Ohio鈥檚 Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said he鈥檚 talked to Capitol and DC police officers who watched the powerful testimony earlier this week at the U.S. House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the nation鈥檚 Capitol.
Brown calls the police officers heroes and says he doesn鈥檛 understand Republican backlash at this committee, which includes two GOP critics of former president Trump.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 know why one political party thinks they should cover this up instead of really understanding what happened and did members of Congress contribute to this happening. Did the president of the United States? What was his role in this?鈥� Brown said.
Ohio鈥檚 GOP Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) is among those saying Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) shouldn鈥檛 have refused to add Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and another Republican to the committee.
But Brown said almost every Republican voted against bipartisan hearings so Pelosi moved forward. And he said, "she didn't want this to be a circus, which it would have been" if "ultra conservative radical members of Congress, including some apparently from Ohio" were seated.
