intelligence committees. do you anticipate any of your republican colleagues will be upset or frustrated by this? if it was a different party, obviously they would be as concerned as you, i think. but is there anything left of that bipartisan concern about the prerogatives of the congress and the separation of powers? think about it this way. if they were concerned about an assault on congress, they would have been a lot more concerned about january 6th and they wouldn t have voted against a security supplemental and they would have voted for a commission to investigate this. never mind the four years under the trump administration which was an assault on the the powers and the independence of congress and the separation of power. very few of them stood up in those four years. unfortunately, not enough has stood up and shown profiles and courage since that administration is left dealing with the commission and the security supplemental.
been turned into a political football, caught up in the partisan infighting over the january 6th commission bill, over the security supplemental, and there was i think the feeling toward the opposition to the commission is particularly offensive to some of these officers because they felt like in the aftermath of january 6th, everyone was on the same page. everybody was going to make an effort, a real effort to get real answers. and now that seems farther and farther from their grasp. one officer saying he felt like he was tricked. he felt like he was duped because he thought that they were actually going to make meaningful efforts to find out what happened. and now it seems like that won t happen. on another level, in this, again, macro conversation, they feel there was also an opportunity to make meaningful change to the department and they are still frustrated. they re worried the building remains not secured. they are upset that some fixes still haven t been made and they feel th
and trillions of dollars of our grandkids money on this garbage. you mentioned the squad before with on another issue, but we did see them almost tank the capital security supplemental. do you anticipate them playing a role in this infrastructure talks? i think they probably will. like i said, they control a lot almost everything that happens in that party right now. they re in complete control. congressman jackson, thank you for taking time. thank you. for more on president biden s spending plan let s turn to new jersey congressman, homeland financial and services committees and part of the problem solvers caucus. they countered senate republicans smaller infrastructure proposal and cut the cost of that plan by half a trillion dollars. it didn t sit well with republicans who raised their top line amount. now the two sides they say are further apart after two
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