security for the capitol is ultimately the speaker of the house. how can you not investigat speae that component and call yourself an investigation? that s why that s jason . wan that s why they didn t want o to let us on the committee in the first place, because they knew we woulde comm ask these questions and get to theti information. we ultimately got to really twoe thingsly are going on here.e remember, there was that one message that where that reporter talkeoud about they wee concerned about the optics. well, the reason they were concerned about the optics of having national guard presenceh here on january six is because of whae summert happened in thei of 2020. all the rioting going on aroundh the country. ts and the democrats seem to support it and call it peaceful protests. so you had that elemen ct and then you had this patternprt of approval that john referenced where it wasestf the speaker s office, the sergeant of arms office, working hand in glove all the time. g and many
where we stand today, senators have two options. senatothis week just to give our armed forces the resources and the certainty that they need or we will deny ito to them in the bill.dollars fo forty five billion dollars for ukraine, but some republicans like marjorie taylor greene and speaker candidate andy dybiggs oppose helping ukraine.l pi green callengd the aid abs. she referred to vladimir zelenskyy as a shadow president . biggs asked how much money was enough. there are other gop knows i m for giving them money in vermont, but all at once, you t know, all ofhe a sudden it s going to be gone. and it was. and now we re back doing it again. g itsenate majority leader chuck schumer indicated he s concerned the senate majoey not be able to forge an agreement tonight that couldsc triggehumerr a procedural vote o break a filibuster on friday. and jason, i vprocedure just bed there might be a holdup the on the bill over title 40 to
don is just the quote unquote discretionary part of the budget. don t think this is the total budgett think . congress doesn t vote ondg the majority of the budget, but one of the thing s they do have t to vote on , stephen , is thhee border and the negligence. it s happening on the border. we see it every day, at leastfo only on fox news. you see it. but when you read and try to decipher what s in thisy bill , having had only hours wh look at it,e what s your red on what s happening here? ead on this is an unmitigated legislative atrocity. this is the worst spendings bill in our lifetimes. it neuters border security. it guts immigration enforcement. it ties the hands of our border ice of agents and our ice officers from enforcing duly enacted law. and it doesn tin nothing to fore biden to end, catch and release even though in mere days house republicans would take overchane and given the chance, pass p a provision on the spending bill ending catch and release and forcing biden to de
the goal is to finish the bill tonight, perhaps 3:00 in the morning. one poin.t seven trillion dollars without much time to consider the bill. otherwise, the government closes saturday and responds to the criticism from these conservative republicans, saying that the process behind this omnibus is broken. thousands of pages and it s been out, you know, less than 48 hours. this there are democratsying and republicans saying the process of moving big pieces of legislation in this congress is broken. i m going to vote for this omnibus. i think it is the least bad option we have going. we expect a coalition of all senate democrats and 10 republicans to vote yes. many of the gop leaders will come from retiring senators roy blunt of missouri. s e rob portman of ohio is another senate minority leader. mitch mcconnell. inoritsays if the gop was in chi of the senate, he d handle things differently. but republicans have no choice. but given r the reality ofy.
here. and , of course, not to mention just the overall political nature of this committee for the last year, and a half, their sole focus t was to go after president trump. again, a political committee. i thinki that the country i yoes it for what it is . congressman, i need to ask you about what s happening over in the senate in this omnibus bill . i mean, one of the only toolsbi that republicans have come january when they actually are are in control of the house of representatives, is the power of the purse and the ability to build in the fbi and an and rein in the department of justice and demand some answers how you judiciary at james call more of anu oversight. how are you goingog to bing toeb to do that? youif you don t have the levere of the power of the purse? i do not get why the senate is moving ahead with this. i mean, the cavalry is coming over the hill and january there ll be a republican majority in the house will be in a much better position to deal with any spendin