I think that Congress, when it sees evidence of criminality, particularly affecting the institution of Congress, has responsibility.

Well, the case against the former President just gets worse and worse and worse.

But I got news for them. I'm going to continue doing it, in whatever committee I serve on.

The facts support a potential charge against the former President. And, you know, the Justice Department, in my view, needs to hold, you know, everyone equally responsible before the law.

In our past hearings, you have seen direct evidence that President Trump sent a crowd of his supporters to the Capitol on January 6th knowing they were armed and angry.

His intent was plain: Ignore the rule of law and stay in power.

There is no scenario where that action is benign, and there is no scenario where an American President should have engaged in that conduct.

the President knew the crowd was angry--because he had stoked that anger.

I think people need to understand that what this is is a press release and basically a press for, you know, Russian consumption, event that he`s going to be hosting in Moscow. This is not based on anything that actually took place. It is a…

this PR exercise because they`re losing ground. They`re losing momentum. They`re losing public support. They have to mobilize now.

I can’t comment on the particulars. I can say that, you know, each of the issues that Mr. Riggleman raised during the period he was with Committee which ended, you know, quite some time ago, we looked into.

We want to know what she knows, what her involvement was in this plot to overturn the election.

It will be, certainly, I think, my recommendation, my feeling that we should make referrals. But we will get to a decision as a committee, and we will all abide by that decision, and I will join our committee members if they feel…

Now is the time for our committee and this Congress to look to the future. It is my hope that this legislation becomes one of the most significant pieces of our legacy, that it makes our Constitution, our country, and our democracy…

What about the president?

And I think you are absolutely right in your characterization of Senator Graham and the dangerous irresponsibility of what he is saying.

It is something the public will learn more about. I don`t know that I can say there will be a specific hearing on this topic or that. We haven`t -- we`re not prepared to make any announcements.

We may also have a hearing or hearings of a factual nature of the kind that we have had in the past.

And now you see sort of the crackpot caucus growing within the GOP conference, what a terrible turn of events it is for the country.

I think if our form of government if you have members of one party who out of a blind obedience to their party leader want to essentially tear down law enforcement, turn down the Justice Department because their party leader may have…

He tried to cheat and he got caught.

The redacted affidavit makes clear Trump kept highly classified national defense information at the public resort. If that wasn`t alarming enough, some of it wasn`t even in folders, merely intermixed with news clips and other debris.

I still am concerned that as to even more serious allegations of misconduct around January 6, the attempt to overturn the election, that the department has still been moving very, very slowly.

But nonetheless, here he is engaging in exactly the kind of misconduct he was accusing others of, engaging in exactly the kind of misconduct he`s saying is disqualifying. In Trump`s case, it should be disqualifying.

I think what is particularly interesting about what you are mentioning is Trump`s own view of the materials because that puts him right in the middle of this.