we now are with pete aguilar who serves on the genesis committee.th for joining us tonight. frank, i will start with you because i want to try to understand what people may be outside law enforcement can't see about the trauma that the officers who responded to january 6th must still be enduring. >> what we are still doing is still learning of the casualties of what happened at the capitol. these officers, four of them now, ruled death by suicide are casualties of the battle that took place and the course of their defending our democracy and the culture of law enforcement is a closed culture. it is a culture in which seeking help may be seen as a sign of weakness, but it's clear, at least to me, that when you have four officers from two different departments, washington metropolitan police in the capitol police, who are experiencing death by suicide then one commonality is their battle for us, the battle for the democracy on january 6th and that seems to be linked to the -- to their demise. those dew departments got to collaborate on the in-depth so

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pete aguilar of california, a member of the select committee to investigate january 6th. the vice chair of the house democratic caucus. >> republican congressman jim jordan finally admitted a few days ago he had actually spoken with insurrection former president on the day of the insurrection, but he quickly reversed course, claiming he can't remember the timing of what he said or even if it was on january 6th at all. well, the former republican national committee chairman michael steele is having absolutely none of it. >> i can tell you the time, the place, the date of every conversation i have had with every president of this country, period. going back to bill clinton. i can tell you where i was. i can tell you what was said. this son of a [ bleep ] is sitting up there asking like, i don't know if it was before, i don't know if it was after. i don't remember. i have to look at my notes. you know what time you called the president. and you know what you said. >> my god, yes. >> you're a grown ass man. llions struggle to get reliable transportation to their medical appoi

joining me now is california democratic congressman pete aguilar. congressman aguilar, we have a serious matterui to discuss domestically about january 6th and the efforts to overthrow this government. but we are displaced by the fact that an actual government successfully has been overthrown. we are watching it livet on television right now. whether you agreed with the war in afghanistan or not, there were a lot of american lives lost there, a lot of american dollars spent there. and todayar it looks like it wa for nothing. >> yeah, that's true. and i think it's deeply troublingpl for all of us to de real time. you know, the -- and our hearts continue to go out for the afghan population, with a specialat focus clearly on helpg those navigate safe passage with the special immigrant visas who have been helpful to us and getting them out of harm's way. we owe that to them and their family. to dpt them out of the way. that's something we need t to f and resolve as well as to ensure passage of diplomats and their family members, most of which have been

. >> joining us now is democratic congressman pete aguilar of california.s the vice chair of the house democratic caucus and a member of the select committee that is investigating the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. sir, thank you so much for being with us. i mean, the story of what we saw play out in the house was fighting between democrats. this was an intra-party fight that was going on. i just wonder, having come to a resolution at this point in time, there are still many hurdles ahead. how sure are you that this isn't going to continue to be, you know, an issue ahead in the house and the senate? >> well, the house democratic caucus is a broad mosaic of opinions and thoughts and lived experiences. we bring that with us as we legislate, and we are committed to doing that, to building back better for the people. we're united behind that agenda. occasionally there will be differences of opinion. there's nothing wrong with that. and as we develop the legislation, as our committee chairs are tasked with developing the build back better agenda, they w

congressman pete aguilar, how much these suicides -- there have been four of them now of police officers- how much effort are you guys going to investigate into their specific cases and what might have triggered, if anything, on january 6th may have triggered this with them? is this something that you think your investigation will cover? >> well, let's first, you know, on behalf of the select committee, our hearts go out to these officers' families who have had to endure this and to all of those capitol police officers and metro police officers. we want to make sure they have the help they need. in our hearing, your heard officer harry dunn talk about the importance of getting checks and mental health and making sure they had access to therapy. those are the types of things we should be focused on right now. the committee will investigate and look at a lot of different facets but the important piece we can do is to make sure those officers have the tools and resources they need. thankfully, congress was able to pass a supplemental appropriation to help them deal with the trauma they endu

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