Almost five months have passed since the Capitol riots of January 6th 2021. Where does America stand on the riot now? Can the parties move past their difficulties to form and support an independent investigation or are they too polarised? We speak with a variety of experts on the issue to get their take: Lorna Romero, former Communications Director for John McCain and owner of Elevate Strategies, Joe Lowndes, Professor of political science and expert on the GOP at the University of Oregon and Matt McDermott, VP Whitmann Insight Strategies.
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ON JANUARY SIXTH AS CONGRESS CONVENED TO CERTIFYJOE BIDEN AS THE NEXT PRESIDENT... A MASSIVE STOP THE STEAL PROTEST WELLING UP JUST OUTSIDE THE CAPITOL BUILDING...
SOT Lorna Romero ELEVATE STRATEGIES
11:14 so for there to be the epic security failure that there was on January six. and to not have a better understanding of who was behind it, there needs to be an investigation 11:24
BUT FIVE MONTHS LATER... A CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION IS STALLING...
DEMOCRATS CALLING ON REPUBLICANS TO PASS LEGISLATION FORMING A JANUARY SIXTH COMMISSION ...BLASTING THE GOP OF PUTTING POLITICS OVER COUNTRY...
SOT Joe Lowndes Political Science Professor, University of Oregon Republican leadership is not concerned about the past, they're concerned about the future
DEMOCRATIC STRATEGISTS SAY THIS IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE GOP CONTINUING TO FOLLOW DONALD TRUMP'S LEAD...
SOT Matt McDermott
The republicans have stated position of we are not the Democratic Party, we oppose everything democrats try to pass. 16:38
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And the problem is they've decided to double down and triple down on trumpism
BUT REPUBLICANS SAY DEMS ARE TRYING TO TURN THIS INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO A POLITICAL AMBUSH...
SOT Lorna Romero
11:27, this can't be used by democrats as another tool to just, you know, attack republicans and make them look bad, leading into the midterms.
The events that occurred at the U.S. capitol on january six in my opinion should transcend all politics That shouldn't be a republican or democrat issue. 10:31
BUT A RECENT PEW POLL SHOWING THIS DOES SPLIT DOWN PARTY LINES ...54% OF REPUBLICANS SAY THE RIOTS ARE GETTING TOO MUCH ATTENTION... 40% OF DEMOCRATS, ON THE OTHER HAND, SAY IT'S NOT BEEN ENOUGH...
