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Within hours, gop leader kevin mccarthy made his decision, threatening to pull all republicans off the committee. >> pelosi has created a sham process. unless speaker pelosi reverses course and seats all five republicans, we will not participate. >> reporter: both jim banks and jim jordan voted to overturn the election after the insurrection and jordan has repeatedly attacked the idea of an investigation. >> they just want to be partisan. they just want to continue to attack the former president...

Move forward with or without these republican appointees. liz cheney is on that panel. she say republican. she said it has a quorum. that is her eight appointees and it will move forward and do the work it has set out to do. again, with or without appointees by kevin mccarthy and she did not rule out putting more republicans on that panel. >> thats right. and thats a big question mark that is still outstanding here. leann caldwell, i think, has made her way from that news conference to join us o...

Republicans in order to achieve bipartisanship, the leadership of the republican party in the house opposed and whipped against the bipartisan commission. still in all we have the votes. 35 members of the republican side voted with us to send it to the senate. it was very hopeful that we could pass it there. we had seven republican votes. not ten. and we needed ten to get up to 60. hopefully one day that will still -- that opportunity will still present itself. but because it was not possible in...

Bipartisan quorum and can move forward because of cheney. and cheney, in the aftermath of this, came out swinging. criticizing mccarthy. agreeing with pelosi. and telling me that she does not believe that mccarthy should be the speaker of the house, after the 2022 midterms. >> i think that any person who would be third in line to the presidency must demonstrate a commitment to the constitution and a commitment to the rule of law. and minority leader mccarthy has not done that. >> reporter: now, ...

On many points to the republicans in order to achieve bipartisanship, the leadership of the republican party in the house opposed and went against the bipartisan commission. still, in all, we had the votes. 35 members in the republican side voted with us to send it to the senate. it was very hopeful that we could pass it there. seven republican votes, not ten. and we needed ten to get up to 60. hopefully, one day, that opportunity will still present itself. but because it was not possible in thi...

To participate in it, but that is not going to stop us from pursuing the truth in this matter. >> i want to give you a chance to respond to something, kevin. leader mccarthy -- leader kevin mccarthy said. he accused speaker pelosi of creating a sham process. whats your response to this process that this type of process in a select committee has never happened before and he said an abuse of power. >> lets look back on what led up to this select committee being formed. for months we have negotiate...

Republicans may pull out of the investigation. she indicated she is not concerned. she said we have a bipartisan quorum and we can proceed, referring to the fact that she has eight people, one of whom was a republican, liz cheney. the question will be what does republican leader kevin mccarthy do? she also would not explain exactly why she rejected those two, but not another one troy ne nehls. >> i know you have to get to a news conference in a couple minutes so well let you go. bringing it back...

Thompson, has reiterated his mission to follow the facts and leave no stone unturned. in an interview with the guardian, thompson said that he will investigate donald trump as part of his inquiry into the events of january 6th, a day he sees as the greatest test of the united states since the civil war. thompson said that he is also prepared to depose members of congress and senior trump administration officials who might have participated in the insurrection that left five dead and nearly 140 i...

Seems prescient. say what you want about nancy pelosi, but shes certainly not new to politics. the first hearing theyll have tuesday at 9:30, this moves forward, right? >> it does. democrats had made clear right from the beginning, from the day they appointed their eight members that they had a quorum and they were not going to let any kind of delays or foot dragging by kevin mccarthy stop them from doing their work. their first hearing is next tuesday. theyll hear from a couple of members from ...

Pelosi wants to have some control over this committee. one thing she said when she first announced the formation of this committee that still stands out to me is, she was asked what happens if they dont name any republicans? she said, oh, we have quorum anyway. so they have enough democrats. they have congresswoman cheney. they have a committee that can move forward with an investigation. she can have this fight on the sidelines. >> thats exactly right. were going to bring in cnns manu raju on c...