the committee who said they needed to get to the bottom of what happened on 1/6. that was proposed, a commission. republicans voted that down. correct. the idea was to take this out of congress altogether, create a 9/11 style committee. they decided it would be better to do it this way so you can t say the process wasn t valid. you re hearing that from mccarthy saying the subpoena is somehow invalid. i think important to remember steve bannon is not facing this prospect of contempt for anything that he did or said ahead of the january 6 attacks. it s for not responding to congress requests. and this is a real moment for congress. congress power has been eroding for years, anyway, vis-a-vis the president, the executive branch.
0 have. the question they ask is why were we so unprotected on january 6 and what has changed since then? getting to the bottom of those questions should be the top priority for all of us in this house. there are serious security vulnerabilities that have been not addressed by this house in 11 months after january 6, and this is what the majority has decided to spend its time on. holding a private citizen who wasn t even part of the administration at the time in contempt for refusing to comply with house democrat subpoenas? this is after more than 600 people have been arrested for their role in the tragedies we saw on january 6. when i get the article i would like to submit for the record, madam speaker, a reuters record talking to the fbi that there was no effort to overthrow the government on january 6. i will submit it once i get a copy of that. i did not bring it with me. but our job, again, is to secure this capitol. we ve never seen a breach like the one we saw that day. and it s
and weaponize it, to overthrow the election. did his attacks on the d.o.j. damage the institution? and what will it take to undo that damage? it held because of honorable people like jeffrey rosen and his deputy. we saw in the reports that jeffrey clark, the acting attorney general for the civil division was too happy to try to help. it seems that we narrowly skated away from something that could have been absolutely historic and tragic in terms of a free democracy. the next step is tell the story. they reported this information to the inspector general. the judiciary committee will continue to investigate and uncover the facts. if that was true that president trump was trying to throw the
we remember last month when the house oversight committee had handwritten notes by a.g. richard donahue between trump and d.o.j. officials. that pressured the officials to declare the 2020 election corrupt. quote to leave the rest to him and his congressional allies. chair of the judiciary committee senator dick durbin on cnn today, detailing the seven-hour meeting with rosen. he was being asked by the white house, the leadership of the white house, to meet with certain people who had wild, bizarre theories why the election wasn t valid. he refused to do it. i don t think history will be kind to mr. rosen. when he was initially appointed, i didn t think that was the case. as we learn more about trump s attempts to hold on to power, remember what he and others called themselves, the party of law and order.
he is concerned that there s crimes occurring or significant efforts to commit fraud in the election. saying it was corrupt and leave me to do the rest, giving him the road map to throw out the election and let the republican legislatures select the electors. so far out of the lane of what the justice department is supposed to do. i m dieing to hear what the details were. i think we ve scratched the surface. this system gives us new details about trump s plot to stay in office. the president of the united states, then donald trump, mounted a pressure campaign that was absolutely relentless, brutal, personally involved, directly aimed at the department of justice, seeking to break it