Rep. Roy Discusses ALLIES Act & January 6th Politicization on The Mark Davis Show

WASHINGTON—On Friday, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) appeared on The Mark Davis Show to discuss the reasons behind his opposition to the recently passed ALLIES Act, and his effort to get answers on January 6 defendants, while House Democrats continue to politicize the process through the January 6 select committee.

Footage of the interview is available here at the beginning of the 9AM hour, and some key quotes on the January 6 select committee are below:

• I had strong reservations about the existence of this select committee. I voted against it because I believe we have the powers under our standing committee, House Judiciary and House Administration, to make the determinations of the facts, and we should.
  
• There are 530 or 40 or so, Americans who have been arrested or charged with a crime relating to January 6^th, and they're still going. Some of those folks have been in jail, for a long time. Should they be? I'm not sure, some probably should, some probably shouldn't.
  
• So, we've been asking for the Attorney General to provide us answers- so far crickets. We're pushing the House Judiciary Committee- let's call the AG forward, walk us through- who are these individuals? Why are you charging them with crimes? Why are they in jail? Where are they in jail? Do they have due process? Do they have good lawyers? And these are questions we should pursue.
  
• This is clearly political, clearly politicized. I'm glad I voted against its establishment and now, we're going forward and try to press for the facts through the standing committee.

Some key quotes on the ALLIES Act are below:

• There are a lot of ways we try to protect these individuals to allow them to continue to support us and help us, so I'm all for providing that kind of flexibility to help the good guys. But, we did this with no hearing, we did this with no knowledge on it.
  
• We have to be very careful about this, so this was a gut wrenching vote from my standpoint, as well as some of my colleagues on the floor.
  
• I was supportive of [The ALLIES Act] with some reservation and concern because we were also weakening the standard of how you make a decision about whether this person should come in- in terms of how much danger they're in- or frankly, how they claim it and what they did for us… I was willing to accept that on the original bill, but then a Manager's Amendment, which means in committee, they offer an amendment to substitute that bill and layer on some additional language, which added in non-governmental organizations and- sort of broadened the population of the possible people that could come in under this program.