Well, first, Lawrence, I just want to say how refreshing it is to see Zelensky finally get that White House meeting and with President Biden. After all, it was Trump`s effort to try to sneer Biden, to try to weaken him as a political…

He is a danger to the country because he will do it again, and none of us can have confidence based on his record that he will not do it again because he is telling us every day that he will.

So what McCarthy is doing now by issuing the statement threatening the telecoms if comply with a lawful process by select committee, he will punish them if he should be the speaker one day.

McCarthy, look, he’s scared. And I think his boss is scared. They didn’t want this commission and this select committee to go forward.

What he is saying is if elections continue to be rigged, he may find it necessary to take up arms. Well, of course, the election wasn`t rigged.

Well, it`s a threat and it is a threat to premised on a falsehood that somehow asking these companies to preserve records were ultimately -- to turn over records of people involved in an insurrection is somehow against the law.

Nobody is off-limits here -- that is, if any member of Congress, any member of the former administration, or the former president himself, in whatever capacity, was involved in this attack on our governance, then we are going to follow the…

the decision to get out is the right decision.

I think it`s possible but I think it`s very unlikely. Now I`m certainly of the view that we maintain a military presence as long as it`s necessary to get all U.S. persons out and to meet our moral and ethical obligation to our Afghan…

if any member of Congress, any member of the former administration, or the former president himself, in whatever capacity, was involved in this attack on our governance, then we are going to follow the facts where they lead.

I don`t think we can accept as a premise that the chaos we saw, particularly very early on, but which has continued, was inevitable.

Well, I do. Ultimately, the chairman of our subcommittee will make the decision in consultation with all of us about witnesses, but I think their testimony would plainly be relevant.

Well, that`s absolutely right. And first of all, I very much agree with Professor Hasen about how close we came to losing our democracy and not merely on the sixth through that failed insurrection but through other means.

And you know, that, to me is the gravamen of an offense and of a criminal investigation.

It's tragic, but it's true, because they believe that the lie, the big lie, the President was pushing out.

Anyone else doing that would have been prosecuted already.

We find again, and again, just how close we came to losing our democracy.

It seems to cross the line into illegality. And it is very much deserving of investigation.

It means that one of the major obstacles that we encountered over the last four years and getting answers may not be an obstacle.

Well, it`s interesting that you had introduced the segment this way because that was exactly my feeling walking out of that hearing today, which is my God, we got to hear from the witnesses.

Those insurrectionists, many of them, they believed what they were doing was ordered by the commander in chief. They believe that the election had been stolen.

I can. You know, I think that all of the members are determined to get to the truth and follow the evidence where it leads of people with relevant knowledge of what went into the planning of that violent attack on the Capitol.

I'm convinced that one of the lives you saved that day might very well have been my own. We are all greatly in your debt. You are all heroes.

This was ultimately an attack on the capital motivated by people who could not accept losing an election and made the decision that they would use violence to achieve a political object that they can`t at the ballot box. And that danger to…

Our role is going to be to fully uncover the facts. What is it that people did at that rally to instigate violence, many of them went to that rally fully planning to do violence. We`re at a different place in our country`s history right…