don t try to change the subject. the fact is there s, already, one republican on the committee, liz cheney. and there may be two more waiting in the wings. and you got to wonder whether kevin mccarthy s picks of jim jordan and jim banks, two republicans who voted to block joe biden s election, was just an effort to kill the committee. jim jordan said, in december, that there was no way the defeated president should concede. he pushed the big lie that there was something wrong with the election. jim banks questioned the legality of some votes and claimed the committee was created to, quote, malign conservatives. so, let s be real here. you can t have them on a committee that s supposed to be investigating what happened on january 6th. i think she should have allowed the picks, and allowed this to play out. i think, exactly right. nancy pelosi signed off on bipartisanship. kevin mccarthy rejected it. when i asked president biden about that in our town hall.
stuff. he said the only reason the house was setting up this january 6th committee was to, quote, malign conservatives. liz cheney today describing those comments as disqualifying, showing that he was not taking the mission of this committee seriously. i think that s a fair observation. but the other guy who got himself objected to by nancy pelosi, jim jordan, she s describing him as something different. she is describing him as, in her words, a material witness to the events that the committee is going to investigate. and that is not just a rhetorical shove at jim jordan, that s a real thing. and it comes from a real place. look at this. this is from politico. on december 21st, 2020, look at the headline. house republicans meet with trump to discuss overturning election results. and then there s the subhead there. trump loyalists are planning a last stand on january 6.
may well be a material witness to advance that led to that day, that led to january six. the other who disqualified himself by his comments, in particular, over the last 24 hours, demonstrating that he is not taking this seriously. so how speaker nancy pelosi did intervene to block two of the proposed five republicans from the january 6th commission. and the latter one described there by liz cheney is congressman jim banks. she says that he disqualified himself by his comments over the last 24 hours demonstrating he s not taking this seriously. jim banks really did put out a statement once he was named to this committee saying that this committee shouldn t actually focus on january six, it should investigate other protests, against police violence and stuff. he said the only reason the house was setting up this january six committee was to quote, malign conservatives. this cheney describing those comments as disqualifying, showing that he was not taking
jim jordan said, in december, that there was no way the defeated president should concede. he pushed the big lie that there was something wrong with the election. jim banks questioned the legality of some votes, and claimed the committee was created to, quote, malign conservatives. so, let s be real here. you can t have them on a committee, that s supposed to be investigating what happened on january 6th. i think she should have allowed the picks and allowed this to play out. i think, exactly right. g nancy pelosi signed off on bipartisanship. kevin mccarthy rejected it. and i asked president biden about that in our town hall. if republicans and democrats can t come together, right, to investigate the biggest attack on our capitol in 200 years, what makes you think that they can come together an anything? these people. i mean it. i m not being facetious.
against police violence and stuff. he said the only reason the house was setting up this january 6th committee was to, quote, malign conservatives. liz cheney today describing po those comments as disqualifying, showing that he was not taking the mission of this committee seriously. i think that s a fair observation.th but the other guy who got himself objected to by nancy pelosi, jim jordan, she s describing him as something different. she is describing him as, in hei words, a material witness to the events that the committee is going to investigate. and that is not just a rhetorical shove at jim jordan, that s a real thing. and it comes from a real place. look at this. this is from politico. on december 21st, 2020, look at the headline. house republicans meet with trump to discuss overturning he election results. and then there s the subhead there. trump loyalists are planning a last stand on january 6. reporter melanie zanona from politico.com describing in that article a series of