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Magically put on the parallel committee if it is so important to them back in july? >> well, this may be a shocker to you, jason, kevin mccarthy was lying when he said that. >> my goodness. >> there is not going to be an actual effort to conduct legitimate oversight of what happened an january 6th. if republicans want to be apart of that, they could have. there was a bipartisan 9/11 type commission that was going to be put in place for january 6th. republicans tanked it. when democrats in congress before with the bipartisan's select committee, republicans chose not to appoint any members to it...

House side. speaker pelosi reportedly now considering naming gop congressman adam kinzinger to join the committee. would you support that move? >> i would support that move and any other move that makes that select committee as bipartisan as possible. keep in mind, anderson, that speaker pelosi wanted to appoint a 9/11 type commission that would be virtually evenly divided among republicans and democrats. non-political members and as objective and impartial as possible. the house approved it. by bipartisan vote. unfortunately, it was scuttled in the senate. only six republicans voted for it. i...

House side. speaker pelosi reportedly now considering naming gop congressman adam kinsinger to support that move? >> i would support that move and any other move that makes that committee as bipartisan as possible. keep in mind, anderson, that speaker pelosi wanted to appoint a 9/11 type commission that would be virtually evenly divided among democrats and nonpolitical members and as objective and impartial as possible. the house approved it. unfortunately, it was scuttled in the senate. only six republicans voted for it. i think it was a missed opportunity. so whether it's adam kinsinger or o...

And if there were going to be accountability do you believe that what you know now could sustain charges against donald trump? >> i have to think that anyone who reads this knows how horrible the whole situation is. i thought i would never see the peaceful transfer of power disrupted. that an election was on the verge of being stolen. he almost succeeded in a coup. taking over the country. there is a will the of work to do. we need a 9/11 type commission to look at this. and come forward with recommendations that are based on the facts so this never happens again. it is beyond belief. we are u...

>> we have outlined what is common knowledge in our report about president trump's speech, about encouraging them to march down from the mall and the like. one reason i believe we need a 9/11 type commission and investigation is we felt our investigation was clear. we wanted to get immediate recommendations to help with funding, to help with getting bills passed and make changes in the police department and the like. but the whole side of it about the rise of white supremecism and what needs to be done. i believe this report is not a substitute for that, but something we needed to do immediate...