Thank you for coming on. Short notice. Speaker has taken the unprecedented step of denying the minority party's picks for the select committee on January 6th It represents something that has not happened in the house before for a select committee by the historian, It's an egregious abuse of power Pelosi has broken this institution. denying the voice of members who have served in the military. a navy veteran who served in Afghanistan, sir, ask chair of the largest caucus, the Republican Conference. and law enforcement as well as a leader of a standing committee Jim Jordan isn't ranking of just his first Committee. He's done it before. Jim Jordan has served on select committee and serves on one Now, made it undeniable. This panel has lost all legitimacy and credibility. It shows exactly what I warned back at the beginning of January that Pelosi would play politics with this for more than 6 months. You have a better example of the Senate bipartisan. Schumer didn't pick who went on of the Republicans. They already have the report done by two different committees two main questions. Why was the capital so ill prepared for that day when they knew on December 14th, they had a problem and what have we done to make sure that never happens again? Pelosi has created a sham process. unless speaker Pelosi reverses course and see all five Republicans. We will not participate but we think it's too important that those two questions why we ill prepared. Why did they know on December 14th? Why would they jeopardize the lives of the capital police We will run our own investigation. We have law enforcement. We have military. We have doctors. We have people from all walks of life. They want to know the answer to the American people deserve that. They don't deserve politics. They don't deserve destroying the institution. No committee in congress will work. If one person is picking all who can serve. This is not happened before. house. Democrats must answer this question. Why are you allowing a lame duck speaker to destroy this institution? This is the people's house, not Pelosi's house. We will do our job though. We ask to do our job. We want to do our job. I may object to the people that she put on the committee. but I respect her right to do it. just as every leader has done before. Destroy an institution for your own political gain. America expects more and deserves more with that. I want to bring up Congressman Jim Banks individual who who served country in Afghanistan, served in the state legislature. served in congress as chair of the largest caucus in the Republican Conference Jim Banks. Thank you. Uh I thank the leader first and foremost for his trust that he placed to me as a leader of our party to put me in charge of this Republican effort. This just goes to show a partisan of an exercise. We said this was all along that Nancy Pelosi would take me and Jim Jordan first off of this uh Committee and the rest of us as well by rejecting the first two of us. She knows that we were prepared to fight to get to the truth. to find the facts about what happened on that day to make sure that January 6 would never happen again. but she doesn't want to go down that path. She knows that we're already asking questions in just the two the first couple of days that leader Mccarthy appointed us to this task. Questions that Democrats have never asked about why the capital was vulnerable on that day when we had intelligence for weeks leading up to January 6 that told us that something dangerous would happen on January. 6. She knew we would fight back against their political and that's why she didn't want us to participate in this committee. It just goes to show this is entirely a political exercise on her part. It's a shame the American people deserve better. They demand answers about January 6 because the the American people demand that their leaders step up to make sure that it never happens again but we all know that this is an exercise in politics. It's not an exercise in in finding the facts and that's what's that's what's unfortunate about the speaker's move. It just goes to show it begs the that all of us should be asking. What is the speaker afraid of? I'll leave you with that. Jim Jordan, Uh thank you Jim. Uh the leader in Jim are exactly right. This is always been about politics uh in today's actions of the speaker just confirmed that but frankly, uh and I've said this before, what else are they going to talk about? I mean, they've been they're so focused on January 6th Committee. What else are they going to do? They're going to talk about crime. In fact, the crime is up in every major urban area in this country. They're going to they're going to talk about the border crisis. I mean, think This march was the highest month on record for illegal crossings until April, April was the highest month on record until May. May was the highest month on record until June. Can't talk about that. I think I'm going to talk about inflation. They're going to talk about the fact that the price of eggs is up. The price of milk is up. The price of bread is up. The price of gas is up. The price of the airline tickets up the price of the use, the price of everything is up. They can't talk about that. So, they're going to be partisan and they're going to focus on this but as the leader said that as mister Banks said, I don't think they're going to the fundamental question, the fundamental question of why wasn't there a proper security presence at the capitol that day? Then, I'm going to address that and only one person can answer that question. Only one speaker