The Challenge To Stop The Next Outbreak Of Homegrown, Extremist Violence In The U.S.
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🗓️ 25 February 2021
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Summary
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to set up a commission, similar to the one created after the Sept. 11 attacks, to investigate what happened that day and what measures might prevent a future attack. That's not so easy in this moment, when Congress is often gridlocked over the most basic things. And when lawmakers themselves are also witnesses to the attack — and make partisan arguments about what motivated the Trump extremists who were involved.
NPR national security correspondent Hannah Allam was at the Capitol the day it was attacked. She shares how her beat and coverage of domestic extremism has changed over the years, from when she was a teenager living in Oklahoma City during the 1995 bombing to present day. You can follow more of her work here.
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| 0:00.0 | Just because the impeachment trial is done, it doesn't mean the story of what happened |
| 0:05.0 | on January 6th in the nation's capital is over. |
| 0:08.5 | You can't help people who paid the nation's capital, not find out what happened. |
| 0:11.9 | That's Thomas Cain. |
| 0:13.2 | And recently he had a long chat with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. |
| 0:17.6 | Cain said Pelosi had questions about the 9-11 Commission. |
| 0:20.6 | And he said a quick commission that has the confidence of the people and we had to earn |
| 0:25.1 | that confidence. |
| 0:26.1 | We didn't get it right away. |
| 0:27.3 | And the Republican and former governor of New Jersey was a co-chair of that group. |
| 0:31.4 | And the Commission's work led to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and |
| 0:35.5 | radically changed airport security among other things. |
| 0:38.1 | You can make the process public with public hearings as we went along and found out things. |
| 0:42.6 | We told people we found out. |
| 0:43.6 | We told them where we were in investigation. |
| 0:46.8 | We brought everybody along with, including the Congress and the people. |
| 0:49.9 | So the time we got to the end of the investigation, we had some credibility. |
| 0:53.6 | Pelosi wants to do something similar. |
| 0:55.9 | And that's not so easy in this moment when Congress is often gridlocked over the most |
| 0:59.9 | basic things. |
| 1:01.5 | And when lawmakers themselves are also witnesses to the attack in question and have partisan |
| 1:07.3 | ideas of what motivated the Trump supporters who were involved. |
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