Story and covering it all day here on msnbc as we learn more about exactly what the indictments are going to reveal. so the house is going to move forward with establishing a select committee to investigate the january 6th capital attack. yesterday s final vote was 222-190. all democrats voting yes while only two republicans, adam kinzinger and liz cheney, voting in favor of the panel. liz cheney released a statement saying in p part, quote, i believe this select committee is our only remaining option. the american people need and deserve a full accounting. we must ensure that what happened on january 6th, 2021 never happens again. and after spending several months analyzing thousands of videos from the capitol attack this every angle from people in the crowd, from organizers, from the beginning the new york times is out with an in depth
Needed a commission to connect the dots, to explain what happened before, and its consequences. and to suggest reforms. so too we desperately need that now because this it s awful this happened once, what would be tragic and unforgivable if anything like this happened a second time. yesterday on the day this video was released only two republicans, adam kinzinger and liz cheney voted to establish a select committee in the house to investigate with subpoena power the events of that day laid out graphically and in devastating form in this piece. we ll show more of this video coming up in a few minutes. we want to turn to bill cosby released from a pennsylvania prison yesterday now a free man after the state supreme court reversed cosby s indecent assault conviction. the court threw out the conviction saying prosecutors violated a deal meant to shield him from prosecution.
Forward where we end up and where things end up with him in this investigation. thanks to barbara mcquade and tom winter. thanks to you both for being on this morning. bill cosby was released from a pennsylvania prison yesterday. a free man. after the state s supreme court reversed his indecent assault conviction. the court threw out his conviction saying prosecutors violated a deal meant to shield cosby from criminal prosecution. nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk has details. we love you, mr. cosby. reporter: bill cosby is a free man, his conviction toss out, his record wiped clean, he cannot be retried. he a you peered before reporters outside his home. today innocence came to mr. cosby. reporter: pennsylvania s supreme court ruled the decision to charge him in 2015 was an affront to fundamental fairness and the prosecution violated