you have those 9 members here again with those only 2 republican members, adam kinsey, singer and liz cheney followed by 7 other democrats here. take a look. these were the 5 republicans that were actually submitted by the g o. p. to be on that committee speaker of the house, nancy pelosi denying them to be on the panel and to take part in this committee. hearing you had also excuse me, representative minority leader, kevin mccarthy saying that, you know, this is kind of a pushback not wanting to answer those tough questions. one of them being that on january 5th, donald trump called for $10000.00 national guards guardsman to come and guard the capital, and he was denied that request. you have also former senator ron paul, he's saying that if you're going to compare this to the 911 attacks like what many democrats. c are doing you have to then compare it to the 911 commission where you have to make it fair. you can see here, there is a 5 republicans, 5 democrats who even had midway through the 911 commission hearings, a democrat resigned. they replaced him with another democrat. so ag

testifying about their experiences during the january 6 insurrection, but also from members of congress. adam kinsey, are a republican congressman from illinois was clearly choking back tears as he was telling the officers that they succeeded in holding back the insurrection. and then there were the officers themselves. one of them wiped his eyes several times as he spoke. he said he never been so afraid in his life, including when he had served as a soldier in iraq. then there was another officer who said that these writers were routinely using the n word against him because he was african american. so a lot of deep emotion going on there. you had congresswoman was cheney one of the 2 republicans on that panel who are defying their party in order to participate because their party doesn't want them to. she asked one of the officers how it made him feel when donald trump said that was really happy, up lifting, gathering, one full of love and, and the officer said that he thought that was pathetic that donald trump had been responsible for what he called the monstrosity that happened, so a lot of emo

that is, liz cheney and adam kinsey, owner of illinois. both of whom has broken ranks with their party who have basically tried to make this process go away. they haven't succeeded, but now what they're doing is trying to make it look like a partisan process. of course, the republicans are attacking the legitimacy of this committee, knowing that they have, you might say to members of the party already on the committee. what's the strategy here? it's the house republican leader spoke this morning, kevin mccarthy. and he said this is a sham process. a process in which only democrats will be able to ask questions along with 2 republicans that he is insulting, calling them pelosi republican, the reference to the house democratic leader, nancy pelosi. what actually happened is that the republican leader appointed a couple of republicans to this committee. they were both staunch deniers of the insurrection. both people who had voted against approving the election of joe biden in congress and policy rejected those 2 as a result. what she's gone o

it also came from the people who were asking the questions, including congressmen, adam kinsey, or one of the 2 republicans who defied their party to participate in this process at the risk of losing their other positions in congress kinda broke down. and he, and he said, you guys for that day and you want democracy is not remembered for its failures. he said, but for its successes in the new you had to lose cheney the other republican on the panel who said that this was a cancer on the republican if it's not called to account. if the people responsible aren't called to account, then that would continue to happen every 4 years. and the officers were very careful to distribute people to the notion that there was anybody bought. trump supporters in that crowd, many publicans have suggested that there were n t for black lives matter. each of the officers detailed what these people looked like, the flags they held the fact that they were margaret flags and trump flags. and the fact that they were saying we want donald trump, and that's important because it combats a notion many republicans

now and the conclusion of the hearing, adam kinsey was asked of how fellow republicans want to remove him from a number of the committees that he sits on here was his response to that. all i have to say to that is we had a big attack on january 2nd. we heard very emotional testimony today, and that's what's on the forefront of my mind. and if people want to get petty, that's fine. i think that reflects more on people than it does on the situation at hand. this is a historic moment and this is a democracy defending moment. and no matter the consequence of me and i know lives will stand on defend democracy. and scotty, you know, it is still in limbo whether he will be removed or not. republicans on the hill, are talking about possibly taking some of his positions away. and we can never say never, but because you know, sky, we saw what happened with las cheney, where she was removed from her position. well, it will be interesting, a lot of that comes out for the follow up. but there were republicans were also not allowed to sit on the committee and that was held by the democrats. so i th

that's adam kinsey or vill annoy. and liz cheney of wyoming, both of them doing something the rest of their party is not doing. and that is trying to hold someone accountable for this. and the 3rd part of this is really about a president who not only did nothing for ours as his supporters ransacked the capital, but also egg them on. we put together a story with the most salient parts of today's hearing. take a look, hold true, and nothing but the true in sometimes harrowing testimony for police officers detailed the coordinated attack on the us capital, and on them the washington police officer, michael for knowns, own body camera captured him being pulled into the crowd of donald trump. supporters beaten and shocked with a taser like stay in their body. like it's jimmy, i'm here. and he says, the response from republican politicians has been just is hurtful. the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgrace, but nothing truly. nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue t