Schumer Says Pelosi ‘Had No Choice’ but To Reject McCarthy’s Jan. 6 Committee Picks
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) weighed in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) rejection of two Republicans for a select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. During a…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) weighed in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) rejection of two Republicans for a select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
During a Thursday appearance on “The View,” host Sunny Hostin asked Schumer what he thinks about Pelosi’s “unprecedented decision.”
Schumer replied, “She had no choice.”
He called the January 6 riot one of the most “serious, terrible things that’s happened in our Capitol, in our whole history.”
Schumer argued there should have been a 9/11-style commission, noting, “Leader McConnell blocked that here in the Senate. He would not let that come forward.”
He added, “So Speaker Pelosi had no choice but to move on her own, as she did, and she put together a commission.”
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Touching on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) picks, Schumer said he could not believe he selected “two people … who sort of supported the big lie that did all of this.”
He continued, “She was right not to let them stay on the commission.”
During a press conference on Thursday, Pelosi doubled down on her decision, as IJR reported.
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