, over sight committee and major committee of jurisdiction, the committee on oversight also on the judiciary committee, which has standing in all of this. and we are proceed that representative luria, navy veteran, captain of the ship -- what was the title? ms. pelosi: retired commander and member of the armed services committee. her interest in this is long standing in the congress and also a member of the homeland security committee. now i just wanted to read the bill -- it's really important for you to know what our purpose is for this. and that is that the findings of the legislation speak to to the testimony of the director of the f.b.i. when he basically said there were more deaths from domestic terrorism than from global terrorism, in our country in the previous year. the testimony from the department of homeland security about concerns that are out there, all of these institutions talking about -- well, i hate to say this, but what they have said in terms of white supremacy, islam phobia, all of these attitudes that have contributed to what happened on january 6. and that is our purp

that is a major committee, the committee on oversight. he is also on the jing -- -- judiciary committee that has standing on all of this. and then navy veteran, this is more technical and standard, but what is your title? retired commander, oh my gosh. and a member of the armed services committee, her interest in this is long-standing in congress, she is also a member of the homeland security committee. i just wanted to read the bill. it is really important for you all to know what our purpose is for this. and that is that the findings of the legislation seeks to the testimony of the dutch speaks to the testimony of the director of the fbi when he basically said there were more deaths from domestic terrorism the global -- then global terrorism and our country in the previous year. the testimony from the part of homeland security about concerns that are out there, all of these institutions talking about, well, i hate to go there but it is what they have said, and terms of white supremacy, anti-semitism, islamophobia, all of these attitudes

but how do you start a committee when a committee chair says everything is open, except the speaker's office. and the speaker denies who can be on the committee. they determine report that's probably already written. we want to get to the bottom of this. take all the questions, make sure the questions are answered and get to a solution. with that i will take some questions. yes, ma'am. >> different iterations say the speakers try to cover up what happened on generous six but she didn't say the election was stolen. he didn't call her supporters here to the capital. so what role are you trying to cover up what the former presidents role was on january 6. >> was nothing. we are not predetermined any questions. we would like to be on the committee to ask it. you have got committee chair the question the election of george bush. you got a committee chair this who was suing the president. you have got a committee chair of of the siblings republican senators are equal to terrorist and should be on the terrorist watch list. you've got a member of raskin before the present was even sweat and t

the only so-called republicans on the committee are on the committee to grandstand and protect the former president because of her own personal vendettas. pelosi republicans are not interested in the truth, they are interested in getting even. today peter mccarthy brought us all appear, however we are interested in the truth. we are going to continue seeking it and following the evidence no matter where it leads because we owe it to the american people to ensure this never, ever happens again. thank you.ga >> thank you, sheriff. as you see on the committee today that have any -- we asked for five members every congress to represent that. never before in the history of congress has the speaker taken unprecedented moves of denying the other party to a committee of who they select. it raises many questions. the worst part of all of us, who want to make sure this never happens again. january 6 should never have happened. capitol police should not have been put in this position and should have been able to have the resources, training, equipment, shouldn't be locked in a class away. we should

we shouldn't be changing those for this committee or any other committee. with that, i turn it over to sheriff nehls. mr. nehls: when i was chosen by leader mccarthy to serve on this select committee i assured him, i told him, i said i will take the 30 years law enforcement experience i have, the eight years i was sheriff to uncover, find out exactly what took place on january 6. to find the truth as to why this capitol was so unprepared. i spent countless hour i brought this bieppedder up, i examined the senate report, examining talking, looking at witness statements, looking at the capitol hill's policies and procedures. and i was alarmed, truly alarmed, at what i uncovered. i was prepared to help this committee get to the truth. i wanted to get to the truth. but unfortunately, speaker pelosi has shown that she's more interested in playing politics. i stand with leader mccarthy and the other colleagues on this committee. i assured the leader i will continue to play a role and do everything i can to make sure that what took place on january 6 can never, ev

