>> reporter: are you concerned, though, with the commission -- you were to have a lack of equal librium, that the public would have confidence in it and republicans would look into things that -- protests, violence last summer from the left and that would be their method of saying, we're not going to be focused on just what happened -- >> that's exactly what -- senator mcconnell said. we had an event on january 6th which i'm sure the world has not forgotten. at that time, there was a dissent on the capitol for an insurrection on the capitol and on our democracy, to overturn or to prevent the electoral college votes to be counted and the president of the united states to be ascertained. after there was an assault on the capitol, and those of us and to his credit, senator mcconnell, leader mcconnell was part of it, we insisted on coming back to the capitol to resume the proceedings, not doing it off site or any of that. he was very much a part of coming back to the capitol, even after an assault on the capitol, they still insisted on objecting to another state to take us into 4:00 in the