I could try to record in painstaking detail exactly what had happened, both with Tombo, and then also on January 6.

He’s got to cover up the fact that he did the right thing in reacting like a human being, saying, call these dogs off.

It is a scandal, of course. And before we talk about the legal dimension, we really do have to talk about the moral dimension.

Our government, our Congress, the Congress he serves in as a leader, was attacked by violent insurrectionists.

He said, sure, he will come and testify.

He supported an independent outside commission to investigate January 6, with five Republicans, five Democrats, equal subpoena power.

Our colleagues object to guaranteeing the peoples' right to vote through the vehicle of a NASA bill of all things. A quarter of a century ago Republicans changed Texas State law to permit astronauts to vote absentee from space. They want…

An entire political party... would wrap itself around lies.

But in the big picture, we move forward. If you look at our Constitution at the 17 Amendments we've adopted since the Bill of Rights, the vast majority of them have been pro-democracy, suffrage expanding, and equality deepening amendments.

Well, it seemed perfectly obvious to me, Anderson, for many months now that within what I call that second ring of the action on January 6th, there were people who had been planning, coordinating, and organizing to come to smash our…

The G.O.P. is a shrinking minority party, which is why they're hanging on to every anti-Democratic lever of power they've got.

Look at Donald Trump recruited tens of thousands of his followers to come to Washington for a wild protest, and the social media were used basically as the organizing and recruitment channel for doing this.

We have to give a complete accounting to the American people about what took place.

There was a pervasive sense around January 6th that this was the straw that broke the camel's back.

We need everybody out here engaging in democracy this year.

The Democratic Party today is the Democracy Party.

He’s a complete snowflake. And he’s willing to get other people killed and other people hurt, including the people who’ve fallen into his cult, but he’s not willing to stand up and to defend his own conduct.

But we are up against a serious right-wing authoritarian attack on American political democracy.

You need a coalition of liberals and the center-right.

If everyone who believes in American democracy, who believes as I do, the core vision of a multiracial multi-sectarian, self-governing people across all sorts of lines of difference, commanding our own fate together collectively for…

I want life to get better for every American. We can do so much better than we`ve done over the last few years. All of us can.

This is a country that is in pain. This is a country that`s wounded. And the way to deal with trauma is to speak of trauma for people to be able to express their truths, and to use the trauma as a bonding mechanism.

If you turn on some of the news, and you look on the internet, you would think that America is just all about violent, polarization and mutual hatreds and so on. And that`s not been our family`s experience.

Under Article I, we have the power to define the rules of our own proceedings, we have the power to discipline and potentially expel members.

We knew that Trump`s own appointed leadership at the Department of Justice for example was threatening to resign if he indeed go forward with the plan to install Richard Clark as new attorney general.