of the United States House of Representatives. My hunch is my hunch is the reason I want to address that question. My hunches is because what happened all last year, the Democrats normalize anarchy. They normalize rioting and looting and when rioters and looters attacked law enforcement personnel. when rioters and looters destroyed small businesses, what do Democrats do? They went out and raise money to bail them out of jail and they continue to talk about defunding the police and in fact, did that in all these major urban areas which is why crime is up So they don't want to talk about that stuff. They just want to be partisan. They just want to continue to attack the former president. They want to play their political games. So, I applaud Leader Mccarthy for saying we're going to do our job. We're going to continue to work and get to the bottom and answer the questions that the leader raised the questions that frankly, the American people want answers too. on the evening of January, 6. when we reconvene to take the certification of the election results from our states. I actually spoke with Speaker Pelosi on the dice and she brought up a bipartisan bimmer commission to me at that point in time, I introduced a bill to create a bipartisan Bimmer commission. We had some questions about how this would be implemented in Speaker Pelosi decided instead to put forth her own select committee that we now was a completely partisan process. It's very disappointing because I think all of us were looking forward to our first hearing next week to be able to get answers to some of the questions that were raised by Leader Mccarthy by ranking member Banks and by Jim but we're not going to get those answers and even a partisan manner on this committee because she chose to take the unprecedented step to try and veto our own members We are going to continue ask questions and frankly, there are many unanswered questions about why this capital was so unprepared and the key question is leader Mccarthy said, is are we in a better position now, security wise, there are many issues that we saw in Capitol police IG reports and others that laid out reasons why our officers didn't have the equipment. They didn't have the training and they didn't have the preparation and the backup to adequately address what happened on January. 6th Why And what have we done? What is the speaker done? And more importantly, what is she asked the capital police board that is made up of her own appointee? What have they done to put this capital complex in a situation to address another security issue? Those questions would have been asked. those questions will still be asked regardless of whether or not she continues to play politics and I'll end with this by saying I've seen and witnessed political violence personally out on a baseball field in Virginia. Just a few short years ago, I've seen what well-trained capital police officers like David Bailey and Crystal Griner. we were able to do to run toward gunfire as we ran away from it and it's disappointing to see that our capital police officers who I witnessed that bravery that day are still not put in a position to be able to make sure that another type of January 6 would not happen again. She needs to answer questions. We were hoping to get those answers but unfortunately, we're not going to. I'd like Kelly Armstrong. Thanks, Rodney. I agree with everything that's been said. I've served for 2 years with uh Jim Jordan on oversight and judiciary. Uh we've been through a lot of tough hearings together. A lot of hearings that we're going to be similar to this and we know how to do this. We have credibility with the American people and just and to strike them. Jim Banks and Jim Jordan from this committee is just unacceptable and I think it's important to recognize that every time Speaker uses the word unprecedented. it happens to consolidate absolute power in the the speaker's office. It was to build a glass cage in order to make sure she she got the gavel. It was unprecedented to put metal detectors on the the floor of the house. It's unprecedented to have proxy voting and sure unprecedented for the majority leader to strike minority members for a committee. I don't think this committee is about the last election. I don't even think it's about the next election. It's about the speaker's office maintaining an absolute iron grip on her conference in the people's house for the next 18 months and I'm concerned that after 200 years of precedent, we're completely altering how the things, how things are done in the people's house but you know what else? I'd be concerned if I was a majority member right now because the map, the math, and their policies are going to help us take back the majority in 2 years and these things never go back to the way they were once they started. So, we need to we need to be calling out what's going on. Every member of the US House of Representatives is elected by their district and they have a right to serve and the minority minority has a right to put the people on the committees they want and we shouldn't be changing those for this Committee or any other Committee and with that, I'd turn it over to Sheriff when I was chosen by Leader Mccarthy to serve on this select committee, I assured him. I told him, I said, I will take the 30 years of law enforcement experience. I have the the 8 years I've shared to uncover. find out exactly what took place on January 6th to find the truth as to why this capital was so unprepared. I spent countless hours. I brought this binder up. I I've examined the senate