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Use that experience here. i never thought the most dangerous place i could be was the united states capitol. but on january 6th the united states capitol became a conflict setting. and although we eventually secured the building and returned to work that night, the conflict isn't over. january 6th was not the end. it was the beginning. and i know that many people are afraid what this means for the future of our country as we see the threat from from a violent mob. and those threats to our democracy are real. but i'm optimistic because i've seen countries torn apart even more than ours are, fin...

Not yet there. >> it does sort of usher in a conversation about how the rule of law dies. not just when bill barr sticks the sizable thumbs on the scales of justice. it dies when there's an expectation that the removal of that thumb restores it. accountability is what restores it. i wonder what you make of the contempt votes for scavino and navarro. >> i think it's very important that navarro and scavino be held accountable. they are certainly a huge part of what happened on january 6. and i think one of the things that i get depressed about is all of these rabid followers of trump who were eg...

Now i recognize my friend adam schiff from california. >> thank you, jason. madam speaker, my colleagues. one year ago, i was on the house floor when the mob attacked our capitol. as one of a few members the speaker had asked to manage the opposition to the efforts to decertify the results of the presidential election, i had six actors and six rebuttals to make to the challengers from six different states. so i wasn't paying attention to what was happening outside the building, to the growing mass of rioters, to efforts to break into the building. it was not until our leadership was swiftly re...

Played in the nfl, went to law school and became a civil rights lawyer. i thought when i left the nfl as a linebacker, where my job was to put people on the ground, that those abilities and the need to do that were over. on january 6th, along with my friends and colleagues, rubin gallego, pete aguilar, we took off our suit jackets on the house floor, the first time i've ever done that, and we were ready to try and defend our colleagues from whatever was going to come through those doors. and we saw the mob at the doors.

Dropping to the floor so many times or from our rushed escape, waiting for the elevator door to open. sure we were going to see a machine gun and for it all to be over. the capitol police officer who put his body in the way in case that happened. looking to my right and seeing the mob as we rushed to get out seconds away from getting us. i'll never forget just how close we came to losing our democracy that day. but i'll also never forget the feeling as i was sitting there under my chair that i knew what we needed to do, that i was here for a reason. because i'd spent my career working on confl...