that's where we see the select committee coming in and i appreciate bennie thompson's statement today that ever option is on the table and they're going to get to the truth because it's their mandate. he's going to see that through in a way that i think is going to be highly productive but also understanding again what happened in the lead-up and what gaps there are still remaining to make sure this never happens again. >> on the other side of that, however, that equation is kevin mccarthy and republican representative adam kinzinger said this about the gop leader, tim, kevin gave a great speech the week after january 6th and then he went to mar-a-lago and charged the paddles and brought trump back to life. that's the moment when i realized, oh, man, this is a problem. i will talk to kevin if he wants to, but i don't see how we're going to come eye to eye on this until there's a recognition that we can't be the party of insurrection. i mean, tim, this seems to me just one example of the fundamental question right now for the republican party, is it the party of trump and mccarthy or l

look, the chairman of this commission is benny thompson. benny thompson is an elect denier. he didn't believe the 2004 election was correct. you had jamie raskin on earlier. he was an election denier in 2016. so this is a joke. the idea you have to have someone that believes in the mission and nancy pelosi should remove the election deniers she apoenpointed to the commission herself. >> this is part of the problem. in 2004 you had a few people who raised their hand to try to call attention to a couple problems. you didn't have half of the caucus or more of the caucus reject the election. to carawl back through the history back and hold up and pretend it's the same thing as the mack truck that run through the democracy doesn't make sense. here is the problem. you got people at home, put reasonable people together. nobody wants violence and this kind of stuff, though, i think is going to result in more of it going forward. >> our law enforcement on capitol hill deserves what you said. i wish they could be bipartisan and hadn't played games. nancy pelosi admitted today this is

we know that bennie thompson says he is starting his hearings one way or the other. they have to go to court to get things done they will do so. but we don't know whether kevin mccarthy is doing anything whether he puts obstructionists in the spots. and nancy pelosi has to agree to the nominees, or put people who might want to get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th. i for one am puzzled by the lack of intellectual curiosity on the part of republicans about the people involved in in -- in in insurrection because i would hope they would want to have that not happen again. maybe i'm wrong. >> yeah, i would hope that too, ali. but what they have shown time and time again is that the political consideration takes precedent. and right now it's not -- they have made the determination that it's not politically advantageous for republicans in 2020 to -- and beyond to get to the bottom of this. they don't want to go after folks who made -- whose support they may think they need or people who have the support of donald trump. or who support donald trump and anger the

thompson. i know today is along a busy one for you and it continues so we appreciate some of your time. the testimony of those officers laid waste to the criticism we've been hearing literally since january six that there's no need for investigation into this and while we were all under threat they face the battery and the medieval battle that took place. what did you learn today? >> well first allie, thank you for having me. let me tell you that we now know that there are heroes of january six. it was a rank and file law enforcement officers of the metropolitan police department, counter police as well as the other departments who came and helped defend this capitol from the rioters. they are the real heroes and part of what we wanted to do today was to get all they experienced on the record and what they had to endure on january 6th and also on your last limb, what is it they would like us to do? i think the four clips you heard from the witnesses say it all. we want to know who facilitated i

this committee being chaired by mississippi democrat bennie thompson along with six other democrats on this committee, and two republicans appointed by the house speaker. d.c. metro police officers michael fanone, daniel hodges and two others will testify about their struggles to defend the u.s. capitol on january 6th. some of the personal experiences motivating the newly named chief of the capitol police to come out of retirement. >> if you would have asked me on january 5th do you want to be a police chief again? i would have said, no, i'm fine. i'm enjoying retirement. the events of january 6th changed that. >> reporter: one new member on the committee is reamian adam kinzinger of illinois, appointed by house speaker nancy pelosi over the weekend joining the seven democrats and two republicans now, kinzinger and liz cheney. the hearing set to start at 6:30 a.m. and it will include testimony today focusing on law enforcement with statements from both thompson, the chair, and liz cheney. back to you. >> all right, tracie potts in washington this morning, thank you. >>> and you can wat

i agree with bennie thompson, if the commission feels subpoenas are necessary for whomever, they'll go down that route. congress has been successful in the subpoena fight with other individuals in the past. it was a year later, however, that we were able to win in court on the subpoena for mcgahn. i'm sure we'll be successful again. if they said to drag this out into the next election, we will do that. we're not afraid of doing that. we attempted to work in a bipartisan manner to work with them to ensure the commission and the report were done way ahead of time, but they didn't want us to play in a collegiate manner, but we'll do whatever is necessary for fight to democracy, to be good stewards, and we'll do whatever is necessary to make sure that happened. >> we talked for month before the election about the big lie, about the fact that donald trump was setting the stage for the idea that the election, if it did not favor him, was going to be illegitimate. this august energy -- i don't like to give the nonsensical rumors any fuel, but it's working the way around with the same people w

