And when that didn't work, he crossed over to real election fraud, when he went to Brad Raffensperger, and other election officials, just to demand that they concoct votes. 'Find me 11,780 votes.'

He started, of course, with the perfectly legitimate, even if, ridiculous tactic, of bringing 60 lawsuits, alleging electoral fraud, and corruption that were thrown out, by federal and state courts, including by eight judges, he named to…

Generally, what we're seeing, is a series of tactics, of escalating illegitimacy, engaged in by Donald Trump.

The GOP in Texas is trying to ban a book I wrote, ironically, called 'We the Students.' And it`s about all of the constitutional rights of students in public schools.

There`s no position in our constitutional constellation called former president or ex-president that gives you any kind of immunity or exemption from following the law.

Look, if you go into a polling place, and you represent yourself as a voter, and you`re not a voter in order to vote, that`s election fraud. And people go to jail for that.

The whole name of the game was to put coercive pressure on Pence to do the right thing, by which Trump meant step outside of his constitutional role and declare unilateral unconstitutional powers to reject Electoral College votes.

I would hope this process moves as quickly as the process did for Amy Coney Barrett when she was added to the Supreme Court.

It indicates that there was one more line of possible attack, which was something like a military coup that was being planned before January 6, there were a lot of different efforts undertaken and we may indeed find that there were others…

if the former president has no executive privilege to hide evidence of an attempted coup or insurrection, neither do his family or friends.

Let's invest in the health of all Americans.

We want to know the mechanisms by which this lie was told, who was involved in it and what ways can we fortify ourselves against lies when we know American citizens are allowed to lie in some context.

Everybody is subject to the law and to congressional subpoenas and orders to turn over information about a relevant investigation.

So, you know, you guys are operating within the rules as they are written, and I think that that should be an incentive for us to change those rules because it is a rip off of the taxpayers.

billions and billions of dollars have been ripped off from American taxpayers as established in thousands of criminal cases

we are looking at ludicrous hyper-billing of the government, right?

What these four subpoenas have in common is that these four individuals were all apostles of the big lie. They were spreading the big lie in public. They were spreading it in courtrooms. They were spreading it in official and unofficial…

when someone goes in a public office, what they do is a matter of public concern.

Our committee is not a criminal investigatory committee. Our committee is an investigative committee for American people to figure out what happened to us and how did we get set up for a situation in which we almost lost our democracy.

Look, we`ve got the power under Article One of the Constitution to set the rules of our own houses. We have the right to discipline members all the way up to the point of expulsion. And the Speech and Debate Clause says the members of…

Well, the committee has not yet decided what to do about different levels of interference and non-cooperation that we`ve received from various witnesses.

We`re looking at all of the events of the day, all of the causes and what needs to be done to fortify democratic institutions in the future.

Well, let me make two points. One is it`s no surprise to me at all. Donald Trump`s best friends in politics are totalitarian and authoritarian leaders, especially Stalinist dictators like Kim Jong-un.

I invited Donald Trump to come in and testify. Certainly, the vast majority of Americans, if they were accused of conspiring a violent insurrection against their own government, would come and testify if they hadn`t done it.

So I`m carrying on in the memory and in the spirit of my son, and also for my family and for my beloved constituents in Maryland`s 8th District and for Americans across the country who love our democracy.