just one day before the first hearing of the select committee where we re going to hear from capitol police officers and dc metropolitan police officers who are on the front lines. and it is the first time they will officially hear from the members, jose? democrats on the committee sound positive. other republicans not so much. mccarthy said kinzinger was self appointment. are you encouraged to see some of this? looks like the republicans are not on board at all. i want to underscore something that leigh anne said. these are not central moderates. they have reputations in both parties. some republicans will attack them now, but the truth is a lot of the republicans that did vote to certify the election result
self-governance needs it. let me be clear. i m a republican dead indicated to values but i swore an oath to uphold the constitution. when duty calls, i will always answer that. that s adam kinzinger. top house republican kevin mccarthy reacted by attacking the speaker. he said, the rejection to serve on the committee and self-appointment of members who share her preconceived narrative will not yield a investigation. pelosi denied two, banks and jordan, due to previous comments they made about the attack and their false claims about the election results. senators announced an agreement on the framework on the bill with president biden a month ago, but negotiation
we should be grateful he is nowhere near what this committee is going to try to do. kevin mccarthy put out a statement this last miles an hour. it says in part, speaker pelosi s rejection of the republican nominees to serve on the committee and self appointment of members who share her preconceived narrative will not yield a serious investigation. what do you think about that? more importantly, how do you think americans are perceiving this message? do you think americans will say we have republicans, we have democrats, there is a level of integrity in this committee s work? i think an independent commission would have made it easier to convince americans. all i can ask is look at people s words. democracy isn t a spectator sport. you have got pay attention to what is happening now because so much is at stake. democrats weren t attacked on january 6th. our democracy was. i happened to be in one of the rooms where it happened, with
you. what more do we know about the addition of kinzinger to this committee? this was a big move by speaker nancy pelosi adding kinzinger to the select panel and making him now the second republican to join the investigation. we at cnn reported first that pelosi was considering this idea as a way to bring even more legitimacy to an already bipartisan investigation. she made it official today, however. kevin mccarthy, the gop leader, wasting no time weighing in. he is saying that pelosi s structuring the committee around her own political needs. he said in a statement, quote, speaker pelosi s rejection of the republican nominees to serve on the committee and self-appointment of members who share her preconceived narrative will not yield a serious investigation. of course, kinzinger is likely to face a lot of blowback from his own party, just like cheney did. but he s brushing these concerns aside and making clear that he is ready to embrace this assignment head on. he said that he agr
in 2020 and they certainly would be the big two issues in 2024 as well. we are six months in but we will watch how it all unfolds we want to talk to you about the committee on january 6 house minority leader kevin mccarthy pulled his republican lawmakers and said he had selected for the committee, after speaker pelosi objected to two of his elections talking about jim jordan and jim banks in addition this is breaking the afternoon he added adam kinzinger to the committee and kevin mccarthy and he says speaker pelosi rejection of the republican nominees to serve on the committee and self appointment of members who shared the preconceived narrative will not yield the serious investigation. to satisfy her political