back to protect them and the people in this room. but too many are now telling me that hell doesn t exist. or that hell actually wasn t that bad. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. and metropolitan police officer, michael fanone, joins me now. it s good to have you back and i wanted to first get your reaction to the vote today, voting to issue this subpoena for steve bannon who s sort of just kind of thumbed his nose at the committee. nine republicans voting yes. all democrats voting yes. and 209 republicans voting no. what do you think of that? well i m glad that they voted to enforce the subpoena. i mean, i m coming at this from a law enforcement perspective. you know, we serve subpoenas pretty frequently. we certainly don t need to take
hell doesn t exist or that it was that bad. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. telling the truth is not hard. fighting on january 6th was hard, showing up on the 7th, the 8th, the 9th, until today, that was hard. when the fence came down, that was hard. we lost our layer of protection that we had and the finance came down and still nothing changed. everything is different but nothing has challenged. liz cheney is being lauded. i agree with the notion, why?
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that hell doesn t exist. or that hell, actually, wasn t that bad. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful! it is disgraceful. um, we have people saying that it was tourists. that these officers weren t brave. they should be able to handle this. that this was just a normal day at the capitol. um, that they were crisis actors. really, just saying, hey, what they went through, just denying their reality. what kind of an impact does do lies like this about january 6th have on these officers who risked their lives that day? well, it has a tremendous impact. i mean, it s totally irresponsible on the part of our elected leaders to take that position. they know, full well, that wasn t a normal day. it wasn t just tourists going through the capitol, that day. they know that. and yet, they lie and they try to spin the truth. they act like it s a game and it s not a game. you ve got lives at stake here.
scumbag. it was important for you. you did not want us to sensor that. what do you say to that? what do you want people to know and that idiot? i remember my first reaction immediately after listening to that phone call, which i actually received while i was testifying in the hearing today. this is what happens to people who tell the truth in trump s america. that simple. that simple. it doesn t bother you. it doesn t hurt you. i mean, unfortunately i ve come to expect this type of response. it s not the first time that people have expressed similar opinions to me. unfortunately, you know, this is you know, there is an