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Pete Aguilar

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Pete Aguilar is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 31st congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, he has served in Congress since January 6, 2015. Aguilar has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic development during his tenure. He has also been active in advocating for voting rights and addressing climate change.

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Dec 13, 2021

This is important because we need to uphold the rule of law. That’s what the committee has been talking about, and that no one is above a lawful subpoena.

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Dec 12, 2021

He will share details about his interactions with the former President with Laura Ingraham.

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Dec 12, 2021

When he got offstage, President Trump let me know that he had been speaking metaphorically about the walk to the Capitol.

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Dec 12, 2021

The Chief's Chief hit the bookstores, Mr. Meadows's memoir.

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Dec 12, 2021

We don't accept his excuses. He must be held accountable.

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Dec 8, 2021

If we weren`t receiving information that is helpful to the investigation then that could be a speed bump, but we continue to gather information each and every day, over 270 interviews that we`ve conducted.

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Dec 6, 2021

What they have learned from these phone records is that Mark Meadows, on his personal phone was in communication with individuals involved in the planning of the January 6 rally.

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Nov 30, 2021

Jeffrey Clark was a key effort within the Department of Justice, using the brand of the Department of Justice to continue to stoke the fear and the misinformation campaign that the former president waged.

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Nov 30, 2021

Ultimately, our goal here is to produce a document to gather as much information as possible both in witness interviews and in those documents from the National Archives that will help tell the story of January 5th and January 6th, the…

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Nov 29, 2021

Our fundamental goal is that this never happens again.

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Nov 29, 2021

He has shown unwillingness to come forward and testify. We feel that over 250 people have come before us and given submitted interviews.

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Nov 29, 2021

We want to tell the full and complete story. In order to do that, we are going to need documents we are going to need interviews.

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Nov 18, 2021

I thank the chairman for yielding time. Sometimes what happens in Congress is complicated. It is wrapped in parliamentary procedure and language that is hard to understand. So let's be very clear about the legislation that we are…

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Nov 17, 2021

We just feel a deep obligation to want to protect the institution, to want to protect our colleagues while all of whom are serving under that dome and to make sure that there’s safety is foremost of our mind.

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Nov 17, 2021

Someone who threatens one of us is threatening all of us.

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Nov 17, 2021

This individual and some of them are incapable of doing that.

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Nov 12, 2021

This is an important step for the rule of law. And I think that’s exactly what the Department of Justice upheld here is that the decisions that Steve Bannon made have consequences.

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Nov 10, 2021

We hope that these can start to be transmitted on Friday, the National Archives is indicated that they have the material ready, ready to transmit and they are following the President`s request to turn those over to the January 6 committee.

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Oct 20, 2021

It's just deeply unfortunate. These were individuals, many of them, were on the House floor with us and they were witnesses and they saw what happened. And they still continue to avoid, you know, the accountability that is due.

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Oct 20, 2021

We want to get to the facts. We owe that to the American public. We owe that to the brave law enforcement individuals who protected this building and were the last line of defense on democracy that day.

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Oct 15, 2021

Yes, so that’s exactly where we’re at. We have a business committee of the select committee. It will be public, and we will address that issue, and we will likely advance a criminal referral to the House floor.

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Oct 15, 2021

They tried to thwart democracy, they tried to foment lies and foment the big lie around the country in order to delay or stop the certification of the election.

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Oct 15, 2021

Our goal here is to hold this individual accountable. We want to get to the truth. We want to understand the facts of what went into the planning and everything behind January 6th.

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Oct 15, 2021

Our goal isn’t to be punitive. Our goal is to get testimony. But if someone isn’t going to give testimony, we’re going to use every tool available.

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Oct 7, 2021

The former president has done everything he can to try to get in the way of this investigation. I would expect that we would make decisions relatively quickly on what the next steps might be.

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