Pelosi appoints GOP Rep. Kinzinger to Jan. 6 House select committee
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Updated: 6:16 AM CDT Jul 26, 2021
Daniella Diaz, Melanie Zanona and Aaron Pellish, CNN
Pelosi appoints GOP Rep. Kinzinger to Jan. 6 House select committee
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Updated: 6:16 AM CDT Jul 26, 2021
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as you know, uh we named our commission and it was committee and it's bipartisan again. And we have a quorum staff is being hired to do the job where there to seek the truth. We're not, we're there to get the truth, not to get from tr you truth trump. That seems to be what the other side is obsessed with. So as a legislation allows, I didn't accept two of the five people were appointed. Uh they have made statements and taken actions uh that I think would impact the integrity of the commission of the committee. The work of the committee with respect for the integrity of the investigation, with concern that to the american, people want to know the truth and in light of statements and actions taken by them. Um I could not appoint them. I said that while this may be unprecedented, so was an attack on the capital. These people are going to act up cause a problem and people said to me, put them on and then when they act up, you can take them off. I said, why should we waste time on something as predictable? The republicans that they put on will have their own point of view. Nobody's saying, uh, that, that it all should be one point of view going on the committee. But it is when statements are ridiculous and fall into the realm of you must be kidding. There's no way that they're going to be on the committee. Okay.