fact that they should get every communication that happened with the white house that day, and she made very clear that that needs to be central to the investigation going forward as well as the chairman, bennie thompson, made that clear as well. then after the hearing, thompson told me that they will issue subpoenas soon to get information. they re not going to write letters and ask for voluntary information. they will simply go to the compulsory side. they will see if they get cooperation. but this investigation, they want to layout this roadmap going forward, exactly how to dive, how deep to dive, but undoubtedly they will look at donald trump s role. the question will be will they get any cooperation if they issue those subpoenas to trump s associates and potentially to trump himself. commissioner barksdale, we have watched the clips of that day for months now, new video that comes out. i have seen the video of officer hodges crammed into that door i can t tell you how many times
asha, i mean it was so gripping to hear these police officers. they are just the best and the bravest among us. they were so injured, they were so traumatized, and they would go back for more. i mean you kept hearing about how they would go out and try to, you know, regain some strength or take a breath, and then they knew that there weren t enough of them and they would have to go back to the fight and go back to risk their lives. they said repeatedly they thought they were going to lose their lives that day, and also, interestingly, they knew what they saw and every single one of them described the blood thirsty, violent mob as terrorists, domestic terrorists. they saw it that day. this was from eyewitnesses that were on the receiving end of the terrorism. yes. for purposes of this investigation, alisyn, it was really important to start with these officers. we ve seen clips of these
pelosi, try to make it about everything that they believe should be the focus here. why wasn t the capitol prepared? but not make it about what we heard today. it was riveting testimony, that these officers heard and that they dealt with that day, and the fact that what these officers said, that this was a mob that was inspired by donald trump, that came to the capitol, that viciously attacked them, that they survived this near death experience, and that they want to get to the bottom of exactly what happened here. all of the circumstances around this. you have heard the republican members of congress not want to move forward on an investigation because of their concerns that it will focus on donald trump, it will focus on republicans including the conversations that occurred with the white house that day including with kevin mccarthy, the republican leader. now, i asked liz cheney after the hearing whether or not they want to go down this route because she had alluded to the
stop. here to discuss everything that we heard today, cnn s evan perez and manu raju. all cnn legal analyst rash a gannapa. we re just getting an alert that kevin mccarthy said he did not watch the hearing today. he said he was in back-to-back hearings, and jim jordan said he was only able to watch part of it. that was so telling, manu. it was the most riveting testimony. it is about democracy. you know, republicans keep claiming, well, we are never going to get to the bottom of it, this democratic committee is never going to get to the bottom of it. we need to know what happened that day. we need to know where the capitol police weren t prepared. why couldn t they tune in, manu? this is going to be the challenge for the republicans going forward here because they want to try to undercut the legitimacy of this investigation and try to make it about nancy