but these were the foot soldiers for a lack of a better term. what about those who gave the footsoldiers their marching orders? where s their accountability? there are very real questions here. how do a father and son from dayton ohio and end up traveling to d.c. to assault officers? what leads and air force veteran from san diego to storm the speakers gala? it doesn t happen in a vacuum. in the weeks before january 6th, even before the 2020 election, donald trump used a deadly pandemic to sow distrust in our democracy. he pressured local officials to toss of millions of votes to secure a false victory for himself, and when none of that worked out, he summoned a mob to our nation s capital and ordered them to march on congress. if you know this better than the members of the house select committee that investigated january 6th. over a year and a half, they spoke to more than 1000 witnesses and collected millions of pages of documents, all culminating in an 814-page report that recommen
charges come next week or whenever by the special counsel, some of it will reflect directly on the work of the committee. you know, we cleared lee identified donald trump as the main culprit in what went on. we made recommendations. but as you know, i actually sued the president right after january 6th, and i used the clue clocks clan statute but talked about how you could not impede government. i would not be surprised if some of that same statute is applied to this situation under the department of justice. we can t allow individual organizations to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the greatest democracy in the
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world. if you lose, they have some alternatives that they will hold to you. you can go to court. but under no circumstances can you cause an insurrection against that government. we re a better country than that. congressman, you talk about the statute, we discussed that in december, specifically around some republicans in the house in congress. do you know if any of your republican kong leagues who supported donald trump s efforts are concerned about their names coming up? well, i would think, first of all, some of the same folks who are upset over our report are now trying to come back and go at some of us, saying that we should honor subpoenas and other things that they didn t honor. our job, we stand behind the nine members of our committee. they do a wonderful job, and if the point, i symone, is we have
had our report no one has taken that report to task. it has not been anything but truthful. we continue to offer that work of the committee before the and so we stand by it. i m convinced that the special counsel, in reviewing all of those hundreds of thousands of documents that we shared with him, in that document is proof positive that donald trump and a few of his clown car cohorts really created havoc on january 6th in this country. it was a conspiracy, it was something that we should never see happen again, and i m convinced that at some point next week whatever point, i m