. >> house speaker nancy pelosi announced mississippi congressman bennie thompson will chair the 13 member select committee that will investigate the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. this figure also announced that republican liz cheney is on the committee. this is 25 minutes. about inclusion. we will have his reaction after we hear from speaker pelosi. ms. pelosi: good morning. it's a good morning, because decision decisions as they are and difficult as they are and sad in some cases, they are liberating and enable us to go forward. as we gather here on the floor of the house right now, we are passing the invest in america act, an opportunity for us to not only build the infrastructure of america, but to build the middle class of america. it does so by putting equity front and center with the necessary focus on communities of color, rural communities and regions with persistent poverty. we are pleased that the president has come together in a bipartisan way with the united states senate -- senators for a bipartisan infrastructure plan. when we finish with this legislation, we look fo

this hour, i'll speak with the chairman of the january 6 select committee, congressman benny thompson. the insurrection hearing revealed never before seen video of police holding the line against rioters. we're putting together all the chilling images. standby for that. and the cdc is now urging many vaccinated americans to go back to wearing masks indoors as president biden is on the brink of new vaccine mandates for federal workers. i'll discuss it all. with the u.s. surgeon general. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin with an emotional and very powerful testimony about the capitol riot. let's go to our congressional correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, these officers shared graphic details of the horrors they faced on january 6th and the consequences. >> no doubt about that, wolf. this explosive hearing shocked many of us who thought we had learned so much about the capitol insurrection already. even the members of congress asking the questions seem surprised at the serious risk against their

he should be ashamed of himself. >> all right, chairman benny thompson. thank you for being with us on this fourth of july. happy independence day to you and your family. hope you have a good time the rest of the day. thanks again for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thank you, sir. >>> did former president trump just publicly admit to the slew of tax crime charges against his namesake organization? >> they go after good, hard-working people for not paying taxes on a company car. >> that's next. you're live in the cnn newsroom. ahhh! ♪ don't flex your pecs. terminix. ♪ this... is a big deal. now, at healthcare.gov, millions more people can afford health coverage. due to the covid relief law, you can pay less with financial help. in fact, 4 out of 5 customers can get a plan for under $10 a month. from doctor visits to preventive services to prescription drugs-- these are quality plans. you can do this. you can have coverage as soon as august 1st if you sign up now at healthcare.gov ♪ sometimes you wanna go ♪ ♪ where everybody knows your name ♪ â

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thompson. joining me now is capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. speaker pelosi naming liz cheney despite threats of the house republican leader kevin mccarthy and we have that sound from kevin mccarthy reacting. i know you were just covering that. let mae play that and have you comment on the other side. >> i was shocked that she would accept something from speaker pelosi. it would seem to me since i didn't hear from her maybe she's closer to her than us. i don't know. >> garrett, he specifically to your follow-up question saying they're not going to take away her committee assignments and then he said specifically, i don't know in history when someone would go get their committee assignments from the speaker and expect them to have them from the conference, meaning the republicans, as well. is that an implied threat to take retaliatory action against liz chainy? . >> it certainly seems that way it had the feeling of a sort of mob-style -- and they're nice and clear that they'll have to g

i spoke with the chairman of that committee, congressman bennie thompson a bit earlier today. here's what he told me. >> well, the good part about this committee is the speaker determines its ultimate membership. if minuterity leader mccarthy comes with individuals who demonstrated that they are living in a false world around january 6th, it's not in anyone's interests for those individuals to serve. >> a live look at cpac in dallas, texas, where donald trumpl take the stage later on this afternoon. we go now beyond the headlines of nbc's josh letterman. he's with the president in wilmington ton, delaware, and amanda golden. good to see you. josh, with president biden heading to philadelphia tuesday, what exactly does he hope to accomplish there? >> well, the president has a tough task ahead in that speech. he has the calm the waters of growing impishs from civil rights and voting rights activists who say he is not yet doing enough to make sure that voter rights are protected ahead of next i don't remember's election. that is exactly what the president heard on thursday when h

