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This was an attack on our house, and who are we as members of the house if we do not try and protect our house? if we do not utilize the power that is vested in us, the power responsibility that we have to ensure that individuals who not only attacked the capitol but attacked our democratic institution and our democratic process are brought to justice. the justice department is going after individuals and their mandate is to criminally hold them liable. our mandate is much broader than that. our mandate is to ensure that this does not happen again. and we cannot do that through various committ...

This and the minority would be able to call witnesses of their own? >> i'm not sure that's the kind of counterprogramming that republicans and senate leadership is interested in hosting. the reality is that it sort of creates a little bit of an us versus them rather than focusing on whatever inquiry's happening in the house at that time, let that play out and let the senate conduct business. i'm sure that leader mcconnell would like to do nothing more than judges and things he's focused on that instead of doing show hearings for the sake of doing hearings. >> you mentioned the mentioned the re...

Good to know conservatives are able to make the case they don't want to push something through that isn't up to their standards. whether we can get there tomorrow is another thing entirely. >> bret: the more conservatives that sign on, the more moderates they potentially say goodbye to. >> after the criticism of the process the democrats went through in 2009 and 2010, they passed a partisan bill that was a political catastrophe for the party. they spent a year doing hearings. they tried to reach out to republican senators along the way. susan collins, olympia snowe. mike enzi. working with the...

Good to know conservatives are able to make the case they don't want to push something through that isn't up to their standards. whether we can get there tomorrow is another thing entirely. >> bret: the more conservatives that sign on, the more moderates they potentially say goodbye to. >> after the criticism of the process the democrats went through in 2009 and 2010, they passed a partisan bill that was a political catastrophe for the party. they spent a year doing hearings. they tried to reach out to republican senators along the way. susan collins, olympia snowe. mike enzi. working with the...

Will end up doing hearings. we're going to have the discussion one way or another. it would infinitely better if we had the discussions under the rubric of the u.s. government because people need to believe that their government is responding to this crisis. >> in new york city, it's not just people of color. this is -- you know, a lot of white folks are out there too. this is a real social statement that's being made. is this much more than policing in your opinion? >> absolutely yes. first i want to say when i look at what is happening now with the diversity you mentioned it's like what happ...