i want to stay on this topic and bring in mikie sherrill.licopter pilot and is now in the armed services committee. thank you for being here. >> thank you, i hope you just heard richard's reporting there. is the biden administration, in your view, moving too slowly to protect afghans that worked with the u.s. >> it is unimaginable, this attack on the schoolgirls. it harkens back to the taliban of old. i remember watching with horror 20 years ago at how they conducted themselves but what we achieved in afghanistan and what we achieved militarily is to root out physical structure of al qaeda. make sure they cannot plan any more attacks globally, and now we have to move forward diplomatically. we have to move forward with special visas to make sure we took care of all of those that stood with the united states. and moving to help bring the world to bear and the approval of the world to bear on the taliban. they will want support. they will want monetary support, they will want to move into the global realm here. and i think with diplomatic effo

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joining us now, democratic congressman, mikie sherrill of new jersey. eteran and a member of the house armed services committee. congresswoman sherrill, it's good to see you today. you talked about the importance of this january 6th commission in healing the country. why do you think this is an important step and what do you say to the republicans who voted against it? >> good morning, willie. this is something that i have been fighting for since right after january 6th. much of the legislation i've proposed is in the commission bill, which i was happy to see. from the start, i said, it has to be bipartisan for this country to have faith in that commission, to see it as outside the political partisan games that sometimes occur here. and as we've seen some of the false narratives and the misinformation continuing to come out of washington, out of the republican party, i think it's important that we have a bipartisan independent commission to address this. i'm from north jersey, a lot of people who were affected, some who died in 9/11, that commission i th