Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.), an ardent Trump supporter who voted during his second indictment to acquit the former president, joined the Capitol siege on January 6 during an investment of 9 / 11-style. Fox News Sunday. ‘
Why it matters: Momentum has been growing since last month for a dual commission to investigate the deadly attack on the Capitol, and is one of the last ways Congress can try to hold Trump accountable for the violence, reports the New York Times.
What they say: “We need a 9/11 commission to find out what happened and to make sure it never happens again, and I want to make sure the Capitol footprint can be better defended next time,” Graham said. Fox said. He also made it clear on Sunday that he believes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s condemnation of Trump after his acquittal was a mistake and that it could haunt Republicans again in 2022.
- Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) tell ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “There is even more evidence that the American people need to hear and deserve it, and a 9/11 commission is a way to make sure we secure the Capitol going forward and that we expose the record for how responsible and how abrupt violation of his constitutional oath that President Trump really was. ‘
- Home Manager, Manager Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) pleaded for ” a full commission and impartial commission, not led by politics, but filled with people who could resist the courage of their conviction, as dr. Cassidy ” in ABC’s ‘This Week’.
Remarkable: Republican Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) – who voted to condemn Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol Uprising – expressed his support for “a full investigation into what happened on Jan. 6” as he on ABC’s ‘This Week’ on Sunday.
- “Why were there no more law enforcers, the National Guard had already mobilized, what was known, who knew it when they knew it?” Cassidy said, adding that the investigation into these areas “builds the base so that it will never happen again in the future.”
- Cassidy added that he did not want January 6 to “define the future of the Republican Party.”