Page 23 - Capitol Security News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Forcefully. i thought it was repugnant. the violence, i thought the racial slurs were repulsive. but at the same time, i recognized that tens of thousands of other americans doesn't take -- didn't storm the capitol, didn't partake in any violence, came there to exercise their first amendment rights, and they did assemble peacefully. that is their right. and so i defended those people that assembled peacefully. i also pushed back on the false narrative, and it was a false narrative, that there were thousands of armed insurrectionists. there weren't. that is not what an armed insurrection would ...

Such a breach in our capitol security never happens again. we must never forget january 6th. we must never lose sight of what happened. and we must never stop fighting for our democracy. in the immortal words of alexis -- i quote, the greatness in america lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation but rather in her ability to repair her faults. let that be the enduring lesson of january 6th. thank you, my colleagues. and god bless this institution and all of you. [ applause ] >> thank you. next i recognize my friend, sarah jacobs, from california. >> thank you, jason, for putting

Hammer. congressman banks, let me ask you, why doesn't this committee call before the subpoena, nancy pelosi the sergeant of arms, the capitol police chief, and mayor muriel bowser? why aren't they being called? >> sean, the most important thing i read today on the internet was a piece from former speaker newt gingrich and "newsweek" who said he knows firsthand as a former speaker of the house that it is the speaker of the house's responsibility to oversee the capitol police and oversee capitol security. it gets very uncomfortable when you go down that path and you realize the bread, don't let...

Insurrection would look like. that was a narrative that quite honestly served both sides. anybody that was responsible for capitol security was pretty well happy to sign on to thousands of armed insurrectionists. what could they possibly have done? >> yeah. >> the commission in the house now is a joke. they're not asking what nancy pelosi knew and when she knew it. >> jesus, back with me is twitter's favorite aunt at this, congresswoman maxine waters and sophia nelson and author of epluribus one and maria hinojosa. thank you all for being here. we're going to go around the table real quickly a...

Congressional correspondent, one of the early authors of the tutu newspaper. it is part of the team that broke the story that the documents had been ripped and taped back together. she joins me now. would you like to tell me more about the state of these documents that were transmitted to the committee? >> yeah, chris, we're still trying to figure out more about these documents exactly because as you noted, the committee has not officially detail what was in this trench of 700 pages worth of records that was transmitted from the national archives to the january six committee investigating the ...