Carter [Homeland Security Committee]: Weak gun laws are killing our children. They're killing our parents, our grandparents.
Thompson: When we talk about protecting the homeland, we must acknowledge the very real threat from heavily weaponized domestic terrorists, including white supremacists, and anti-government extremists have. As FBI Director Wray has said, domestic terrorism, particularly white supremacist extremists, is the most persistent and lethal threat to this country.
Raskin [Oversight Hearing]: We've called no hearings on the war on freedom in America; the shocking new efforts to ban textbooks, censor and intimidate teachers, silence scientists, humiliate and cancel LGBTQ students, and rewrite our nation's history textbooks to conform to the white nationalist ideology.
Raskin: I was watching President Trump's town hall meeting on CNN…I saw Donald Trump blame Vice President Pence for failing to steal the election for him on January 6th.
Mayor Bowser: We [DC] are not actually a city, not quite a state, we're not a colony or a territory. We are seven hundred thousand disenfranchised Americans living in the shadow of the Capitol, with all the responsibilities of citizenship.
Mayor Bowser: People have also seen now, the federal government trample on us [DC], take over our streets, send troops with aircraft to hover over us.
[that happened when left-wing terrorists rioted; the helicopter quickly dispersed them]
Gosar: Can you confirm that most charges against rioters in the summer of 2020 were dropped?
Graves [US Attorney, DC]: Yes, the office declined a number of the arrests that were presented to it under the prior administration.
Bowser just called Mfume, 'congresswoman'. kek