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I whipped donald trump in virginia and so will terry. inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. >> good morning. and welcome to "inside politics sunday." im abby phillip. two issues are still dividing america, the pandemic and the 2020 election and its aftermath, special house committee investigating the attack on the capitol january 6th there hold its first hearing tuesday but that is not without drama. kevin mccarthy has already pulled his picks from the panel a...

Committee basically, on this issue. perfect. >> it is irrelevant to the democrats think should be on the committee. it has historically been the party that picks its own members. you cannot start to have the opposite party make the selections. it destroys the integrity of the committee. how can they see jim jordan, congressman from ohio is not qualified to serve on the january 6th commission but is qualified to be the lead republican on the judiciary committee, democrats get to see you cant serv...

Nancy pelosi rejected two of mccarthys picks. they agreed it was an unprecedented move. pelosi did that because two of the picks, yord dap and banks, would have skepticism about the probe. pelosi does have 8 selections herself. one of whom is a republican, liz cheney. she says very clearly she has a bipartisan forum to go forward and that is what the committee is doing. there will be two hearings. all the defended the capitol. they will give their testimony, firsthand experience about what exact...

Republicans mccarthy picked to be a part of the investigation, leading mccarthy to pull all of his selections. the two republicans in question were congressman jim jordan and jim banks, who supported objections to the election results during the formalization of bidens victory on january 6th. congressman liz cheney is currently the sole republican on the select committee along with seven other democrats. according to new reporting, pelosi is mulling whether to add more anti-trump republicans to ...

But the expectation from her members is that she will go that way. the chairman of the select committee bennie thompson told me yesterday that he would support moving forward adding adam kinzinger in addition to liz cheney who is already one of the eight members who pelosi has selected to the panel over the objections of the republican leader kevin mccarthy who pulled all five of his selections from that after pelosi vetoed two of his picks whom she believed wouldve undercut the integrity of the...

Appoint anyone after pelosi rejected two of his selections. the speaker is making it clear here that she is pushing ahead. she will still have this investigation. she says theres a bipartisan quorum with liz cheney. theyre meeting to discuss the game plan for the first hearing taking place next week. capitol police officers, metro police and d.c. will testify about their experiences and map out the larger investigative strategy going forward. the question is will there be anybody else? will adam...

Total boycott. garrett haake has more. >> pelosi has broken this institution. >> reporter: republican leader kevin mccarthy withdrawing all of his selections for the january 6th special commit ter after speaker pelosi announced she would reject two of his picks. democrats vowed to push ahead. the speaker writing that her unprecedent decision to not seek ohios jim jordan or indianas jim banks was necessary to protect the integrity of the investigation. >> the fact that she has rejected two recomm...

Mccarthy yanked the rest of his selections and claimed pelosi was responsible to politicizing the investigation instead of the republicans who actively encouraged the insurrection. >> its an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. pelosi has created a sham process. unless speaker pelosi reverses course and seats all five republicans, we will not participate. >> they voted against a bipartisan commission. i feel duty bound to reiterate that. even if kevin mccarthy takes his ...

Speaker nancy mowsy is on the lookout for additional republicans to joint january 6th committee after house minority leader kevin mccarthy pulled every gop member off of that panel. our chief congressional correspondent manu raju is tracking all of the latest developments on capitol hill for us. how is the speaker search going for these other republicans. we have a sense if anybody is going to be joining liz cheney? >> reporter: it seems very possible. she is considering adding congressman adam ...

Mccarthy pulled back all his selections for the committee which has the first hearing scheduled tuesday. he vowed republicans would launch their own investigation. for more, bring in national political reporter and punch bowl news. how are members of the committee responding. get this kicked off tuesday. >> there has been a mix of reaction. democrats appeared to be supportive of speaker pelosis decision, chair of the panel. they put out a statement praising her what he called decisive action, ai...