Playbook: “The House’s Jan. 6 committee makes its debut this morning.”
“For the first time across dozens of high-profile Trump-related oversight hearings, Republican leadership and allies will have no voice on the panel. (It’s going to be weird for us Hill watchers who are used to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) lobbing procedural grenades into proceedings to start fights.”
“McCarthy’s rather abrupt decision last week to pull his members from the Jan. 6 committee means that Democrats — and their two GOP allies on this issue, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger — will have free rein to set the narrative. (This is why several folks on McCarthy’s own leadership team thought that pulling out was a bad idea.)”
“But ask yourself this: Do you think McCarthy’s complaints about Pelosi will mollify Donald Trump when he turns on his TV and sees no Republicans on the dais defending him?”
Punchbowl News: “Oh, and by the way, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Paul Gosar and Louie Gohmert, will hold a news conference outside the Justice Department on Tuesday to complain about the treatment of alleged rioters arrested for their role in the Jan. 6 attack. Talk about mixed — or non-existent — messaging.”
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