The only question for us with respect to the deployment of forces in Afghanistan or anywhere else is, what does U.S. security require?

For any member of this committee, for any American to question your loyalty to our Nation, to question your understanding of our Constitution, is despicable.

We're in a gigantic, constant, an unprecedented constitutional crisis. We have a party, who is loyalty is to a cult figure, Donald Trump and not to the Constitution.

When you look at the spread of these mistruths and the spread of the disinformation, you know, silence enables it. Silence enables the liar. And silence helps it to spread. So the first thing you have to do is say no, I`m not going to…

What he's done is embrace Donald Trump, and if I were doing what he's doing, I would be deeply ashamed of myself. I don't know how you explain that to your children.

What he`s done is embrace Donald Trump. And if I were doing what he`s doing, I would be deeply ashamed of myself I don`t know how you explain that to your children.

I watched while the attack was under way, understood very clearly what he did on January 6, what he failed to do on January 6. Instead of stopping the attack while it was under way, he was busy calling up senators trying to get them to…

On Friday, September 24, 2021, I was attending a funeral in Wyoming and was absent for votes. Had I been present, I would have voted: yea on rollcall No. 294 and nay on rollcall No. 295. Personal Explanation

The task of this committee will require persistence. We must issue and enforce subpoenas promptly. We must get to objective truth. We must overcome the many efforts we are already seeing to cover up and obscure the facts.

We will not be deterred by any threats.

I think every member ought to condemn that. And I`d like to see Leader McCarthy very clearly condemn it and explain how dangerous that is.

the committee should try to obtain records from the White House about every communication, every movement of any principal in the White House on the day of January 6th.

We should account for the president every minute of that day.

An indefensible step by the Trump administration. They forced the Afghan national government, we did, to release 5,000 prisoners. So that led directly to the catastrophe that we`re seeing today.

None of that has happened. None of it has happened.

I think absolutely President Biden bears responsibility for making this decision. But there’s no question that President Trump his administration Secretary Pompeo, they also have very significant responsibility for this.

They walked down this path of legitimizing the Taliban of perpetuating this fantasy telling the American people that the Taliban were a partner for peace.

Well, the only people pushing back against it are Liz Cheney and Adam Kinsinger.

Look, almost every member of the Republican conference understood in the days immediately after January 6 what had actually happened and many of them said so publicly. And the fact that so many members of our leadership and others, the…

We must also know what happened every minute of that day in the White House. Every phone call, every conversation, every meeting leading up to during an after the attack if those responsible are not held accountable, and if Congress does…

Do we hate our political adversaries more than we love our country and revere our Constitution?

When a threat to our constitutional order arises as it has here, we are obligated to rise above politics. This investigation must be non-partisan. What we begin today by taking the public testimony of these four heroic men, we must also…

Congressman Jordan may well be a material witness.

the importance of knowing every moment, not just what happened at the Capitol, but what happened at the White House.

We cannot leave the violence of January 6th and its causes uninvestigated. The American people deserve the full and open testimony of every person with knowledge of the planning and preparation for January 6th. We must also know what…