and it was bipartisan in terms of the committee and i salute our chairman benny thompson and mr. cavco the ranking member. even though it was something that was bipartisan and yielded on many points to the republicans in order to achieve bipartisanship, the leadership of the republican party in the house opposed and whipped against the bipartisan commission. still in all we have the votes. 35 members of the republican side voted with us to send it to the senate. it was very hopeful that we could pass it there. we had seven republican votes. not ten. and we needed ten to get up to 60. hopefully one day that will still -- that opportunity will still present itself. but because it was not possible in this time frame, last month we passed our legislation for select committee. a select committee is bipartisan and it has a quorum and it will do the job it set out to do. and that is to investigate the causes and that of what happened on january 6th, to find out how it was organized, who paid for it, who messaged to get those people here for the assault on the capitol. as you know, well

chairman bennie thompson telling msnbc those hearings will start either july 21st or 22nd, and telling my colleague tiffany cross what the first hearings will focus on. >> the first committee hearing will be, we'll talk to the rank and file employees who had to fight some of these people off on that day. we will talk to the custodial help who had to clean the mess up after we got the people out of the capitol. none of these people have been talked to, so we want -- >> right. >> -- to set the tone. we want to set the tone for our committee's work, that we care about the employees who work every day in the capitol. >> and overnight the first high-profile firing of the biden administration. andrew saul, the head of the social security administration and a trump-era holdover. the white house saying saul's actions ran contrary to the agency's mission. saul, however, rejecting the move, saying his term was protected and telling "the washington post" he plans to be back at work on monday morning. let's go to nbc's josh letterman standing by for us in wilmington, delaware. josh, clearly andrew

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>> well, our chairman, bennie thompson, wants to make sure that we are coordinating with the justice department and has made outreach to the department. as a committee, we have not yet met with the justice department. i'm not sure whether our chairman has any discussions of his own. but as we have in other investigations, we want to make sure that we're working collaboratively with the department, that nothing we do, for example, interferes with their investigation and prosecution of suspects. at the same time, they possess information that will be of great value to us, so we need to have an open line of communication. >> what's your sense of what the most important piece of evidence that the doj may have to your investigation? is it the call logs of the former president >> well, the department is obviously investigating and prosecuting these individual cases. and they may get some of these folks to cooperate. and if you have a cooperating witness, for example, who is within one of these white nationalist groups, the oathkeepers or the proud boys or what not, and they can describe th

and it was bipartisan in terms of the committee and i salute our chairman, benny thompson, and the ranking member. even though it was something that was bipartisan and yielded on many points to the republicans in order to achieve bipartisanship, the leadership of the republican party in the house opposed and went against the bipartisan commission. still, in all, we had the votes. 35 members in the republican side voted with us to send it to the senate. it was very hopeful that we could pass it there. seven republican votes, not ten. and we needed ten to get up to 60. hopefully, one day, that opportunity will still present itself. but because it was not possible in this timeframe, last month we passed our legislation for a select committee. a select committee is bipartisan and it has a quorum and will do the job it sets out to do. that is to investigate the causes and that of what happened on january 6th to find out how it was organized, who paid for it, who messaged to get those people here for the assault on the capitol. well over 100 people were injured. some died. it was a horrible, hor

representative benny thompson, the top democrat on the committee is giving an opening statement tomorrow and so is representative liz cheney, a republican who is on this committee, of course, she's his pick by speaker pelosi. another member, representative jamie raskin told me the other day that representative cheney is not a formalized role that she is going to be the ranking republican, but it seems obvious, because she is the top republican, she was at the time the only republican, now we have a second, representative adam kinzinger, whose sources told me he wants this position. he wanted to be on this committee. he's like-minded on this issue as representative cheney and even speaker pelosi. so that position was formalized just yesterday, and all of this is happening as they are set to hold their first hearing just tomorrow, with two members of capitol police and two members of the d.c. metropolitan police, all four of these police officers have been on the front lines and this will be the first time congress will formally hear from rank and file police officers who experienced that

