IN RECENT DAYS.
BECAUSE OF THAT, WE PROBABLY
SHOULD HAVE SEEN TODAYS NEWS
COMING.
WHEN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES DECIDED THEY
WOULD DO AN INVESTIGATION OF THE
ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL ON JANUARY
6th AND WHAT CAUSED IT, THEY
FIRST NEGOTIATED A TRUE LEGIT,
BIPARTISAN/NONPARTISAN EXPERT
COMMISSION, A BLUE RIBBON
COMMISSION THAT WOULD HAVE EQUAL
REPRESENTATION FROM REPUBLICANS
AND DEMOCRATS.
IT WOULD BE SCRUPULOUSLY
NONPARTISAN, OR AT LEAST EVENLY
DIVIDED.
DEMOCRATS AND THE LEADERSHIP OF
THE HOUSE NEGOTIATED THAT WITH
THE REPUBLICANS WHO HAD BEEN
DELEGATED BY THEIR LEADERSHIP TO
COME UP WITH THIS SORT OF THING.
BOTH SIDES CAME TO AN AGREEMENT.
THEY WORKED OUT IN DETAIL HOW
THIS BIPARTISAN, NONPARTISAN
ITS NOT THAT WEIRD THAT THEY
VOTED DOWN THE THING THEY
THEMSELVES NEGOTIATED.
THEY DO THAT KIND OF STUFF ALL
THE TIME.
BUT AFTER REPUBLICANS VOTED DOWN
THEIR OWN PROPOSAL FOR A
BIPARTISAN/NONPARTISAN EXPERT
INVESTIGATION, HOUSE SPEAKER
NANCY PELOSI SAID THAT SHE
WOULDNT LET THE IDEA DIE.
IF THEY WOULDNT DO SOMETHING
WITH THE DEMOCRATS, THIS SORT OF
EXPERT COMMISSION, INSTEAD SHE
WOULD CREATE IN THE HOUSE A
SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE
JANUARY 6th.
AND INSTEAD OF EXTERNAL EXPERTS
BROUGHT IN BY BOTH SIDES TO SIT
IN ON BLUE RIBBON EXPERT
NONPARTISAN COMMISSION, IT WILL
BE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO SERVE
ON THIS SELECT COMMITTEE.
NANCY PELOSI ANNOUNCED THAT SHE
WOULD APPOINT REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSWOMAN LIZ CHENEY AND A
SHORT LIST OF DEMOCRATS.
SHE THEN INVITED THE REPUBLICAN
LEADER OF THE HOUSE, KEVIN
McCARTHY, TO APPOINT FIVE
MEMBERS AS WELL.
AND ONE OF THE NAMES ON HIS LIST
OF FIVE APPOINTEES WAS I DIDNT
MEAN -- JIM JORDAN.
HOW DID THAT GO ON JANUARY 6th
BETWEEN JIM JORDAN AND LIZ
CHENEY AGAIN?
PUT THAT BACK UP.
OH, YEAH, THERE IT IS.
BOTTOM OF PAGE 491.
THAT FING GUY, JIM JORDAN.
THAT SON OF A -- I SMACKED HIS
HAND AWAY AND TOLD HIM GET AWAY
FROM ME.
YOU FING DID THIS.
THAT IS ON THE RECORD.
THAT IS A KNOWN THING.
KEVIN McCARTHY, LIKE ALL OF US,
KNEW THAT LIZ CHENEY WAS ALREADY
ON THAT COMMITTEE.
HE ALSO HAD TO HAVE KNOWN ABOUT
THIS RECENT SORT OF BLOCKBUSTER
REPORTING ABOUT WHAT WENT DOWN
BETWEEN LIZ CHENEY AND JIM
JORDAN INSIDE THE HOUSE AS THE
HOUSE WAS BEING ATTACKED ON
JANUARY 6th.
AND KNOWING THAT, WHAT BETTER
WAY TO BLOW UP THAT COMMITTEE
THAN MY TRYING TO SLIP ONTO THAT
COMMITTEE THAT SAME JIM JORDAN,
TO SIT ALONGSIDE LIZ CHENEY TO
GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHAT REALLY
HAPPENED THAT DAY.
