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Committee will do the best job possible absent an independent commission. it s such an insult to the police officers you ll hear from tomorrow. they are seen now in the last six months republicans have voted against giving them the gold medal for what they did on january 6th, republicans have not voted to give the security assistance that would help us. republicans have blamed the fbi and said it was an inside job. republican leader mccarthy refused to meet for many months with officer mike fanone and walking away from the select committee. you know, they have shown that to honor donald trump, you have to dishonor the police and tomorrow will be entirely about honoring the heroes of january 6th. and we ll be watching. thank you representative swalwell. appreciate it. you know who has a lot to say about this? matthew doud after the break. ....
Donald trump is an albatross, and they have not figured that out yet. my colleague jamie gangle is reporting sources close to george p. bush believed this is exactly what would happen and warned him not to publicly play up to trump because trump would once again take the lead in embarrassing the bush family. that is exactly what happened. well, you know, sycophants sometimes can t help themselves. you know, george p. wants a higher office than land commissioner in the state of texas, here in the state of texas, and he will do anything. you know, i was somewhat surprised that he d be willing to throw his own family under the bus after how donald trump treated jeb bush s father in this. but, you know, at this point in time, republicans don t seem to have any sort of moral code or moral compass at all. all it is pursuit of power or pursuit of some higher office, and in the end they get punished for it. that s what happened in this case. let s talk about this ....
Of country over party. and yamiche alcindor joins us, white house correspondent for pbs news hour, moderator of washington week and an msnbc contributor. luke, i thought of you. i thought of reporters who cover that building who have been bringing us sort of the humanity of what went on that day and there is nothing like hearing from these officers, whose politics are indecipherable from any one side but whose victimization at the hands of people who were sent by donald trump to do exactly what they did is undeniable after today s hearings. your thoughts. yeah. i was in the hearing room today. i would say it was gut wrenching, it was heart breaking. the testimony was visceral, as you just played. i don t know how anybody can watch it and think that this was a tourist visit or a normal day ....
Position in the face of that kind of testimony, it does truly boggle my mind. yeah. i mean, look, frank, i had the same feeling that john is articulating. i had this feeling though that there are few markers to how far underground we are. i used to ask, you know, where is the bottom, where is the bottom with the trump presidency. we are now so far underground we don t often get such a stark reminder of how far up the surface is. i think what these officers, with no decipherable partisan affiliation, revealed is that the country s politics are so far gone that a terrorist attack, in the words of one of those officers, by donald trump supporters, in the words of all of the officers and the insurrectionists themselves, 500 of whom have been charged now with the crimes they committed that day, have been erased by the two most powerful republicans in the country, mitch mcconnell and kevin ....
We invited him to testify at the impeachment trial. he refused, which i think showed a consciousness of guilt for his conduct but i hope the select committee with less time pressure we had in a senate if they think he s a valuable relevant witness is able to seek him. how much do you think this investigation, how much do you expect it will focus on donald trump s role in the insurrection versus security failures, other factors that led up to that deadly day? certainly we need to know as a democracy how can an individual or a party or, you know, an individual supporters have so much, you know, capability to storm the capitol, make it inside and stop the count. we don t want that to happen again. by the way, don, what has changed? republicans voted against or stopped us from having security assistance on the senate side. they re not taking up that vote is donald trump is around saying he ll come back in august so what has changed? we have to make sure we protect ....