report examining talking, looking at witness statements, looking at the Capitol Hill's policies and procedures. and I was alarmed, truly alarmed at what I uncovered I was certainly prepared to help this Committee get to the truth. I wanted to get to the truth but unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi has shown that she's more interested in playing politics I stand with Leader Mccarthy and the other colleagues on this committee the leader that I will continue to play a role and do everything I can to make sure that what took place on January 6th can never ever happen again in this great country of ours. I made that commitment. I will remain strong in that commitment to the leader. Thank you. Yes. Yes, sir. Mister you're complaining that you're, you have a bipartisan opportunity here to investigate January 6 but you stood in the way of a bipartisan commission that would be made up of independent members. an equal number of Republicans and Democrats. Uh your conference voted against that uh at least a majority of your conference voted against it and it was blocked in the senate. Why did you not allow that to go forward? if what you say you want is a bipartisan investigation to what happened on January? 6th for the sake of politics He played then at the same time, what He'd used the scope of that. remember how long it took on January 13th? Rodney Davis and myself both requested at 911 Commission even those who ran the 911 Commission criticized Nancy Pelosi for what she wanted to do We had Officer Evans killed on Good Friday but she said you couldn't look at that. If you study the 911 commission, they didn't study what happened on just September 11th. they studied what built up to it but she said, You could not do that. Why would she make a scope that you couldn't get the answers to? Why would an officer's life not matter to her? That's why people objected. People ask for it before she played 6 months with this why she played her games and continued to do so. The senate acted two committees. The report is done. The FBI has arrested more than 500 people. The architect of the capitol has 10 million dollars and what does she do today? Continue the same sham she's done all along. Never never in the history of this institution for a select committee and she admitted at me when she called me. Have they ever done something like this? think for one moment. Jim Banks is a naval officer. defended his nation, served in Afghanistan, elected by his Why would she be afraid? Did she set the Committee itself to be one sided? Yes. more so than any select committee before. Yes, she did. We warned you from that moment in time, she was playing politics today. Just showed the American people exactly what everybody was warned It's American people who lose in this but we're not going to allow that to happen. We're going to get to the answer to the question, why were we ill prepared? Why if they knew on December 14th why? if they found IDs earlier in the morning, why were not the national Guard here at the capitol but they were running street signs down in the city who made that judgment? Yes, sir. That Republicans. our own investigation of the facts. Yes. What is that look like? First off and secondly, is this your final move pulling your appointees or is there a chance to reverse this? The only way to reverse this is see these five That's the only way but I will add to this to get to be able to look at the challenge of what happened and answer those two questions. Why were we ill prepared? It never happens again but in terms of the yes sir. What is that? In addition to those questions you intend to look at why this happened? Not the security failures but why there was an attack on the capitol. What led up to it to answer all the questions, I want to know more specifically, what do you say to these families and to these officers including officers that you met with? Yes, about this and and more specifically, you know, many of them they're just frustrated. They see this as politics but at the end of the day, you it's true. It's appointing at each other. So, how does that help them? If you guys, what helps them is we will go forward just as I promised them and we'll get the answer to those questions. We'll make sure they're protected just as we'll talk about officer Evans too who died on Good Friday but just we'll go through and get the answers right. Yes sir. Mister later uh on May 20th in this room, I think you told us that you are prepared to testify about your conversation with President Trump on the afternoon of January. 6th, do you still stand by that? Are you still prepared to testify about what you call is out there? The question is you a phone call after people are in the capitol to advise the president of what's going on doesn't get to the answer of why we ill prepared. Um that's really playing politics and it really shows that that's the issue that they want to go to where they want to drive. We want to get all the answers. You have your own ranking member John Katko said the scope of the bipartisan independent January 6th Commission that he cracked it. uh had the ability to you know, have a wider scope outside of January 6 and you and you that. and you and and Republican leaders still opposed it. What the question is, you know, what would you need to to to have it in like you know, you you the independent commission like like what would it take for you to sign on to something, you know, similar to that? It's very easy. Exactly what we said on the thirteenth of January, Pelosi played politics make it just like the 