We have to secure the Capitol.

There cannot be any movement back from it.

There is no question about it, and what you see there is a classic political response to a minority party. We have to secure the Capitol. The Capitol at this point is not secure.

I look forward today to hearing from Secretary Mayorkas about his vision for the way forward on homeland security.

What we must not do is return to the morally bankrupt policies of the last administration toward children.

Let me be clear, the Trump administration's cruel, shortsighted policies directly contributed to the situation at the border now.

However, it cannot be expected to repair in a matter of weeks everything President Trump destroyed over 4 years.

The first case brought by Mississippi Congressman Betty Thompson.

The insurrection was direct, intended, and foreseeable result of the defendants` unlawful conspiracy, it was instigated as part of a common plan, that the defendants pursued since the election held in November, 2020.

I believe the time has come to take concrete action to actively defend our Nation from foreign cyberattacks just as forcefully and with the same resources as we would if the instrument of attack were physical or kinetic.

Our collective failure to make cybersecurity a central component of our national security and invest in it accordingly contributed to the success of the campaign and the difficulty we face in understanding its impact.

We must do everything in our power to defend this digital sphere and forecast to our adversaries that we at least are no longer asleep at the wheel.

Unfortunately, President Trump ignored intelligence on COVID-19, made States compete for PPE and testing supplies, rejected science on masking and distancing, silenced medical and scientific experts in his own administration, and failed to…

Well, his assessment is absolutely wrong.

I`m looking strictly at the people who showed up on January 6th, broke into the Capitol, put all our lives at risk, the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers.

Long waits for appointments at under-resourced local public health departments, older people trying to navigate a patchwork of overwhelmed private pharmacy websites to get a shot.

Without a plan each State was left to create its own plan for 'locally distributing the shots and launching programs for getting them into people's arms.'

The risk of dying from COVID is nearly 7 times higher for Hispanics and 5½ times higher for African Americans than for others.

The American people have paid dearly for those failures and continue to do so today, in some cases with their lives.

I still think this will have a huge effect on the future of Donald Trump and the future of the Republican Party.

I do think this trial opens that whole Pandora`s Box for president Donald Trump because he engaged in conduct where he misused his power in such a forceful way and the harm was so great.

This violent insurrection at the Capitol was orchestrated by former President Trump and his lawyer along with the Oathkeepers and the Proud Boys. And we`re going to have our day in court.

We are not a third-world dictatorship like he wants it to be. We’re the United States of America. We are a nation of laws.

This violent insurrection at the Capitol was orchestrated by former President Trump and his lawyer, along with the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.

Today, Chairman Thompson filed a lawsuit against former President Trump, his one-time attorney, Rudy Giuliani, the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers.