a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, the klu klux klan, and lynching. >> stephenn on twitter? ( laughter ) thompson spoke about what united the bipartisan members of the committee, as well as americans everywhere. >> east coast, west coast, and the heartland. all of us have one thing in common. >> stephen: "if you fry it, we will eat it." ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> jon: yeah, yeah. employees to my heart. yeah. ( piano riff ) >> stephen: thompson played damning footage of one of the former president's toadiest toadies, former attorney general bill barr. >> i made it clear, i did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen, and putting out this stuff which i told the president was bullshit. >> stephen: watch your language, toad-man! you kiss your princess with that mouth? then thompson reminded us just how serious the capitol riot was. >> as we provide answers to the american people, it is important that we remember exactly what took place, that this was no tourist visit to the capitol. >> stephen: yeah, this was no tourist visit. there were no child