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Place. the reason this is now the likeliest option is because senate republicans did block that vote that took place on friday from moving forward in order to establish an independent bipartisan commission. there were only six republican senators who ended up joining with democrats to support this legislation when they needed at least ten in order to be able to break that 60-vote threshold in order to move on beyond a filibuster. that was met with a very harsh statement from house speaker nancy pelosi as to the political calculation of those republicans who did not join in. i want to read you ...

Table is really for house democrats to move forward with their own select committee in order to investigate the events leading up to and through january 6th. >> let me ask you about gladys sicknick, the mother of the late officer brian sicknick, who has been trying to lobby senate republicans. what has the reaction been? >> the mother of brian sicknick, the late capitol police officer who did die as a result of the attack on january 6th, she came to capitol hill to personally lobby republican senators to try to get them to vote with this democrat -- with the democrats for the independent bipar...

Jeffries and republican rep barbara come stock. >> we have to get to the bottom of why it happened, how it happened and how we prevent something like that from happening again. we'll re-evaluate what the way forward is in the next few days. >> i would have preferred that be an independent outside investigation that was nonpartisan. i think that would remove it from the political sphere ask allow republicans and democrats to return to working on the issues that they all say they want to work on. but i think now it will be an investigation in congress. >> reporter: so now what senate majority le...

Support they were going to initially have with leadership to push forward initially. looking what happened yesterday with this procedural motion being blocked, it didn't hit that ten republican threshold in order to break the filibuster. there were, however, six republican senators that did break party lines in support of this motion. and i want to let you see which six republicans those were. senators lisa murkowski, ben sasse, mitt romney and susan collins. and senator pat toomey indicated through a spokesperson he would have voted yes although he had a family commitment and couldn't vote. a...

She'll have to do that but in the two-week period in which nothing will concretely happen in the senate any way, each piece of evidence helps her case. she needs to convince the public and more than two republican senators there is something to be looked at here and there are mitt romney and susan collins who couldn't vote to push ahead a trial that looks like it is preordained and wasn't fair. nobody has yet agreed on what the definition is of a pair trial. >> this is very key. >> this is very different for both sides but the president is a potential element here because he tends to tweet. he...