Pelosi: Dems want commission focused on Capitol mob attack
By Mike Lillis - 02/25/21 01:09 PM EST
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Democrats will fight to keep the focus of the Jan. 6 investigative commission on the topic of the attack on the Capitol that day.
Republican leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), have recently indicated they want to expand the scope of the investigation to include unrelated cases of political violence, including scattered episodes of rioting that accompanied the national protests against police brutality last summer.
Pelosi, however, said the enormity of the Jan. 6 Capitol rampage — which left at least five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer — demands a targeted probe into that singular event, including the rise of white supremacists and other domestic terrorist groups that stormed the Capitol that day.
"We had an event on Jan. 6, which I'm sure the world has not forgotten," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol.
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