some 500 capitol police officers short of what they should be and the question is if something like this were to happen again, how do you fill that gap? they have a quick reaction force now. they have better intelligence. that s something that is key. but as you say they are about 450 members short in the police force there and he said at the senate hearing yesterday that it would take 2 to 3 years to get up to speed. training has been slowed down due to the pandemic and why one recommendation, something he has talked about is bringing in security contractors on a temporary basis. the u.s. capitol police union fought back against it. we don t know if it will happen. overall the capitol does seem to have a better battle plan in place. but the one thing that is the intangible here, this is still a department that is reeling psychologically, physically, those wounds are deep on capitol hill. we saw even last april this had
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prepared. the intelligence reports weren t shared with all the rank and file capitol police officer on hand that day. why that set of questions isn t allowed to be a part of what is asked today and in every hearing moving forward should tell every american what they already know. a political stunt by pelosi and democrats and nothing more. dana: a lot of coverage of this particular hearing. there are 14 investigations in total that are underway right now. so by no means is this one going to be the last word of it. the first words will be heard from the four capitol hill police officers who will testify. democrats have been saying in the press that they want to try to show that republicans support for police is empty rhetoric because of not being able to thwart these individuals here. how do you respond to that? well, last week when i was still moving forward as ranking member of this committee i met with the head of the u.s. capitol police union and i
called at the time the chairman bennie thompson, he called me because we were working under the assumption i would be the ranking member of this committee and i said you need to have the head of the capitol police union on the panel today. he said no. the reason why. the head of the capitol police union told me they were unprepared, they lacked the equipment that they needed that day. he said the rioters had better equipment than the united states capitol police and they weren t trained for what would happen that day and they blame the leadership of the capitol police. the leadership of the capitol police. that chain of command leads back to speaker pelosi. it happened on pelosi s watch as speaker of the house and she doesn t want that line of questioning to occur because it all leads back to her. bill: let s see what unfolds over the next 2 1/2 hours. republican from indiana. four police officers, two from the u.s. capitol police and two from metro police in d.c.
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