House erupts in anger over Jan. 6 and Trump's role
By Mike Lillis and Scott Wong - 07/21/21 07:27 PM EDT Smoldering tensions over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack exploded Wednesday in a partisan battle over who should sit on the special committee investigating the deadly siege — a clash of wills that spurred Republicans to end their participation in the investigation before it began.
The fight started just after noon when Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she would reject two of the five Republican nominees to the panel, Reps. Jim Banks (Ind.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio). Both are among the most staunch defenders of former President Trump and deny his role in instigating the attack, and Pelosi — fueled by objections from within her caucus — accused the pair of threatening “the integrity” of the coming investigation.
Republicans quickly responded in kind.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called a private meeting with all five of his nominees for the select committee, emerging shortly after with an ultimatum to Pelosi: Keep Banks and Jordan on board, or all of the Republican picks would walk away.
Pelosi didn’t budge, prompting McCarthy to yank the other three Republicans from the panel.
“Pelosi has broken this institution,” McCarthy later told reporters while flanked by his GOP picks.
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