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we want to know the truth? hi, everyone. it is 5:00 in the east. former republican congressman and frequent guest on this program, denver riggleman has been outspoken about the radicalization of his own party and the abject failure of minority leaders mccarthy and mcconnell to back a 9/11-style commission to investigate january 6th. now along with his background in intelligence and his efforts to expose the dangers of disinformation, the former congressman has been chosen to join the house select committee investigating the attack. this weekend chairman bennie thompson announced riggleman will be brought on as a senior technical advisor, a noteworthy decision as the washington post reports, the house select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection at the capitol has hired former virginia congressman daniel riggleman as a senior staff member adding another republican to its ranks even as most gop lawmakers attack the committee as being too partisan. now three republicans
institution s held, but it was a close-run thing. and as the chairman said, we didn t have a peaceful transfer of power. we had an insurrection, we had an assault on the capitol. and today you had members of congress, republican members of congress actually protesting in front of the justice department on behalf of the people who were here and who had been arrested because they participated in the riot and in the insurrection. that s a stunning and indefensible turn of events. that was going on, on one end of washington. on the other end on capitol hill, the strategy from house republican leaders mccarthy, scalise, stefanik, was to counter the committee hearing with their press conference where their basic message was speaker pelosi is to blame. take a listen to this from congresswoman stefanik. the american people deserve to know the truth that nancy pelosi bears responsibility as speaker of the house for the tragedy that occurred on january
moving forward. leaders mccarthy, it s willie geist. good to see you this morning. we are only six days into the trump administration but you ve served under president bush, i think you arrived in 07. only two years. obama and now trump. can you just speak on a personal level how the interactions with the president have been? what has it been like to be at his side as compared to the other two previous presidents? well, with bush, even though only two times, i came in in the minority, going from the majority to the minority. it was interesting with bush. bush had a lot of members down, even that short term as a freshman, i would go down to the white house with six or seven members in the minority talking about issues. if there is one thing with president obama, i think looking back, having that discussion with him, probably doing more of that, but president obama came in with such high ratings. maybe he felt he didn t need a lot of of that. i think that probably worked better