the january 6th committee entered a new phase in the investigation this week, now looking into fellow members of congress. that s been expected for some time but what s surprising is who the committee is focusing on first. you might not be familiar with republican representative scott perry of pennsylvania. he s been a member of congress since 2013, but he s largely flown out of the radar despite saying and doing things that are often beyond the pale. just in the last year, he opposed a measure condemning the q-anon conspiracy cult and voted against a bill to protect asian americans amid a rapid rise in hate crimes during the pandemic and just last week he made antimuslim remarks on the house floor during a debate about a bill to combat islamophobia. but the track record of unsavory actions starts earlier than that. in 2017 perry falsely accused a pakistani house staffer of stealing government seeks. he downplayed the devastation in
including officers failing to see this handgun on the x-ray machine. remember, anytime you go into a house, office building or anywhere here on the capitol, you re going to go through security. they didn t see, according to this source, they did not see that gun image originally on the screen, and also another misstep, originally they were telling officers to look for a white woman when in fact they changed that and said they were looking for a black man. here s what we know, according to capitol police, a house staffer walked through the longworth office building, jeffrey allsbrooks with a loaded handgun and ammunition. he got his backpack and kept walking. that s when officers figured out that this gun was inside the building. they placed a shelter in place for the capitol hill complex while they went to search for this man who then was walking back with the gun. we re told that he does not have a permit to carry this. it s not registered here in washington, d.c. but he s told police
personally and shocked how a few years changed their trajectory. mulvaney is a hill staffer that took a couple days off to go volunteer and be a vip lead on the event. the step that the committee took with her by subpoenaing an existing house staffer is unprecedented but i say good because she may know things that can help get to the truth. unprecedented steps are fine. the attack we saw january 6 on our pillar of democracy is so unprecedented. maggie mulvaney she is somebody that is working for congresswoman miller of west virginia, a congresswoman that i have donated to. i m shocked how this has really gone right into the very not just establishment but the grass roots of who republicans are. it s disgusting and the people
extremists who spoke on january 5th was a member of the paramilitary group the three percenters as well as alley alexander, who later implicated three republican lawmakers in the events of the next day. this comes amid new signs that the select committee means business. they ve already previewed the possibility of holding resistant witnesses in contempt, noting that the biden justice department is not likely to stand in the way. and congressman adam schiff signaled this morning that there may be more subpoenas to come, indicating the house minority leader kevin mccarthy would also be a pertinent witness, and congressman adam schiff of california joins me now. let s go right to that. the idea that you have a current republican house staffer that is on the list already, that feels like the door is now open. should we be expecting to see names on that list that are more recognizable and that are members of congress up to and potentially including the house