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>> reporter: chairman bennie thompson publicly claiming the january 6th house select committee will not refer former president trump or anyone else to the justice department for criminal prosecution. >> what i prefer that we complete our work and seal that work with the department of justice. and they will make that call after that. >> reporter: even without a referral, the justice department would prosecute. but some committee members feel those comments are premature. >> we have had a discussion about that. i thought we discovered that decision until we concluded our investigation,...

Were to be armed to be proficient at reducing that? >> well, quite frankly, we -- law enforcement in ohio give police at least 46 hours of training on the range and we have to requalify every year. that's not happening in this bill. and also, what a lot of officers are taught is whenever you have a gun, you're bringing a gun into that scenario that can be used against you. so you're taught weapons retention. you're taught to fight for that gun. and now you're going to have a teacher, you could be sitting on a carpet reading to their students and have a zero retention holster with this gun. so,...

Have to use to get control from those persons who he was investigating. aggressive defense techniques something he never had to use on his job, but something he trained weekly. every friday with the red man suit. and he talked with you also about immediate weapons, weapons retention and the use of deadly force. travis spent a long time going through these things in his testimony if you recall i was writing feverishly so i could capture what he had to share about these things. it includes what gave him the right to search, examine, arrest, seize, inspect, inquire. he talked with you about the l...

Techn techniques and the things that he would have to use to get control from those persons who he was investigating. aggressive response techniques, something that he never had to use on his job but something that he trained weekly, every friday with the redman suit. and he talked with you also about intermediate weapons, weapons retention and the use of deadly force. travis spent a long time going through these things in his testimony. if you recall, i was writing feverishly as i was testifying so that i could capture what it feels that he had to share with us about these things. it includes...

Force. these are just demonstrative things. >> the only thing that caught my eye is the argument that this is what he received, not wa he testified to? >> right. these are just demonstrative -- >> there's nothing on those that show the coast guard manual or anything like that that would be -- for example, i know that the state presented a few of the pages from the actual manuals themselves. >> the only thing that i have is what i've created that shows he testified about officer presence, verbal commands, aggressive response techniques, weapons retention. >> and what is that? is that something ...