people want to know the truth, and in light of statements and actions taken by them, i could not appoint them. pelosi has committed a sham process. no committee in congress will work if one person is pick ing everyone. the speaker picked liz cheney and may appoint a second anti-trump republican, congressman adam kinzinger. joining me now with reporting, lisa lair of the new york times, melanie zanona and sung kim from the washington post. for mccarthy, he has decided he won t participate in this all together. what s the politics here? what s the play? will it potentially back fire?
stand in the way of. we predicted at the beginning this is a sham committee politically driven by speaker pelosi. it doesn t matter today what she does with that committee because it s not going to change the outcome for what seems like the predetermined or already written report. paul: showdown on capitol hill this week over nancy pelosi s january 6 committee with the house speaker rejecting to of minority leader kevin mccarthy s pics for the select committee with investigating the capitol right, the move prompting mccarthy to pull all five of his appointees from the panel and accused pelosi of creating a sham process. our panel is back. dan henninger, kim strassel and kyle peterson. tim, i want to talk about this unprecedented, has any than a case where a minority party leader makes a coat select
of the investigation with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these members. that triggered this from republican leader mccarthy who warned, quote, unless speaker pelosi reverses course and seats all five republican nominees republicans will not be party to their sham process and will instead pursue our own investigation. this afternoon mccarthy joined his five would-be appointees to repeatedly denounce the speaker. 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. it s true. it is politics by pelosi. it kind of went on like that. republican congressman liz cheney of wyoming who pelosi had already appointed to the committee and who until recently
and eat it too. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? house minority leader kevin mccarthy is pulling his five appointed gop members from the bipartisan sub committee to investigate the january 6th insurrection. after speaker pelosi vetoed congressman jim jordan and jim banks. egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. it shows exactly what i warned back at the beginning of january, that pelosi would play politics with this. pelosi has created a sham process. unless speaker pelosi reverses course and seats all five republicans, we will not participate. joining us now for more is
violence associated with the left. that was a deal breaker for speaker pelosi and that s where it all fell apart. i should note here, 30 house republicans did vote for that but now the choice has become for democrats when republicans were not going to give the bipartisan democrats are going to be used of running a sham process regardless of what happened. this decision by speaker pelosi according to democrats, this process is about her choosing to keep republicans off the committee that she believes are going to be running interference on behalf of former president trump. specifically jim jordan and jim banks whom she believes were linked to individuals, and or meetings associated to the january 6th attack, chris. olivia, i want to play today, cheney seems like an in interesting number here. she s very outspoken, she voted for impeachment, we have reporting that she curse that jim jordan and said you caused