Rep. Tim Ryan: ‘We Have To Take These Bigger Steps Around Really Securing the Capitol’

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RYAN: "Well, I hope most of it. That's the goal. I mean, look, we're going to always have incidences like the ones we saw this weekend. There's always going to be cops on the perimeter. We see this in cities all over the country where cops get up every morning, they put their lives on the line, they are very vulnerable and susceptible to somebody who just wants to harm them because they are on the frontline for all of us. And so they will always be a little bit more than everybody else susceptible. And these lone wolf attacks or whatever the issue was around this are always going to be there. That's not going to go away, not now, not ever. But we have to take these bigger steps around really securing the Capitol, making sure that the police are as, you know, not as vulnerable as they are now maybe and have a quick rapid response force to harden the Capitol, district offices. These are things we're going to get done and we're going to get done very, very soon. But, again, it's not going to eliminate the threat that all cops take on every single day for the rest of the communities they represent."