Senator Lindsey Graham (RS.C.), an avid Trump supporter who voted for the acquittal of the former president during his second impeachment trial, joined lawmakers’ calls for a 9/11-style commission in the siege of the Capitol of January 6 during “Fox News Sunday.”
Why does it matter: The momentum has grown since last month for a bipartisan commission to investigate the lethal attack on the Capitol, and it is one of the last ways that Congress could try to hold Trump accountable for the violence, reports the New York Times.
What they are saying: “We need a 9/11 commission to find out what happened and make sure it never happens again, and I want to make sure the Capitol’s footprint can be better defended next time,” said Graham at Fox. He also made it clear in the Sunday who believes that the sentencing of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell of Trump after his acquittal was a mistake and could again haunt Republicans in 2022.
- Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said George Stephanopoulos from ABC: “There is even more evidence that the American people need and deserve to hear, and a 9/11 commission is a way to ensure that the Capitol continues and that we make it clear how responsible and abject it is in violating its constitutional oath, President Trump it really was. ”
- Rep. Madeleine Dean, impeachment manager for the Chamber (D-Pa.) he defended “a complete and impartial commission, not guided by politics, but full of people who would face the courage of their conviction, like Dr. Cassidy” on ABC’s “This Week” program.
Of importance: Republican Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) – who voted to condemn Trump for inciting the January 6 Capitol insurrection – expressed his support for “a thorough investigation into what happened on January 6” while on the program ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.
- “Why were there no more policemen, the National Guard was already mobilized, what was known, who knew, when did they know?” Cassidy said, adding that investigating these areas “builds the foundation for it to never happen again in the future.”
- Cassidy added that she did not want January 6 to “define the future of the Republican Party”.