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happy new year. thank you. kirsten, this letter from mccarthy doesn t mention the former president, who told his supporters on january 6th to, quote, fight like hell. instead he s attacking democrats for, he says, dividing the country. facts really don t matter, i guess, to many members of the gop anymore. yeah. well, it s not surprising that he would be trying to rally his troops around opposing the democrats and criticizing the democrats. but his critiques around january 6th in terms of the democrats not getting to the bottom of how this breach of, you know, the capitol occurred, well, that really is the purpose of the january 6th committee, something that he really hasn t taken seriously. the people that he chose to be on it were people who really were just going to be disruptive. they weren t people who were, you know, seriously interested in getting to the bottom of what happened. so he s acting like the democrats aren t trying to figure out what happened when, ....
he s not overstating it at all because i mean we all saw, in real-time, what happened on january 6th. at the capitol building. i mean, this is exactly the thing that you think of in revolutions, storming the bastille during the french revolution. storming the winter palace during the russian revolution that general milley was alluding to. and as he was saying, we have seen many historical episodes where there is violence. people discount it. they think that this is just a passing occurrence. just a passing occurrence. you mean, like mike pence, the one rioters wanted to lynch calling it quote one day in january? that kind of thing? well, if that were all it was, it would be bad enough and destructive enough to the truth which any healthy democracy arrests on but it s not just rewriting the history of one day. it s rewriting the history of another. election day, 20 20. ....
That was like when al qaeda tried to take down the world trade center the first time with a van. it was a joke. but the next time, they came back with planes. bill maher misspoke there. as for the rest, the notion that former president incited in january was only a dress rehearsal? well, listen to someone who does serious for a living. yesterday on cbs news, former-national security council senior official fiona hill was asked about joint chiefs chairman mark milley s quote in bob woodward and robert costa s new book peril comparing january 6th to, quote, the great dress rehearsal. her answer is chilling. well, you re a russia analyst. you know immediately what that phrase is which is what lennon called an uprising that preceded the revolution. i read that and i said, dear god. yeah. i mean, he the the general is saying that this is a precursor, potentially, to further violence? is is this overstating things in a historical sense? ....
bill muir misspoke there. as for the rest, the notion that former president incited in january was only a dress rehearsal? well, listen to someone who does serious for a living. yesterday on cbs news, former-national security council senior official fiona hill was asked about joint chiefs chairman mark milley s quote in bob woodward and robert costa s new book peril comparing january 6th to, quote, the great dress rehearsal. her answer is chilling. well, you re a russia analyst. you know immediately what that phrase is which is what lennon called an uprising that preceded the revolution. i read that and i said, dear god. yeah. i mean, he the the general is saying that this is a precursor, potentially, to further violence? is is this overstating things in a historical sense? he s not overstating it at all because i mean we all saw, in real-time, what happened on january 6th. at the capitol building. i mean, this is kpexactly the ....
Drawn, protects his life. in the months that followed he infamously changed his tune about that day at a hearing about security lapses that may have allowed the attack to happen he compared the scene on january 6th to, quote, normal tourist visit. of course, that s a ludicrous characterization. everyone not under donald trump s thumb knows that. that s offensive to people there that day and lived through the terror of it. that includes democratic congressman jamie raskin. last night raskin confronted clyde at a rules committee meeting clearly feel that business could not just go on as usual with those comments still hanging in the air. did you have an opportunity to see officers hodges and fanone and dunn testify today or sergeant gonnel? mr. raskin, let s stick to the amendment as well, i m getting to the amendment. if you don t like the question, say you can take the fifth. that s not the point. ....