Stephan: We are coming to some kind of closure with Trump and January 6th, and because both the Republicans and the Democrats see this through the prism of politics for them above all else it's like a chess game of power. And like chess a bad move several moves back can suddenly come back to haunt you. As I said at the time, I had to wonder, if McCarthy had made a short-term calculation mistake. It seemed very odd for the Republicans to take their party's voice out of the game, when they have cultivated a special squad of flamers -- Greene, Jordan, Hawley et al -- to do as described in this piece, and just seen in the Brown Jackson hearing. Now we will see how it plays out. Let us all please hold the intention that integrity carries the day because how this commission's outcome resolves will shape our country's future
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., answers questions during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on July 11, 2019. Credit: Win McNamee / Getty
WASHINGTON — House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy says he has no regrets about having Republicans boycott the special committee probing the Jan. 6 riot, dismissing the investigation as a political hit job.
“This is nothing but a political show,” McCarthy told NBC News in an interview last week just off the House floor. “They already have the report written and they’re trying to create a narrative for it instead of trying to get to the truth.”
But with the Jan. 6 committee preparing to shift next month from the investigative phase to public, televised hearings, McCarthy’s decision last summer to shun the panel will face perhaps its biggest test.
Unlike the first Trump impeachment hearings in 2019, loyalists of the former president will not be in a position to “run interference,” in the words of one GOP source, during the Jan. 6 panel proceedings. Specifically, they won’t be […]
If Republicans win back control of the House it is a moot point.
Lori
on Monday, April 11, 2022 at 10:55 am
Republicans aren’t aware of leads the committee is chasing, what witnesses are saying in the 750 depositions it has conducted in private and what’s in the nearly 90,000 documents it has
received.
750 depositions? 90,000 documents?
I believe justice and integrity will prevail. No one is above the law.
sam crespi
on Monday, April 11, 2022 at 5:54 pm
I’m with you!
sam crespi
on Monday, April 11, 2022 at 5:53 pm
FiveThirtyEight, which a respected site for polling reported on redistricting the first week of April. The results: Change from old maps:+10 Democratic-leaning seats, -6 Republican-leaning seats, -5 highly competitive seats. I believe, for the most part, it’s too soon to tell.
If Republicans win back control of the House it is a moot point.
Republicans aren’t aware of leads the committee is chasing, what witnesses are saying in the 750 depositions it has conducted in private and what’s in the nearly 90,000 documents it has
received.
750 depositions? 90,000 documents?
I believe justice and integrity will prevail. No one is above the law.
I’m with you!
FiveThirtyEight, which a respected site for polling reported on redistricting the first week of April. The results: Change from old maps: +10 Democratic-leaning seats, -6 Republican-leaning seats, -5 highly competitive seats. I believe, for the most part, it’s too soon to tell.