Insurrection. Their options so far less than tlelg. House democrats are thinking about launching their own investigation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Wont say if he will do the same but he is blasting republicans. This vote has made it official. Donald trumps Big Lie has now fully enenveloped the republican party. Shame on the republican party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because theyre afraid of Donald Trump. Most of those republican senators who were not just witnesses to the attack but victims of it are now choosing to look to the next election instead of taking an honest and thorough look at what went wrong in the aftermath of the one we just had like how the losing party convinced angry supporters there was fraud or maybe that is exactly why republicans dont want this investigated. Cnns national correspondent Suzanne Malveaux joins me now from Capitol Hill. What do democrats do next . Reporter quite a number of democrats feel they under summat
Forward and unfortunately because he divides the party he makes it tougher for republicans no matter what type of republican you are. that s why i think it is important to turn the page. but this whole commission and investigation, this is nonpartisan. this is about as the officers and the sicknick family explained, this is about, you know, the country and our democracy. it isn t right versus left or democrat versus republican. it really is about getting to the truth so this can t happen again. we know there are increased threats. 100%, 200% increase on members of congress. you have state officials now threatened in arizona and georgia. this is a very dangerous, volatile situation. and that s why it needs that sort of dispassionate investigation. so i hope if nancy pelosi does do this, you know, congressional select committee, that she will go ahead and pick those members
reporter: quite a number of democrats feel they under summated the partisan nature of this and thought after months of negotiations they could actually come up with this bipartisan, independent commission similar to that of 9/11 but having covered the 9/11 commission there were a number of things that were very different. first, there was not even an agreement on a common enemy if you will of this attack and, secondly, not the appetite certainly for the time or even the resources for such an independent commission so democrats now looking to their next option. that is on the house side to actually set up a select committee. it would be democrats essentially, not looking for republican support. they have tried that already. if there is some, fine. they would move ahead and speaker pelosi would be ahead of this select committee if you will. they would have subpoena power, be able to hold hearings if they like, and essentially run an investigation on their own. as you can imagine of cou
Insurrection. their options so far less than tlelg. house democrats are thinking about launching their own investigation. senate majority leader chuck schumer won t say if he will do the same but he is blasting republicans. this vote has made it official. donald trump s big lie has now fully enenveloped the republican party. shame on the republican party for trying to sweep the horrors of that day under the rug because they re afraid of donald trump. most of those republican senators who were not just witnesses to the attack but victims of it are now choosing to look to the next election instead of taking an honest and thorough look at what went wrong in the aftermath of the one we just had like how the losing party convinced angry supporters there was fraud or maybe that is exactly why republicans don t want this investigated. cnn s national correspondent suzanne malveaux joins me now from capitol hill. what do democrats do next?
Hands on him as well as so many members of congress who would have been killed themselves i don t know why so the american people know exactly what happened here. it s not as if the threat, the domestic terrorist threat was extinguished on that day. that threat remains. it remains to the capitol. it remains re-garding our democracy and even in this case the power of an election. if that is not worthy of investigation i don t know why one party would not want that kind of investigation done. again, what i said before, this genuflecting the will of one man let me ask you this. it seems you were also done in by the filibuster.