CONGRESSWOMAN CHENEY TODAY WAS
ASKED ABOUT NANCY PELOSIS
DECISION TO SAY NO TO JIM JORDAN
DECISION TODAY, SHE DID NOT
MINCE WORDS.
>> AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY, THE
MINORITY LEADER HAS ATTEMPTED TO
PREVENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FROM
UNDERSTANDING WHAT HAPPENED, TO
BLOCK THIS INVESTIGATION.
TODAY THE SPEAKER OBJECTED TO
TWO REPUBLICAN MEMBERS.
SHE ACCEPTED THREE OTHERS.
SHE OBJECTED TO TWO, ONE OF WHOM
MAY WELL BE A MATERIAL WITNESS
TO EVENTS THAT LED TO THAT DAY,
THAT LED TO JANUARY 6th.
THE OTHER WHO DISQUALIFIED
HIMSELF BY HIS COMMENTS IN
PARTICULAR OVER THE LAST 24
HOURS, DEMONSTRATING THAT HE IS
NOT TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY.
HE IS NOT DEALING WITH THE FACTS
OF THIS INVESTIGATION BUT RATHER
VIEWED IT AS A POLITICAL
PLATFORM.
THIS INVESTIGATION MUST GO
FORWARD.
THE IDEA THAT ANYBODY WOULD BE
PLAYING POLITICS WITH AN ATTACK
ON THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL IS
DESPICABLE AND IS DISGRACEFUL.
AND I AM ABSOLUTELY DEDICATED
AND COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE
THAT THIS INVESTIGATION HOLDS
THOSE ACCOUNTABLE WHO DID THIS
AND ENSURES THAT IT NEVER
HAPPENS AGAIN.
AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE
THAT AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE
GOING TO DO.
>> CONGRESSWOMAN, DO YOU THINK
YOU CAN STILL GET THAT
NONPARTISAN INVESTIGATION YOU
WANT GIVEN THAT NO OTHER
REPUBLICAN BUT YOURSELF WILL
PARTICIPATE?
>> I AM ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT
THAT WE WILL HAVE A NONPARTISAN
INVESTIGATION, THAT IT WILL LOOK
AT THE FACTS, THAT IT WILL GO
WHEREVER THE FACTS MAY LEAD.
THERE ARE THREE MEMBERS THAT THE
MINORITY LEADER PROPOSED, THAT
THE SPEAKER DID NOT OBJECT TO.
SHE HAS OBJECTED TO TWO MEMBERS
AND THE RHETORIC AROUND THIS
FROM THE MINORITY LEADER AND
THERE THOSE TWO MEMBERS HAS BEEN
DISGRACEFUL.
THIS MUST BE AN INVESTIGATION
THAT IS FOCUSED ON FACTS.
AND THE IDEA THAT ANY OF THIS
HAS BECOME POLITICIZED IS REALLY
UNWORTHY OF THE OFFICE THAT WE
ALL HOLD AND UNWORTHY OF OUR
REPUBLIC.
>> YOU PERSONALLY -- DID YOU
PERSONALLY URGE THE SPEAKER TO
TAKE THIS STEP?
>> I AGREE WITH WHAT THE SPEAKER
HAS DONE.
>> DID YOU PERSONALLY -- DID YOU
PERSONALLY URGE THE SPEAKER TO
TAKE THIS STEP?
I AGREE WITH WHAT THE SPEAKER
HAS DONE.
AHEM.
THAT IS A MEANINGFUL DODGE.
BUT YOU KNOW, ITS A SERIOUS
THING.
ITS NOT JUST THAT LIZ CHENEY
DOESNT ENJOY THE COMPANY OF JIM
JORDAN.
IM SURE HES A DELIGHTFUL
DINING COMPANION.
WHATS ON RECORD ABOUT HOW SHE
VIEWS JIM JORDAN IS THAT SHE
THINKS HE DID IT.
THAT HES CULPABLE.
THAT HES PART OF WHY THE
JANUARY 6th ATTACK ON THE U.S.
CAPITOL HAPPENED.
THAT REFERENCE THAT SHE MADE IN
THE MIDDLE OF THOSE REMARKS
THERE TO HIM BEING A MATERIAL
WITNESS TO THE CRIME IN
QUESTION.
LISTEN TO THAT PART AGAIN.