911. Let us discover what built up to it. Why was that decision made? the National Guard were not here when on December 4th, can I answer the question? Okay, let me answer the question. So on December they became aware that there was a problem. They made a decision to have national guard weapons down on the streets to do traffic but not in the capital. They found IDs earlier in the morning. We had an officer killed beyond that day on Good Friday but Pelosi would only let us with a scope this far. I don't believe it allowed to go further and think we need to. Yes, ma'am. Mister Speaker Pelosi didn't actually enumerate her objections when she is in her official notice about rejecting our members um but she did That's what I was going to say. What did you tell you? Democrats have told us that among their objections and I'd like you to respond to this are that Republican members recently were photographed with someone who was here and broken the capitol on January 6th and also they never said nothing about that. Okay, well, this is some thing that we're being told is an issue. She said her members didn't want her to put these people. Okay, could you speak to that idea though that members of I don't know what you're about participated in. Okay. And then the idea that some of your words about needing an investigation of last summer's protests and right as you say, Democrats object to that, let me be clear. They shouldn't object to that. If they want a 911 commission, the 911 Commission looked at September 11th but they looked at what build up and caused 911 Should we not look at what build up and cause this? Should we, should we not question why the National guard was not allowed on the capitol? Should we not question why? Why are the capitol police not fully trained? You're putting their lives in danger. Why were the riot gear stuck and locked in a bus down the street? We need these answers for these officers. We need to not ever put them in this place again. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Uh will the Republican committee look at President Trump's actions leading up to and on January 6th. We look at anything that build up what caused this place to not be protected and we look to make sure that it never happens again. Yes sir. Thank you. my first um you you mentioned uh mister Banks and mister Jordan not being allowed on um but at the same uh uh but at the same time given that mister Jordan is a ranking member and mister and Mister Banks also is a leader of a large caucus. Uh mister Davis is also uh a representative Denise, I'm sorry uh Representative Davis is also a ranking member and uh Speaker Pelosi didn't object to it uh uh and then um representative Nels also voted to object as well along with uh representatives Representative Jordan, why do you think there was a difference between objecting to representative banks and representative Jordan as opposed to representative David. I don't know because she named the chairman who objected to presidential and she has Raskin who objected and asked for an impeachment too. So, I don't know if the objection matters because her members have ejected before. Yes, sir. Mccartney the bus with the gear on it. That's a finding from the senate report. Yeah, I mean that's exactly what they investigate. What do you want to find out who locked the bus? Why was it there? Why didn't they have the gear on Why? I mean they have a better position isn't the answer that they were just incompetent? I mean, what more do you need to know about that? That's incompetent. What's the solution We want to find solutions. This is why when you look at Sheriff Troy N, 30, years of law enforcement first, what did he do that day? He'd been a member for 3 days. He's inside the chambers, People are breaking in. First. He joins other members and they barricade the door People are breaking the glass. Officers have their weapons drawn to protect from people coming in. a member for for only 3 days. We didn't call him congressman that day. We called him sheriff. You may have watched the photos. He looks through the glass. He doesn't have a weapon but he calms the situation. He talks to those who are on the other side. That's a leader. He sat through the entire senate report. He's laid out every chronological order of what has taken place. He used his own experience of being a sheriff from 8 years preparing for situations just as what he was drawn into. and he has even more questions. That's why he wanted to serve. That's why we put him on. This is a microcosm of our conference. We have a right to name but this is what Nancy Pelosi is denying. Yes, ma'am. Coming out against the Let's go. What's the scope interfering with other federal investigations that are ongoing? Well, there's a concern there because now, now you're getting individuals that are um decisions being made whether they're serving time or not. you do not want to interfere with that. So, the language matters but from the very beginning, remember, I ask for a commission back in January. Just like 911 Pelosi played games all along the way. She'd deal with the scope and it was very clear of what we laid out equal number, equal subpoena power equal scope and don't interfere with any law enforcements going forward. She could not agree to that and we watched today even when the sides were separated even when the power went to one she went further anyone's gone before. I think it's very clear to the American public. This is a but we will make sure we get to the real answers. Thank you very much. McCarthy, Congresswoman Cheney stepped down from
