Lieu: The people who showed up on January 6th to attack the nation's capitol, were supporters of Donald Trump. They attacked the capitol to stop congress from certifying the fact that Donald Trump lost the election. Those two facts were so horrible, that some in the right-wing media, and some republican members of congress could not handle that, so they made up conspiracy theories.
Jayapal: It is just sad that this committee has also been transformed into a soapbox for political conspiracy theorists, instead of focusing on the really important issues that the American people care about.
[criminal conspiracies involving government officials and assets are of utmost importance to the American people]
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Van Drew to Garland: I hold you accountable for labeling of parents as domestic terrorists, standing up for the proper education of their own children. I hold you accountable for the anti-Catholic memo; imagine sending agents undercover into Roman Catholic churches, because they were supposedly domestic terrorists. And I hold you accountable for unleashing a special council with a history of botched investigations on our current president's political rival.
Van Drew: Do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists?
Garland: I have no idea what traditional means here.
Scanlon: It's painfully obvious to anyone who cares about our Constitution, that our colleagues have called this hearing, not to conduct legitimate oversight, but to once again defend the indefensible actions of the disgraced, twice impeached, and now repeatedly indicted in multiple jurisdictions, former president.