
ONE DID LOSE AN EYE.
THIS WAS A VIOLENT ASSAULT.
OFFICERS ATTACKED WITH NO MERCY.
THE CROWD CHANTING, KILL HIM
WITH HIS OWN GUN.
PEOPLE WITH CONCUSSIONS.
RIOTERS TRYING TO CAPTURE AND
WHO KNOWS, MAYBE KILL MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS.
THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED.
AND THEY DON’T GET TO FRIEND
OTHERWISE.
I’M JOINED NOW BY DEMOCRATIC
CONGRESSWOMAN MADELEINE DEAN OF
PENNSYLVANIA, FORMER TRUMP
IMPEACHMENT MANAGER WHO SERVES
ON THE COMMITTEE, ONE OF THE
COMMITTEES INVESTIGATING THE
INSURRECTION.
CONGRESSWOMAN, FIRST I WONDER
HOW MUCH THERE’S A SHARED SENSE
OF WHAT HAPPENED EVEN ON CAPITOL
HILL, EVEN ON THE MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS WHO WERE IN THAT
BUILDING ON THAT DAY, IF YOUR
COLLEAGUES ACROSS THE AISLE
THINK IT WAS ALL SOME JOKEY LARK
OR NOT.
>> MY BLOOD IS BOILING WITH YOUR
INITIAL REPORTING THERE.
I WAS THERE ON JANUARY THE 6th.
WE WERE THERE IN THE CAPITOL,
AND THE INSURRECTIONISTS DIDN’T
GIVE A DAMN IF I WAS A DEMOCRAT
OR A REPUBLICAN OR A STAFFER OR
A VISITOR.
THEY WERE OUT FOR AN ATTACK.
THEY WERE OUT FOR AN ATTACK ON
OUR DEMOCRACY.
THEY WERE OUT FOR AN ATTACK ON
OUR JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS,
INCLUDING THE VICE PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES.
THEY CHANTED, HANG MIKE PENCE.
WE WERE TAKEN OUT IN GAS MASKS.
THEY WERE SHOOTING INTO THE
CHAMBER.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
THIS WASN’T SOME PICNIC.
THIS WAS AN INSURRECTION WHERE,
THANKFULLY, THE CAPITOL POLICE
AND MANY OTHERS SAVED HUNDREDS
AND HUNDREDS OF LIVES.
PEOPLE SHOULD STOP LISTENING TO
THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND
ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE THEIR EYES.
THERE’S NOTHING LIKE WHAT
HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6th.
IT WAS A HORROR, AND IT
TERRIFIED MANY PEOPLE.
IT KILLED SOME.
AND THERE’S NO POINT IN TALKING
WITH THE FORMER PRESIDENT.
HE’S -- HE’S NOT CREDIBLE.
NOR IS SENATOR JOHNSON.
THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST
ALL CREDIBILITY.
>> I’M A LITTLE UNCLEAR ON THE
STATUS RIGHT NOW OF THIS
COMMISSION.
IT SEEMS TO BE URGENT THAT
THERE’S SOME LARGE AND
CENTRALIZED FACT-FINDING
ENTERPRISE, PARTLY BECAUSE THE
LAW ENFORCEMENT ASPECT OF THIS
IS SORT OF NECESSARILY
DISPARATE.
I THINK THERE’S NOW OVER 200
CASES.
EVERY DAY WE SEE MORE ARRESTS.
BUT IT’S THE KIND OF THING THAT
ONE WOULD WANT SOME KIND OF
DEFINITIVE RECORD, SOME KIND OF
CENTRALIZED FACT-FINDING
UNDERTAKING.
IS THAT THE IDEA BEHIND THIS
COMMISSION?
AND WHAT IS ITS STATUS NOW?
>> WELL, AND YOU KNOW THAT IT
WAS THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE WHO
IMMEDIATELY SAID WE NEED TO HAVE
A 9/11-STYLE COMMISSION.
I WAS AROUND.
I WAS AN ADULT AT THE TIME OF
THE 9/11 COMMISSION THAT WAS SO
ABLY SHARED BY FORMER GOVERNOR
OF NEW JERSEY, AND THE VICE CHAI
FORMER CONGRESSMAN LEE HAMILTON.
WE NEED THAT KIND OF COMMISSION,
SOMETHING THAT IS NON-PARTISAN,
THAT IS PRO-AMERICAN TO SAY WHAT
HAPPENED, WHY WERE WE ATTACKED?
YOU KNOW WHAT STRIKES ME, CHRIS?
THERE’S A DISTINCT DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN 9/11 AND WHAT HAPPENED
ON JANUARY 6th.
AT 9/11 WE WERE ATTACKED FROM
WITHOUT.
JANUARY 6th WE WERE HORRENDOUSLY
ATTACKED FROM WITHIN.
THAT’S WHAT’S SO HEARTBREAKING
ABOUT IT.
WE HAD A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE