i want my own people or people that are anti-trump, right? adam kinzinger, someone who has been vocally anti-trump. we know obviously where cheney stands on this as well, and the trump camp. is the optics of this, did pelosi think of the optics of her decision? well, remember, she said that she would be willing to accept the other three choices that mr. mccarthy made, namely mr. nehls, congressman rodney davis as well as congressman armstrong, and none of them are anti-trump. in fact, i believe that mr. nehls voted not to certify some of the election results on january 6th. so i think what she wants is, in my humble opinion, she wants people who are after the truth, and anybody who has been around jim jordan for ten minutes on any committee, and i have served with him on various committees
committee as well. whatever the testimony or the findings, the results of either committee are unlikely to be trusted by voters from the opposing party, and reaching any kind of national consensus about what happened on that awful day feels like as much of a fantasy as any false flag conspiracy theory. susan, what is your reaction to that? i agree with it in the sense of, you know, kevin mccarthy set out to create a partisan agenda with this around the whole thing of the committee. so, of course, there s going to be this partisan, this deep partisan divide. i don t think, unfortunately, there was anything that could have helped it. perhaps there was a glimmer of hope when republican congressman katko was negotiating and negotiated a true bipartisan committee. but even still, i think that this was going to be something that both sides were especially i shouldn t say both sides. i am wrong there. the republicans would use in a
republicans mccarthy picked to be a part of the investigation, leading mccarthy to pull all of his selections. the two republicans in question were congressman jim jordan and jim banks, who supported objections to the election results during the formalization of biden s victory on january 6th. congressman liz cheney is currently the sole republican on the select committee along with seven other democrats. according to new reporting, pelosi is mulling whether to add more anti-trump republicans to the committee. one of the names being thrown around is congressman adam kinzinger. joining me is democratic congressman raja krishnamoorthi of illinois, also a member of the house intelligence committee. thank you for joining us on a saturday. i appreciate it. thank you so much. i want to get your thoughts on this back and forth between pelosi and mccarthy, and house speaker pelosi s decision to reject two of mccarthy s five picks for the january 6th committee. well, mccarthy from the sta
have led that committee. that being said, the optics of her decision i wonder, that s a tough one, right? because at this point it seems like in her rejecting jordan and her rejecting banks, it kind of says, i want my own people, right? we re going to have someone like adam kinzinger on who has been vocal about his opposition to donald trump. it is a fine line. it is a balance democrats have to walk. it is politics at the end of the day. it is politics and it is theater, too, yasmin, right? i appreciate the congressman emphasizing the fact while pelosi rejected jordan and banks, she accepted three other people who mccarthy said he wanted to have on this committee. so his decision to pull those folks back, again, feeds into what susan just mentioned. susan, thank you for catching yourself there. there are no two sides to this. it is either people who want to get the truth out to the american people and people who want to obstruct the truth and follow again the drum beat set by the lea
along with mcconnell destroyed the chance of a bipartisan independent commission taking the whole inquiry out of congress, which would have been the ideal. so now we re left with a special select committee since doing nothing is not an option. here, again, mccarthy put forward choices knowing exactly what would happen, knowing that jim jordan is not the appropriate choice to make an objective inquiry into the truth of what occurred on january 6th. and, as you know, yasmin, the vast majority of the american people want to know the truth. let me play devil s advocate for a moment. it is a conversation i have been having with my executive producer leading up to this interview with you. it is the optics of pelosi s decision to reject banks and jordan and whether or not that was a smart choice in that is she is she saying in a sense,