he has not wanted to have the committee from the start. him playing political games with it is no surprise. the reality is even without the five he appoints or selects is still bipartisan, and we are still going to move forward to execute our duties to get to the truth around january 6th. >> i talked to a lot of members that praised the work that congresswoman cheney has done on the committee for the work itself, but political ramifications of a republican on the committee seen as more important. i want to talk about the hearing tuesday. we know the witnesses, don't know who is asking the questions, know who witnesses will be. witnesses include two capitol police officers and two metropolitan, washington, d.c. police officers, what's the goal you would like to achieve tuesday. is it to set a factual floor for what happened that day? >> our objective with all of these hearings will be to set the facts out there for the public to understand but i think it is critically important to start with law enforcement because at the end of the day, th

work of the committee.is deadly serious. it's about our constitution, our country. it's an assault on the capitol that's being mischaracterized for some reason at the expense, at the expense of finding the truth for the american people. i'm very pleased at the response we had received across the country and my caucus on the subject, and we will -- i'm very pleased with the leadership of benny thompson, our chairman, the bipartisan nature of our committee with liz cheney, the other members who are on the committee, who have experience and patriotism as their calling cards. so, we will proceed. as i said, they're in the process -- their committee is in the process of hiring staff to that end. it's my responsibility as speaker of the house to make sure we get to the truth on this and we will not let their antics stand in the way of that. on another subject, again, we are working very hard to get the job done for the american people, to lower health care costs, lower pollution, as i said when we ran, lower heal

i think there should be a committee. they had an opportunity to choose people they wanted to be on there. they chose not to. i remember benghazi. what is the difference? this is more badder then benghazi was to me. they don't care about the american people. they care about themselves and donald trump in the party for all the republican party need to be voted out. get some young republicans in there who care about the american people. host: live view of the u.s. this friday morning. some of the callers eludes you a cloudy morning, but the temperatures are expected to heat up today, and dry conditions for the holiday weekend. if you're coming to washington, d.c., for the fireworks, the parade, the national archive, a tour of the museums. we will have more calls and comments in just a moment. should republicans serve on this select committee announced yesterday by the speaker of the house nancy pelosi? inside "the washington post" is more on the condo collapsed in florida. a photograph of the president and first lady, makes

committee.t's listen now. >> -- passed in house in a bipartisan way. it got majority vote in the senate in a bipartisan way. to get the 60 votes. they asked for another week, another week, another week, another week, and at the end of last week said we can't do this until 2023. so we can't wait that long. then we went right into motion to establish this select committee. as you can see, i am very proud to be able to announce the members of that committee this morning. our chairman will be benny thompson, his chair of the homeland security committee and negotiated the bipartisan commission and we thank him for his leadership. jerome lofgren having keir hearings a jurisdiction for the safety of the capitol. and intelligence being very important to this, chair adam schiff of the intelligence committee. pete aguilar, house appropriations committee, that is a committee of jurisdiction for this as well as member of the house administration committee. i'm saying this in seniority order. congresswoman l

, the work of the committee. this is deadly serious. this is about our constitution. it's about our country. it's about the assault on the capitol that's being mischaracterized for some reason at the expense -- at the expense of finding the truth for the american people. i'm very pleased the response we have received across the country and from my caucus on this subject, and we will -- i'm very pleased with the leadership of bennie thompson, our chairman, the bipartisan nature of our committee with liz cheney, the other members on the committee who have experience and patriotism as their calling cards. so we will proceed. as i said, they're in the process -- the committee is in the process of hiring staff to that end. it's my responsibility as speaker of the house to make sure we get to the truth on this, and we will not their antics stand in the way of that. on another subject, again, we are working very hard to get the job done for the american people, to lower health care costs, lower pollution, raise -- when

mccarthy: i'm not threatening anyone with committee assignments. it was shocking to me that if a person is republican and get committee assignments from the republican conference. for someone to accept committee assignments from speaker pelosi, that's unprecedented. reporter: do you regret not supporting the bipartisan commission idea and will have to deal with a committee that you have less control over and less opportunity to have influence and be more political? mr. mccarthy: i redepret the politics of nancy pelosi. for six months she played politics with me. what has transpired? in those six months in the senate, they had two committees bipartisanly investigate this and give a report. the f.b.i. has arrested almost 500 people sm the architect of the capitol has been guyen, 10 million and pelosi continues to make this about politics. no one takes this serious based upon the direction she wants to go. if you had read the senate report you would be concerned. concerned about what happened that day and concerned the days before it that caused that

is not on the committee, today was not about those on the committee. today was about the four police officers. >> absolutely. it was gut wrenching to hear them, to watch the video involving some of them, to hear what happened, to hear the racial epithets, you played part of that, that officer dunn and grenell endured. saying he never experienced anything in iraq in combat as he experienced that day. officer dunn saying that in uniform as an officer he had never been called the "n" word before that day with other epithets attached. and as extraordinary as their emotional accounting of what happened that day was, i was also struck, chuck, by people say this shouldn't be political. well, as officer dunn said at the end it is political. telling the truth should not be hard. fighting on january 6th was hard, going back to work on january 7th was hard, going back every day after that has been hard, seeing the wall come down, the fence around the capitol and nothing changed, that's hard. but telling the truth? he said congress members cheney and kinzinger are

let's listen. >> oversight committee, a major committee of jurisdiction. the committee on oversight, also on the judiciary committee, which has standing on all of this. and then i'm proud to announce that elaine captain of the ship, retired commander, oh, my gosh, and member of the armed services committee, her interest in this is longstanding in the congress. she is also a member of the homeland security committee. >> i just wanted to really thank -- bill? it's really important for you all to know what our purpose is for this. testimony from the department of homeland security about concerns that are out there, all these institutions talking about -- well, i hate to even go there but in terms of what they had said, in terms of white supremacy, anti-semitism, homophobia. all these attitudes that have contributed to what happened on january 6th. establish the purpose of what we are setting out to do, to make sure that this never happens again. i just put out a press release so you have the names of the members on the committee. again it was our hope we coul

the deferred compensation committee. governance committee. investment committee. members committee as a whole. staff legal liaison. operations oversight committee. staff legal liaison. personnel committee. the committee of the ad hoc director's search committee. >> : commissioner, i have a question. everything looks well but the personnel committee meeting assignment shows as amended just now, the the consultant was said to be -- if we're going to do the director's search committee as a committee as a whole then basically gary is not necessary to be on the consultant as the personnel committee. >> : that's correct. that's an error there. thank you. >> : okay. so i will second -- i will rescind my motion previous and replace it with a motion to approve as adjusted and amended. >> : i second the amended motion. >> : okay. thank you very much. is there any discussion on this? >> : i have some thoughts on the committee assignments. >> : go ahead. >> : i think the spirit of the retirement board has always been trying to have a balance between elected and appointed memb

that the committee might be able to answer. certainly a lot of republicans think they are simply weaponizing this politically and that they want to continue relitigating 2020 because the midterm elections in 2024 don't look as good for them. host: this is jesse on the democrats line. caller: good morning. i'm calling because i barely caught it pieces of the comments, i heard a false equivalency between the democratic position around the involvement of russia in 2016 election. that definitely proved that there was involvement. was it proof that they actually changed any votes or anything, that wasn't approved. even putin admitted to it in a press conference that yes of course they did. so equating that to the completely false and negated allegations around the issues -- really truly allegations that are issues with the elections in 2020 is really not something that should be bypassed in the conversation. thank you. guest: right, but what you are saying was never proven. there is no evidence that any votes were changed, which is

one of the members on that select committee who is now no longer on that select committee, represent rodney davis, he told me a couple of weeks ago that the fact that republicans refused to go along with this non-partisan commission that republicans blocked, especially in the senate, that it was becoming republicans' worst nightmare, because now you go from this nonpartisan commission to this partisan select committee that is run by the democrats, where republicans don't have a lot of control over it. i was just texting with some sources, some house republican sources on how this is going to play out. if this is short-term and long-term is going to be good for republicans, bad for republicans. and what i'm hearing back is that ultimately this is they think better for republicans, because they think it looks like a farce before it even began. and so that it looks like it is all pelosi's fault and that what republicans are going to say is that this is just a political exercise on behalf of the speaker. so, you know, we'll have to wait and see how voters and how the public responds, but

did she set the committee itself to be one-sided? yes. more so than any select committee before. yes, she did. we warned you from that moment in time she was playing politics. today just showed the american people exactly what everybody was warned. it's the american people who lose in this, but we're not going to allow that to happen. we're going to get to the answer of the question, why were we ill prepared. why if they knew on december 14th, why if they found ieds earlier in the morning, why were not the national guard here at the capitol but they were running street signs down in the city? who made that judgment? yes, sir. >> you said in your statement that republicans will, quote, instead pursue our own investigation of the facts. >> yes. >> what does that look like, first off? and secondly, is this your final move, pulling your appointees or is there a chance to reverse this? >> the only way to reverse this is to seat these five. that's the only way. but i will add to this, to be able to look at the challenge of what happened and answer those two questions, why were we ill p

our select committee will seek s the truth. it's our patriotic duty to do so and we do not come into our work worried about what the other side who has been afraid of this, maybe the republicans can't handle the truth, but we have a responsibility to seek it, to find it, and in a way that contains the confidence of the american people. >> host: speaker pelosi a losing to the decision by the republican leader kevin mccarthy of california to not have any republican appointee to the select committee after the speaker rejected two of his appointees, congressman jim banks of indiana, congressman jim jordan of ohio. the speaker did appoint two republicans herself to this committee. that is representative liz cheney a republican of wyoming who just six months ago was in charge of republicans at messaging to she was the number three republican. she was removed from that spotsa by ourur colleagues after she voted to impeach former president trump over the january 6th attack. the speaker on over the weekend also appointed congressman ada

kevin mccarthy just formed a series of committees like the task force committees, and one of them is climate. i am serving on that. i think you will see in the upcoming days and months, republicans being more aggressive with our message. host: from montana, great falls, peter is on our line for democrats. you are next. good morning. caller: good morning, congressman curtis. first off, i would like to congratulate you for your vote on the independent commission. the question i have for you is, does your caucus promote the eventual -- i say eventual -- elimination of fossil fuel energy production, that would include even natural gas? thank you. guest: thank you for your question. you can call me john. it does not. we said at the top of the hour, let me just say again, natural gas has been responsible for the most reduction in carbon of anything i know of. we have reduced our carbon footprint in the united states by a dramatic level. we have done it by using natural gas. fossil fuels are part of the answer to reduce worldwide carbon. i know that is counterintuitive. something that is ve

the house committee investigating the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol held its first that holds its first meeting tuesday. officers from the u.s. capitol police will sell numbers but they saw and experienced on that day. watch the hearing live tuesday beginning at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3, online at c-span.org, or listen with the free radio app. announcer: house minority whip steve scalise and majority leader steny hoyer debated speaker pelosi's rejection of two republican representative's from serving on the select committee. ask about something that is going to be coming up next week, that is this january 6 commission that the speaker created is expected to meet next week. yesterday we saw an alarming departure from congressional tradition, and that is speaker pelosi unilaterally made a decision to remove minority members from that committee. you go through the history of congress. prior to this year, never has the speaker denied the minority the ability to choose who they are going to put on committees. and not only did it happen yesterda

that is why they wanted a separate committee. host: here is a jim jordan at yesterday's news conference. >> i have said this before. what else are they going to talk about? crime? the fact that crime is up in every major urban area in this country? are they going to talk about the order crisis? march was the highest month on record for illegal crossings. april was the highest on record until may. you cannot talk about that. are they going to talk about inflation? the fact that the price of eggs is up, milks, airline tickets, the price of a used -- the price of everything? they cannot talk about that. they will be partisan and focus on this. host: eddie thompson of mississippi had been selected by that speaker to be the chair. they have a hearing. the first is set for next tuesday, the 27th. we will have coverage if it goes forward. here is what benny thompson said yesterday. speaker pelosi has met republican leadership more than halfway to investigate that facts, the circumstances of generally six. today the speaker by exercising

what do you think it does to the optics of this committee and the findings of this committee to have one nobody can question liz cheney's conservative bona fides. i think her service on the committee will be one of a patriot, and she will end up siding with democrats on a lot of the requests for information and for testimony because, as she has stated, she thinks it is important for the nation to get to the bottom of what happened. you know, my mother used to say it all comes out in the wash, and the wash is going to be the testimony, the evidence that will be gathered to really get to the bottom of the before, during and after of january 6th. liz cheney is going to be an important component of that because republicans will not be able to say creditably that this is a completely partisan exercise. frankly, if you look at the other members who are appointed by the speaker, these are serious members. they bring, you know, a lot of -- >> right. >> -- value to this committee. i think coupled with liz cheney, it is going to be an important search for the truth. >> guys, let's bring up ele

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so this committee is critical. and i think it's very important for this committee to have strong bipartisan representation. yes, it was extraordinary for speaker pelosi to turn down two of the nominees that leader mccarthy put forward. and now what she should do is try to get as many republicans as possible on that committee. certainly congressman kinzinger would do a great job. he's shown to have great integrity like congresswoman cheney. but she should try to look for two or three others who might be willing to serve because for posterity, for future generations it's important that whatever this committee puts out be the product of republicans and democrats collaborating in some way. this is way too serious to be a one-party issue. >> i hear you both saying that this is too serious to be mired in politics. you know, heaven forfend that politics prevent us from getting to the truth in this matter. senator box yehher, how do you see someone like a liz cheney, maybe an adam kinzinger factoring into this in terms of

cheney said, this is going to be a fact-finding select committee. witnesses will say what they're going to say. by the way, one of the people that was rejected by the speaker may well be, and maybe both, witnesses before the select committee. i don't know that. nobody's told me that. but that may be the case. so we're going to proceed. i know there's disagreement. that's not surprising. but you looked the opportunity that you asked for in the eye and rejected it. so here we are. >> that is not what -- mr. scalise: that is not what we asked for. the majority leader said, there were a number of things that need to be cleaned up that were just not accurate if you look at the members kicked off from the minority side yesterday, still no explanation given by the way that includes a ranking member of a committee and an officer in the united states navy who was removed yesterday by speaker pelosi with no reason given, in an unprecedented way, maybe speaker pelosi, maybe this majority don't want to see all the facts come out. they were surely raising those

i think this investigation, this committee, this select committee that had the opportunity, as john pointed out, to be a bipartisan commission, they chose not to because only in washington, d.c. do you not take "yes" for an answer. >> right. >> we still have all of the information to try to uncover right now, but in terms of if you are saying that you were supportive of police officers, if you are saying that you do not support even the notion, although the messaging can be changed, of, quote, unquote, re-allocating funding or defunding aspects of it, then shouldn't you have a vested interest in trying to ensure that these hearings actually happen to fortify, to make sure there's not issues about operational short comings or misgivings that the officers have the resources that they need to address what is obviously the mental health issue that will result from this? where are those vocal proponents of those now? >> yeah. >> that is really -- that silence is deafening to these officers and it decreases morale. as a prosecutor that is one of the most difficult things to then grapple with if y

assignment as a result of serving on the committee? >> we had a big attack on january 6th and heard very emotional testimony today and that is what is 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. >> this morning some of your colleagues were out in front of the capital and their basic message is boiling down to what did she know and how did she know it. what is your read on what other members are doing with their messaging today? >> almost every member of the republican conference understood in the days immediately after january 6th what had actually happened and many of them said this publicly. and the fact that so many members of the leadership and others, the fact that they've gone from recognizing what happened to protesting in front of the justice department on behalf of those who were part of the insurrection is something that i cannot explain. i think it is a d

sometimes in many committees they have every single member of the committee deliver an opening statement. just today it's going to be two, representative thompson as you said and liz cheney, and that is an indication of how much respect and prominence democrats on the committee want to put in liz cheney. they don't agree with her on hardly any policy issue, the size of government, national security, intervention overseas, but on this issue, they all agree, and so we can expect liz cheney to probably be the toughest questioner and the toughest demander of what happened on that day, and you know, as far as what we are told on the role of liz cheney, what's also going to be interesting is in most committee hearings you have republicans and democrats sparring. this committee, republicans and the democrats, are on the same team. they have the same agenda, and they want to get to the same outcome, which they all say is the truth. so the dynamic will be extremely different today, and as far as the capitol police officers, the metropolitan police officers, they're not going to be able to give us

reston on the house judiciary committee. he believes in dreaming big and follows the four guiding principles of his faith. they, family, free markets, and education. -- faith. congresswoman williams has been an advocate for social justice, woman, and families throughout her career. as a member of congress, congresswoman williams continues to uplift the legacy of her mentor and predecessor, congressman john lewis. i fighting to prevent voter suppression and expand free and fair access to the ballot box. she was elected as a freshman class president for the 117th congress. as president, she organizes and advances the interests of her freshman emma credit colleagues to fulfill their oath to work for the people. she currently sits on the financial services committee where she is vice chair of the subcommittee on investigations and oversight. and the transportation and infrastructure committee. the congresswoman is also a member of the select committee on the modernization of congress and mr. davis and i served through here. she

the deferred compensation committee. governance committee. investment committee. members committee as a whole. staff legal liaison. operations oversight committee. staff legal liaison. personnel committee. the committee of the ad hoc director's search committee. >> : commissioner, i have a question. everything looks well but the personnel committee meeting assignment shows as amended just now, the the consultant was said to be -- if we're going to do the director's search committee as a committee as a whole then basically gary is not necessary to be on the consultant as the personnel committee. >> : that's correct. that's an error there. thank you. >> : okay. so i will second -- i will rescind my motion previous and replace it with a motion to approve as adjusted and amended. >> : i second the amended motion. >> : okay. thank you very much. is there any discussion on this? >> : i have some thoughts on the committee assignments. >> : go ahead. >> : i think the spirit of the retirement board has always been trying to have a balance between elected and appointed memb

much of the committee remained hard at work.the same time, legislation would effectively the ability to protect consumer privacy and i believe regulation in the privacy regime cannot coexist. i think all five commissioners for brief appearing before us and look forward to hearing from expert witnesses by yield the balance of my time to the gentlewoman from florida. >> thank you, this is a critical hearing because the federal trade commission vital to protecting our neighbor's back home protecting consumers and fostering competition across the economy. we've got to give ftc all the tools it needs to help protect consumers from scam artist and predatory companies. my neighbors in florida, which is rife with scam artists, they really need the ftc at work at full force. a lot of folks don't understand. you all help recruit money and hold operations accountable. he restore the dignity to folks who have been scanned and penalized bad actors. look forward to working with you and i appreciate including 21st century ftc act in the hearin

host: on c-span3, the insurrection committee has made their way into the committee room.d liz cheney and adam kinzinger giving the police officers who are testifying today hugs before taking their chairs to question them about the decisions that were made for them to respond on that day. the chair of the committee is in his chair. they are about to get set underway for their first hearing of this select committee. watch our coverage on c-span3, on our website, and you can listen with the free c-span radio app. guest: this hearing is going to be interesting because it has been such a political football, the makeup of the committee, whether jim jordan would be on it or not. nancy pelosi's power moved to say he could not be chosen for the committee. yet, they appear to be starting with the most apolitical witness lineup, hearing from the police officers. it will be difficult for house republicans to turn that into a partisan issue because republicans are politically so aligned with police. to hear the testimony from these police officers, described in harrowing detail how da

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into what the committee is hoping to do with their power. take a listen. >> the view you are showing right now is what all of america saw. but what our challenge is, is to look and see what caused this to happen, to see where the systems broke down. not to just let people walk through the united states capitol, but why we were not better prepared when this breach occurred. >> reporter: lindsay, as you heard, democrats want to get to work. it's been nearly seven months since january 6th. what this committee is hoping to do is ultimately produce a report that's a mix of both public hearings and closed-door depositions and that's going to start with a public testimony from capitol hill police officers into what they experienced during that deadly day. that could be happening very soon. but democrats are not waiting to see how and if republicans are going to fill those remaining seats on the committee. they're ready to get to work and they have a quorum to do so. >> amanda golden, thank you so much. >>> let's go ahead and continue the conversati