Transcript: Rep. Bennie Thompson on "Face the Nation", October 24, 2021
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The following is a transcript of an interview with Congressman Bennie Thompson that aired Sunday, October 24, 2021, on "Face the Nation."
MARGARET BRENNAN: We want to turn now to the investigation into the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attacks on the US Capitol. The chair of the Select Investigating Committee, Mississippi Democrat Bennie Thompson, joins us from Jackson this morning. Good morning to you.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.