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. >> reporter: this morning committee chairman bennie thompson says he expects the first wave of subpoenas to be issued soon, and the justice department has now sen letters to six officials who worked in the trump justice department telling them they can participate in the committee's investigation. congressman adam schiff says a decision to subpoena former president trump could come, quote, down the line as the panel follows the evidence, and congresswoman liz cheney, one of two republicans on the committee, saying this during the hearing. >> we must also know what happened every minute of that day in the white house, every phone call, every conversation, every meeting leading up to, during and after the attack. >> reporter: and the committee has not set a date for its next hearing. however, the chairman of the committee is hinting it could come late august. mona. ub m case says theou.>>the man n state did not do enough to find the real killer. nathaniel rowland made the comment shortly after he was convicted for the 2019 attack of university of south carolina student samantha josephson.

speaker pelosi appointed representative bennie thompson of mississippi as a committee chair, other appointees include california, representative adam schiff and republican representative liz cheney she and representative adam kinzinger. the only 2 republicans who voted in favor of this committee. >> if you're his san francisco, your pay may have just gone up the city of san francisco announced today it has raised the minimum wage. it's now set at $16.32. an hour. the news comes after unemployment in san francisco fell from 13% last year to 5% this year currently california's minimum wage stands between $1314 depending on the workplace. the federal minimum wage is $7.25. an hour that has remained unchanged since 2000, 9. >> let's check our 4 zone forecast a live look at it. s f o tonight foggy folks coming in may have some it's always a possibility. let's check in with the chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. lawrence get that fog in the thinking certain that will slow things down. but hey, you know what, checking around, you get away forecast. we are going to see some changes coming our way a

the committee -- the chairman of that committee, congressman benny thompson, joins me live to discuss. >>> covid cases are surging. should americans start wearing masks indoors again? will they need a booster shot? i'll ask dr. anthony fauci. >>> and donald trump visits ground zero in the gop's war on voting. >> the big lie, they call it. you know what's the big lie? the opposite is the big lie. the election was the big lie. >> oh, he says much worse in a new book. and the authors are here to talk about it. i'm jonathan capehart. this is "the sunday show." >>> this sunday it is full steam ahead at the capitol, where in less than 48 hours lawmakers will gavel in for first scheduled hearing of the january 6th select committee. capitol hill and metropolitan police officers are expected to give their personal accounts of that harrowing day. but the time and place of the hearing is about all we know. since plans to create a more bipartisan committee crumbled this week. now, republicans are threatening to run their own investigation after speaker pelosi vetoed kevin mccarthy's, quote, ridic

i'm very pleased with the leadership of benny thompson, our chairman, the bi partisan nature of our committee with louis cheney. the other members were on the committee who have experience and patriotism as their calling heart. meantime, pelosi is rushed to defend the democrat lead committee after house minority leader kevin mccarthy, accused of an egregious abuse of power for rejecting 2 republicans. he tapped to the panel pillar in fuel on the fire. cheney appears to back pillows his decision. hello c. as created a sham process house, democrats must answer this question. why are you allowing a lame duck speaker? to destroy this institution. this is the people's house, not pelosi house. the rhetoric that we have heard from the minority leader is disingenuous. the minority leader as attempted to prevent the american people from understanding what happened to block this investigation. this way, pelosi blocked 2 of mccarthy's 5 nominees, saying that participation could quote, compromise the integrity of the investigation both known to be long time allies of former president trump. pelosi accept

i'm very pleased with the leadership of benny thompson, our chairman, the bi partisan nature of our committee, with las cheney. the other members who are on the committee, who have experience and patriotism as their calling heart pelosi is responsible for picking who sits on the investigative committee. and has it been heavily criticized by the opposition for rejecting to other republicans who had put their names forward. cheney, though, appears to back policies. decision. pelosi has created a sham process. house. democrats must answer this question. why are you allowing a lame duck speaker? to destroy this institution? this is the people's house, not pelosi, the house, the rhetoric that we have heard from the minority leader is disingenuous. the minority leader has attempted to prevent the american people from understanding what happened to block this investigation. pelosi has accepted 3 other republicans onto the panel, but that hasn't appeased to their party, which is threatening to launch its own investigation into what happened. now, a quick reminder of the events under investigation on

