Chair klobuchar i call to order this second joint hearing of the rules and Homeland Security and government Affairs Committee on examining the january 6 attack on the united States Capitol. At Todays Hearing, we will continue our committees important work to get answers that will lead us to solutions following the horrific events at the capitol on january 6. Last week we heard from witnesses who were directly in charge of Capitol Security on that day and from local Law Enforcement in washington. Today, we will hear testimony from the head of the d. C. National guard and from federal officials from agencies including fbi, Defense Department, and department of Homeland Security that are tasked with supporting our security people at the capitol. The testimony of these witnesses is crucial as we work to get to the bottom of what happened, again, with the focus being on making sure it does not happen again. And with that, i now turn it over to Chairman Peters for his opening statement. I wi
Chair klobuchar i call to order this second joint hearing of the rules and Homeland Security and government Affairs Committee on examining the january 6 attack on the united States Capitol. At Todays Hearing, we will continue our committees important work to get answers that will lead us to solutions following the horrific events at the capitol on january 6. Last week we heard from witnesses who were directly in charge of Capitol Security on that day and from local Law Enforcement in washington. Today, we will hear testimony from the head of the d. C. National guard and from federal officials from agencies including fbi, Defense Department, and department of Homeland Security that are tasked with supporting our security people at the capitol. The testimony of these witnesses is crucial as we work to get to the bottom of what happened, again, with the focus being on making sure it does not happen again. And with that, i now turn it over to Chairman Peters for his opening statement. I wi
of a dead classmate and playing d dead. he shot my classmates, i thought he would come back to the front and so i got a little blood and i put it all over me. let s go straight up to cnn s lauren fox at the capitol. lauren is listening to that young girl, listening to the parents. it is heart wrenching. the question is, what will congress make hearing? reporter: yeah, john, i heard from the lawmakers, one thing you heard they had never, never seen this close to the tragedy the kind of testimony that we heard today. that coming, of course, from a 4th grader who was in one of the class roorms where her classmates were killed, where her teacher was shot. that is the kind of emotional t including the chair woman hoped would change the mind of her colleagues. we also heard riveting and heart breaking testimony from the parents of lexi rubio. this is what her mother kimberly said about her last moments with her daughter. i called her and told her we loved her and would pick
testimony from victims of the recent shootings. this student described watching her friends and teachers die and saying she s afraid to return to school. the devastating story of kimberly and felix rubio who lost their daughter. we told her we loved her and we would pick her up after school. i could still see her walking with us toward the exit. in the reel that scrolls across my memory, she turns and acknowledges my promise. then we left. i left my daughter at that school, and that decision will haunt me for the rest of many i life. we don t want you to think of her as just a number. she was intelligent, compassionate and athletic. she was quiet. shy unless she had a point to make. when she knew she was right, she stood her ground. she was firm, direct, voice unwavering. today, we stand for lexi and as her voice we demand action. somewhere out there, there s a mom listen to our testimony, thinking, i can t even imagine their pain. not knowing that our reality will one day
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