Updated at February 9, 2021 - Uriah Kiser Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA, 1) conducts a video interview with PLN.
It’s not easy to enlist in the U.S. military.
All armed forces conduct extensive background checks on recruits’ criminal history and financial records and conduct interviews with co-workers and neighbors to understand better the person volunteering to wear the uniform.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called for a 60-day standdown across the military to investigate possible extremism in the ranks, following reports that some of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol were in the armed forces.
Rep. Rob Wittman, a Republican who since 2007 has represented Virginia’s 1st Congressional District, stretching from Prince William County southeast to Williamsburg, says he wants a better understanding of how the newly-appointed secretary will define extremism.
READ: Excerpts from Democrats’ impeachment trial brief
The House impeachment managers provided a detailed legal analysis in their pre-trial legal brief, filed Tuesday, about the constitutionality of charging Trump with incitement of insurrection. Excerpts of the brief are available below:
“On January 6, 2021, with Vice President Michael Pence presiding, Congress assembled to perform one of its most solemn constitutional responsibilities: the counting of electoral votes for President of the United States. This ritual has marked the peaceful transfer of power in the United States for centuries. Since the dawn of the Republic, no enemy foreign or domestic had ever obstructed Congress’s counting of the votes. No President had ever refused to accept an election result or defied the lawful processes for resolving electoral disputes. Until President Trump.”
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