but with liz cheney there and with the kind of people, including chairman bennie thompson. d. we're going to add this commission. it could. it could rebound extremely badly kevin mccarthy and the depending on the kind of evidence that comes out, especially as more and more evidence that's come out in the court hearings because you're seeing more and more the oath keepers for example, starting to flip on each other with the u.s. attorney and they're trying to climb that ladder of evidence to see our high goes toward the white house. so we're out of time. my home. but real you're saying that trap could be the jim jordan instead of being on the commission. >> could be called as a witness to testify about what he knew the president was doing at that time and what he was talking about. >> that is going that could very well be the case in the trap is they thought they could use his campaign against her. we'll see what comes out of the hearing. >> buckley. aki, as always, thanks for the time. analogy on kron 4 news at 6. we greatly appreciate it. thank thank you very much. all right.

. >> house speaker nancy pelosi announced mississippi congressman bennie thompson will chair the 13 member select committee that will investigate the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. this figure also announced that republican liz cheney is on the committee. this is 25 minutes. about inclusion. we will have his reaction after we hear from speaker pelosi.

and before this, we heard from benny thompson, the chairman of this commission. he's who said that he was going to follow the facts as they move forward. we also heard from liz cheney one of the 2 republicans on this panel who had broken with her party and agreed to cooperate on this commission. because the republicans got quite an interesting strategy that just called calling fowl only. that's right. the republicans don't want this to happen at all. neither party really wanted this to be the forum in which they did this. the democrats wanted in independent commission that reported to congress rather than the select committee, that they have the republicans voted that down. and kevin mccarthy, the house speaker, who initially criticize president trump, for his actions on january 6 today said that this is a sham process. it's a partisan process and the american public should not put their faith in it. jamie raskin, a democratic congressman, who is on this committee as well passed by report is a little earlier and said it's a bit rich that republicans are saying th

the panel will be chaired by homeland security chairman bennie thompson. many republicans are dismissing the panel as an exercise in partisan politics. the world has taken a step toward a major overhaul of its tax system. the organization for economic cooperation and development says 130 nations have endorsed a minimum corporate tax rate along with rules for sharing the spoils from multinational firms like facebook and google. the deal sets the stage for an agreement in principle at the g20 finance meeting next week. the world health organization once any covid-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use to be recognized by countries as they open up their borders to inoculated travels. the move could challenge western countries to broaden acceptance of two less infective -- less effective chinese vaccines which the u.n. health agency license. both european and north american countries have not. china added nearly 49,000 covid-19 cases today, pushing its total infection count at 30 million. also was reported more than 30,000 new deaths one day after the nation'

it has been our hope, all of us, our hope, and the work of artist in which the chairman bennie thompson, for us to be able to have a bipartisan commission. attached in the house in a bipartisan way--it passed in the house and a bipartisan way. we got a majority vote in the senate in a bipartisan way, but it did not get the 60 votes. they asked for another week, another week, another week, and at the end of last week we said we can't do this until 2023. we can't wait that long. we went right into motion to establish this select committee. host: that from house speaker nancy pelosi. the full conference available on our website at cspan.org. dorothy in raleigh, north carolina, on the democrats line. caller: good morning, and i hope you give me a chance to finish. i want to make a few comments and i will make a brief. this is about right and wrong. what happened was wrong. when trump and that rally on the six about stop the steal, how was he going to stop the steal? what if they hadn't gotten in there -- do you think he was going in here and start hugging the representatives and shake their

. >> i want to talk about chairman benny thompson saying subpoenas are coming soon, laura, this is right up your ally here. liz cheney said they should be issued quickly and the justice department is saying former d.o.j. officials can testify, the department will not assert executive privilege. which top officials will be among the first called? could it be the president should be called or will be called? >> i think -- >> the former president. >> i think he should be called and jeffrey are rosen. what the dorj .o.j. would have assert, is why it's a significant thing, remember, you are saying, in order to have transparency and a full investigation, i have to premove the hurdles and people saying i don't care what uyou want to hear, i don't have to tell you. that hurdle is being over come, saying you can speak freely about what it is that you know about the es. if you know the who, what, when, where, why, the paper trail, if you know something different than what your oath of office should have been or otherwise, lets us know. it's a level of transparency that we need here. >> give me a b

