said, quote, we are here to protect everyone s first amendment right to protest. i urge anyone thinking about causing trouble to stay home. we will enforce the law and not tolerate violence. that announcement came not long after police arrested a california man near the democratic national committee headquarters. they say he had a bayonet, a machete in his truck covered with white supremacists symbols. that is another example of why capitol police aren t taking chances this saturday. the department is under new leadership, better communication, better intelligence sharing with officers and surrounding law enforcement agencies. internal reviews of january 6 partially blamed intelligence sharing failures for lack of preparedness on january 6. a huge problem, something that has been explored by the united states capitol police, inspector general, something we ve discussed many times on our air. it is critical. they are trying to do better. but this will be the first real test for police c
forth government without the capitol police being there to secure government. obviously that was their job, that was their task, on january 6th, the day of the riots that you were not tasked with leading the investigation into, so let me ask you about that committee. i know there was that discussion wednesday that you had with your fellow democrats and congresswoman cheney. have you or speaker pelosi as of 10:06 friday morning heard from leader mccarthy about his picks? is he under any kind of deadline to do so? well, hallie, we have enough composition on the committee to do our work. we await the republican recommendations to fully if that happens we will continue but based on our meeting that we had wednesday, there s excitement about the task before us, we understand the gravity of it and so we are in the process of interviewing a staff director for the committee.
remember, the democrats in the house of representatives have passed a security supplemental spending bill that would direct 30 something million dollars to capitol police salaries, that bill is stuck in the senate and, frankly, this is not a one-party issue. both parties are issues with that bill but we are hearing very, very loud alarm bells because of the cash crunch in the capitol police and i think most of the reason here hallie, is because these folks have been working a lot of overtime since january 6th in the capitol nonstop. there are more posts around the capitol. there are more officers working so, again, this is a dire situation which i assume we ll hear a lot more about in. next days. i want to ask more about january 6th but need to share capitol police have told our team that the u.s. capitol police continues to advise and work with our oversight committees so that the department can secure the capitol, members and staff within our funded level, supporting our workforce
meet the scope and services of the charge given us as a select committee. congressman, you mentioned in this first hearing that will be held in the next week and a half by the january 6th select committee you would want to talk with you mentioned rank and file folks and u.s. capitol police, et cetera. on that list of people for testimony in that first hearing, do you have any members of congress? do you have any current or former administration officials on that list? no, i don t, and we are making a concerted effort, hallie, you know, we ve talked to the sergeant at arms. we ve talked to the leadership of the capitol police. but we ve not had a hearing in since january 6th to talk to just the policemen who were called names, the policemen who were sprayed with bear spray. we need to hear their story to help get us to a point where people will say, we need to fix
take about three days and feels like the soft deadline is when members return here monday or monday evening for next week s session. the sergeant at arms has assured the capitol police and assured that if there is a new security threat they can reerect fencing in short order but one virginia congressman told me he can t wait for it to come down because it makes the capitol look like a third world dictatorship. that says it all, scott. jake, i want to go to you. as this fencing comes down you have brand-new reporting in punch bowl that the capitol police department is essentially running out of money. this is an alarm bell sounded i know as early as last month, right, that funding could expire in august. there were real concerns but now there seems to be added urgency here. tell us about it. yeah, a bunch of sources, hallie, that they might have to furlough, dozens if not more if they don t get new funding.