governor thomas kean, good evening.hat nancy pelosi said about this idea during a briefing on monday. >> there is really strong support in the country for us to have seek the truth, find the truth, but also understand how we have to protect the people from what might be out there in terms of domestic terrorism and the rest. >> what do you make of a 9/11-style commission? >> i think it's very important that we do it for two reasons basically. one, this is a very, very important event and a very, very serious event. i grew up in washington. i was in for congress for 20 years. i venerated that capitol. i seen where webster sat and clay sat, the room that joe mccarthy had his hearings in, and kids come to the capitol every day to learn about democracy. now to have it invaded by a mob and not have questions answered, not know really how much was planned ahead of time. did they -- was it spontaneous? we don't know any of that yet. a 9/11 style of investigation is the only way, i think, to do it and ensure that you will get a

kean joins us now. >> woodruff: governor thomas kean, welcome to the "newshour."to see you. we know that you and lee hamilton sent a letter to president biden, to congressional leaders, on friday, urging them to consider the idea of a commission. some people are going to look at this and say, great idea. other people are going to say, oh, no, another commission. why is it a good idea? >> well, look, this is the first time anything like this has happened to our government. i suppose since the british invaded the capitol in 1812. the idea of a mob invading the u.s. capitol, which is the center of democracy, not only for us but for the world, and doing it so publicly, is -- i was brought up to venorate the place. my father was elected to congress when i was three years old, and in those days, the family moved down. i was taken down to the capitol with my father. webster was, and where clay sat, and where john quincy adams gave his favorite speech against slavery and died minutes later, and so on. and i knew andrew jackson, and i knew sam raven, and buildings are name

earlier, i spoke to thomas kean, former chair of the 9/11 commission, about what lessons could be learned what went wrong on 6 january. i think they have a lot. and one big lesson is i don't think congress can do it. the partisanship, the lack of staff, the lack of time — this really needs to be investigated thoroughly. we need answers. any time a democracy has its capital invaded successfully, then we have to know why and how and not only what happened, but something where we can make recommendations so it will never ever happen again. and yet i suppose we are where we are. it looks as though congress is going to have to do it. no, some have recommended, and nancy pelosi, the speaker of the house, has agreed that we really need an independent commission, very much like our commission in 9/11, that can really be independent, it can be bipartisan, they can ask for the facts without fear or favour, citizens who aren't running for anything, and get to the bottom that way. we did that once on 9/11 — it was successful. 0ur report is still used as a textbook, our 41 recommendations — a0 of them

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>>and thomas kean commission the report giving the american people. >>all the facts so i know how it happened why it happened all that hamilton a former congressman and keen a former governor were tapped to lead the 9.11 commission, the expansive nearly two-year investigation. >>to explore the intelligence failures that allowed for the 9.11 attacks to happen both men now support having a similar investigation into the january 6th capital attack. there's still a lot of questions about what happened how it happened. >>was attacked for pay and a long time ago happens from paisley and while they dealt with partisanship both men say today's political climate is more divided than it was post 9.11 lee and i made it basic attempt from day one. but those positive things to bed and then we said that no republican who's going to sit next the republic. and then hearing. we republicans and democrats are going to sit next to each other i don't want to be pessimistic about it. it can be done. the key of course and this is in any human endeavor. >>is the of the peopl