chairman bennie thompson, thank you so much for being with us. we greatly appreciate it, and of course we greatly appreciate your service to america, and trying to get to the bottom of what happened on january 6th. claire mccaskill, what was your take away from yesterday? what questions do you want answered primarily? >> well, i think the focus on who funded some of this, where'd the money come from, were all of these people there on their own dime or was there any effort from any groups to coordinate with the white house to build this into the riotous angry mob that it took. i think liz cheney is going to be masterful, get that tictoc so american understands that donald trump was enjoying this. he liked it. he thought it was terrific. these people were breaking down doors in the capitol. he could have, at that moment, he saw every bit of it on television. he was sitting in his little dining room, that's right off the oval office, watching a bank of television, and people were coming in and out begging him to take actionio what this committee nee

listen to the chairman benny thompson. he wants a minute-by-minute accounting of what happened inside the trump white house as the rioters tried to overthrow the american government. >> nothing is off limits in this investigation. we are absolutely committed to getting to the bottom of what happened. as you know, i have subpoena power.reluctance whatsoever in issuing subpoenas for information, telephone logs to the white house, especially during the times of january 6th. >> does the committee have a plan? first you ask politely. we expect the answer from team trump will be no, if not stronger than that. then you use subpoenas. then you end up in court. how fast? >> yesterday thompson said they're going to skip the first step, the ask politely step. they're straight to subpoenas here. that is significant and shows they don't want to waste any time. seven months past the insurrection, they know they have to move to get the answers they want. a minute-by-minute accounting, that's going to be tough to come by the you drag your

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>> the chairman of the committee benny thompson told me they will issue subpoenas soon. they're not going to go through the voluntary letter writing effort common in past investigations. instead, they're going straight to subpoenas. i asked congresswoman liz cheney if she's concerned about the possibility of litigation if they issued subpoenas. >> yesterday you said you would like to see every trump white house communication around january 6th. are you worried this could be hard to accomplish given the way they have fought subpoenas in the past? >> i think we absolutely have got to make sure that we get to every piece of information that matters. i think the speaker has been very clear and the chairman that we're going to issue subpoenas quickly, that we're going to enforce those subpoenas. i think we've got to make sure we follow the facts where they l lead. >> reporter: after yesterday's hearing, they heard testimony from police officers who defended the capitol, their accounts of everything they went through. there could be aer hearing as sn as august. that's what's e

bennie thompson is seen as a leading candidate to run the panel. he points out the elephant in the room here, that mccarthy's infamous phone call to the then president begging him to call off the rioters who were storming the building could actually become part of the probe. >> he has acknowledged that he had a call. there have been other republicans who said that he had the call. and that would be part of the collection of evidence necessary to produce a report. >> mccarthy so far has refused to say if he is going to cooperate and help nominate some members to the committee. majority leader steny hoyer said mccarthy should cooperate just as democrats did with the benghazi committee. >>> a great wall of steel, a warning call from chinese president xi jinping positioning china's rise as inevitable and vowing that it would not be bullied by foreign countries. this all happeningommemorating f the communist party. david culver is live for us. tell us more. >> reporter: yeah, 100 years ago about a few dozen folks gathered here, they started the party th

benny thompson, the chairman of the committee, told me that has been discussion. they just had a meeting of the eight members selected by nancy pelosi, including liz cheney, to talk about their way forward. they also talked about next week's hearing, the first time the capitol police will testify about their experiences that day. after this next hearing, expect that work to happen behind the scenes, the intensity to pick up. we'll see if they add another republican. it seems like a likely possibility that kinsinger could be added by the end of the week. transit funding is one piece of this proposal. the issue about how to pay for the transit systems has been a sticking point for days. just speaking to the top republican negotiator moments ago, he made clear that his concern is that the democrats are asking too much. in his view, they're being unreasonable. take a listen. >> have you resolved the transit funding issue? >> transit funding has not yet been resolved. that's important, but if we can't resolve it, we could leave that out. i hope not, but democrats frank

i called on bennie thompson, the chairman of the committee, to bring the head of the capitol police union to the hearing next tuesday and to hear from him, someone who represents the rank-and-file capital police officers, they don't want to go there because they know if they go there and ask if you as close tough questions at the end of the day nancy pelosi, speaker of the house is responsible for that lack of leadership and systemic breakdown of security that they don't want to talk about. griff: where does this go from here? is this all political? republicans are terrorists, democrats are patriots, they want to roll this into 2022, they know they will lose the house so try to tag republicans with this going forward and it is obvious. >> a sham. for 6 with pelosi has played nothing but politics. the senate had two bipartisan committees to investigate this and put out two reports. they know on december 14th there was a problem. the people in charge of parking knew more than the individuals who protect the capital police, national guard were in washington dc, them correcting traffic instea