>> SHE OBJECTED TO TWO, ONE OF
WHOM MAY WELL BE A MATERIAL
WITNESS TO EVENTS THAT LED TO
THAT DAY, THAT LED TO JANUARY 6.
THE OTHER WHO DISQUALIFIED
HIMSELF BY HIS COMMENTS IN
PARTICULAR OVER THE LAST 24
HOURS DEMONSTRATING THAT HE IS
NOT TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY.
>> SO HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
DID INTERVENE TODAY TO BLOCK TWO
OF THE PROPOSED FIVE REPUBLICANS
HIMSELF BY HIS COMMENTS OVER THE
LAST 24 HOURS, DEMONSTRATING HE
IS NOT TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY.
JIM BANKS REALLY DID PUT OUT A
STATEMENT ONCE HE WAS NAMED TO
THIS COMMITTEE SAYING THAT THIS
COMMITTEE SHOULDNT ACTUALLY
FOCUS ON JANUARY 6th, IT SHOULD
INVESTIGATE OTHER PROTESTS
AGAINST POLICE VIOLENCE AND
STUFF.
HE SAID THE ONLY REASON THE
SHOWING THAT HE WAS NOT TAKING
THE MISSION OF THIS COMMITTEE
SERIOUSLY.
I THINK THATS A FAIR
OBSERVATION.
BUT THE OTHER GUY WHO GOT
HIMSELF OBJECTED TO BY NANCY
PELOSI, JIM JORDAN, SHES
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,
THATS 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 THERES 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 THREE LONG
MEETINGS THAT WERE HELD AT THE
WHITE HOUSE THAT DAY IN
DECEMBER.
SHE EVEN GOT A QUOTE FROM
CONGRESSMAN MO BROOKS OF
ALABAMA.
BROOKS TOLD HER, QUOTE, IT WAS A
TRUMP AT THE WHITE HOUSE TO PLAN
WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN ON
JANUARY 6th.
QUOTE, DURING MONDAYS MEETING
AT THE WHITE HOUSE WHERE
LAWMAKERS GNOSHED ON A
MIDAFTERNOON SNACK OF MEATBALLS
AND PIGS IN A BLANKET, TRUMP
TALKED WITH THE LAWMAKERS OVER
AN HOUR ABOUT HOW JANUARY 6th
WOULD PLAY OUT.
AMONG THE REPUBLICANS WHO MET
THAT DAY IN THAT PLANNING AND
STRATEGY SESSION TO DECIDE WHAT
WAS GOING TO HAPPEN ON JANUARY
6th, THIS LAST STAND TO OVERTURN
THE ELECTION WITH THEIR ACTIONS
THAT DAY, AMONG THE REPUBLICANS
THERE FOR THAT PLOTTING MEETING
WAS JIM JORDAN, THE CONGRESSMAN
FROM OHIO.
YOURE GOING TO PUT HIM ON THE
MAYBE RESURRECT AL CAPONE?
THEY DO HAVE EXPERTISE, REAL
FAMILIARITY WITH THE SUBJECT.
THE JANUARY 6th COMMISSION IS
GOING TO BE LOOKING AT WHAT
HAPPENED ON THE DAY OF JANUARY
6th AND WHAT CAUSED IT.
WHERES A GOOD PLACE TO START IN
TERMS OF WHAT CAUSED IT?
WHERES A GOOD PLACE TO START IN
TERMS OF WHAT LED TRUMP
SUPPORTERS TO BELIEVE THAT TRUMP
HAD ACTUALLY WON THE
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND
JANUARY 6th WOULD BE THEIR
CHANCE TO BLOCK IT?
WHERE DID THEY GET THAT IDEA?
>> I THINK THERE ARE BIG
PROBLEMS WITH THIS.
I DONT KNOW HOW YOU CAN EVER
RESULTS SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTED
BECAUSE TRUMP WON.
>> AMERICANS INSTINCTIVELY KNOW
THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH
THIS ELECTION.
DURING THE CAMPAIGN, VICE
PRESIDENT BIDEN WOULD DO AN
EVENT AND GET 50 PEOPLE AT THE
EVENT.
PRESIDENT TRUMP ADD JUST ONE
RALLY GETS 50,000 PEOPLE.
