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.

Yes, I do. We want to make sure for example when we request documents that we get all of them.

If we're so driven by bigotry and hate that we attack our fellow citizens as traitors if they're born in another country or they don't look like us, then God help us.

We will follow the evidence wherever it leads and to whomever it leads.

One final note, and that is, this was ultimately an attack on the Capitol 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…

Our role is going to be to fully uncover the facts.

Those aren`t partisan questions. And we`re all determined to bring a serious approach to this.

Ideally, this investigation should be nonpartisan. And that`s very much how we`re approaching it.

If that call is relevant, if his testimony is relevant, then I`m sure we will seek it.

It's not a party of ideas. It's a cult around the person of the former President.

But that amount that we don't know is what we hope to reveal. What was the role of these right-wing, white nationalist groups? How much foreknowledge was there in the administration that they would be there intent on doing violence? These…

We hope to shed light on, we hope to learn in depth about, and create a comprehensive report, and most important make recommendations for the future.

At the end of the day, what this insurrection was about was about a large group of people unwilling to accept the results of a democratic election, willing to use violence to have their way and that is a very dangerous sign that our…

You can’t trust this president to do the right thing, not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. What are the odds if left in office that he will continue trying to cheat, I will tell you, 100 percent.

The reality is the Republican Party is gone. You have a cult around Donald Trump. The legislative leadership in Congress will do whatever he wants. And, of course, they`re not going to hold him accountable, they`re afraid of his base.

There was a brief moment after the insurrection when Mitch McConnell I think felt the pangs of conscience, felt some call to defend the republic but it was fleeting. And he quickly realized if he tried to hold persons accountable, he would…

We want to get to the truth. We want to get to the heart of the matter and we are willing to work with the other side.

I think for Kevin McCarthy, this is all about what does Donald Trump want. That's the first question he asked in the morning, that's the last question he asked at the end of the day, and Donald Trump doesn't want this to go forward.

We still invite McCarthy to have a change of heart and put responsible people on, but if he won't, and it seems pretty clear he won't, that's not going to deter us from carrying out our constitutional duty.

Absolutely, it's correct. Look, Kevin McCarthy had two choices which he understood from the beginning. He could choose an independent commission which would be five Democrats and five Republicans, or he could offer a select committee in…

I think there is certainly that possibility, I think our chairman Bennie Thompson hasn't ruled that out.

They didn`t want the truth to come out.

If Donald Trump could use the military to remain in power that he would have done so.

I expect he`ll do whatever Donald Trump wants him to do.

What was the organization of that event like? And how much forewarning was there of violence among those who are organizing it? How much foreknowledge was there in the White House that this might turn violent? What happened on the day of…