i called him bennie thompson, the chairman of this committee, to bring the head of the capitol police union to the hearing next tuesday and hear from him. someone who represents the rank-and-file capitol police officers. they don't want to go there, they know if they go there, and if we would've ask those tough questions, at the end of the day, nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, is responsible for that lack of leadership, the systemic breakdown, they don't want to talk about it. >> laura: congressman mccarthy, where did we go from here, it's a political, so obvious, they want to roll this right into 2022, they know they're going to lose the house, but they are going to try to tag republicans with it. it's obvious. >> it's obvious, it's a shame committee. for six months, pelosi has played nothing but politics. the senate had two bipartisan committees to investigate this and already product or court reforms. the new on december 14th there was a problem. the people in charge of parking knew more than the individuals that were trying to protect the capitol police pay the national gua

. >> that's why last week i calle on the chairman of this committee, bennie thompson to bring the head of the capitol police union. i thought democrats were prounion, in this case, they refused to hear from the capito police union chief who would have come before this committee and spoke on behalf of every single rank and file member of the united states capitol police , he shows up every day to protect me, to protect my staff to protect my family when they are on capitol hill and he would've provided a different perspective than what these fou police officers provided today. he would have told the members of congress and the american people if he was allowed to testify that on january 6, they weren't prepared for what was going to happen that day even though they had intelligence reports provided to the highest levels of the capitol police three weeks before january 6 that something dangerous was going to happen. they weren't trained for what was going to happen that day an they weren't equipped for what was going to happen that day. in fact, he said the rioters ha better equipment th

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house democrat bennie thompson who will chair the special committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol. the first hearing set for tuesday, and partisan battle lines are clearly being drawn. two republicans are on the committee. adam kinzinger, an outspoken critic of donald trump, will serve along liz cheney. the house republican leader accusing nancy pelosi of structuring the committee to satisfy her political objectives. and now there are growing calls within the gop to have kinzinger and cheney removed from their other committees in retaliation. cnn's melanie zanona has more on what's ahead. >> reporter: on tuesday that is when the january 6th select committee is scheduled to hold its first hearing featuring the testimony of police officers who responded to the capitol attack that day. some of the officers were beaten, maced, dragged out into the crowd, one of them crushed between doorways. so we are expecting it to be very powerful and emotional. we're also expecting video clips and body worn camera footage to be played. one other thing to now look out for is the pres

bennie thompson wants to call front leine law enforcement. and there is brand new footage of the standoff. >> leave the capitol. back up. stop. stop. >> back the [ bleep ] up. back up so i can shut the door. get a shield line. interlock those shields. >> house speaker nancy pelosi announcing her picks for the committee thursday, among them republican liz cheney, an outspoken critic of the former president for his role in the insurrection. ch kevin mccarthy had threatened to strip commit at the assignments from any republican who dared to accept the offer from speak are speak are pelosi. >> i'm not making any threats about commit attee assignments. but you get elected by your districts and you get committee assignments from your conference. for somebody to forget an assignment from speaker palau is he, that is unprecedented. >> and recall his own role here when he called trump to beg him to call off the rioters on january 6. pelosi is supposed to be working in consultation with mccarthy on five members of the committee but palauelosi has veto

host: bennie thompson from the state's secondary -- second district will be the chair of the committee. if you were on the committee, what is the one overall --question you would want answered? guest: i think we know what happened. i would like to know why it happened. i would not like allegations being made that this person, that person, our president, our then president was responsible -- i would like to know how that claim is proved, then i would like to know why it has happened and what we can do to prevent it from ever happening again. i do want to commend the fbi and the justice department from doing investigations about why we were there, but i think a truly nonpartisan commission would have the most credibility to do that, just as the 9/11 commission did. host: we welcome our listeners on c-span radio. our guests joining us from boston is jane harman, former member of the house of representatives, former president of the wilson center. her new book is entitled "insanity defense," why our failure to confront national secured problems makes us less safe." craig is on the line. th