6th. this represents something that has not happened in the house before for a select committee by the historian. it s an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. now, mccarthy s strategy was pretty obvious at the time. he was trying to stack the committee with trump allies who would do everything in their power to disrupt the investigation they all proclaim to be illegitimate and allow them of course, the person who would run point on that, would be congressman jim jordan of ohio. now, speaker pelosi rejected jordan s appointment to the committee, precipitating that speech by kevin mccarthy, and the reason she did was because among other reasons there were concerns that jordan and other republicans should not be part of the committee investigating an incident in which they could potentially be witnesses, or worse. well, what do you know? today the bipartisan select committee investigating january 6th sent a letter to congressman jim jordan of ohio requesting he
what took place here. as i said that includes i think debates on the house floor, potentially on january 6th. jordan meant what he said. on january 5th we now know he forwarded a text message to white house chief of staff mark meadows encouraging vice president pence to just overturn the election single-handedly, throw out the will of the voters and essentially pave the way to install trump as the winner. on the day itself january 6th meadows was one of jordan was one of 147 members of congress who voted not to seat the electors. that s not all. the committee also wants to know if jordan worked to dangle pardons for fellow coup plotters. we d also like to ask you about any discussions involving the possibility of presidential pardons for individuals involved in any aspect of january 6th or the planning of january 6th. join meg now a member of the january 6th committee, congressman pete aguilar of california. congressman, why do you want to talk to jim jordan? well, as the letter
this investigation. it s important. look, we re going to try to get our work. we re going to appeal to him as a colleague to come before us. truly if he has nothing to hide, and from that interview that you played before he clearly he knows more and he was talking about going back and checking. but he didn t say that because he knows that there s ways to go back and check how many conversations were had. so we re going to ask for his we re going to appeal to him as a colleague. we ll await his formal response to us. i mean, part of what we re seeing here unfold between scott perry i think yesterday and jim jordan today is that you know, it s just a matter of public record independent of whatever fact finding your committee has done, as a matter of public record that a number of members of of congress in the house republican caucus actively coordinated with the white house on a strategy to prevent the rightful seating of the person that won the election, joe biden, and to keep the
chairman thompson indicated, we want we feel the information that he has in his possession can shed some light on exactly what happened and what transpired on january 5th and 6th. that s the basis of it. and for someone who publicly said that he has nothing to hide it seems fairly clear to any american watching that someone who is truly dedicated to democracy and our institutions and of congress should be willing to come forward and have a conversation with his colleagues about what he knows. yeah. scott perry s already said that he won t cooperate with this. jordan was asked about this today. on fox. and i want to play you what he had to say and get your response. what would your reaction be? the same as mark meadows? take a walk? or would you sit down and speak to them? i mean, we just got the letter today, brian. we re going to review the letter. but i ve got to be honest with you, i ve got real concerns
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