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Bennie Thompson

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Bennie Gordon Thompson is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, Thompson has been a prominent voice in Congress on issues related to homeland security, having served as the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Throughout his tenure, he has focused on various aspects of national security and has been an advocate for addressing threats posed by terrorism and drug cartels.

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Jan 7, 2022

The vice president was put in a tough spot. The president was putting a lot of pressure on him to break the law, and he stood fast, and because of his respect for law, there were people who came to the Capitol a year ago wanting to hang…

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Jan 6, 2022

We are learning that individuals conspire to change the outcome of the election, that they use assets of the federal government to try to promote the big lie that they intimidated state officials toward the big lie. I`m concern that even…

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Jan 5, 2022

His life was in danger. I would hope that he would do the right thing and come forward and voluntarily talk to the committee.

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Jan 4, 2022

If there's anything that we come upon, as a committee, that we think would warrant a referral, to the Department of Justice, we will do that.

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Jan 4, 2022

There were people who had gallows erected on the lawn of the Capitol ostensibly to hang the vice president. His life was in danger. I would hope that he would do the right thing and come forward and voluntarily. Talk to the committee. We`d…

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Jan 3, 2022

There’s some legislation that we hope to recommend with this report that Congress needs to adopt, so that what occurred on January 6 will never happen again. We came critically close to losing this democracy as we have come to know it.

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Jan 3, 2022

The role that Pence played, in all of this, is very central to the investigation.

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Jan 3, 2022

I would love it if Pence came forward, on his own accord, voluntarily, and sat with the committee, and told them what he knows, about the events, leading up to January 6.

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Jan 3, 2022

We can critically close to lose in this democracy as we`ve come to know it. And so it`s our duty as patriots, as Americans, as members of Congress to make sure that we get it right.

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Jan 3, 2022

Well, you know, it`s about 187 minutes, we have now determined he was in the White House, we have determined that a number of people made attempts to contact him through his chief of staff.

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Jan 3, 2022

Well, only thing I can say is it`s highly unusual for anyone in charge of anything to watch what`s going on and do nothing.

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Dec 27, 2021

I can assure you that if a criminal referral would be warranted, there would be no reluctance on the part of the committee to do that.

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Dec 22, 2021

We understand that you had at least one and possibly multiple communications with President Trump on January 6th.

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Dec 21, 2021

The committee considers Jim Jordan to be a key witness because he played such a big role in trying to prop up the former president's claim that the election was that there was widespread fraud.

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Dec 21, 2021

Then President Trump considered appointing Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general, as Mr. Clark pressed his Department of Justice superiors, to use agency authorities to challenge election results.

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Dec 14, 2021

I am prepared to close after the gentlewoman from Wyoming (Ms. Cheney) and the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Banks). Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

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Dec 14, 2021

By direction of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, I call up the report (H. Rept. 117-216) and accompanying resolution recommending that the House of Representatives find Mark Randall…

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Dec 14, 2021

When you produce records, you are expected to come in and answer questions about those records. And because not even Mr. Meadows was asserting any privilege claim over these records, there is no possible justification for wholesale…

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Dec 14, 2021

By direction of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, I call up the resolution (H. Res. 851) recommending that the House of Representatives find Mark Randall Meadows in contempt of…

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Dec 14, 2021

Just for the record, the gentleman from Ohio is aware of congressional oversight prerogatives. When Mr. Meadows was a member and later chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, he himself demanded testimony from senior…

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Dec 14, 2021

If you are making excuses to avoid cooperating with our investigation, you`re making excuses to hide the truth from the American people about what happened on January 6.

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Dec 13, 2021

History will be written about these times about the work this committee has undertaken and history will not look upon any of you as martyrs.

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Dec 13, 2021

his legacy will now solely be that he stood in the way of finding the truth about an attack on our democracy.

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