the one question that bennie thompson has kept off the table. my hunch is the reason they couldn't have more police presence here to protect those guys to protect suswhat did they do last summer? they talk about defunding the police. they raise money to bail out rioters that attack police. when you talk about defunding the police and supporting people that attack police, it's tough to call out more of them to protect yourself on january 6. they're not going to address that question. they're going after president trump. >> trace: the democratic national committee pushing back against minority leader mccarthy and you saying the allies are slapping these capitol hill police officers in the face by making these comments. your thoughts. >> not at all. if i would have been there yesterday, leader mccarthy wanted me there but pelosi said no. i said you deserve to have the help here so this didn't happen to you. you deserve that. the only person that can answer why you didn't have the help you needed is the speaker of the us house of representatives. th

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

shouted to the police officers, the committee chairman, bennie thompson saying some people are trying to denied what happened to white wash it. let's be clear, the rioters that tried to rob us of our democracy were propelled here by a lie. respond to that. >> i have the utmost respect for the capitol police. the people that did what they did on that day are despicable. as you know, sandra, i'm one of the people on the baseball field that morning. i would not be here if it wasn't for the courage and professionalism of the capitol police. so i think that the capitol police were not served. their leadership did not serve them well that day. they did not give them the equipment, didn't take the preparations necessary to protect the capitol or the capitol police department. they put not only the capitol at risk but law enforcement officers that have done such a magnificent job with the capitol police at risk as well, again, everything needs to be on the table including questions about speaker pelosi's leadership in this and her failure to act on the intelligence. >> congressman palmer, tha

thompson will run the new selected committee investor waiting the january 6th capital right. nancy pelosi has picked thompson along with wyoming were public and congresswoman liz cheney. she was one of only two republicans who supported forming the committee. cheney, as you are a member, was removed from the g.o.p. leadership this year because of her criticism of former president trump. a top house aides as minority leader kevin mccarthy is threatening to strip committee assignments from republicans who accept appointments from pelosi to that new select panel. there are a lot of questions about covid-19, the new variant, the delta variant, what to do, masks going forward. let's try to get some answers of where things stand tonight on the pandemic. joining us is u.s. surgeon general dr. vivek murthy. general, thanks for being here. >> glad to be with you, bret. >> bret: let's start with the delta variant and we've heard a lot about it and how serious is this and if you're vaccinated, should you be worried about this? >> i'm glad you asked, bret. i am very worried about the del

but i don't think -- bennie thompson, the chairman of this committee said everything is on the table until we raise this issue about the speaker's office is the one who knows what the security posture and why it was the way it was. once we raise that question, well, everything is on the table except that question. again, that's why i think we were kicked off the committee which i think underscores how political this thing actually is and i would argue this: the main reason democrats want to keep talking about january 6th, because what the heck else are they going to talk about, bret? are they going to talk about the 12 murders in chicago last week? are they going to talk about the price of services and good up for everything? are they going to talk about the fact ourward, we had a record number of illegal crossings in march until april and then we had a record number april until may. record number in may until june. that is aan t't any of that stuff. focus on what they always do attack the former president. >> bret: always things we are covering extensively here. finally you heard th

martha: tell me, i know you had conversations with representative benny thompson about what was going to be the matters at hand, what would be discussed. what do you think blew up this commission last week, what was the motivation? >> well, it's more clear than ever that nancy pelosi is not interested in an investigation, she's only interested in a narrative. she claimed that the reason that she booted me from the committee was because of antics on the part of jim jordan and i. in hindsight, what i realize what she means by that now is that we were prepared to ask questions that no one else has asked and demand answer as to why the capitol was vulnerable to an attack on january 6th. why was there a systemic breakdown of security at the capitol on january 6th. if you're going to investigate january 6th, why not ask those questions. and that's all that this comes down to. she already predetermined a narrative about donald trump, about republicans. she doesn't want to talk about what happened at the capitol that day to make sure that something like that never happens again. martha: so yo

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capitol police union and i called at the time the chairman bennie thompson, he called me because we were working under the assumption i would be the ranking member of this committee and i said you need to have the head of the capitol police union on the panel today. he said no. the reason why. the head of the capitol police union told me they were unprepared, they lacked the equipment that they needed that day. he said the rioters had better equipment than the united states capitol police and they weren't trained for what would happen that day and they blame the leadership of the capitol police. the leadership of the capitol police. that chain of command leads back to speaker pelosi. it happened on pelosi's watch as speaker of the house and she doesn't want that line of questioning to occur because it all leads back to her. >> bill: let's see what unfolds over the next 2 1/2 hours. republican from indiana. four police officers, two from the u.s. capitol police and two from metro police in d.c. the democrat from mississippi opening statement and then liz cheney, the republican from wyomin

they include democrats adam schiff and bennie thompson who will chair the committee. includes lofgren of california as well as stephanie murphy, jamie raskin, and we should also note liz cheney is on the committee as well. we'll give you any breaking information on that. any surprising names to you in that thing? i'm surprised adam schiff is on the committee considering he got so much pushback being on the impeachment committee leading these other russia collusion things. >> dana: see a troublemaker when it comes to pelosi. better to put him on the committee maybe. reportedly kevin mccarthy house minority leader told republicans if you want her to put you on this committee she can put you on all the committees. i don't know if liz cheney who took a stand and stripped as conference chair is probably glad to be on it. >> trace: president biden is now in florida. [no audio] >> president biden: including i think i have the power to be able to get 100% of the cost for the county and state. i think i'm quite sure i can do that and so we are going to do that and there will b

thompson, the top democrat on that commission heard they did so an that was blocked in the united states senate and blocked in th house, that was a real problem. he said you did we put a bill together which is what you aske us to do, and then kevin mc carthy rejected that, so republicans are going to run their own investigation and they're going to make this abou nancy pelosi. listen to what kevin mccarthy said. >> was she afraid which he migh ask. he's a ranking member. not his first committee, but hi second. why would she be afraid? did she set the committee itsel to be one-sided? yes, more than any select committee before, if she did. from that moment in time it was clear she was being politics fred's today just showed the american people exactly what everybody was warned about. >> kevin mccarthy said the house democrats must answer thi question, why are you allowing lame-duck speaker to destroy this institution, he said this is the people's house not nancy pelosi's house. this is all focused on nancy pelosi as they go into 2022. >> kevin mccarthy pretty confident that the republicans

here is congressman bennie thompson from mississippi. >> i would hope that the people who made that decision will be able to convince members of congress that whatever danger that occurred with january 6th has subsided. >> again, that process will take about three days. the u.s. capitol is still closed to the public. it's been closed since march 2020. back to you. will: thank you so much, david. i hope you forgive me this small plug. i talked about this latest episode of the will contain broadcast. so much information. every new angle and video january 6th out there and so little knowledge. people not only declining to look for answers, they are declining to ask questions. whyy those fences up all that time? what kind of threat and intel? we still don't know the name. it's out there but not being publicized who killed ashley babbitt. we do not know the answer to that we don't know whether the fbi was involved before january 6th. we don't know what happened to the pipe bomb talked about in the days after january 6th. we do not know so many things about an event that everyone is aware of. but