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an attack by tourists or terroristsor or violent insurrectionists. if you will read the first part of my statement. you are not interested in any statement. i have read your statement once. the whole country and lots of people online believed your statement that it was a normal tourist visit. that is not my statement. as you said as you quoted and then you just misquoted. clarify it right now for america. the people who attacked officer o are there no rules? reclaim my time. mr. raskin s time. i spent several hours today with millions of americans watchingme sworn police officer testify about their battle to defend our lives. the members of the house and the
siege in harrowing detail recounting the trauma they endured at the hands of violent insurrectionists. listen, some of what you re about to see and hear is quite disturbing. what i witnessed and experienced on january 6th, 2021, was unlike anything i had ever seen. on january 6, for the first time i was more afraid to work at the capitol than my entire deployment to iraq. until then, i had never seen anyone physically assault capitol police or mpd let alone witness mass assaults being perpetrated on law enforcement officers. what we were subjected that day was like something from a medieval battle. we fought hand to hand, inch by inch, to prevent an invasion of the capitol by a violent mob intent on subverting our democratic process. at some point during the fighting, i was dragged from the line of officers and into the
to say about his possible inclusion. do you think he would be a good member of the committee? everybody else does. let s continue with former congressman carlos curbelo. he s a republican from south florida and an msnbc political analyst. and former senator barbara boxer, a democrat from california. good to have you both with us tonight. senator boxer, let me start with you in terms of the political considerations. kind of dovetailing into that last question we put to professor joyce vance. how do you see the politics of this playing out? let me be as direct as i can. our capitol was attacked. our democracy was attacked. attacked by violent insurrectionists who are american. and we ve got to get to the bottom of it, politics be damned. i hope that speaker pelosi puts other republicans on the committee, but be that as it