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specific piece of business they did not like. fellow americans beat and bloodied our own police. they stormed the senate floor. they tried to hunt down the speaker of the house. they built a gallows and chanted about murdering the vice president. okay. thank you, mitch mcconnell, again. these are his words and he said these are his words you have to go look up for january 6th and the 13th. they tried to disrupt our democracy. you can see that happening. this is what he s talking about. these people storming the capitol. climbing in the windows. beating each other. using american flags as weapons. he says they failed. they failed to attempt to obstruct the congress. this failed insurrection only
the very least give joe manchin that cover. so, i mean, here is the backdrop and what republicans are left with for themselves if they don t want to work together. i mean, they ve got a lot to speak for in terms of really just exactly how committed they are to anything. house speaker nancy pelosi notified democrats in the house yesterday that it will be pursuing its own commission to look into the january 6th attack on the capitol, something republicans will not admit was an insurrection. in a letter to house colleagues, pelosi signaled that if the senate fails to establish a bipartisan january 6th commission, then the house will pursue its own investigations. meanwhile, senate majority leader chuck schumer informed members of his caucus that he will force the senate to vote on a bill to establish a bipartisan january 6th commission again in the future. he s going to keep trying. but here we go.
so, what was the scope of your investigation as you set out to take it on? well, i think it s a very important question. and to be clear, it is a limited scope. that was the intent right from the beginning was to look exactly what happened in terms of the attack that day, how the security presence was deployed, where there were gaps, talk about the intelligence, understanding better why it took so long for the national guard to respond. it was simply to take a look at that and the reason for that was that we knew we had to get recommendations out as quickly as possible that would help save guard the capitol to make sure another attack like what we saw on january 6th would not be successful on breaching the capitol and we wanted to get the renlss out quickly and that s why it was a limited scope. but clearly there are a number of other questions that we have. we need to have answers. the american people need to have answers. that s why it was so
disappointed that we aren t able to get a commission through the senate in a bipartisan way to do a deep dive into what inspired those folks to come and engage in an insurrection on the capitol. it s clear to me it was an insurrection. and we need to fully investigate that and get a better sense of what s happening in regards to that. but this particular report, this is the rules committee that oversees capitol police, my committee, homeland security with the department of homeland security, intelligence and looking at the national guard was to help those officers. i want to be clear, the men and women of the capitol police, the frontline officers, were heroic that day, and so many of them have pulled me aside as we ve been working on this and said, senator, you know, leadership let us down. don t let this ever happen again. that s really the focus of the report. can t make that point strongly enough about the heroism of those officers let down without a plan. reports are, senator, t