commission. not a select committee appointed by the speaker but independent commission not involving current members of congress that were agreed to by many republicans that was then shot down by kevin mccarthy saying that s not loyal enough to trump. so that effort by main stream republicans who themselves were targeted and felt threatened on january 6th and would like to see something done about it, you re right, they re keeping quiet because they re afraid of the political consequences that liz cheney and adam kinzinger have seen in terms of being targeted by the pro-trump part of the party. i just want to jump in and say one of the historical elements here is there was a commission that was envisioned, that was modelled after the 9/11 commission. it was the first proposed one concocted with republicans and democrats in the house but it was filibustered in the senate. that s why we end up here now is that the republicans
conversation, besides those two that have been tapped by pelosi. but again, it s not a good scenario for mccarthy and more of the rank and file. and they are getting upset that there are two members of their conference that are sitting here. and they do want to see punishment for those two. it s unclear right now if leadership is going to try to get involved in that. it s already messing up the feelings around the conference. and, you know, peter baker, sometimes we try to we look at inside baseball and think everybody is looking at that. those of us who follow this every day are thinking is what people that aren t as connected in politics are thinking. i would guess that independents seeing liz cheney and adam kinzinger on this committee, two republicans on this committee, asking tough questions and also i m sure at times trying to push back against what they consider to be democratic excesses. i think that s going to have an
mariana soto mayor. what is the latest on putting together this commission and the way they will approach this given that republicans are who want to deny what happened on january 6th or even, you know, threatening their own investigation, how could this play out and how can democrats keep the truth at the forefront? what it looks like right now you ll see two separate inquiries in in effect and they re going to be seen as bipartisan. the democratic-led one that nancy pelosi has put together with adam kinzinger and liz cheney and something that looks like kevin mccarthy might try to do on his own. they ll be looking at it from the pro-trump point of view. and voters are going to end up with rather than a consensus view of what happened or consensus report cut through the
of impeachment of former president donald trump. but when you talk about timeline, when pelosi tapped those democrats and liz cheney last month, chairman benny thompson we asked him initially and continue to ask, how long is this going to take? and his answer continues to be the same. this could go on for as long as we want it to. we re going to follow the facts, see where it leads. and that s what these democrats and now liz cheney and adam kin kinzinger are going to be discussing. they re thinking about when we can start issuing for subpoenas or asking people to come in behind closed doors. those are the conversations happening now and that excludes republicans from that
impact on independents and swing voters that are watching the 14 swing voters left in america that are watching this. i think it really does under cut somebody like kevin mccarthy who, of course, was screaming at donald trump on january the 6th. i think it undercuts their ability to say it s a partisan witch hunt because liz cheney with a 95% conservative union voting record through her lifetime. and kinzinger also a conservative, you have both of them on the committee. it s hard to argue around that. i think that s right, but the problem for, you know, kinzinger and cheney is that they have been basically brushed off by their party. the party has decided they no longer consider them to be sufficiently loyal conservatives even though their records are