YOUVE GOT 11 MILLION MORE VOTES
THAN HE DID IN 2016 AND HOUSE
REPUBLICANS WON 27 OF 27 TOSS-UP
THE INSTINCT OF THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE IS THAT TRUMP WAS ROBBED,
SO DONT CERTIFY THE ELECTION
RESULTS.
THAT WAS JANUARY 6th ON THE
FLOOR OF THE HOUSE.
JIM JORDAN MAKING THE CASE THAT
THE ELECTION MUST HAVE BEEN
STOLEN, THAT IT SHOULDNT BE
CERTIFIED.
JIM JORDAN SPOKE AT STOP THE
STEAL RALLIES.
HE DID MEDIA INTERVIEWS ARGUING
THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE THAT
TRUMP DIDNT WIN, RATTLING OFF
PRESIDENT AFTER TRUMP HAD SICCED
HIS SUPPORTERS ON VICE PRESIDENT
PENCE AND PUT PENCES LIFE IN
QUITE SERIOUS DANGER.
THIS FROM LEONNIG AND RUCKERS
BOOK.
KELLOGG, OBRIEN AND KUSHNER
BRAINSTORMED HOW TO BRING THE
PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
BACK TOGETHER, SHORT OF AN
APOLOGY, WHICH TRUMP WOULD NEVER
GIVE.
OBRIEN PROPOSED HAVING TRUMP
AWARD PENCE THE PRESIDENTIAL
MEDAL OF FREEDOM, THE NATIONS
HIGHEST CIVILIAN HONOR.
THE OTHERS LIKED THE IDEA.
THEY THOUGHT IT COULD RECOGNIZE
WOULD GIVE PENCE THE
PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM,
FIX THINGS UP BETWEEN THEM.
YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT NEVER
HAPPENED.
YOU KNOW WHO DID GET THE
PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
FROM TRUMP, THOUGH?
JIM JORDAN.
WHY DID JIM JORDAN GET IT?
HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO WRESTLING?
NO.
AFTER JORDAN HELPED WITH
PROMOTING THE ELECTION WAS
STOLEN FROM TRUMP LIE, AFTER
JORDAN PLOTTED WITH TRUMP IN THE
WHITE HOUSE ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING
TO HAPPEN ON JANUARY 6th, AFTER
HE DID TRY ON JANUARY 6th TO
STOP THE ELECTION RESULTS FROM
BEING FINALIZED, EVEN AFTER THE
RIOT HAD BEEN QUELLED, AFTER HE
GAVE THIS BIG STEM WINDINGER
ARGUMENT ABOUT HOW TRUMP MUST
HAVE WON, HE MUST HAVE.
YOU CAN JUST SMELL IT.
DONT YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR GUT?
AFTER ALL OF THAT, TRUMP DID NOT
GIVE THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM TO
VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE WHO
HAD AFTER ALL CERTIFIED THE
ELECTION, HE GAVE IT TO JIM
JORDAN.
TWO DAYS LATER JIM JORDAN LED
THE REPUBLICANS IN OPPOSITION AS
THE HOUSE VOTED TO IMPEACH TRUMP
FOR HAVING INCITED WHAT HAPPENED
ON JANUARY 6th.
OTHER GUY WHO SAID THE COMMITTEE
WAS A TERRIBLE THING AND
SHOULDNT LOOK AT JANUARY 6th.
AFTER NANCY PELOSI MADE THAT
DECISION TODAY, THE REPUBLICANS
IN THE HOUSE DECIDED THAT IF JIM
JORDAN CANT BE ON THE
COMMITTEE, THEN NO REPUBLICANS
CAN BE ON THE COMMITTEE.
AND SO NOW THE LITTLE RAY OF
SUNSHINE HERE IS THAT THERE
WONT BE ANY OF THOSE FIVE
REPUBLICAN APPOINTEES ON THE
COMMITTEE.
THERE ACTUALLY WILL BE A
SUBSTANTIVE INQUIRY INTO THE
JANUARY 6th ATTACK AND WHAT LED
INTO IT WITHOUT CONGRESSMAN JIM
JORDAN AND CONGRESSMAN BANKS AND
ANYBODY ELSE WHO WAS BEING PUT
ON WITH THE GOAL OF SABOTAGING
IT, DERAILING IT AND MAKING SURE