Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the Democrats need to “spend months and months unearthing all the evidence that can possibly be gotten to through a 9/11-style commission” on the Capitol Hill riots.
Partial transcript as follows:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Coons, you just heard Congresswoman Dean right there on the necessity of a 9/11 Commission. You agree?
COONS: I do. George, this was a remarkable week. A powerful week. And I think the House managers, obviously Congresswoman Dean and Congressman Raskin and a very talented team put on an incredibly compelling and powerful case. But there’s still more evidence that the American people need and deserve to hear and a 9/11 Commission is a way to make sure that we secure the Capitol going forward and that we lay bare the record of just how responsible and how abjectly violating of his constitutional oath President Trump really was.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So there is more to learn. And you played a key role in working out the compromise accepted by the House managers on witnesses.
Walk us through the argument you made and what was going on in those couple of hours of confusion yesterday morning on the Senate floor.
COONS: Well, a number of senators promptly started talking to each other about what was the path forward with the unexpected request by the House managers for additional witnesses. And as lead manager Jamie Raskin recognized right after the trial, they could have had 500 more witnesses, it wasn’t going to change the outcome. Once Mitch McConnell made it clear he intended to acquit, even despite the compelling evidence, what the House managers needed wasn’t more witnesses or more evidence. What we all needed was more Republican courage.
I am grateful to Dr. Cassidy and the seven Republicans who joined with every Democrat in voting to convict President Trump.
What the stupid ass actually means is we should spend OPM. Hard to believe there is any tax payers money left. What a bunch of wasteful jerks, damorats and my side.
Any investigation of the event, taken with what happened over the previous year, needs to be done independent of any political party or branch or arm of government. The partisan stink is all over every one of them.
WE need a 911 style commission to investigate DEMOCRATS !!!!!
What really needs an investigation up the ying yang coons you moron is how the election process was manipulated by your party. What we dont need is another masonic threater BS, 911 deep state, mueller TYPE investigations to no where. You need to resign at ONCE for supporting sedition and this fake presidency
He is SCUM & needs to stick to selling cars !!!!! Get him OUT of congress !!!!!! SCUM
This jug eared imbecile is the one grinning like a jack-o-lantern as Biden pawed his young daughter when Coons was sworn in. Someone should have contacted Child Protective Services.
He is the Type Congress has to get RID of !!! A Big Ball-Headed SPONGE !!!! 2 term limits for ALL 2021
Their Sick Dream of getting Trump is OVER !!!! Trump beat their asses AGAIN , He WON , He Great, They DIRT !!!!
America needs to spend months & months Getting Rid of SCUM like him & the rest of the Far Left Democrats !!!!!
Then the Country can HEAL !!!!
Normal > won’t ever be until the Democrats are GONE from Govt in America !!!!!