‘We’ll do this work as long as it takes’: Thompson readies for political fight leading Jan. 6 investigation
By Lauren Fox, Jeremy Herb, Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson avoids making too many promises when it comes to his new select committee to investigate the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. But the Mississippi Democrat is sure on one thing: He isn’t going to let the pressure of an election cut his investigation short, even if that takes it well into next year. “I would say that we’ll do this work as long as it takes to complete it. Flexibility is important, if we run into significant resistance, then obviously it will take